Posted on 02/17/2015 9:00:18 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Warning to anyone tempted to snag a spot marked by a space saver.
Last week, a Craigslist post told the story of one Boston resident, who felt his rights were violated when someone removed his space saver and took ‘his spot.’
“So I put all the snow back,” the now deleted post read.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
“That’s what normal people do.”
Maybe in your neck of the woods. In northern cities, “normal people” don’t steal spots that others shoveled out.
Perhaps in an absolute emergency, you might sneak in there for 5 minutes during the day, but you better be out when they get off work, or there is no telling what can happen. People get violent over this stuff.
Kewel dude...
“Where was their car before they shoveled out the space?”
Most snowstorms hit at night, so their car was probably buried in that space until they dug it out.
“Why aren’t they parking in the space after they shovel it out?”
They have jobs.
“How long does etiquette say they can reserve an open space they shoveled out!”
That depends, but sometimes until the next melt, sometimes just a couple days, until there are more available spots dug out. When the snow doesn’t melt quickly, people do tend to abuse it and try to hold the spot forever.
“The problem with that, it seems to me from someone who has no experience with this, and therefore no bias, is that it is wasting a space to park if they shovel it out but then leave it open for hours on end.”
Well, these are in residential neighborhoods. There is only a high parking demand at night, when everyone gets home from work. During the day, you’ll find open spots all up and down the street.
“That presupposes no one else would be able to have dug it out.”
No, they just didn’t actually do the work to dig it out. Think of it as “sweat equity”. If someone wants a spot, they can always dig another out themselves, there are plenty of buried spots around.
I was thinking just the opposite. He must have had some heart.
He could have hit the snow on her side with a garden hose.
Exactly. It’s pretty much the textbook “d**k move”.
Shepard Smith was arrested in Florida in 2000 for hitting a woman with his car who was saving a parking space for someone else.
New Yorkers, indeed!
-PJ
That was the first thing I thought of. I would have also been considerate enough to melt a bit of snow or ice on the windshield with boiling water.
Are you dense?
Some places do not have parking in driveways, have you ever seen an inner city?
if he shoveled out a spot then he should be able to use that spot. How would you like to spend all that time shoveling a spot and someone else parks there?
What you’re describing is fine with assigned parking, but Boston has neighborhoods where they give out 4x more resident parking permits than there are actual spaces. The deal therefore is that once you pull out another resident almost immediately pulls in, and if you get home from work too late, you might end up having to park in a paid garage.
So what these guys in Southie and a couple of other traditionally working class neighborhoods in Boston have instituted is a system whereby as soon as it snows you get to claim and, by intimidating others, keep your own “private” space—just because you shoveled out your car, which you’d have to do to drive it anyway.
The thugs get the parking spaces and the less thuggish can’t park their cars in the winter. That’s the real story.
LOL! You are so evil!!! Haha.
Yeah, better he collect a government check for a nonexistent disability! < /sarc >
Usually a crappy piece of cheap furniture.
What amazes me after living a lifetime in the Boston area with experience of parking on city streets is the murder rate doesn't go up following major snow storms.
They do,in South Philly it’s a mess to park even without the snow.There are rules.
Yes, this is the exception that proves the rule.
Dibs explained by Chicago Fire cast member. Really funny.
Boston is one best cities in the world, and this is one of the reasons why. :)
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