For bedfull_o_books, who says she hurt herself laughing when I read this bit to her.

[randomness]

From Midnight Poutine, a Montreal blog:

Every Monday on my street, there is a parking ban from 9:30 - 10:30am. Ostensibly, during this hour the streets are cleaned. In reality, the chances of seeing a street cleaner on our street during that window of time is about as likely as seeing a dodo bird and unicorn filming a porno in front of our apartment. However, the chances of seeing a meter maid come by to dole out parking tickets during that time is about 110%. The city is great at fining people for not following parking signs; it's just not so great at using that revenue to follow through on the infrastructural purpose of those signs. Only Alanis Morrisette could sift through the multiple layers of irony.

Comments

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

So, so true! And the reason why my car is safely parked outside the center of the city.

Do you want me to bring anything back from Montreal for you??

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I can't think of anything offhand, but how long will you be there? Maybe we could meet up.

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

Montreal until the end of the week, Boston for 1 week, DC for 1 week, then Boston for 4 more weeks before I return to Amman. Can meet up anywhere along the way! I thought I'd be here until the 5th, but I may leave a bit early--let me know what dates you're thinking.