Quote of the day:

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
—Mark Twain

I live on a very narrow street.

How narrow is the street?

When I moved here, the moving van couldn’t pull up in front of the house but had to park at the corner, and the movers had to carry all my furniture and boxes from there by hand.

So when vehicles park in this street, they need to be especially careful to park as close to the curb as possible. And I’d say that 90% or more of the drivers are careful to do just that. Certainly it’s not a problem for the folks who live on this block.

But then there are those who don’t live in this neighborhood and only park here for a few hours or so. Some of them aren’t careful to observe common sense parking, and it can cause problems for vehicles that need to drive through this street.

Such as municipal trash trucks, for example.

There was an example of that this week with a car parked in front of a neighbor’s house. I noticed that the trash truck was having problems getting past it. 

The truck can’t drive up on the curb on the opposite side of the street, because there are posts there to prevent that.

And the trash truck can’t back out of the street; it needs to continue on through to collect the rest of the trash.

So continue on through it did, after taking pains to try to avoid scraping the carelessly parked car.

I have to admit I was rooting for the trash truck and against the car. 

If you don’t know how to park in such a narrow street or don’t care to take the time, then you shouldn’t be parking in a narrow street. That’s what I say.

I’ll resist the urge to make any disparaging remarks about New Jersey drivers.

I was hoping to see the reaction of the driver when he (or she) returned to the car, but I missed it.