Some people may remember that just yesterday I wrote a random thought complaining about how Mayor Menino had blacklisted barstoolsports.com on the City’s free Wifi connection in Faneuil Hall.   I also went on to pseudo threaten Menino that if he kept pushing my buttons I may run for Mayor against him in the next election.    Well the response from City Hall was as swift as it was severe.   Yesterday during my paper route the Astrovan got booted.    A coincidence you say?  My 10 unpaid parking tickets you say?   I think not.    There isn’t a doubt in my mind that Menino put in the order from his Ivory Tower in Government Center.   It was a show of strength on his part.   I mean how else can you explain the fact that I was only out of the van for 1 minute dropping off papers and when I returned the boot was already there.   It was almost as if they knew I was going to park in the commercial zone in front of the Purple Shamrock.    Oh make no mistake about it, this was an inside job.    I still haven’t ruled out that the boot people were actually hiding in all the papers in the back of the Astrovan the entire time I was doing my route just waiting to pounce when the opportunity presented itself.   And pounce they did.  Whatever the case may be I got the message loud and clear from City Hall.   It’s time to stop hammering Mayor Menino.  Some battles you just can’t win.   FREEDOM……

As a side note, if you’re going to get the boot there is no better place than Faneuil Hall because you can just walk to City Hall and pay your tickets and they’ll come back and take the boot off without being towed.     Although a part of me wanted to get towed because they take your car to the city dump which is where the city throws my newsracks.  It could have been like a family reunion or something.

PS - The price of advertising in the Stool just went up.