It begins with increasing parking ticket fines with super-strength enforcement when the downtown is half-empty. I got a $34 ticket 5 minutes expired in a 90 minute zone where I expected to be parked 20 minutes and dropped money for 45 minutes. Powell's sometimes takes a little while to look at a box of books and sometimes you walk right up and are done in 10 minutes. It's hard to tell while navigating the alternating one-way streets where there are signs modifying traffic everywhere and construction going on here-and-there. But hey, that's downtown, where good suburban kids need not drive to spend money, and especially, not contaminate the pure air with SUV exhaust. How about taking one of the TB-infested public transit machines or risking death riding a bicycle in traffic? Uhh, no thanks. I'll just avoid Downtown in the future whenever possible.
The hate continues in the Hawthorne shopping district.
I've got some ideas for images to go with this blog. Look back later.
Cheers.
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