Absolutely your friend should not feel bad, meara. I'm surprised at myself that calling a tow truck did not immediately occur to me.
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Laga - Jul 28, 2010 9:31:09 am PDT #26825 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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"
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 28, 2010 9:55:12 am PDT #26831 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
meara, your friend had the right idea. That's dangerous. When I was a nanny, the family I worked for got blocked in when their little boy got sick and they were advised to bring him to the ER. It wasn't call-an-ambulance level of sick, but it wasn't we-can-sit-around-for-an-hour-or-two level either. NOT safe.
Your friend shouldn't have to justify why she had to use her car.
There is also that.
Seska, I think your research is very sexy.
Aww. Thank you. We should name it after a cool but overlooked minor movie star.
Aims - Jul 28, 2010 10:08:26 am PDT #26832 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"Why shouldn't they have to answer the [immigration status] question if I can't send my child to public with a Bible?"
::boggle::
Strix - Jul 28, 2010 10:11:10 am PDT #26833 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
heh, I used to get blocked in all the time. We had a lot of shoppers, and a lot of apartment bldgs. around, so I would just call the cops if they didn't have their blinkers on. If they did, I would wait for a bit, and after 15 minutes, leave a note, saying something like they'd made me miss a flight or something. After 7 years, I got pretty shameless.
However,my friend Lynne was WAY more proactive. Once, someone left their car running (stupid) and blocking her car in before work. She moved it, and rummaged through their glove box, found their number, and left a message asking for valet money. She was a little...eccentric. I admit, though, I DID watch the alley and had a chuckle when the twenty something chica came out 25 minutes later and wigged. Dude, you're lucky your car was just moved.
Daisy Jane - Jul 28, 2010 10:14:06 am PDT #26834 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
"Why shouldn't they have to answer the [immigration status] question if I can't send my child to public with a Bible?"
That doesn't even make sense! Why shouldn't cops be able to pull over random brown people when I can't even walk into a store with an iron pot for a hat!?!