Sounds like somebody’s still butthurt over being cited for the all junked cars and broken refrigerators in his front yard.
The City of Calgary did a lot of street work in my neighbourhood last summer, which was great. Unfortunately, their street crews did not give anyone notice, and they did not make any effort to keep streets open - I had neighbours who had their cars stranded in their garages for days on end (the entire street was ripped up, with huge trenches that prevented them from getting their cars out of the driveway). Another trick the street crews do around here is to rip up streets and sidewalks and then not replace them for a month or so - I guess organizing the rip up crews and the put back crews is too much to ask.
So my point is that street crews do as they please, and to hell with the end users of these streets. I sympathize with the OP.
I guess I’ll have to stop whinging about road repairs here, where they actually do their best to keep at least some access open for the locals.
Is this a big city thing? I can more easily see it if you actually have some sort of public transportation options.
While HOAs are indeed typically evil, this kind of thing also makes me wonder if they had a meeting about the issue but only 10% of the residents bothered to attend. That’s how it was at my condo development. Maybe the shuttle would have had a better schedule with input from the residents.
Hey, the dictatorship I live in is great. But that’s probably because everyone has to do what I say.
or hotwire their steamroller thing and drive it to work
aren’t you so lucky you are normal, and won’t you feel differently when you get older or become crippled from a car accident or develop something like parkinsons or MS.
Yes, I am lucky. So, unless there’s something she’s not saying, is the OP. If this had been a pitting about someone being trapped in their own house because of their disability and the refusal of the authorities to recognise it, I would have had a different response. As it is, though, someone who is healthy bitching about having to walk a mile occasionally is just laziness.
Mama Zappa I’m late to the party as usual, but I’d have pitted your HOA as well.
I think that everyone has the right to pit that sort of stuff when they want to rant. It would really bite to have to walk that far when you bought a home with a road and a driveway and everything.
In Arizona, they pave the rural dirt roads by dumping hot tar and then following up with a load of gravel. That’s how they repave the roads as well. No warning, unless you read the back page of the local weekly paper.
You are supposed to drive on the stuff and pack it down, I guess. No concern to damage to cars, or for bikers who are afraid to ride on such a slippery, shifting road.
Had I been a Doper the last time that happened to me, I would have pitted the inconvenience instead of being happy for paved roads as well.
It would be worse if the road wasn’t repaired and you couldn’t use it at any point. Anyway, since when did walking a mile become “that far”? I walk that distance to work every day, it takes about 20 minutes.
Why would they need to close everything off just to paint curbs?
Seriously? I have no idea how America expects to be globally competitive when we are apparently too delicate for a 20 minute walk. What ever happened to “grit” and “ingenuity?” I hate to say this, but the Chinese certainly aren’t bitching about having to walk a mile three times a year.
Honestly can’t do a mile? Stay at a friends, or a hotel, or take a day off work, or sleep in the office, or have a neighbor watch the kids while you park, or, you know, dont plan grocery day for the day you have to take a short walk.
Maybe you’ll make the headlines. “Area resident uses common sense in the face of mild inconvenience.”
In fairness, we don’t send our whiners to labor camp. Which is a good thing, I guess.
Is it? Is it really? If you did send the whiners to labor camps you wouldn’t need to hire so many illegal aliens.
This was a perfectly good Pit thread. The OP was inconvenienced by something that the HOA did. The OP came here and ranted about it.
I used to walk almost 20 miles a day at work. And moved 2 tons of paper by hand and hand truck every hour…uphill all the way.
If I had had to park my car a mile away for a couple of days, I could have done the walk and carrying stuff with no problem.
I still would have been steamed about it. There is a very good reason that someone who bought a nice home with a paved street and a driveway and a garage, and it doesn’t include walking a mile to get home because the HOA didn’t plan things well.
Before you criticize Mama Zappa, try walking a mile in her shoes (because she won’t be using them).
I think that the OP lives in a suburban subdivision. For me, walking in a mile to my car for my morning commute would be an inconvenience since I would have to leave earlier but it would be doable since I have proper sidewalks to walk on as opposed to being on the side of the road or walking on a dirt path.
I’d be irritated with the subdivision. When the city tore up the streets on my block last year, they did sections of 1 or two blocks at a time, and they did one side of the street at a time, not the whole neighborhood.
I make a conscious decision to live someplace where I can walk almost everywhere I need to go - the only exception is driving to work. If my car gets closed up in my garage so I can’t get it out because of road work, I can’t drive to work. Yes, I can still take the bus - at great inconvenience to me and not what I bargained for when I bought this house, in this location. I’m not living in China; I have no reason to expect conditions to be like they are in China.
What should happen when the road outside your garage needs mending, or digging up for some other reason?
This. I can walk a mile and no work is beneath me. I have shoveled horse shit before. But at a time in my life when I can afford to buy a nice house in the suburbs, I expect to be able to access it by car. The HOA needs to do one side of the street at a time or make alternate arrangements.