Inventive Parking

Close to were we live there is a pretty famous bar, who should be the queen of Tiramesu ("pick-me-up" in Italian), this creates quite a chaos of traffic at all strange hours of a day. Especially in the mornings and from ten to midnight its crowded, while the rest of the time its only like a normal day just before christmas in front of a shoppingcenter. Putting this in a traffic perspective this means that cars are parked in second, also third row. Its a wide street which can handle most of it. But I guess not everybody loves it:


(on the wall is written << second row is for assholes, and that I would repeat>>.

Historically the graffiti is not something new that young criminals discovered last century but something that is not as far back as the old Romans. Examples of these have been found in Pompeii, where it was mostly used as political propaganda, but also to write any other kind of information like: Pituita me tenet. (which means "I've caught a cold.") or Suspirium puellarum Celadus thraex. ( "Celadus the Thracier makes the girls moan!" (C.I.L. IV, 4397; in the barracks of the gladiators))

Back to the problems of parking, we are actually happy that people park like that, because (like my girlfriend say) how much extra time wouldn't it take to find a parking spot if they decided to go and find legal parking spots. The bar also have a man running around taking care that everybody gets out when they need to, with a nice speaker system that give a bit of a bingo feeling inside.

The thing that bothers me mostly is that the police is always the ones that find the worst parking spots.

Once a week the parking police arrives at this place to give out tickets to everybody who parks outside of the marked areas, this make everybody park exactly as illegal just around the corner, where the parking police doesn't go for some reason. But I guess if they didn't keep people a bit down it would just deteriorate even more. And its not exactly respect for the parking laws that makes people decide where they want to park.