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This page is a Daily Archive of entries for Thursday, July 24, 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
You're moving soon, and you're not taking that never-used mini Crock-Pot with you. Or those dead batteries. Same with that pile of clothes, a foot-tall stack of old magazines, and the busted microwave.
You don't have time for a garage sale, but your conscience says you can't throw it away, either.
Champaign-Urbana is home to plenty of places that will gladly and quickly take this stuff off your hands. True, it's a little annoying to haul it around town, but beneficial to your new apartment and the community if you can donate it or properly dispose of it. And if you're leaving town, what better excuse to take a farewell tour
through C-U than to deposit your unwanted goods at sites infinitely more useful than its dumps?
I recently had a meeting near Carle Hospital. I didn’t have enough change to satiate the parking meters for three hours, so I turned off of Lincoln Avenue, onto Hill Street and found a parking space on the street.
After the meeting, I returned to my car. As I approached my driver's side door, I discerned an orange envelope beneath my wipers. “There is no way I have a ticket,” I said out loud. Sure enough, when I opened that little envelope, I found a fifteen dollar ticket for BLOCKING/OBSTRUCTING DRIVEWAY (within 5 feet of driveway entrance). I then yelled, “No f-ing way.”
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