I would like to present to you a scenario. This scenario involves a double-parking issue and exactly what not to do if you are presented with this situation. Actually, I suppose you could do it this way, but you risk the wrath of my roommate!

Yesterday morning, my roommate and I were both working from our home offices, both of which are near windows facing a crosstown residential street. We started hearing some honking from the street below. Now, this isn’t unusual, because occasionally people will honk when there’s a garbage truck or something in their way, but this was different. The same horn, hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonk, every minute or so, was being leaned on for 30 or more seconds at a time. This went on for about 15 minutes (!) before my roommate went down to the street to see what the hell the problem was.

As it turns out, a young lady in an SUV with PA plates was parked on the street, and a large pickup truck with construction logos on it had double-parked next to her. Did she a) call the number of the construction company, which was printed clearly on the truck, or b) go up to the only building with construction permits on it and knock on the door? No, she felt the best course of action was to roll up her windows, lock her doors, and lean on her horn. My roommate asked her why she hadn’t called or knocked, and she said she didn’t want to bother them. Instead, she bothered the ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. Logic in action!

By the way, she had a way to get out, if she turned her wheel and drove up on the sidewalk a bit, but she “didn’t want to” do that, either. So a woman in her pajamas who appeared to be sick with the flu came outside and guided her out of the parking space, just to stop the friggin’ honking already.

Oh, and the construction truck? It got three tickets before it was finally moved, an hour later, into the parking space vacated by the honker.