{"id":8535,"date":"2014-03-19T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2014-03-20T06:54:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:54:24","slug":"ah-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/ah-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in February, I, as the landlord, got a failure to remove snow ticket for my rental – the supper club house<\/a> – that I’m morphing into Dinner at DebS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The court date was today. My renter Stephen, who does the shoveling, came along. We actually had kind of a good time; Stephen, who’s been a bartender at a hotel, seeing faces of people he’d served, and worked with, and reminiscing about Tom Leher songs, and Moose and Squirrel. I still have Poisoning Pigeons in the Park<\/a> going thru my head; “my pulse will be quickening with each drop of strychnine”.<\/p>\n

I pleaded not guilty so we could see the photo of the alleged offense. And also because we felt<\/em> not guilty – we couldn’t think of any times when the snow left on the sidewalk was particularly egregious – plus, they have an Austin Mini, and they can’t even get out of the driveway unless they shovel.<\/p>\n

So you go in, and you’re with a mass of nervous people worried about losing their licenses. You go to the judge and plead, and if it’s not guilty, then you talk to a prosecutor – these are first few years out of law school lawyers, who represent the city. We got a nice young lady, and we all commiserated about what a shitty winter it’s been. How even when there’s only been a little snow, it got really, really cold and froze. The photo showed a light cover of snow – you could see the pavement through it. Apparently, the ordinance says that if there’s that layer of snow, it must have salt or sand on it.<\/p>\n

But here’s why I love WI – you promise to be better, and you don’t have to pay.<\/p>\n

We apologized, and said we’d do better next year, and they hold the ticket open, and if we don’t get any more citations by March of next year – which of course we won’t because we’ll salt more next year – plus it probably just won’t be as snowy – then I don’t have to pay the $124 ticket.<\/p>\n

Ah, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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It was just a bit more evenly covered than this<\/p><\/div>\n

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