Originally Posted by
jologolf
I think the suggestion you gave is fine except for the fact that you consistently do what many SENIOR FT users do by not answering the question.
On a different forum I asked which hotel was better and gave 2 choices. Rather than picking 1 or the other, people started throwing alternatives. Great, but that didn't answer my question.
The OP asked for parking spaces in Fort Lee (who cares what the reason is) and you didn't provide an answer to that question. I asked for specific streets in Manhattan to find easy parking and you couldn't give me street names either. I'm not trying to pick a fight, honestly. I just get frustrated when someone asks a question and the person answering presumes they have a better solution rather than answering the question. Perhaps if you provided an answer and then a suggestion, that could work too.
Kinda feels like I'm asking you for a good hamburger in NYC and you are telling me to forget the burger and eat a steak because its better. Doesn't really help me with my question.
I understand your point about folks on FT answering questions that weren't asked and not answering questions that were asked. I agree that it happen all the time around here.
I have no idea -- none -- where to park in Ft. Lee. I could've chosen not to respond at all. And you ask, parenthetically, "who cares what the reason is" with regard to the OP's request for information about parking in Ft. Lee. But the OP indicates right in the title to the thread what the reason is: it looks to me like he's visiting NYC for the weekend. Silly me, I thought I had something constructive to add to help the OP even though I know nothing about parking in Ft. Lee. You then asked for additional detail, and while I did indicate that I live and park in Chelsea (there's some additional detail for you right there), and I did indicate that one should look for commercial areas where parking generally only is restricted Mon-Fri (additional detail for you), I chose not to list the particular block where I'm successful in finding parking over 90% of the times on the weekend because, well, I like being successful over 90% of the time.
I'm sorry if you find my approach frustrating, but your analogy about hamburgers and steak is flat out not analogous. That said, if what I find to be implicit in the OP's question -- that he really is looking to come to NYC and not be in Ft. Lee - is not in fact accurate, then I apologize to the OP for wasting his time with talk of parking in NYC.