Opposite side of the street cleaning
In New York City, they have opposite side of the street parking four days a week. What this means is that every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, a little sweeper truck cruises around the streets sweeping up all the dirt and detritus that Manhattanites feel is their right to dump in the street.
If you've never been to Manhattan, I can tell you that the streets are packed full of parked cars - and all of these need to be moved come street cleaning day, so the sweeper truck can properly clean the street (otherwise the lovely NYPD traffic department slap a $65 parking ticket on your vehicle).
So my question is this... How do so many people in Manhattan manage to (a) also afford to own a car and (b) also be home at least two days a week to move their cars.
What do these people do for a living?
I'm in the wrong job.
If you've never been to Manhattan, I can tell you that the streets are packed full of parked cars - and all of these need to be moved come street cleaning day, so the sweeper truck can properly clean the street (otherwise the lovely NYPD traffic department slap a $65 parking ticket on your vehicle).
So my question is this... How do so many people in Manhattan manage to (a) also afford to own a car and (b) also be home at least two days a week to move their cars.
What do these people do for a living?
I'm in the wrong job.
posted by An Englishman in New York at 2:55 PM
1 Comments:
Heh, we had to plan our daily tourism schedule around car parking in Honolulu when I was there for a week last May. What time we got up, what time we went to various places, etc. depended on when and where we could park and what time we had to move it by.
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