Two bottles in aisle 3 of CVS on Hope Street right now.

THANK YOU. A friend recently got a ticket in Providence for a red light while going through with a funeral procession (had the funeral flag and all) and a human being actually personally signed off on it. It would be great if the money-hungry tactics were wed with a true commitment to improving safety instead of that nonsense.

I'm sure I could Google this, but you seem to know what's up. How does this work exactly, the thieves starting them up with a skimmer? Are you supposed to keep your key in the faraday box just while at home, or what's the deal?

The new coat of paint looks awfully goth for Broadway haha, but I'm excited something is going to actually happen there.

That's good to hear. Sounds like it was someone behind me then. fingers crossed

Yes!! I know people just get downvoted complaining about the cameras ("well you were going over the speed limit so you got what you deserved!") but I drove through a school zone during the school day a few weeks back, guess I've never driven there since the cameras were installed. Was going to a temp job. I went back home during the day to take out my dog, and drove back. I realized later I the bright lights I saw must've been me getting a ticket - both times I went there. I was going 27mph when I looked the second time.

I realized later the speed limit sign was on the pole just as you turn, but realistically no one would look up and to the right while turning right onto a street, but I'm sure the judge you'd contest with wouldn't care. The sign is not posted in an easily viewable location except for folks already on the road driving straight.

Got up early, spent half the day at this job, and in the end I'll pay more than I made. I really disagree with folks who think it's a perfectly reasonable situation. We can be comfortable preaching about driving in a neighborhood where we know every side street and one-way, but I guarantee if you traveled to another city where you got multiple $50 tickets driving 27mph on a wide road with no traffic and no pedestrians, the sanctimonious displays would get toned down.

It also drives me crazy that Providence enjoys its liberal reputation but we charge a software engineer and a house cleaner a wildly different percentage of daily income for driving 25mph (or whatever the threshold is) or crossing a red light line 0.1 seconds late. We can have safety without usury, and Providence continues to do a somewhat poor job (admittedly, the city is diverse even in its safety measures across neighborhoods, and I'm speaking about the areas I know).

So that got me thinking about a comparable situation. Ideally we want safety for citizens, pedestrians, and drivers. I live near an actual dangerous intersection, and over the years probably witnessed a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of auto damage to unsuspecting drivers outside, quite a few injuries, and some property damage to houses, too. I've been lucky to not have seen a death yet, but one will certainly happen here with time. Notified City Council, written repeatedly, but they've done nothing to make the intersection safer. I'm confident in saying more people have been injured here than in front of any of the schools before they had cameras. Safety is not the true priority.

Haha this is bringing me way back to last week. So I locked myself out for the first time last week. Locksmith had to open two doors and since he couldn't get the second one, drilled the lock and had to replace it.

$275 to get into my own place for about 15-20 minutes of work, and the guy literally asked if I wanted to tip him anything at the end.

I triple it! Local and high quality.

I absolutely loved Clean and Pristine cleaning. Had some construction and needed the place cleaned. They get back to you ASAP, it's super professional, and somehow their price was a little lower than other places I got estimates from. Heartily recommend.

I looked for that, too. I have a feeling it was that bar brawl where someone fired a gun. Says it was after midnight, which fits roughly with when a gajillion police went by, and the direction is right, too.

https://chorusofkentcounty.com/

No auditions and director is a good guy! They rehearse in West Warwick.

That's right near where that car smashed into that house's foundation some months back, too. What is it about that street that makes people want to be complete idiots?

It's just as crazy to me as a guy waving a knife that one could decide to never call the cops due to a personal ideology being held in higher value than the safety of their neighbors.

I'm not sure how well I'm going to deal with this till 2025 or 2026. Even just going to the grocery store means sitting in traffic along littered roadways with angry drivers. Literally never easy or pleasant to drive anywhere.