I dislike being turned away from a public park for private reasons, but it happens. I live in a city with a lot of people. I get it.
But…
Showed up at Stanky Creek one morning to ride my bike only to discover that a race was about to happen. “Oh, foo. Now I gotta drive to my second choice” I thought, when a guy ran up to see if I was there for the race.
No, I told him, I was there for my usual ride. I didn’t know anything about any race.
He looked kinda guilty and started to gabble some crap about “Putting the race on ALL the websites.”
That’s a lot of websites, ain’t it? And apparently, I don’t look at ANY.
I rode in a couple of other parks that day. It’s cool. Races need to happen. But if you’re in charge of a race, just apologize to those who are inconvenienced by them. Don’t try to tell us that we’re not doing our jobs by looking at your website. I don’t know what website you’ve got. It’s better if I go off to my Plan B without some gabble in my ears.
If booked for a total shutdown for an event at least post it at the site a week beforehand; that way the public both knows it’s a pre-empting event AND that the event is happening. Not just a flyer about the event but a statement about certain things may be closed or restricted that day.
I’m sure Pam or someone is there by the trucks and can tell Vendors/Sponsors/Talent where to park. Wonder what the weather has planned… and if Pam knows anything about how to read the site and lay stuff out properly in case of weather…
This is why people put up banners at the entrance to the park. To have something to point to for the people that drive up not looking at the banners.
boy is that guy barely more useful than a package of broken strings.
does he even knows something? Does he knows who Pam is? At this point…does he knows who HE is?
we have a city market every wednesday morning here, and because of that all roads are blocked until like 2 or 3 pm. i had to go get a refill on some important meds for me and was passing with my car at 3 15pm, SHOULD have been open but the cops where still there and asked me to open my window. so i do and he tells me sorry he can’t let me pass yet that they didn’t give the signal that the street have been cleaned.
from where we were i could SEE that no cleaning crew or truck was there, was nearly as empty than an deserted city. so i tell him that i am handicapped and walking that distance won’t be easy.
he says he is sorry he can’t do it or he would be in hot trouble.
since he was there with a BIG gun and a bulletproof jacket i just thought to make a joke “oooh with all this equipment i think you more than ready to face any kind of troubles.” i just wanted to make that joke to make him understand i knew he was doing his job and i wasn’t mad.
the guy reacted like i INSULTED HIS MOTHER. “OH NO SIR, WITH THIS THINGS I WOULD STILL BE DONE FOR AND YOU REALLY HAVE TO MOVE YOUR VEHICLE AWAY RIGHT THIS SECOND NOW!” and there was no one behind me.
so, in case, i told him it was a joke ONLY to relax the tension. then moved away.
find a place to park, walk the distance and once i am in the street there was indeed NO ONE CLEANING. And in the distance i saw the cop, hands on his gun, still staring at me while i went to the pharmacy.
i rolled my eyes so hard my brain said high back.
So you didn’t know the park had a Facebook page? Betcha didn’t know it sends out tweets, too. Is there a lake? Then we can claim the “fingers of the lake” does the typing…
(Trying to keep a straight face… but…. it’s… LOL)
I do not have a facebook account. I do not want one. I do not need one. Everybody that knows me knows by now if you want me to know something, telling me it’s on facebook doesn’t work. I hate the part of the universe that gets upset because I don’t do pinterest, twitter, facebook, snapchat, linkedin, etc ad infinitum nauseum.
You don’t “need” any of them. But tell that to later generations…
I am with you FeelinForYa! And my twenty-something son has a t-shirt that states truthfully, “It’s true! I’m not on Facebook.”
On the other hand, my daughter WORKS in social media and can cite facts and figures on the impressive responses from well-placed attention-getting posts. Obviously, you and I are not the target market, but it has proven to be the current best way to garner attention.
Stanky Creek is a REAL place?? That’s awesome.
Yep. It’s actually called ‘Nesbit Park’, but didn’t have an official sign for years. We all just called it Stanky Creek and that’s a good enough name to steal for this cartoon.