I couldn’t afford to leave public transportation in Boston.
Sorry, Charlie.
Shoulda brought that extra nickel.
Are you still aboard to this day?
Darn, this cover could have been eerily prescient (even though the altered word means something different to most people than it does to the Dropkick Murphys):
Damn! I didn’t know that. They didn’t mention it on the TV news reports. That’s the T station closest to my house, and the one I use the most.
I’ve always wondered why his wife doesn’t just give him a nickel with his lunch. What’s she got to hide?
Time has passed the events of the song by. Nowadays she’d have to hand him a Charley Card or a Charlie Ticket with the necessary amount on it.
A common spelling/pronunciation confusion:
White Suprematist Kasmir Malevich
White Supremacist: subject of the OP
Handy mnemonic: “cyst” white pustule
Can you use a card to get out of a station that’s not the one you used to get in?
Time may have helped Charlie. I found one site about the song which speculates that, depending on Charlie’s age when the song was written, he may have been able to get off once he qualified for the senior citizen’s fare in the 1970s.
I always thought it was cool that the MTA had enough of a sense of humor to make that official.
Yeah in one of the pictures of them in the parking lot you can totally recognize it. I drove past it today myself and I got super angry and a little “there could be nazis here any time now, I guess” vibe. I don’t know why but I feel like white supremacists should use Wellington?
Malden’s got really good parking, though.
More recent reports say that they did not have a permit to demonstrate. Also, they assaulted someone during their cowardly march, and police are now reviewing all video (including license plates from Oak Grove), trying to track down any members they can.
I’m wondering when did you ever need extra funds to leave a station on the MBTA? I’ve been riding it on and off since 1985, and you pay a fare when you get on the subway, never one to get off or change trains.
to legally park at Oak Grove you have to use that damned pay-by-phone service. Surely they have the records of who was there. Illegally parked cars the police should already have records of.
What do the people without smart phones or banking apps on their phones do?
You can call an 800 number and go through a phone menu to pay to park as well. But either way you have to enter the license plate of the car you’re paying for.
IME parking at a similar lot, there’s about a 50% chance they’ll catch you if you don’t pay, so I assume the teams that check the cars don’t check the lots every day. So here’s hoping Oak Grove was on the list that day.
In my city all the meters also accept a physical credit or debit card and accept quarter coins. A quarter buys 12 minutes, 5 quarters ($1.25) buys an hour of parking.
The aggravation for me of using the smart phone parking app or the credit/credit card is that you must pay the first increment as $1.25, so I have to pay $1.25 to park for 5 minutes to run into the library to pick up my reserved books. I solve that by going through the hassle every few months of ‘buying’ a 10 dollar roll of quarters at a bank and leaving it in the cup holder for quick parking errands. Big PITA. Now you kids “get off my lawn!”
Damned if I know. I got the parking app for when I park there.