Dear Diary …
Alright this is me kind of complaining about my own backyard, but I think everyone can relate to this situation. And also, I’m fairly confident that many can share in this situation because the entire city of Roanoke is under construction right now. What the heck is going on here?
Everywhere I turn … highway … secondary road … residential street … they’re digging something up.
And I’m trapped by ‘em … I live near the Towers Shopping Center, and that road currently looks like a large earthquake ripped it apart about a week ago. And if you think you’re gonna be able to escape it by going to the other side of the shopping center … that construction is even worse over there.
Oh and if you get past it, Franklin Road is a mess … and if you get on the highway … well you can forget about it there too.
So you know where the escape is? Nowhere! There is no escape! We’re trapped!
Look … I’m all for making improvements, plus the jobs everybody gets for doing the improvements, but was it really necessary to do ALL of these improvements at exactly the same time?
Oh I don’t know … How about we take all these people, put ’em on the same job, and bang it out in an hour, instead of having 247 different projects running at the same time that all take six months to complete?
I drive a car that wasn’t made in this century … any extra time I gotta spend in it is unpleasant. It’s got 18 years of farts in that upholstery!!
OK … moving on Diary … I’d like to pass along a little helpful hint to everybody out there …
If you own a house … yes … you own that house … and the lawn … and you’re technically even responsible for the sidewalk in front of the lawn … but one thing you don’t own is the parking space on the street in front of your house.
Why do so many people act like it’s the most egregious injustice of humanity if somebody else DARES park in that parking space?
That’s MY space!
Yes. On a public street. That you don’t own.
Hey … I get it … It’s the space closest to your house. So it’s definitely the most convenient place for you to park, but it’s not your God-given right to always park there.
I mean … if your argument was correct … that you own the space in front of your house and nobody else can park there … then where does anybody else on Earth park when they leave their house? By your logic, they’ve left the one parking space on the planet that they own … so now what?
And the best part is these people who think they “own” the space … Guess what happens if there’s a pothole there? Oh now they’re suddenly they’re on the phone with the city, complaining about how they need to get down there and fix their road.
But I thought YOU owned it? So if you do, you get out there and fix the pothole then.
You don’t own that space. It’s nice if you get to use it, but other humans can park there too.
Till next time Diary … I say … goodbye.