The missus crashed the new car.

Larger vehicle also take some time to learn what to watch out for. The backup cameras, that I assume the bronco has, are great, but now your mind is learning to move your eyes from the two side mirrors, the rear view mirror, and the tv screen in the center console showing lower rear view, plus it is beeping different sounds based on distances. The unexpected person blocking your driveway does not help.

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The pickup arrived while the missus was in the garage. She just assumed the coast was clear as it always is and was looking to see if there was any traffic coming up the road. I did ask her if the collision warning sounded but she said she thought it was because the rufuse bin was too close.

In many other countries there would be clear yellow painted curb outside your garage. That other parked car would have received a parking fine rather quickly. Young people (including me back then) who first drive are outraged to receive parking tickets, but eventually figure it out. Here in Argentina if the municipality attempts a better, fairer, parking or driving violation system, the citizens revolt declaring their human rights are being violated for having to follow any new safer equitable rules.

What was the damage?

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In many other countries there would be clear yellow painted curb outside your garage. That other parked car would have received a parking fine rather quickly. Young people (including me back then) who first drive are outraged to receive parking tickets, but eventually figure it out. Here in Argentina if the municipality attempts a better, fairer, parking or driving violation system, the citizens revolt declaring their human rights are being violated for having to follow any new safer equitable rules.

Here in Capital, many homeowners paint their curb yellow (not in front of their garage, where DIY yellow-painting is actually allowed), but right next to it, against the law. Stores also paint yellow the curb in front of their windows, perhaps to ease the unloading of goods from suppliers, or to give a better visual of their windows.

Now, you can call the City help line and flag illegal yellow curbs. How do you know they are illegal? Because yesterday you could park there, and now you cannot and it makes no sense to find a yellow curb in that spot.

Another DIY street parking solution is to buy and install a fake handicapped reserved spot signs. The City has already removed 300 of them.

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In the last weeks, there have been some changes in the City. My area became invalided by homeless people, who pushed away the historical homeless people of the blocks adjacent to our house. This week, there is plenty of Police, City police, ambulances and a special service for people living on the street to get them removed (and fed, I can't seem to figure out when they are there to help and when to take them away).

While on a human level I try to stay compassionate, these people often become drunk and collapse onto the curb, piss in front of the world, yell at people and often get involved in discussions at each other (I guess it is a form of doing something). In the last weeks, I have tried to avoid going out as I was uncomfortable walking alone past group of drunk men whose attitude I couldn't decipher well - I can't stare at them and I don't understand what they are yelling, and whether they are yelling at me or at each other.

There have been weeks where I have gone out only once in a week. Some break into construction sites to do their business, with napkins borrowed from nearby cafés (where they can't use the bathroom, but the storekeepers can easily send them away by providing them with napkins as toilet paper).

I think that some are simply moving from neighborhood to neighborhood, and now that the City is focusing again on Palermo Soho, it should clean up. Then the City will focus on somewhere else, and they will return.

In the news, I have read that there is a campaign to try to clean up the streets and the City is trying to act on several fronts. One thing was to ask the population to throw out their trash between 19 and 21 - this way, homeless people had no reason to rummage into empty bins. But it didn't work.

Then, they asked (ordered?) food stores that produce more than 40 kg of trash, to self-dispose of their trash. This was to avoid using the street bins to throw expired food, as it would attract homeless people rummaging into the trash and leaving a mess outside. This makes sense, as I routinely see homeless people rummaging into the trash bin in front of the Carrefour Express near closing time (after 7 pm). This must be when they throw away expired food, sometimes even entire boxes.

As a result, the City started inspecting the trash bins and if they found evidence of store-bought food (branded packages) in the trash bins near the store outside allowed hours, they fined and shut down the stores. This came after the reports of hygiene-related issues to the City skyrocketed in the last month.

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It's pretty obvious to drivers it's a garage entrance so he obviously had his mind on other things or didn't give a hoot.

He did not care, plus he knew there would be no penalty from the transit police for blocking your garage.