Some of us were talking at lunch about the annoyance of wasted parking spaces because of people who don't bother to stay inside the parking lines and end up taking multiple spaces, and it got me to thinking.
I'm thinking we need a new law that dictates that the lines around a parking space form the "safe zone" for your car. While you're inside that "safe zone", nobody can do anything to your car. Any part of your car that strays outside that zone, though, is fair game for whatever anybody wants to do.
So, park inside the lines, you're totally fine. If you park 3 inches over the left line, though, and that left 3 inches of your car are mine. Spray paint, dings, dents, heck, just take a chain saw to that section of that car and lop it off.
Draconian, maybe, but I bet it would stop people from being idiots in the parking garage ...
--Nick
EDIT: Fixed a typo.
Hmm, so I stopped paying for www.calmfromchaos.com many months ago, yet there it is, running itself for free. Very odd.
(I'm signing my full name because when I google myself it bring up really stupid entries from a year ago that happened to say "Kara Govro" at the bottom)
-Kara Govro
Nick and I have been together two years as of February 27th. That time has gone really, truly, exceedingly fast.
It will also mark my seventh year of being coupled; with the exception of 13 weeks without a serious boyfriend, I have been with someone continually since my senior year of high school. Sometimes that strikes me as exceedingly strange.
I Karaoked "I'm Too Sexy" in front of a restaraunt/bar of about 200 people tonight. And someone donated $100 to the Public Interest Law Program for me to do it. And I was sober. I'm not sure which of those three sentences is most preposterous, but there I was, and I was good. ;)
P.S. I got to pick the song.
"Although it is beautiful here in California, the weather back East has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C., Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear."
"He is a lawyer and he got shot in the face. But he's a lawyer, he can use his other face. He'll be all right."
"You can understand why this lawyer fellow let his guard down, because if you're out hunting with a politician, you think, 'If I'm going to get it, it's going to be in the back."
"I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy he screamed, 'Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?' "
"Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: Dick Cheney."
"Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird."
Playing Riven. :-)
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in regards to Kara having claimed an issue for our paper:
AmberLeigh523 *reads through fact packet to see if it's worth fighting to get the internet one*
Karalyg03 : we can duke it out, but I bite.
Karalyg03 : and pull hair.
So, maybe not exactly the same scale, but I know what it's like to have to referee at important events and at a high level of play, where the things you catch or miss and the decisions that you make can make a big difference.
It's not easy, and anyone who thinks that it ought to be has probably just never tried it.
So, it's as somebody who's done it and who has made some big mistakes in some (relatively) big events that I say, DAMN was that some shoddy, crappy, inept officiating.
EDIT: Added link.
EDIT: And a bunch more links just for kicks.
Suppose you were in a situation where there was no explicit, expected reason that you'd be busy any given night, but that somehow things had conspired to make you unavailable just about every single night for quite some time, for predictably unpredictable reasons.
Then suppose somebody <cough>Erik</cough> asked you whether you were going to be free any given night.
Is it overly pessimistic of me to just say, "No, almost certainly not?"
Would it be overly optimistic for me to say, "Sure, I should be free?"
Who decides just how full the glass is?