Street cleaning

There's an old joke - how do you get 100 Canadians out of a swimming pool? Say "Right, all Canadians out of the pool!". It's not rib cracking funny, but it does illustrate how law abiding Canadians are. Even the occupy protestors obeyed the law, although they didn't agree with it.

So when signs are planted in the sidewalk saying that street cleaning is taking place, all cars disappear like snow off a dyke. I had wondered why everyone was shovelling the leaves from their yard onto the road (I put mine in the wheelie bin), but I know now. One side is cleared in one day and I guess the following week the next side.