Ten years ago, I spent a week backing into parking lots to determine if this ludicrous move made any sense.
Then I wrote about it on my blog. You can read it here.
Over the past decade, I have received more responses to this post than any other of the more than 8,200 posts.
By a wide margin. People have strong opinions about parking.
The responses are always one of two types:
- Thank you for saying what I have been thinking for years.
- You’re an idiot.
The people who call me an idiot are, of course, the dumb-dumbs who always back their cars into parking spots.
Last month, New York Times reporter Stephen Kurtz interviewed me about this post and the week I spent backing into parking spots for a piece he wrote on the same subject.
Yesterday, it appeared on the front page of the New York Times. I get referenced in the piece a few times.
Happily, I haven’t received any angry communication about the piece, though I expect Kurtz did. If the response to his piece was anything like mine, a lot of dumb-dumbs are calling him an idiot today.
The last time my name appeared in the New York Times, it was because I was one of the dozen people who sued Donald Trump during his first term in office for blocking me on what was then called Twitter. That case went to the US Court of Appeals, where we won.
A month later, Trump was forced to unblock me. Shockingly, he actually did.
Death threats and other nastiness ensued from readers who thought that reasonable opposition to a court ruling included anonymous threats to maim and kill a plaintiff.
Huge dumb-dumbs. Galactically immense dumb-dumbs.
Happily, my latest reference in the Times is far more prominent, and, at least so far, has elicited no threats.
