Good to know! Maybe we’ll start earlier then. :)

Ooooo those boots tho 👀I hadn’t thought of looking directly at boot makers!

Awesome! I’ll check this out. I’ve been replacing these dumb low quality boots every year for the past 12 years, I’d be happy to buy one expensive pair of boots and stick to them. (And I’m a wear it until the sole literally falls off type of person 😬)

Mahoney’s is excellent for this. If you can get to Winchester it’s their biggest location but you can also hit up the one in Brighton and still get a great selection. Rickey’s is also great but may be scant on house plants this time of year. There’s also a few Facebook groups for trading/buying/gifting plants. I could grab the names if you’re interested. 😊

If your job is to ticket people who are already breaking a parking law, then you waiting to catch someone one second after the meter flips is NOT your job. They’re failing to ticket cars that are not moving for hours in favor of randomly targeting specific cars. But if you do your job by just waiting until you can do a specific task rather than looking for something that can be handled at that moment, then I don’t know what to say. But if I stared at something that would eventually become work rather than looking for something that is currently work, I’d be fired. 🤷‍♀️

I am not complaining if I’d been over time or anything, it’s just a bit unnecessary to wait that long for a specific car. Especially when there are so many cars around and likely someone is actually overtime or parked in a no parking zone, etc.

A minute sure but he’d been there a while (I watched him standing there while I left the building and was walking up the block) and there was still 5 minutes on the meter. Was he just going to stand still for 5+ minutes instead of checking the other cars in that line? I totally get if it’s about to flip and you notice it, but it’s giving speed trap for going 1 under/over the speed limit vibes.

Again, I was heading to my car and he was actually in my way to get to the entrance so it just felt unnecessary. If I drive (in this case it was for a doctors appointment so seemed unfair to everyone that I take the T) I pay attention to signage and meters. Sometimes the meter maids are just being extra.

I mean I returned to my car before my meter ran out and a meter maid was staring at the meter waiting for it to run out. It’s one thing if the time is up, but just staring at one car waiting for time to count down is unreasonable. (Said as someone who bikes, uses the T, and drives. Depends on where I’m going and what the weather says. 🥲)

Depending on what your interests, Roxy’s/A4cade is one of my go toe and I’d definitely recommend it!