Oh Aims, I know the feeling, and I feel like I'm itching for a fight today.
Just trying to roll my eyes and move on.
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Daisy Jane - Jul 28, 2010 9:22:32 am PDT #26821 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
meara - Jul 28, 2010 9:27:46 am PDT #26822 of 30000
Excellent. I will tell my friend that lurkers support her in email!!
Her building is fairly big (and filled with a lot of random people, many of whom do not speak English). So she (a) looked for a note to see if they'd left one (like saying "call this number if you need me to move!") (b) waited a bit, (c) tried to set off the other car's car alarm, if it had one (that's the part that wouldn't have occurred to me), and then (d) called the cops and had them ticketed and (e) tried to get the car towed.
Apparently the first tow truck couldn't do it (it's in an alley behind/between buildings, so having that car parked behind hers made the space too tight?) so she had to call another one, and I THINK at that point, the person came out? Or maybe it was after the it got towed, not sure. But apparently the person was super pissy--their friend had TOLD them to park there! I was like "Well, then they should be mad at their friend!!" Because seriously, yes, sometimes you know your 'hood, and know that CarX has not moved in six months, and parking behind it for an hour will be very unlikely to have anything happen, but...my friend drives a lot. So...person's friend was WRONG. And that's how life goes.
And I was like "Dude. They could've left a note. Still not on you to call them if they're blocking you, cause that's an asshole move, but that'd be quicker than getting them towed. But they didn't, so it sucks to be them"
But my friend still felt bad cause she'd gotten chewed out.
Aims - Jul 28, 2010 9:29:58 am PDT #26823 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You're feisty.
That could be it.
Because sometimes people are WRONG ON THE INTERNET.
And that's it also.
I should not talk immigration. At all. To anyone. At all.
smonster - Jul 28, 2010 9:30:44 am PDT #26824 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I hereby rule in favor of your friend. The other person can SUCK IT.
Laga - Jul 28, 2010 9:31:09 am PDT #26825 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Absolutely your friend should not feel bad, meara. I'm surprised at myself that calling a tow truck did not immediately occur to me.
Laura - Jul 28, 2010 9:33:43 am PDT #26826 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Your friend should not feel bad. If the person had no other option for parking they needed to leave a note with their number to call if the blocked car needed to get out.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2010 9:36:28 am PDT #26827 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Your friend should totally not feel bad. I get blocked in intermittently (or people park in my space) because I have a weird space. I go to the building super and put it on them. Your friend is very inventive, but it's totally on the person who parked there, and the person who told them to do it. Your friend shouldn't have to justify why she had to use her car.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2010 9:36:34 am PDT #26828 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But my friend still felt bad cause she'd gotten chewed out.
I would too. But she had no other choice.
Laga - Jul 28, 2010 9:39:12 am PDT #26829 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Your friend shouldn't have to justify why she had to use her car.
That's the crux of the biscuit right there.
meara - Jul 28, 2010 9:40:26 am PDT #26830 of 30000
Yeah--I was all "They didn't KNOW why you needed to use your car!! Hell, I go to the airport all the time--for all they know, you were desperately late for a flight out of Dulles, and parking you in would cost you a $70 cab ride...were you supposed to just suck it up and leave THEM a note, and hope they paid it? Yeah RIGHT"