we're all the same in the eyes of the traffic cops
Question: What do Purim, Diwali, Holy Thursday, January 2nd, the Feast of the Assumption, Idul-Adha, and Lincoln's Birthday all have in common?
Answer: They are all New York City parking holidays.
On most days, New York City has alternate side parking. This is not quite what it sounds; one may park on both sides of the street for most of every day---but for three hours, usually in the middle of the working day, one side or the other is off-limits (for street cleaning, we are told). This effectively means that most people who park on the street have to move their car from one side to the other every night.
But not today! Interrupting my regular-scheduled radio programming of BBC Newshour this morning--sadly a fairly sensationalist treatment of the news, I confess--was the New York City Radio Announcer, who assured me that alternate-side parking was suspended today "because of the holiday." "What holiday?" I thought. "Is it a federal holiday? Is it a religious holiday? And if so, whose religious holiday?"
Leave it to New Yorkers to be more concerned about where their cars go than about who's celebrating what and why.
Today is Purim. Happy Purim! Eat some Hamentaschen, drink some wine (or whatever), and think of me on Easter Sunday. (What's that you say? Easter Sunday is NOT a parking holiday!?! But Holy Thursday and Good Friday ARE? What? The logic is baffling.)
posted by Skay @ 10:08 PM
1 Comments:
This shows excellent thinking on the city's part. Driving and parking should be as uncomplicated as possible on Purim; I don't think I've ever seen a holiday accompanied by so much drinking, including St. Patrick's Day. I mean this as a good thing, of course. From what I've heard, celebrating Purim is a blast.
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