I live in a high-maintenance city. I'm not even going to deny it.
We all get money mailers. And yes, I definitely look through my direct mail. At my old house (zipcode: 90025) I used to get offers for cutesy checks, air duct cleaning, carpet cleaning, house cleaning, dry cleaning, you name it. People in West LA must have been obsessed with keeping clean.
Now that I've moved to Beverly Hills?
Almost every other offer was for some type of cosmetic service. Teeth whitening, botox, sunless tanning, plastic surgery, breast augmentation, seriously. Are the people in this town that superficial? The answer is yes, folks. I have to admit when people ask me where I live I am still hesitant to say BH... I kind of leave it at "by Century City"... I mean I love where I live: across the street from a quiet park, tennis courts, a good high school, and a block from Century City, Rodeo Dr. and Beverly Dr. But sometimes people get the wrong idea when you tell them you live in Beverly Hills. Once I was on the phone with Yahoo! DSL customer service and they actually started singing the chorus to the Weezer song. Seriously speaking guys, it's just paying a little more rent to live in a metropolitan Cerritos. ~.~ Sure the people here can't drive and everybody thinks they have the right of way, but the quiet streets, clean sidewalks and neatly manicured homes remind me of home sweet home. At least it gives me a sense of peace when I run.
But back to high maintenance, the parking rules here are ridiculous. First of all, most streets get street-cleaned twice or 3 times a week which means even more parking restrictions. These are the parking rules signs right in front of my house:
Vina and I have both donated hundreds of dollars to the City of Beverly Hills through our weekly parking tickets.
We all get money mailers. And yes, I definitely look through my direct mail. At my old house (zipcode: 90025) I used to get offers for cutesy checks, air duct cleaning, carpet cleaning, house cleaning, dry cleaning, you name it. People in West LA must have been obsessed with keeping clean.
Now that I've moved to Beverly Hills?
Almost every other offer was for some type of cosmetic service. Teeth whitening, botox, sunless tanning, plastic surgery, breast augmentation, seriously. Are the people in this town that superficial? The answer is yes, folks. I have to admit when people ask me where I live I am still hesitant to say BH... I kind of leave it at "by Century City"... I mean I love where I live: across the street from a quiet park, tennis courts, a good high school, and a block from Century City, Rodeo Dr. and Beverly Dr. But sometimes people get the wrong idea when you tell them you live in Beverly Hills. Once I was on the phone with Yahoo! DSL customer service and they actually started singing the chorus to the Weezer song. Seriously speaking guys, it's just paying a little more rent to live in a metropolitan Cerritos. ~.~ Sure the people here can't drive and everybody thinks they have the right of way, but the quiet streets, clean sidewalks and neatly manicured homes remind me of home sweet home. At least it gives me a sense of peace when I run.
But back to high maintenance, the parking rules here are ridiculous. First of all, most streets get street-cleaned twice or 3 times a week which means even more parking restrictions. These are the parking rules signs right in front of my house:
Vina and I have both donated hundreds of dollars to the City of Beverly Hills through our weekly parking tickets.
2 comments:
did she not get a parking permit yet?
Oh she did, a looong time ago.
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