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BigMoney for H BY MELISSA BEAN STERZICK


AVING LIVED A FAIRLY commonplace, average-Josephine kind of life, I am easily shocked. I grew up in a small town, attended a religious college,


married at 25, and have been quietly, although not really calmly, going about my mediocre way in the realmof adulthood ever since.


I’mshocked byR-ratedmovies, the latest trends in dras-


tic facial piercing, and the United States’ decline into wel- fare statehood. But nothing could have prepared me for the bit of news I heard this summer. Just a few weeks ago, a parking spot in the Back Bay


area of Boston sold for $300,000.Yes, that’s three-hundred- thousand-dollars. The amount is reported to be the highest price ever paid in the city for that type of real estate.Not only that, the original asking price was $250,000, but several interested parties bid against one another to the tune of fifty- thousand bucks. To put this gargantuan price into perspective: I could


buy my first car 200 times over or my current car 16 times over with that much money. I could put 12 million quarters in the meter down by the beach where I live and park for 30,000 hours. At $8 bucks a day, I could park for 37,500 days in an LA city day lot. I could pay for my college education 12 times over. I


could pay to have my gall bladder removed 30 times (once was really enough, but it’s a good comparison). I could pay for my wedding 25 times over (once was enough). I could make a serious dent inmymortgage.You get the picture. And while I pride myself on being a person with a


healthy vocabulary and good communication skills, the only words I can think of to describe my reaction to this stagger- ing and unimaginable transaction are usually spelled like this: *&%#@! I guess it’s tough to park in that neighborhood, although


it’s difficult to imagine a place so crowded that residents are motivated to pay that kind of money for parking. OK, so I don’t have that kind ofmoney, andmost of us don’t. But even if we did, would we really feel good about


forking out so much cash for a place to leave our car? How much is convenience really worth?Wouldn’t $300,000 feel better in our pocket, the box springs or the bank than it would lying under our car waiting for the inevitable leak? Also, only a few cars in the world that cost that much


money can actually be driven on city streets, so it’s a pretty sure bet the parking space cost more than the car in it. The mind boggles. What I wonder is how you police a spot like that. If


parking is at such a premium, a lot of drivers have to bewill- ing to poach a little.When you come home after a long day of work and find a beat-up Toyota in your pricey parking spot, what do you do? Sue themfor a couplemil?Maybe an extra $25,000 a year could pay for a security guard to scare


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