Yes, that's a truck partially blocking my driveway. No I didn't hurt it, but I mowed right up to it and shot grass all over it.
Everyone in my neighborhood hangs out in their driveways in lawn chairs. There are a billion reasons why I don't get this, but the biggest is that, in Paris, I'd associate such behavior outside of parade-gazing as being pretty low-class. On top of that, the houses in this area have hella-expensive decks in their backyards (most yards happen to be huge, btdubs). This Johnson County behavior is further enforced by posts like this encouraging people to "hack" their garages (link sent to me by bullevard).
You know what a hacked garage looks like? The fucking BatCave. Not a kegerator and a card table.
There's probably some sort of togetherness shit where we can all get together and be up in each other's business, but if I wanted that I'd still live in an apartment community. It would be cheaper, and I wouldn't care when people were on lawns because they wouldn't be mine.
True story: I once caught a dude pissing in some bushes near the corner of the apartment building I was living in. That shit wouldn't fly in my yard, unless it was me after a bottle of Double Jack. But anyway...
I guess I don't get it. I'm kinda glad I don't.
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I lot of families do this in the new developments over by Staley Drive in Champaign. I've gone on walks using walkways that go in between those folks' backyards, and THEY HAVE DECKS. It may be some sort of neighborhood communal thing where they hang out in the driveway, but the back deck is only for private use and parties? Question mark?
Suburbia has some weird habits. Have they invited you to hang out? Or, better yet, have you introduced yourselves to them? bonus points if they were in their driveway.
I say you rent a Marshall halfstack from your local Guitar center and "hack" your own garage for an afternoon or two. Be sure to point it out the garage so that all 140 db will be extra inviting to their broken eardrums. Perhaps they will catch on.
I have introduced myself to many of them, often from my driveway. Of course at the time my driveway had a foot of snow covering it, so it made sense to be there.
Cam, I think I should get a full Marshall rig and play "I believe in a thing called love" until they all move. Gui-TAR.
C.C.!!!
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