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Yes. If you play your cards
Yes. If you play your cards right you can wheel in a sugar daddy or sugar mama.And remember.looks get the attention but if you don't have.charm and skills and the ability to listen, compliment, smile, and pay attention their pathetic ass you can kiss the sugar goodbye.
That car on the left
Sure has that classic Blue Steel look to draw in the sugar daddies, but you're right, does it have what it takes for the long haul?
That car is an early 2000s Audi
A great way to spend $5k a year on maintenance so I'd vote no on the long haul question, unless you have a good mechanic and healthy car budget.
Oooooook
Oooooook
Is Southie the only neighborhood in Boston
where street parking your vehicle the wrong way (opposite the direction of a one-way street, or with your driver-side tires to the curb on either side of a two-way street) is not ticketed?
Half the cars in City Point parked that wrong way when I lived there, and I never saw a ticket for it. I've lived far longer in the South End, over 20 years, and I've never seen anybody flout that regulation.
It was an adjustment when I first moved to Southie: I had to stop relying on the direction of parked cars to reassure me that I was driving the right way in a neighborhood with many one-way streets.
Anderson St in Beacon Hill
Between Myrtle and Pinkney, only 50 yards long. Is kind of weird. It is only wide enough for one car (with cars parked on both sides), but it is a 2 ways. Never seen anyone have an issue with it. Cars wait on either end for cars from the other direction to pass. Anyway, it is not unusual to see cars parked with driver side to curb.
How pleasant Beacon Hill …
… would be with no cars, walkable streets level with sidewalks and a funicular or tow rope or two.
I always thought so when I lived there.
OMG YES
I am in favor of installation of funiculars wherever possible. How do we start a pro-funicular coalition?
I’m in.
Mission Hill is another spot just perfect for funiculars. Ever try to get up the NE Baptist on foot?
Both hills could use one of those bike escalators where you stay on your bike and put your foot on a moving platform the size of a large shoe. I wonder if those can be adapted for baby strolllers and shipping carts?
More to do with the layout of the streets, maybe?
Any-way parking on narrow two-way streets is normal in my part of Roslindale. These streets are narrow enough cars cannot pass one another, which I think factors.
No white line, not ticket
I live in Fields Corner. My street and other streets that intersect with my street are two-way streets but not marked by any white line in the middle.
Some people park in the "wrong direction" and have done so for decades.
Recently some neighbors started complaining about it via 311, asking the city to ticket the "offenders". 311 started by closing the tickets with "no violation found". But more complaints came, and complaints about how 311 was closing the tickets. So 311 started to answer the complaints by stating that the City of Boston does not issue tickets for this offense unless there are white lines in the middle of the street.
So- no white lines, no ticket. Nothing to see here.
distance from curb
Police in some communities ticket this as "parked too far from curb". In other words, you parked the entire roadway width away from the curb you were supposed to park next to.
2 miles from curb
Driver in Somerville meant to park in Watertown, but was realllly far from the curb...
Why the heck
Why the heck would people complain? What's the harm done? Some people need to get a life.
I see it in HP all the time.
I see it in HP all the time.
Magoo sez
Magoo has spent some time in south Boston and by gosh by golly if Magoo has ridden Magoo’s adult sized tricycle the wrong way down a one way street by accident once, then Magoo has done it a thousand times. Magoo.
Magoo never would have
Magoo never would have happened in old Southie.
Ah good, I can test out my cross-browser anti-Magoo extension!
And... it works!
1. Install TamperMonkey for Firefox or for Chrome/Chromium
2. Then, visit https://github.com/timmc/userscripts/raw/master/uhub-horizons.user.js and accept the userscript
(Note that the userscript will *only* activate for UHub. That's important for security, since I don't suppose most people will read the source code too closely, as short as it is.)
By default it also blocks Notfromboston, but you can easily edit the script from inside Tampermonkey to change that, or add other usernames to block. There's also an option to block anons.
I saw this and thought, …
… “Snow is coming in about 6 weeks. Move, punk! I need to put down my space savers.”