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Um.......... (Photo by BobbaLew.)

At least a couple times per week we visit nearby Boughton Park (“BOW-tin;” as in “wow”) north of Bloomfield.
Boughton Park is the old Fairport water reservoirs; it’s maintained as a town park.
When Fairport abandoned their reservoirs, the area was purchased by the three towns of Victor, East and West Bloomfield to maintain as a town park.
It’s sort of a nature preserve, and a wonderful place to walk our dog — leashed.
Only residents of the three towns that own it are allowed to use it, and we are residents of one of those towns, West Bloomfield.
You have to have a parking-sticker (illustrated above) on your car to park in the park.
Those stickers are obtainable from the Town Clerks.
For years we’ve dutifully obtained those stickers, and pasted them in the windows of each of our cars. Two cars, two stickers.
This morning (Sunday, September 5, 2010) we parked in the park’s Stirnee Road parking-lot.
We hiked our dog all the way around the park; about two hours.
When we returned, the flagrant red warning ticket, also illustrated, was under a windshield-wiper perhaps three feet from the parking sticker.
Okay, hair-splitting time.
Years ago I was on the Boughton Park Board, and I don’t remember a legal requirement that your sticker be on a side-window.
Of course, maybe things have changed.
We used to put our sticker in the side-window, but our Toyota Sienna van has tinted side-windows, so even though we had a sticker the park monitor never saw it.
So we put it in the windshield instead, so the park monitor could see it, since the windshield is clear.
Which is where I photographed it.
But apparently the park monitor didn’t see that either, so now my car can be towed even though I have a parking-sticker.
Marcy, it’s everywhere!

• We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester. Adjacent is the rural town of East Bloomfield, and the village of Bloomfield is within it. “Victor” is a fairly large rural town to the north; “Fairport” is an old suburb east of Rochester on the Erie Canal.
• “Stirnee Road” (“Stir-nee”) is a small rural two-lane skirting the northwestern side of Boughton Park.
• Our current dog is “Scarlett;” a rescue Irish-Setter. She’s five, and is our sixth Irish-Setter. (A “rescue Irish Setter” is an Irish Setter rescued from a bad home; e.g. abusive or a puppy-mill. By getting a rescue-dog, we avoid puppydom, but the dog is often messed up. —Scarlett isn't too bad.)
• For maybe five-six years I was on the Boughton Park Board, a volunteer commission that administered the park. (I ran out of time for it.)
• RE: “Marcy, it’s everywhere!” —“Marcy” was the first I was e-mailing stuff to. Marcy and I worked in adjacent cubicles at the Mighty Mezz, from where I retired over four years ago. At one time she asked how I managed to dredge up so much insane material to write up, and I responded “Marcy, it’s everywhere!” (The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper. Best job I ever had. “Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.