What about the other months?
Last night we ate in downtown Durango. First we had to park:
I would like to have been in the room when they had the conversation in which they decided that, yes, they should go ahead and say "January-December" so that folks would know that they meant "the whole year".
Of course, that's an assumption - perhaps they mean "January-December exclusive" ?
I wouldn't know. That's why I said that I would have liked to have been in the room - what, exactly, were they thinking when they said "January-December"? Are there other months in Colorado that the rest of us don't know about?
We were downtown to eat between the 5:30 and 8:00 meetings. Durango says that they have 200 restaurants, and I'm not going to try to count them to dispute it. Downtown parking was just about completely full - after driving most of the way down Main Street we finally found this spot on a side road.
We are intending to be back down in Durango on Sunday morning, for church. According to the sign on this parking meter, parking will be free at that time, unless it's the month of Nowonder.
Also interesting that they chose to use the informal "thru" instead of "through", following their formal declaration of the entire set of months.
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Ahh! you see, the key here is that it is a sticker! That means it is probably covering up some other policy that was previously enforced.
Having lived in a small seasonal-touristy town, I venture to say that the previous policy probably applied only to certain months of the year. If they had just left off the months span info then people would show up at city hallcomplaining that they got a ticket when "everybody knows" that parking enforcement only works during the summer.
By putting in the redundant information the city employees are trying to head off that kind ofcomplaint.
No, it doesn't make any sense when considered alone. But considered in the historical context it probably makes a lot of sense.
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Chris - that makes GREAT sense. I hadn't thought of it that way.
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