You sure they’ll fit in here? Without blocking a couple of lanes of threads, that is.
It’s approximately 1,746 times more entitled to block people from driving on a street because it makes your private transactions easier than it is to expect to be able to drive on a street.
So call a cop. And when the cop does nothing make sure that you call him an idiot.
Actually that’s a great idea. I suggest that you work on an exercise that will help you get your head out of your ass.
I like you’re style!
??? I don’t know how I could be typing coherently if my head were in my ass.
Also, I think the real exercise would be trying to get it in my ass. Getting it out is the easy part. 
Who accused you of typing coherently?
A mechanical press could help. I’d try it on myself to prove it but I don’t have one. I could get one on Amazon but I won’t. Don’t want the damn delivery trucks coming around hear.
Do you also leave a cookie and a glass of milk out for the delivery guy?
Testicles?
This is a funny one. Why not expect proper parking? If I am in a hurry, I am expected to park properly.
This also might be a regional thing. So the opinions might very.
Really it is one of those societal things. We expect truck drivers and delivery people to not obey traffic, parking, etc rules… and they don’t. As this thread shows, most don’t care that these professions break the rules.
My folks lived in Pompano Beach Florida on A1A for 30 years. First time I visited I was surprised to see delivery trucks parked in the center left turn lane to load and unload. These were moving or furniture delivery trucks for the most part.Sometimes they’d be there for hours. One lane South, one lane North, and apparently the delivery lane. :rolleyes:
Apparently many of the condos had no room to the trucks on the property. Never saw one bothered by the Sheriff’s cars coming by.
I am sympathetic to the arguments regarding delivery - goodness knows that I benefit as much as anyone from Amazon Prime - but there’s a point where it goes too far. In downtown Hartford, there is one particular street that is key to the traffic flow of the morning commute, and is two lanes in each direction. At one point, immediately after an intersection, is a spot where people (delivery trucks, post office trucks, cars) always stop because it’s closest to the entrance of a major office building. It’s extremely convenient if you’re “just stopping for 30 seconds” to drop someone off, pick up a package, or whatever else.
The thing is, it turns a two lane street that badly needs to be two lanes into one, and brings the morning commute to a near-standstill for about three blocks because of how the traffic interacts. The city is obviously sympathetic, as a few years ago, they put up No Standing/Stopping 7AM-9AM signs along the entire length of the block. Of course, the signs haven’t changed anything, and that intersection backs up at least 2-3 times a week at the same exact spot.
So I guess I’d just say that if, at any point, it’s gotten bad enough that the city has managed to move the grinding gears of bureaucracy into motion specifically to tell you not to be a moron and park there, please don’t be a moron and park there.
Once it’s up there past your chin, getting it out is next to impossible.
I’m annoyed by the trucks. The truck drivers are annoyed with the people annoyed at them. The store owners are annoyed with the trucks parked in front of their stores and the annoyed truck drivers and the car drivers who are annoyed with them. And UPS and FedEx make money hand over fist, which sometimes annoys me because some of their drivers are idiots, including the one who backed into my car in my own driveway. And the one who kept tossing packages in the bushes because he thought he wasn’t supposed to leave them at the front door and the bushes are the natural altenative. If I continue to connect the dots we’ll soon see that all of the world’s problems are caused by double-parked delivery trucks. The only possible solution is a massive world wide construction effort to connect all locations with pneumatic tubes for package delivery. This will soon be followed by the popular but dangerous teenage fad of tubing, so maybe it’s not such a good idea.
Slight hijack:
Seriously? How do I get my city to do that? Visitors to my place have to park at least two loooong blocks away, and feed meters. And the meters are short enough that they’ll have to go out and feed them every hour. I could get a pass to park there myself, but I don’t have a car, so I can just lend the pass to my visitors, right? Wrong. The pass belongs to the car, not the resident.
Fuckers.
/hijack
The solution is obviously for them to park on people’s lawns. Duh.
I’ve actually seen that done, once or twice.
I LOVED! that game. Especially when you got to chuck unlimited numbers of papers at the houses that didn’t subscribe and smash all their windows and knock over their plants and stuff.
What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, delivery trucks bad!
Yeah, one of those annoyances that are pretty minimal in any realistic view of things - but still can be irritating. In the past, I thought an appropriate “street justice” response would be to require that the trucks have a baseball bat attached to them, and any passing driver was entitled to take 1 swing at the illegally parked truck. (Yeah, I know …)
A lot of the discussion so far seems to have discussed busy city streets and commercial recipients. For several years I lived in the burbs, where everyone had a driveway. But neither the package deliverers nor the lawn services used them, whether the street allowed parking or not.
Like most annoyances big and small, it can be dealt with. But I’m not going to take someone to task for expressing their irritation.
Have you never seen the great documentary about humanity called “Parking Wars”? They get ticketed all the time.
And Paperboy was hella-cool. Except for that god-damn dog.