Doubling up the yellow
They have been painting the village again.
I don’t mean that all the front doors are now shiny and bright with a spot of fresh colour on the window frames either. No – some twat has been dispatched by the council with a pot of yellow and a pot of white paint to turn the roads into a garish mess.
This twat has gone fucking mad this time. There are white lines and messages everywhere and as for the yellow lines – either he was having a laugh or was given too much paint. Either way he has reduced the amount of [legal] parking spaces considerably by painting double yellow lines everywhere, even places where there had never been lines before.
To those of a foreign persuasion, there are two schools of thought here as to the meaning of yellow lines painted along the edge of the road.
One school maintains that a single yellow line means you can’t park there at all, while double yellow lines mean you can’t park there at all at all.
The other school [of which most of us are devout pupils] maintains that a single line means you can park and a double yellow means you can double park. It makes more sense in my book.
Anyhows this gink has plastered double yellow lines everywhere. They run up the side of a road where no one can park anyway [unless you want the side of your car ripped off by a lorry]. They are plastered along stretches where there is no reason for them whatsoever and where people have been parking for years without any problems.
Of course I am supposed to obey these bits of paint, which is a complete anathema [why the fuck should I be ordered around by paint for fucks sake?] but only for a couple of weeks. This is because the council will doubtless dispatch some jobsworth to make sure we are obeying the rules. Jobsworth [and the council] usually get bored of this game after a couple of weeks and we will all revert to parking where the hell we like. It’s our village after all.
I had to drive down to the village yesterday to collect something. I parked in my usual spot where the two old yellow lines had been replaced with two new yellow lines. Jobsworth obviously wasn’t around [or was issuing tickets up the other end of the village]. I came back to find that a car had double parked beside me which was in accordance with my beliefs. It didn’t bother me as I could easily get out which I did leaving the other car parked in the middle of the road.
Paint or no paint, life carries on as normal.
Thankfully the “city” council in my little “city” (town actually although they call it a city) only renews the painted lines and such once a year and always in the same place. They know damn well that if they change these lines people will just drive/park the same place they always have anyway and since the courts are backed up until sometime next century, issuing tickets wouldn’t amount to a piss hole in the snow.
By the way, I had to disable javascript in order to write this comment (got rid of of the buttons). With javascript enabled, and thus all the buttons showing up, I couldn’t get a cursor in the comment field at all let alone type in it. A couple of times when I was clicking around the buttons and in the comment field (which didn’t work–javascipt enabled) I was suddenly sent back to a random post on HR (no, I’m not kidding). This actually happened twice (different random post though) although I couldn’t figure out why it was happening.
Just letting you know.
Our lot seem to be under the impression we like variety. Every time they come out we get new lines and little “traffic islands” of white paint that everyone ignores. The previous time, they painted one of those islands in such a place that it would cause some nasty swerving on a steep hill. Daft. At least that has worn away from everyone driving straight across it.
As you may notice, I’m working on those damned buttons. I know they aren’t strictly necessary, but I refuse to be beaten! They work now on replies to comments only, but not on a first comment. Trying to find why the hell not. They are supposed to be 4.8 compatible.
A double yellow line means it’s parking space for a colour blind zebra.