The golden parking spot

What would you do with $300,000? We took a quick poll here at MEvBLOG Central and the general consensus is to spend it on the following: trips, houses, debt, and miscellaneous fun-ness.

(Also, our Irish co-worker suggested creating a debaucherous night-time tryst we can't repeat on a family blog such as this.)

What did NOT make the list? Using the total sum to buy a parking space.

Recently, in the apparently recession-proof Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, a high-stakes bidding war over a parking spot resulted in the winner purchasing the space for $300,000...or as the Obama Administration might call it the average amount of back taxes owed by its cabinet.

Now, we've spent some time in Beantown - four undergraduate years to be exact - and know that trying to find available parking there is - as the kids say today - a bee-yotch. Here in Southeast Texas, we're lucky there's wide open spaces so big they reach to the horizon, and parking is free pretty much everywhere.

Still, sometimes you've got to pay to stay, so our philosophy is that a parking spot should never cost more than the vehicle placed in it. We have other such fiscal policies like never paying cover charges at restaurants (why pay to enter to pay to eat?), or not paying more than $1 per song on any CD ($14.99 is an unacceptable price when there's only 10 songs, John Mayer).

Though, if we had enough dough to throw down $300,000 on a mere parking space maybe we'd reconsider said policies. But enough about us...what would you do?

poll by twiigs.com