Quick Update
Went to Red Sox game, against my guys, the Oakland A’s, on Tuesday night. Awesome baseball, and even though the A’s won (whoo-hoo!), the two teams played some incredible baseball. They’re quite evenly matched, and it’s a shame that the Sox may have to forego a playoff chance due to the exigencies of the wild card system. I mean, come on — Kansas City is better than the Sox? But I was impressed with the team and with the park. Fenway is a baseball temple, to say the least!
And yesterday, the city of Somerville towed my car, for street sweeping violations. This towing thing has just started, and as my landlord says, the city has decided to be Cambridge and crack down on every possible violation of anything in order to get more revenue. I understand the need for revenue, but towing all the cars on the street for sweeping seems beyond necessity. And it cost me $95 in cash that I don’t really have at this point in the summer.
And LSAT classes end tonight! Yay!
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22 August 2003 at 3:06 pm.
Not to be utterly nasty, Nathan, but how precisely is the street to be cleaned if car-owners don’t leave the street clear? I think towing your car is an excellent way for the city to raise revenue, to say nothing of increasing profit for their very good friends at the towing company (we wouldn’t them to go out of business, now would we).
22 August 2003 at 4:38 pm.
Alex, I would be careful there, I can attest that Nathan has already done quite a bit to help the city of Somerville’s coffers, and I’m not sure he wouldn’t want a towing-company-free world at this point…my native rhode island instincts, however, suggest that offending the (always quite legitimate, I’m sure) businessmen who run towing companies contracted by the city is almost always a very bad idea…
23 August 2003 at 1:00 pm.
Ah, but the street clearing has never happened in Somerville, according to my landlady who has been here for 20 years. They’ve just “started to act like Cambridge” in the last couple of months.
Cosmically, you may be right, Alex, but it’s true that I have helped the City of Somerville quite a bit, especially when I first moved here. And I can ill afford the $100 for the towing right now. Besides, why so outlandish a sum? With the production line way they do it, wouldn’t 50 or 60 bucks be as reasonable?