Parking illegally for church not ticketed?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, but they grew up there. There grandmother still lives there. Other family still lives there.

It will ALWAYS be "their" neighborhood, because THEY have a family history there. You, do not. You're there until your next career move happens, and you're off to another city. And after you leave, they'll stil be double parking, long after you're gentrifying someplace else.

Your white privilege has no power when it comes to church parking.

Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the way church parking has worked for decades.

Just because YOU live here now, doesn't mean you get to transform every detail of the neighborhood into something that fits your idea of how things "should be".

Those people at the church were parking like that 30 years before you bought your renovated, subdivided human filing cabinet with granite countertops and bamboo floors.

So just accept it as part of living in a city.

But I couldn't get my parked car (and I had a sticker allowing me to park near my cheap townhouse on capital Hill) out on Sundays because I was blocked by cars going to the Ebenezer United Methodist Church at 400 D Street SE. When I walked over to ask the ushers what I was supposed to do (it was urgent) they laughed at me. I wrote a letter to the pastor and he sent back a very ugly nasty letter. So much for Christianity.

They were right to laugh at you!

Seriously- were you REALLY expecting them to stop the sermon or singing hymns and make an announcement like "would the owner of a gold Escalade with MD tags "przjzus" please move your vehicle? It's an emergency, you're blocking in a young white hipster"



Lololololololz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the way church parking has worked for decades.

Just because YOU live here now, doesn't mean you get to transform every detail of the neighborhood into something that fits your idea of how things "should be".

Those people at the church were parking like that 30 years before you bought your renovated, subdivided human filing cabinet with granite countertops and bamboo floors.

So just accept it as part of living in a city.

But I couldn't get my parked car (and I had a sticker allowing me to park near my cheap townhouse on capital Hill) out on Sundays because I was blocked by cars going to the Ebenezer United Methodist Church at 400 D Street SE. When I walked over to ask the ushers what I was supposed to do (it was urgent) they laughed at me. I wrote a letter to the pastor and he sent back a very ugly nasty letter. So much for Christianity.

They were right to laugh at you!

Seriously- were you REALLY expecting them to stop the sermon or singing hymns and make an announcement like "would the owner of a gold Escalade with MD tags "przjzus" please move your vehicle? It's an emergency, you're blocking in a young white hipster"



Lololololololz

Of course I didn't expect that. But their cars were blocking four blocks of other citizens' cars. No one could get out and do anything or get their own kids to church. Couldn't they leave their keys with the usher? That's what I would do if I were running a church like that. So we solved the problem by having the police come and tow. End of problem. But I still think it unChristian of a church to illegally park, knowing they were blocking in all the residents for 5 hours on a Sunday morning. That's just rude.

[Anonymous]

It is not just a DC thing. I remember visiting a friend in Boston several years ago. Cars were allowed to park in the middle of certain streets for church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not just a DC thing. I remember visiting a friend in Boston several years ago. Cars were allowed to park in the middle of certain streets for church.

But there a system was worked out so that if someone was trapped in, the ushers or police (sometimes they would hire an off-duty policeman) could move the cars. You handed your keys to the usher and he put it on a board, just like valet drivers do.

[Anonymous]

What residents should do is park all around Lincoln Park and the places that these assholes illegally park before they can get there. Two can play that game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the way church parking has worked for decades.

Just because YOU live here now, doesn't mean you get to transform every detail of the neighborhood into something that fits your idea of how things "should be".

Those people at the church were parking like that 30 years before you bought your renovated, subdivided human filing cabinet with granite countertops and bamboo floors.

So just accept it as part of living in a city.

The city is enforcing the law in a discriminatory manner (favoring religion). It's a constitutional violation. Not to mention that it makes driving around places like Lincoln Park 100 times more dangerous because children can dart out from between parked cars. There's a reason there's no parking signs there.

Oh!!! The OUTRAGE!!!

Chill out. I know it's terrible that it slows you down getting to hot yoga on Sunday morning.

Um not just yuppies from getting to yoga, but AMBULANCES from getting to people that need them.

Go to church in your own neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC doesn't generally enforce any parking on Sundays.

Not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Go to church in your own neighborhood.

They ARE in their "own" neighborhood.

YOU are the outsider. Why is this so hard for you to understand? It's a very simple thing....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to church in your own neighborhood.

They ARE in their "own" neighborhood.

YOU are the outsider. Why is this so hard for you to understand? It's a very simple thing....

No, I LIVE in DC. These people driving from Maryland do not. Is that seriously hard for YOU to understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but they grew up there. There grandmother still lives there. Other family still lives there.

It will ALWAYS be "their" neighborhood, because THEY have a family history there. You, do not. You're there until your next career move happens, and you're off to another city. And after you leave, they'll stil be double parking, long after you're gentrifying someplace else.

Your white privilege has no power when it comes to church parking.

Deal.

Their grandmother can vote then. Why do they get votes based on where they have family history? Lots of people have family history in the District who have no affiliation with these churches (yes, people were moving out of the District in the 1950s). If people got votes based on family history, Marion Barry would not have been elected Mayor.

Voting based on residence is not white privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to church in your own neighborhood.

They ARE in their "own" neighborhood.

YOU are the outsider. Why is this so hard for you to understand? It's a very simple thing....

Poe's law invoked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to church in your own neighborhood.

They ARE in their "own" neighborhood.

YOU are the outsider. Why is this so hard for you to understand? It's a very simple thing....

No, I LIVE in DC. These people driving from Maryland do not. Is that seriously hard for YOU to understand?

You're missing the point.

You live there NOW.

Their parents and grandparents lived there before you were even born. They might not live there now, but they grew up there, and it's still THEIR neighborhood, regardless of where they live now, or who occupies it at the moment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to church in your own neighborhood.

They ARE in their "own" neighborhood.

YOU are the outsider. Why is this so hard for you to understand? It's a very simple thing....

No, I LIVE in DC. These people driving from Maryland do not. Is that seriously hard for YOU to understand?

You're missing the point.

You live there NOW.

Their parents and grandparents lived there before you were even born. They might not live there now, but they grew up there, and it's still THEIR neighborhood, regardless of where they live now, or who occupies it at the moment.

You're an idiot.

-NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the way church parking has worked for decades.

Just because YOU live here now, doesn't mean you get to transform every detail of the neighborhood into something that fits your idea of how things "should be".

Those people at the church were parking like that 30 years before you bought your renovated, subdivided human filing cabinet with granite countertops and bamboo floors.

So just accept it as part of living in a city.

But I couldn't get my parked car (and I had a sticker allowing me to park near my cheap townhouse on capital Hill) out on Sundays because I was blocked by cars going to the Ebenezer United Methodist Church at 400 D Street SE. When I walked over to ask the ushers what I was supposed to do (it was urgent) they laughed at me. I wrote a letter to the pastor and he sent back a very ugly nasty letter. So much for Christianity.

They were right to laugh at you!

Seriously- were you REALLY expecting them to stop the sermon or singing hymns and make an announcement like "would the owner of a gold Escalade with MD tags "przjzus" please move your vehicle? It's an emergency, you're blocking in a young white hipster"



Lololololololz

Of course I didn't expect that. But their cars were blocking four blocks of other citizens' cars. No one could get out and do anything or get their own kids to church. Couldn't they leave their keys with the usher? That's what I would do if I were running a church like that. So we solved the problem by having the police come and tow. End of problem. But I still think it unChristian of a church to illegally park, knowing they were blocking in all the residents for 5 hours on a Sunday morning. That's just rude.

Good! Keep calling for the tow each and every time they do this.