Darkstone42
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Since only the folks in my lab can get into our hallway, we just leave our bikes here. But it's a fire code violation to leave all the bikes propped up against the wall, I guess, so the fire department impounded them. Except for my two bikes, fortunately. Someone apparently stalled them.
I was lucky, because I got my bike out before it could be impounded, but bikes are not super wide, and there's more than enough room to navigate our hallway three people wide with the bikes there. Plus there's a big crate on the same side that we can do literally nothing about, so the places where the bikes are are actually the widest parts of the hallway. It just seems so picky to make us throw them all out, especially since the only people ever in the hallway are the people who put the bikes there. We're not putting anyone at risk but ourselves, if we're putting ourselves at risk at all.
In any case, whatever, they're just doing their jobs, that's not what drives me nuts (though it does bug me a bit, especially considering how rampant bike theft is here). What drives me nuts is that one of the two bikes they left (they took roughly ten) is the one that doesn't have a front wheel, which no one is riding obviously, and which is probably the biggest obstruction of them all. That's my other one, and I only haven't gotten rid of it because I honestly don't know how. If they impounded it, I would have been through with it, but they took all the actually useful ones first.
Jerks.
I was lucky, because I got my bike out before it could be impounded, but bikes are not super wide, and there's more than enough room to navigate our hallway three people wide with the bikes there. Plus there's a big crate on the same side that we can do literally nothing about, so the places where the bikes are are actually the widest parts of the hallway. It just seems so picky to make us throw them all out, especially since the only people ever in the hallway are the people who put the bikes there. We're not putting anyone at risk but ourselves, if we're putting ourselves at risk at all.
In any case, whatever, they're just doing their jobs, that's not what drives me nuts (though it does bug me a bit, especially considering how rampant bike theft is here). What drives me nuts is that one of the two bikes they left (they took roughly ten) is the one that doesn't have a front wheel, which no one is riding obviously, and which is probably the biggest obstruction of them all. That's my other one, and I only haven't gotten rid of it because I honestly don't know how. If they impounded it, I would have been through with it, but they took all the actually useful ones first.
Jerks.
