2026 – Blatant Stupidity
Talk about not paying attention when driving a big truck!
Looking east out of my living room window, I have a view of north-south State St on the other side of a parking lot. State St is one way southbound at that point.
All of a sudden, a large truck comes barreling up State St…….northbound! It then parks with its back-half blocking the common driveway between two large apartment buildings – one full of tenants and the other being built. The tenants need it to get into their parking area and the builders use it to bring in equipment for construction.
And did you notice the very-hard-to-miss-at-driver-level sign near the truck’s hood?
The truck door says ”Jolin International, Inc”. The truck itself says “Serving Supermarkets and Discount Stores”. They’re located in Kenilworth, NJ:
Oh, good…………….Justice – in the form of a Hackensack police “Parking Enforcement” (that’s what it says on the door) vehicle, has just pulled into the parking lot:
Yes! He (or she) has completed a swing around the lot and has now parked right across the street from this horribly-parked truck and there’s NO WAY to NOT see the violation:
After waiting a few minutes for the parking enforcement person to come bounding out of the car waving a ticket book in the air, the car pulled out of the lot onto State St southbound as if everything was peachy!
HOW is that possible?
The truck driver must have breathed a huge sigh of relief and appeared to be backing into the apartments’ common driveway because he might not be so lucky when the next parking enforcement vehicle showed up (or maybe he finally saw the One Way sign and was attempting to turn the truck to face in the proper direction):
It looks like his truck may have been too tall to get into the apartments’ parking area:
So what does he do?
Turns out he had no intention of facing in the proper direction! He pulled right back facing the wrong direction on State St! The only improvement was that he pulled up a few feet further north so as to not block the driveway anymore (or maybe he moved up so he wouldn’t have to see that annoying one-way sign).
So he’s learned nothing.
Turns out he had a delivery to make:
So he (and an assistant) made it and came back:
(and there’s that pesky one-way sign again)
Done!
Now surely he would turn around – not only because it was the right thing to do, but also because State St ended about a hundred feet north at Ward St – another one-way street that went west.
Well, by now you’ve probably figured out that he didn’t do any of that.
He took off and continued north:
You can tell where the corner was by the suddenly-north-facing apartment windows. It didn’t look like he was about to make a left turn – the only legal turn available to him – but I couldn’t immediately tell which way he was headed because of a small building blocking my view:
It’s not too hard to guess what came next.
He not only drove the wrong way on one-way Ward St, but then he made a left turn across two lanes of traffic onto northbound Main St!
BTW – Kenilworth, NJ, is WAY south of here (but maybe he was looking for another building on a one-way street so he could park the wrong way to make another delivery?).
What POSSIBLE excuse could he have for driving the wrong way on State St and ignoring the one-way sign that was RIGHT next to his windshield when he parked and blocked the driveway for two apartment buildings?
“I didn’t see any signs telling me not to enter” he might have said.
Would you like to see what that entry point looks like?
I guess FOUR signs aren’t enough for TWO eyeballs.
The two apartment buildings are on the right: Green (under construction) and red (fully occupied). The driveway he blocked and delivered on is between them.
If you look way down the lane closest to the buildings, you can see a car legally parked and facing southbound – unlike our blind food deliverer.
What else is there to say other than…….
THE END
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