Dispatches from the Eyeful Tower

Our old pal StereoMic was up early yesterday, documenting what our neighborhood looked like when the rains came.

Here's the view from his balcony. Those cars across the street weren't sideways when the drivers parked them.

And also? When I walked past that white car later in the day, it had a parking violation ticket on the windshield. Must be illegal to have your car swept away by a flood. Know what that is? One of Forest Hills' weak-ass parking cops thinking, "what the fuck? I'll be one ticket closer to my quota, and this will be a bitch for this poor sucker to defend in court."

On that note, I want to mention what I saw out my own living room window this morning. A car pulled out of the parking garage underneath the apartment building across the street, and the driver drove against the one way and jetted through the intersection. My blood boiled. Anyone crossing at that corner would have had no chance. Nobody would have looked in that direction for a car. But this fucker, this sack of rotting shit, whose time is so important to him that he can't follow the most basic rules of the road, puts everyone else's safety in jeopardy to shave 45 seconds off his commute.

I will not forget that car. I live right across the street. I'll see it again. And when I do, I will calmly tell the driver what I've seen him do, and if I ever see him do it again I'll pull him out of that vehicle by his throat.

On iTunes right now: Hirnsäge from the album Kollaps (reissue + bonus) by Einstürzende Neubauten

[posted with ecto]

Comments

[walein]

Damn!

[Tommy Himself]

Yes, indeed. And now our car doesn't work.