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What's with reserving car spaces with chairs/cones/bins today ... ?
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Anonymous
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im not sure who they would ticket but ticket away ..... and if something happens t my car all hell will brek loose becase i park in this spots....
how about this ... im a young single mom in my early 20s of toddlers. I was at work while it started snowing. due to snow emergency noone could park on the main road so everyone had to park on the side roads the side roads near the main road was all fll i drove around for 15 minutes in the middle of the night looking.. my options - park at the shopping plaza nearly a mile away OR park i the heart of a bad neighorhood and have to walk out in the dark with my babies ( 1 and 2) we walked the mile in the snow... i go home and when i have to go out a again come home and see all these blasted chairs in spots and the main road still closed... so now my choice was move a chair r walk a mile....you better bet i moved the chair and women a new one who yelled at me for it (yes i was yelled at for parking in her husbands spot- these are public spots) |
Anonymous
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I filed a complaint with our HOA and they sent out notices that the garbage collection company has been instructed to pick up any objects left in open spaces from now on. That should do the trick.
That, and I've taken it on myself to collect all the crap during my twice daily dog walks. I toss it into a pile at the end of the street. It is very satisfying. |
Anonymous
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it's not legal in pittsburgh, either. Just like here, there's a debate over whether or not it's cool.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/22503635/detail.html |
Anonymous
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baltimore chair gallery:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/bal-snow-chairs-pg0208,0,6458315.photogallery |
Anonymous
What a great display of selfishness! |
Anonymous
| And entitlement! |
Anonymous
| I can't believe the chairs are still out. People are getting pretty piggish about it. I think I am going to start tossing the chairs as I walk by. |
Anonymous
| I collected a whole set of lawn chairs this weekend and sold them on Craigs list for $10 bucks a pop. I made over $100 . . . LOL LOL LOL. |
Anonymous
| The much funnier thing to do is to go up and double park next to the "reserved spot." That way, if the owner comes home, they can't get into their saved spot but also can't yell at you for taking it!! |
Anonymous
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This is a classic case of ownership over public space...
This is a classic case of civic contribution and respect of others... this is a little more than asking people top walk outside the sledding track or the cross country ski path... but only slightly different we are a culture of ownership... when people are on a picnic... when they put down their blanket... that space is there and they expect people to respect their right to space the same goes on at the beach with the towel and the umbrella we are a culture of possessiveness this right to space can be seen in everything that we do all the way down to the spacing of people in elevators... the aggravation of right to space can be seen on the escalators where so many people fail to STAND TO THE RIGHT so that those that want to move forward can not walk does the investment of several hours of time actually give the person ownership of this piece of public land? there are all sorts of unwritten codes to our society... in areas where it snows more frequently... these unwritten codes of ethics are more widely known apparently the Northeast has some sort of TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SNOW or so it seems whenever one of these subtle concepts comes up I find people prefacing their statement with.. "I am from Massachusetts and in Massachusetts we..." well... sadly... in Massachusetts there are people that still walk in the cross country ski path... people still walk in the sled track rather than along side... and people will also take a parking space that was dug out by another citizen even thought there may be more snow and more widely known unwritten code of ethics there is one thing that outweighs this code of ethics our modern day societies DEFAULT SETTING: SELFISHNESS! unwritten laws... people do not obey the written laws common known snow etiquette is about as common as common sense or common courtesy... these things are not so common people are selfish... people will walk the path of least resistance with no care or concern for what their impact is it is no worry to them that the kids will not be able to sled or that the cross country skiies will not swoosh... they just do not want to step in the deep snow as far as the parking space goes? well... this is a little more tough parking in the city is already tough enough return to my block in the evening and you may not get a space... return to this block now... NO DICE ROCK SLICE! there are absolutely no free space so... where do people stand on this marking of the spaces... is this allowed? is this common practice? is this RIGHT thing for people to do? luckily... this is the weekend... the parking space issue is about to change... the weekend is here... people are getting mobile... people are on the move the streets are starting to clear and people are clearing out last night I saw an older gentleman on the block... a man that I have been a friendly neighbor with for many years last night we were each on the sidewalk with our dogs this man had a stack of orange cones... I inquired if he planned on moving his car when this man spoke his previously subtle Boston accent got thicker with no intention to waiver he got straight to the point... rather than discussing the hypothetical of the shoveled space he went for the jugular... telling me... "if you take my space... then we are no longer friends" I tried to discuss the rational hypothetical... he was adamant... I told him I could deal with the loss of friendship telling him he had no right to be possessive over public space then walked off with my dog and my five year old son I agree with his situation... but I understand that there is a reality and that the unwritten code is not entirely fair I would figure if I dug out my space and someone took it while I was gone... well... then I would be free to take any vacant space that remains because blocking the space while gone for the day prevents people from using that space in their absence it is a bit of a puzzle if everyone did their fair share and shoveled their spaces then upon their return the odds are that they may find a space... but maybe not that is the deal... you put in... you get out not hovering over what is "mine" if everyone does their part and puts in there should be just enough to get something back SNOW ETIQUETTE? What is the course of action on the shoveling of a space and taking of another shoveled space? I do not know the answer... but if people have shoveled their spaces then blocking their spaces with cones or chairs... well then I guess I should do the same otherwise I will come up empty....or I could just do what we did in Pittsburgh and bury the car that took our space! |
Anonymous
Most of those photos showed bare pavement and hardly any snow! How ridiculous! People need to get out there and just finish shoveling their streets so people can park. |
Anonymous
Are you on drugs? |
Anonymous
tl;dr |
Anonymous
I think they should attach one of those boots to the chair. |
Anonymous
| Well, we are at this awkward phase now where some on our block have taken their chairs in and others haven't. I would guess that by this time Sunday, this has to be over. There is not much left on the streets and it is simply ridiculous. |