Comments on: Tree Falls Across Erie Avenue

By: oateoateo

oateoateo — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:43:02 +0000

To steal from Lyrics Only Guy:

It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

It’s a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighborly day for a beauty,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So let’s make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we’re together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won’t you be my neighbor?

Won’t you please,
Won’t you please,
Please won’t you be my neighbor?

GOOD GRIEF!

By: Yo

Yo — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:31:14 +0000

I’ll totally own my judgementalness on this one. The residents have every right to park on the street, and do. They are sparse enough that dodging around them isn’t a big deal. It’s folks parallel parking and un-parking in the midst of pick-up and drop off who cause the problem. And some of them appear to be active PTA volunteers. If they can’t see that their actions are contributing to a problem, they are clueless, and if they get the letters and ignore them, they’re jerks. Unless you or your child has some sort of special need, you should be parking in the lot or a side street, or else using the drop-off lane.

By: Oateoateo

Oateoateo — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:46:05 +0000

Agreed…but that nose could belong to a couple living on Erie that does not have to play musical cars in the morning, so one parks on the street, as equally as to a Clairemont parent that doesn’t want to have to walk too far from their car. Far too much judgment here, on both sides. Neither is “right”, but that is something that we have to accept having a school tucked into a little neighborhood.

By: Deanne

Deanne — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:04:48 +0000

This is as hilarious on the umpteenth read as it was the first time around! :0)

By: Deanne

Deanne — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:01:11 +0000

Another solution– and one that the PTA could volunteer to do on behalf of the neighbors and the school– would be to gather Erie Ave residents’ signatures on a petition request to install signs that say No Parking Between 7:30am and 3:30pm (or whatever times best fit). The Decatur Police would then be able to enforce it as needed.