So last night when I got home from a meeting I noticed there was an awful amount of water in the garden in front and out back of my apartment.  My roommate and I rushed inside and grabbed plungers and strainers and headed out side.  When I opened the slider door in the garden, the water was so high due to the drain being clogged that water started rushing inside the apartment.  We quickly removed the grate and started cleaning up leaves and plunging the shit out the drain.  We repeated the process out back and eventually the water went down.

Then I got a call from Erin saying she went through a huge puddle on her way to my house and her check engine light came on, then her car eventually stalled once she parked and sat idle for a while waiting for it to hopefully dry out.  So after I showered the shit-water off my skin, I then walked west on Division to meet her to check on her and her car.  We decided to leave it over night to thaw.  

I had the day off today so I was going to go try and start it up, see if the check engine light was still on and then hit autozone for a diagnostics test.  When I walked down to the car I noticed it wasn’t there anymore.  I remember reading the signs around where we parked it last night and thought we were good to leave it.  Today though, I read them again and noticed that it said “No Parking 3am – 7am OR No Parking when snow is over 2″ deep”.  Ironically it was actually snowing when I initially left this morning too.  I failed to notice the “OR” in the sign.  Plus the freaking sign had a huge SNOWFLAKE on top of it indicating to me that it was a No Parking for snow removal sign and even with the snow today, it was way less than 2 inches.  

What the hell.  Why do they combine 2 different signs.  Granted I know it was my fault in the end, but jesus. Could they make it any more confusing?  All I want to do is finish this post with swear words about the city and life itself, so I’ll stop now.  Here is a picture of what I thought the sign said, assholes.