Unfortunate Events

That's what we've experienced the last fews days here in Boston. We got back from Vermont to find that Sandy's car had been towed away. She accidentally parked on the wrong side of the street for street cleaning before we left and as it turns out, this one time she messed up is the week that the city decided to tow cars blocking street cleaning efforts. They used to just ticket them - now they do both. $210 later, we're pretty pissed, especially after an article on this new policy appeared in the Boston Globe the very next day which claimed residents were warned with flyers. No one has seen or received these supposed flyers so we plan on appealing the violation. Besides, doesn't the city realize that they would be perpetuating the build-up of trash on our streets by distributing paper flyers that will end up in the gutter? Instead of towing and ticketing, they should go after all the restaurant owners who leave their menus on our front doorsteps (which get blown away by the wind and end up on the streets) and the lottery and scratch ticket buyers who throw their losing tickets on the street.

Then, yesterday as I was coming home from work, a car smashed into the side of me as we were both making left hand turns - I was in the outside lane and he was in the inside lane. He didn't stay in the inside lane. My driver side door is badly dented, the window exploded into a thousand pieces all over me, the road and the inside of the car, and the passenger side door is way out of alignment. I had the thing towed away. Tow, tow, tow. Luckily, I wasn't hurt and it wasn't my fault. There were two left turn lanes and the other driver apparently didn't realize this despite the left turn arrow painted on the street and my left turn blinker blinking. He hit me right in the middle of the intersection as he was turning from the inside lane to the outside lane - my lane. I think he thought I was going straight. Tough to explain, but trust me, it was his fault. He drove away though, having suffered only a dent by his front right headlight where the impact was. Thank God he had insurance cause he's definitely gonna pay. If this crap keeps up we may have to move back to Vermont!




What really ticked me off though was that Sandy and I were suppose to go for a run, but as a result of the accident, we didn't. We'll go tonight instead. Only a few days left before the 1/2 marathon!