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ok, I know, I know...... there are more urgent things to worry about - but I just had to shake my head today! I'm going to vent......  
 
I was picking my child up from school, and I couldn't believe it! I've drawn a handy little diagram and will post it with this topic for your viewing pleasure (and also so you can understand what the heck I'm talking about).  
 
I was parked on the street along the school yard and then I proceeded to make a right turn onto a side street. As you can see in the diagram, this street is RIGHT across from the school, with a cross walk and there is a stop sign on the corner.  
 
There is a woman who goes to the school in a big white SUV truck who parks on the right hand side of the street, right on the corner where you turn! Lady - if you are reading this - just because there is snow there - the curb is still painted yellow under neath it! She doesn't just stop there for a quick second while her kid jumps in the truck - she parks there for quite a while waiting for her kid to come out of school. Actually, I think that whole side of the street might be "no parking".  
 
Now, as if this isn't bad enough, today, there was another lady in a big black SUV PARKED at the STOP SIGN, and they both have their windows open and are having a conversation across what is left of the street(which is already narrower than usual due to the snow banks)!! GOOD GRIEF! What is wrong with these people?  
 
So after I managed to squeeze through these two, I'm driving down the street, and I see a snow plow coming down the street.  
 
First of all - It's 3:30 and the kids are swarming all over the place on the snow banks (because that's what kids do) and secondly - it's garbage day on that street.  
 
Now, this is nothing against the plow drivers, (they're just doing their jobs after all)...... the poor guy is sitting there waiting for some kids to move off the snow bank and they don't get it. They think it will be cool to stand on the snow bank and get a front row seat view of the snow plow. So finally I opened my window and hollered at the kids that they couldn't stand there or the plow would run them over. So, they moved away (good job kids) and I then notice that all the dumpsters are still out (seeing as people aren't home from work yet) and they are all getting plowed in.  
 
Who in the heck at City Hall thinks it's a good idea to schedule snow plowing on the same day as garbage day??? At a school, at 3:30 pm???  
 
How much stuff can the poor plow driver try to avoid? How about the people who all have to come home to shovel out their dumpsters? What a mess!  
 
 
I don't know...... I realize that scheduling things, etc is hardly an easy job, and maybe it was an oversight, and that we should all just be grateful that they are plowing the streets - but really? Doesn't it seem like common sense to do an area where it's NOT garbage day?  
 
Don't even get me started on what it was like at Massey today after school either! That place is a zoo!!