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Snow Parking

Mineola is probably the worst place to do business and definitely to live.  I have been living here for more than 8 years and I still can't get the parking situation right.  This year alone, I got 2 tickets for two different offenses both involving snow. 

I live right on the Boulevard.  There is nowhere for me to park.  I park on the side roads, usually Harrison or Cleveland.  I parked on Cleveland one day during a snow storm.  I got a ticket.  Understandably I was wrong because maybe I should've listened to the snow report and not wait until the last minute when I didn't have a babysitter to watch my kids so I can move the car.  So I was okay with that one. 

I decided to be proactive the next time and park in the parking field on First Street.  I saw the Code Enforcement Lady in her car.  We locked gazes.  I thought she was out for my other car parked at the meter, not the one in the lot because it was still snowing and it was more than two inches.  Dragging my dogs home and practically throwing them up the stairs, I ran back to my car on Harrison.  I thought, "Phew! I missed that ticket!"  But the woman disappeared.  I figured all was well.  Plows didn't roll through and it was still snowing.  My other car is fine.  At the VERY SAME TIME I was cleaning that car and thinking I finally missed her - I swear she is out to get me because of an argument she had with my husband - THE VERY SAME TIME, I got a ticket on the car parked in the parking field.  It was still snowing.  It was 9:25am.  Why did I get the ticket. 

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I go to court.  The two tickets, totaling $140, were only dropped down to $90.  I paid it like a good citizen and didn't feel like fighting.  I am defeated. 

There is NOT ONE notice on the Village of Mineola website stating where you can park, but there are a million codes saying where you can't park. 

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Someone please tell me ... where can someone, who cannot afford to leave this town because I get so many tickets I think now I pay he salaries of most of the officials in the Village, where, oh, where can I park my car.  I can't park on the street during snow and it appears I can't park in the municipal lots either.  I don't have a flying car so I can't park on top of the building.  AND that Code Enforcement Lady has it in for me. 

I'm damned if I do, I'm damned if I don't and I am damned anyway because the CE Lady has a taste for my blood. 

Where do I park??????  

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