Well, the Festival is over, it was fun, but I’m glad it’s over:)
One interesting situation: You know we’ve had a lot of trouble with people parking in our lot that shouldn’t. We try to be civic minded and cooperate I allowed a semi-trailer to be parked at the end of a lot for a stage for bands, but the spaces along the curb that front Jenny’s and the newspapers business we keep people run out of unless they are doing business with them. Their customers need to be able to park there.
For the festival we had signs that it was a private lot for the businesses, we coned off spaces for my family, and for the people who work for the hamburger place. Needless to say given human nature we still had problems:) Yesterday morning when I got there at 7:30 in the morning the cones on MY space, LOL, and one other that was for my family.had been moved and a truck parked there. I was tried and a bit cranky, and I got pi$$ed. There was a marathon race going on that was just finishing up. Before I could phone the police, one of the runners, a woman, showed up that owned the truck that was in my space:)....
I told her she need to “get it moved”...she said, I was running....I said, I don’t care what you were doing, get it moved...a few more excuses from her, with me answering, I don’t care why, GET IT MOVED...she finally said, you could have asked nicely...I said I DID, WHEN I PUT THE CONE THAT YOU MOVED AT THE END OF THE SPACE, GET IT MOVED NOW!!!. LOL...I think my frustration at the whole situation showed up. She moved but that left one car still there. Fri. we had some idiot pull in with a 42 foot long RV and tried to park across the spaces by the curb in front of Jenny’s and the newspapers. They were the band that was going to use the stage that we had on the lot, so they thought they were entitled I guess, givev an inch they want a mile...gggrrrrrrrrrrrr....I let them use the lot for the stage which took up 4 spaces....
Anyway, then I flagged a cop down and asked if they could do something...since it was a private lot they couldn’t, but (this is what surprised me), the cops, several of them, was really pushing me to have it towed. They said, quote, “we hate guys like that”...that would move cones and ignore signs. I really thought the police would feel I was being petty, and that I should just ignore it. But they were very supportive and understanding of how frustrating the situation was.
I heard from the lady who owns the hamburger place that she heard a conversation between some people complaining to police about our coning spaces...the police said, it’s a private lot they can do what they want. So that was good to know that they would be supportive, altho they can’t do anything.
But it was a battle all weekend to keep the spaces for the businesses and ourselves open. People can sure be rude.
Oh, and the guy who runs the corn booth, cooks corn on the cob to sell...(and remember we’ve told this guy for the last 3 years he can’t park in our lot)...pulled into our lot in a truck and long flat bed trailer, and MOVED one of our cement bumpers that outline the back edge of our lot so he could park there and not have his trailer sticking out so far....I couldn’t believe it....that’s how bad it gets. LOL...just thought I’d pass this incident on too, in case anyone here thought we were petty or selfish:)
Good for them. Too bad the rest of the people do not respect that.
Other then the parking trouble, did you enjoy the festival?