

     The Netted Gem - 
     
    
     page 7 
     
    
     Ode to Parking Lot  A Lament 
     
    
     By Robert Bodrog-Goodland 
     
    
     Well, I guess it’s ofﬁcial. 
     
     It may have started out as an 
     
     ugly rumor, but not it’s con- 
     
     ﬁrmed. In case you haven’t 
     
     noticed yet, parking lot C is 
     
     being annihilated in the name 
     
     of progress to make way for 
     
     that Atlantic Veterinary 
     
     College. . 
     
    
     It seems rather ironic, 
     
     doesn’t it? Usually buildings 
     
     are torn down, soon to be 
     
     followed by the appearance 
     
     of parking lots. But no, 
     
     things are done differently 
     
     here on the Island. No one 
     
     can accuse us of doing things 
     
     by the book. I mean, who 
     
     cares if parking lot C is an 
     
     historic landmark? 
     
    
     I don’t know about you, 
     
     but some of my fondest 
     
     memories of youth have been 
     
     had in parking lot C. I’ve 
     
     eaten there, gotten drunk 
     
     there, I even remember last 
     
     winter during one " of our 
     
     worst snow storms I was 
     
     stranded in lot C for an 
     
     entire weekend; just me, my 
     
     Coleman stove and half a 
     
     pound of bacon. It’s a good 
     
    
     thing I had a termos of 
     
     Gatorade with me, or I would 
     
     have died of thirst. 
     
    
     But I’ve also had some very 
     
     romantic times in lot C; 
     
     nestled together under a 
     
     blanket in my little toyota 
     
     with‘ that very special lady, 
     
     CIMN playing harshly in the 
     
     bacground as we chugged 
     
     back cheap Italian wine and 
     
     ate creamy hostess twinkies. 
     
     (Sigh). These are days forever 
     
     gone, these are the days that 
     
     an: no more. 
     
    
     But do not despair. Al- 
     
     though lot C may be gone, 
     
    
     according to the construction 
     
    
     plans a new parking lot will 
     
     appear, perhaps by Belvedere 
     
     Avenue near the former 
     
     location of that grand old 
     
     site. 
     
    
     And we can ﬁnd solace 
     
     during our hour of mourning 
     
     by knowing that although it 
     
     may be gone, no one can ever 
     
     take away our memories of 
     
     that enchanted place: the 
     
     broken bottles, the snowball 
     
     ﬁghts, and innocence —— 
     
     perhaps the loss of it — all 
     
     experienced in the universe 
     
     which was parking lot C. 
     
    
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