{"id":15048,"date":"2023-06-03T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15048"},"modified":"2023-06-03T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T12:28:12","slug":"turd-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15048","title":{"rendered":"Turd parking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was walking the dogs through the village at 06.00 yesterday morning when I came across a blocked pavement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first thought was ‘Unfortunately I’d do a lot of damage to that car if I wheeled my wheelbarrow through there’. And I would. The gap between the car and the wall is less than 0.4 of a metre. The distance between the car and the overgrown hedge\/tree is 0.2 of a metre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I started wondering about the mental processes that people who park on pavements must go through. I wondered if this driver thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. I’m going to park on the pavement because there’s a very slim chance my car might get damaged if I park it on the road. I don’t care about pedestrians who might want to use the pavement, they can just walk in the road and deal with the traffic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. I’m going to park on the pavement because there’s a very slim chance my car might get damaged if I park it on the road<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. I’m going to park on the pavement because that’s a thing I always do<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. I’m going to park on the pavement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    They must have thought one of those options, surely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Anyway, then I thought about how the top end of that road always has vehicles parked on the pavement (both sides of it usually) during school drop-off\/pick-up hours. My mind played with the irony of a parent not being able to push a wheelchair up the far end of the pavement because it is blocked by parents dropping their kids off at school. I know it is illegal to park on the pavement in that London. I also know that whilst it is not illegal to park on the pavement in these parts, it is illegal to block pedestrian access and\/or cause an obstruction through careless\/reckless parking. I also enjoyed the irony of the local rozzers going in to that school once a year to teach the kids about various safety issues when it’s the parents of those children who need that talk, not their offspring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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