Excuse me Ms....

Sep 03, 2006 07:42

Don't get me wrong, Montreal is a fantastic city. It's beautiful architecture, amazing culture and its fantastic array of tiny shops and cafes always guarantee for a good time...

My only complaint as a member of this big city is the nasty parking situation all over downtown Montreal. Sure, there are about a bazillion parking lots in the downtown core, but who wants to pay an extra 15 bucks to go have a 2$ coffee...

Rewind to last night.

So there we are (the boyfriend and I) driving up St.Denis looking for a spot so that we could have a coffee. To complicate matters, we were scoping out Cafe's with open terraces due to the smoking laws in effect all over the city. What's a good coffee without a smoke?

Sure enough when we approached the Vegan Restaurant (Cachu??) we spotted a prime piece of parking heaven. Now, take into account we're pulling up in an over sized SUV so we needed room. Lots of room.

The boyfriend determined the spot was big enough so he pulls up parallel to the car in front of the empty spot. Again, keep in mind that we have to pull up a little further ahead so that there is enough clearance to back his beast of a truck in.

There we are.... parallel to the car ahead of the spot, turning signal on when TWO old ladies pull up behind us and start backing into the spot. At this point I'm telling the boyfriend, "It can't be, they're probably picking/dropping someone off". Sure enough there they are blatantly stealing our spot.

I went so far as to put down my window and dangle myself outside the truck to hopefully make eye contact and have them realize that the spot was already spoken for. No can do my friends, those ladies pretended not to see me and backed their little car into the spot. Bitches.

So yeah, Montreal rocks if you're a pedestrian and a public transit user. But, for those of us who chose to drive around... Not only do we get screwed with the gas prices we also get fucked with parking...
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