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To: Kid Shelleen
Jennifer Williams, a Mount Airy homeowner, said: "How is it that I spend all this time shoveling out my car in front of my house, yet I can't save my spot? Why am I paying property taxes again?"

What? She is a homeowner but doesn't have a garage or a driveway? What kind of "home" does she own, anyway?

5 posted on 01/27/2016 6:48:10 PM PST by bkopto
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To: bkopto

What? She is a homeowner but doesn’t have a garage or a driveway? What kind of “home” does she own, anyway?

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I can park two cars in my garage and six in my driveway, ‘course I don’t live in a big city, just a small town in fly over country.


7 posted on 01/27/2016 6:52:18 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: bkopto
"What? She is a homeowner but doesn't have a garage or a driveway? What kind of "home" does she own, anyway?"

Spoken like someone who hasn't gotten off the shopping streets in a city. Most of the older row houses in cities, the bungalows, built in the '20s through the '40s, back on an alley, with the garage. That alley is filled 6 feet high with drifted snow, and is only one car width wide. If your car was in the garage, you won't drive it until Spring. The city is NOT going to plow your alley, since there is no place to push the snow. They could use a front end loader, and a dump truck, but there are hundreds of miles of alleys, one bucket full at a time.

You were far seeing enough to move your car to out front of your house. After the snow stopped, you were out there with the garden spade, the kitchen broom, and the snow shovel that broke 10 minutes in, until you found your car. You missed an entire morning's work, digging. If the plow has been thru, you had to move twice as much snow. If the plow came thru after, you get to do it all again, twice. Now, after that much work, you sort of have an investment in that space. You put that raggedy chair from the basement in the spot, two hours later, some jerk, (And I use the term since your actual reference is banned in 47 countries.), has parked in it.

I'm for Savsies, and gunfire is a logical response to violating it.

8 posted on 01/27/2016 7:26:02 PM PST by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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