The RePaving Pain

Last month two short men walked around the neighborhood and put a no parking sign in each person’s yard all along my street and the surrounding ones. They announced that there could be no parking during daylight weekdays for four weeks due to the repaving of our street.

I have a fairly big driveway, but often have more people to my house than my driveway can hold. So many times friends are parked on the road in front of my house. In fact, my neighbor often looks at her calendar to see if she is missing an event at my house when she sees cars as the cars are more reliable than her memory.

These short men placing the signs did not ask me if I was going to be having people to my house for these whole four weeks. Turns out I am having A beyond beginner class at my house This coming week and I am trying to figure out exactly what to do.

Some of the people know each other and I can ask them to car pool. But I think I am going to have to run a shuttle myself because I can’t fit all the cars in my driveway and there are no close by streets that don’t have the no parking signs.

It is understandable they need to be able to work on the street without cars parked on them, but I wish they could be more precise about where they are going to be working, in case it would be OK to park in front of my house. I have not noticed what all the yard people are doing with their trucks, but this has to be a problem.

I’ll be contacting my class members, but now is when I wish we had those personal aircraft contraptions so people could just fly into my front yard.

I know this is a first world problem and I will be happy to have a freshly repaved street. I just wish they did it when I was in Maine.