Car2Go is hogging all the parking spaces again

So as I am leaving the gym this morning, I spy two Car2Go employees dumping cars along Grand Avenue, an offense which I thought was rectified in the past, when they left up to 15 cars in precious parking spaces - which by the way, sat in the same spaces for the whole weekend. This I assume is the case with these cars placed today. Last time, almost a year ago, I was asked by the Car2Go company to indicate to them when there are too many cars as they don't want their cars just sitting and not being used, that not only hurts Coconut Grove's parking situation, but Car2Go gets no business from cars just sitting on the side of the road.

So I went up to said employees today and said, "Guys, don't you think this is too many cars in one space?" The cars weren't left there by clients, they were literally dumped by these two employees. They looked at me as if I wasn't there and they turned their back on me (exhibit A on the left). I asked them politely again, "Guys, don't you think this is too many cars in one space?" One of the guys then said, "I don't speak English," and he got into the car. The other guy, who had been on the phone, speaking English, said to me, "We don't speak English."

I said in Spanish, "These cars have to go." They rolled up their windows as they called me a few names, and then they sped off.

They must have been waiting for me to leave so they could dump the current car they were in, because they circled the block, but by then, there were a few of us looking at the situation. People had come up to me to kibitz about the cars, too. They felt that on a holiday weekend, the Grove needs all the parking spaces it could get without a corporate giant hogging them for no other reason than to park them for safe keeping. One lady suggested that they put three of the puny  cars in one parking space, since the MPA seems to be in cahoots with Car2Go, they might not mind.

But the employees just kept driving around glaring at us until we all left so they could leave a fourth car.

So if you're out and about in the Grove this weekend, and you maybe can't find a parking space for the King Mango Strut or other things, you can blame Car2Go and their surly employees and their car dumping tactics.

Another reason we need to become our own village - to keep Car2Go out. I'm just kidding, but that is a thought.