"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." (Matthew 12:36)
This will not be too long, but I will quickly share two tips I picked up just living my life around Framingham this morning:
FIRST: Do not talk on your cell phone while you're parked and waiting at the "drive up teller" window of a bank. I was at the Franklin Street branch of TDBankNorth this morning. That branch seems to have downsized in that there seldom seem to be more than 2 or 3 people at work there. There was a guy in a large S.U.V. parked at the drive up teller window. The teller who was covering the window was busy working on his transaction. This went on for about 3 minutes. In fact, the guy is a former Framingham restaurant owner and I believe he is still on the Framingham Zoning Board of Appeals. He was talking on a personal conversation on his cell phone, and the BANK MICROPHONE WAS PICKING IT UP CLEARLY! He was broadcasting his entire personal conversation to the bank customers and employees. I actually said to one employee, "This is better than listening to '96.9 FMTalk'!" The employee told me, "This happens ALL the time. People talk on their cell phones and don't realize its being broadcast to the entire interior of the bank!" So, think about that the next time you're at a drive up window (especially if you have to be delayed right at the window and microphone for some reason).
SECOND: I attended the Framingham Downtown Renaissance meeting this morning. What is F.D.R.? Well, technically it is NOT part of Framingham Town government, although it usually meets inside the Framingham Memorial Building and there are usually at least 5 Town employees present. Today it was described as "NOT an organization or an appointed Town group, but rather a conglomeration of representatives of organizations". ANYWAY, one issue that came up today was PARKING; not just abuse of parking lots, but rules about parking on Framingham streets, etc. I was one of the few people who knew that Framingham has an ordinance that you CANNOT park in one place on a Framingham street for over 2 hours at a time UNLESS it is posted "Resident Parking Only" and your residence is a short distance away from that parking place. Over the past two months, Framingham has hired a female parking enforcement person. She's very tough and has no mercy. I see her out on the streets of downtown Framingham ticketing cars (for large sums of money) all the time. A number of people at the table this morning were complaining about that and asking what can be done to improve the parking situation in Framingham. We are actually going to address parking more in depth at next month's meeting, and it would take several paragraphs to report all that was said today, but my tip is, make sure you understand your community's parking regulations. I know that Canton used to have a similar 2 hour time limit throughout the Town of Canton (and they may still have it). Often these Town wide parking limits are not enforced, but when Towns decided to start enforcing them, you can really get hit in the pocketbook!
This will not be too long, but I will quickly share two tips I picked up just living my life around Framingham this morning:
FIRST: Do not talk on your cell phone while you're parked and waiting at the "drive up teller" window of a bank. I was at the Franklin Street branch of TDBankNorth this morning. That branch seems to have downsized in that there seldom seem to be more than 2 or 3 people at work there. There was a guy in a large S.U.V. parked at the drive up teller window. The teller who was covering the window was busy working on his transaction. This went on for about 3 minutes. In fact, the guy is a former Framingham restaurant owner and I believe he is still on the Framingham Zoning Board of Appeals. He was talking on a personal conversation on his cell phone, and the BANK MICROPHONE WAS PICKING IT UP CLEARLY! He was broadcasting his entire personal conversation to the bank customers and employees. I actually said to one employee, "This is better than listening to '96.9 FMTalk'!" The employee told me, "This happens ALL the time. People talk on their cell phones and don't realize its being broadcast to the entire interior of the bank!" So, think about that the next time you're at a drive up window (especially if you have to be delayed right at the window and microphone for some reason).
SECOND: I attended the Framingham Downtown Renaissance meeting this morning. What is F.D.R.? Well, technically it is NOT part of Framingham Town government, although it usually meets inside the Framingham Memorial Building and there are usually at least 5 Town employees present. Today it was described as "NOT an organization or an appointed Town group, but rather a conglomeration of representatives of organizations". ANYWAY, one issue that came up today was PARKING; not just abuse of parking lots, but rules about parking on Framingham streets, etc. I was one of the few people who knew that Framingham has an ordinance that you CANNOT park in one place on a Framingham street for over 2 hours at a time UNLESS it is posted "Resident Parking Only" and your residence is a short distance away from that parking place. Over the past two months, Framingham has hired a female parking enforcement person. She's very tough and has no mercy. I see her out on the streets of downtown Framingham ticketing cars (for large sums of money) all the time. A number of people at the table this morning were complaining about that and asking what can be done to improve the parking situation in Framingham. We are actually going to address parking more in depth at next month's meeting, and it would take several paragraphs to report all that was said today, but my tip is, make sure you understand your community's parking regulations. I know that Canton used to have a similar 2 hour time limit throughout the Town of Canton (and they may still have it). Often these Town wide parking limits are not enforced, but when Towns decided to start enforcing them, you can really get hit in the pocketbook!
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I've known about the 2 hr parking thing for like 10 years! I can't say that I'm surprised tho that more people don't know. We don't always have the brightest bulbs in my hometown
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