Two More Parking Morons

Moron 1. Last Friday, after Kabbolas Shabbos, a visitor to the shul approached the president and asked him if the janitor was around to move his car. He had been running late for shul and parked his car in the neighbor's driveway (blocking two other cars).

(The backstory is that we had a Rebbe in Residence and a Semi-Famous Shiny Shoe Singer leading the davening that night and this dodo came to be inspired, I guess. Needless to say, MoC davened at the local minyan across the street thereby avoiding much agmas nefesh. This story was related by witnesses).

The good news is that the irate neighbor called the police and the offender's car was ticketed to the tune of $110.

When he president located the janitor, the offender asked, "Can I trust him?"

Moron 2.

Sunday morning a visitor from the holy city of Far Rockaway came to the 8:15 minyan and parked his car on the street directly in front of the shul. He was politely told by one of the gabaim that (i) he was parking illegally and (ii) had a high probablility of being ticketed. He shrugged and said, "that's ok".

During the amidah, this very same man was davening with vein-popping kavanah. So much so that when his phone went off...twice...he simply ignored it.

The good news is that we stickered his car with a no-parking sticker. The bad news is he didn't get a ticket.