Snow Etiquette - 'Saving' the clear parking space that you cleared of snow

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Anonymous wrote:Next big snow, I am going to go around and remove all of the abandoned property people clutter up the street with. Cones, lawn chairs, Jesus statues, etc. - if they are in the middle of the street, you clearly don't care about them and mean to dispose of them. It's littering. It'll be a public service.

Many cities already do this. They will drive around and pick up the trash that idiots leave, marking their territory. Because it's illegal and nonsensical to expect to reserve a street spot.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk, I think in the city where the cars turn over a lot and people come and go all day, you can’t save a space. But in the burbs, I think it’s okay to park in a cleared space temporarily but not overnight. Like if I take my kid for an afternoon play date, I will park in a cleared space on their street if it’s vacant and not blocked. But I wouldn't park overnight in someone’s cleared space near my house.

Don't do it! We spent 3 plus hours digging our cars out. If I run to the store, I'm going to need that spot back. We don't have a driveway and rely on street parking!

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But what if someone else on your block also ran to the store and their spot was gone because someone on the next block also ran to the store and THEIR spot was gone? I mean if everyone is driving to work and to the store then parking is free game again. Sorry. We all dug spots out, how do you think we are all driving around? Because we dug our cars out, right?

Just because someone does you a bad turn, you do it others?

I don't get this logic because if 10 people did out their cars and one of them gets their spot taken, someone is going to be out of luck. By taking a neighbors spot if this happens to you, you're just deciding it won't be you. you see why that's kind of sh**ty, right?

No, because once everyone is back to school and work and popping out to the store for an hour, then the snow emergency is over, and everyone just takes whatever spot is most convenient to them when they return home, just like every other day of the year. And yes it means some people will be closer to their front doors than they were before, and some people will be further away, and some people will really get the shaft and have to go park in metered parking a quarter mile away for a few hours and come back and circle the block later. Just like every. other. day. of. the.year.

No, because not all spots are the same. The space I cleared for my sedan is not the same as a space your SUV or truck rolled out of. You can get into the spot I cleared, but I can't get into yours. Clear your space well and thoroughly, and we wouldn't have this issue.

There is no “my space” once you leave. It’s called public parking. Good lord. How entitled are you?

What? You think you're entitled to a spot I put hours in to clear?

I think you need to check yourself - you're the entitled one. Once again, clear your own spaces well, and no one would need to save a space.

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Anonymous wrote:So digging out makes it “your” space? For how long? This is like animals pissing to mark their territory. Maybe you should try pissing on it.

Until there is sufficient melting to open up street parking. Or, until everyone else does a good job clearing out their spaces.

They are not anyone's spaces. They belong to whoever gets there first. It's why I left my car sitting there in DC many times until the snow melted. It's safer than trying to navigate morons who think they have a right to a street spot just because they shoveled their car out.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk, I think in the city where the cars turn over a lot and people come and go all day, you can’t save a space. But in the burbs, I think it’s okay to park in a cleared space temporarily but not overnight. Like if I take my kid for an afternoon play date, I will park in a cleared space on their street if it’s vacant and not blocked. But I wouldn't park overnight in someone’s cleared space near my house.

Don't do it! We spent 3 plus hours digging our cars out. If I run to the store, I'm going to need that spot back. We don't have a driveway and rely on street parking!

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But what if someone else on your block also ran to the store and their spot was gone because someone on the next block also ran to the store and THEIR spot was gone? I mean if everyone is driving to work and to the store then parking is free game again. Sorry. We all dug spots out, how do you think we are all driving around? Because we dug our cars out, right?

Just because someone does you a bad turn, you do it others?

I don't get this logic because if 10 people did out their cars and one of them gets their spot taken, someone is going to be out of luck. By taking a neighbors spot if this happens to you, you're just deciding it won't be you. you see why that's kind of sh**ty, right?

No, because once everyone is back to school and work and popping out to the store for an hour, then the snow emergency is over, and everyone just takes whatever spot is most convenient to them when they return home, just like every other day of the year. And yes it means some people will be closer to their front doors than they were before, and some people will be further away, and some people will really get the shaft and have to go park in metered parking a quarter mile away for a few hours and come back and circle the block later. Just like every. other. day. of. the.year.

No, because not all spots are the same. The space I cleared for my sedan is not the same as a space your SUV or truck rolled out of. You can get into the spot I cleared, but I can't get into yours. Clear your space well and thoroughly, and we wouldn't have this issue.

There is no “my space” once you leave. It’s called public parking. Good lord. How entitled are you?

What? You think you're entitled to a spot I put hours in to clear?

I think you need to check yourself - you're the entitled one. Once again, clear your own spaces well, and no one would need to save a space.

COrrect. You are not entitled to a street spot even if it took you two years to shovel it out.

By your logic, I can put a tent there in the summer and camp out. Why not? It's too hard to carry groceries in the heat. Therefore, I DESERVE a spot closest to my house.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk, I think in the city where the cars turn over a lot and people come and go all day, you can’t save a space. But in the burbs, I think it’s okay to park in a cleared space temporarily but not overnight. Like if I take my kid for an afternoon play date, I will park in a cleared space on their street if it’s vacant and not blocked. But I wouldn't park overnight in someone’s cleared space near my house.

Don't do it! We spent 3 plus hours digging our cars out. If I run to the store, I'm going to need that spot back. We don't have a driveway and rely on street parking!

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But what if someone else on your block also ran to the store and their spot was gone because someone on the next block also ran to the store and THEIR spot was gone? I mean if everyone is driving to work and to the store then parking is free game again. Sorry. We all dug spots out, how do you think we are all driving around? Because we dug our cars out, right?

Just because someone does you a bad turn, you do it others?

I don't get this logic because if 10 people did out their cars and one of them gets their spot taken, someone is going to be out of luck. By taking a neighbors spot if this happens to you, you're just deciding it won't be you. you see why that's kind of sh**ty, right?

No, because once everyone is back to school and work and popping out to the store for an hour, then the snow emergency is over, and everyone just takes whatever spot is most convenient to them when they return home, just like every other day of the year. And yes it means some people will be closer to their front doors than they were before, and some people will be further away, and some people will really get the shaft and have to go park in metered parking a quarter mile away for a few hours and come back and circle the block later. Just like every. other. day. of. the.year.

No, because not all spots are the same. The space I cleared for my sedan is not the same as a space your SUV or truck rolled out of. You can get into the spot I cleared, but I can't get into yours. Clear your space well and thoroughly, and we wouldn't have this issue.

There is no “my space” once you leave. It’s called public parking. Good lord. How entitled are you?

What? You think you're entitled to a spot I put hours in to clear?

I think you need to check yourself - you're the entitled one. Once again, clear your own spaces well, and no one would need to save a space.

You KNOW that there are more cars than there are spaces, and that this works, because not everyone is parked at the exact same time. When it DOESN'T work is when people block off their spots despite not being parked there. You know this. You also know that it has been over a week and people are living their normal lives again. You also know that some people were at work at hospitals, or out of town and stuck, or had to go stay at work for the weekend because they were essential and needed to be there (such as the person in charge of landscaping/snow removal at an apartment complex or shopping center). And you know that those people came back, a few days later, to streets that were 100% blocked off with chairs that apparently no one intends on moving until the snow thaws, which will take weeks. You KNOW this. But you keep saying "if everyone cleared a space, there wouldn't be a problem!" and I actually agree IF there were one space for every car that needed one, but you know that is not the case. You do.

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If you live on a street with any kind of parking sign - two hours except residential, etc - you can't save your spot. That's urban living. The spots turn over.

If you're out in the burbs it's a different story but you should expect temporary parkers to use cleared spots during the day. But your neighbor doug who lives two doors down should not park in it overnight.

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If we cleared the spots between the spots many more folks could safely come and go without this land war nonsense b

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Anonymous wrote:If you live on a street with any kind of parking sign - two hours except residential, etc - you can't save your spot. That's urban living. The spots turn over.

If you're out in the burbs it's a different story but you should expect temporary parkers to use cleared spots during the day. But your neighbor doug who lives two doors down should not park in it overnight.

But isn't it completely illogical to suggest that neighbor Doug ASLO didn't shovel his car out in order to be able to drive it in the first place?

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Anonymous wrote:The people who say "no" to saving spaces always have big SUVs or trucks. Or do a poor job of clearing their space.

If you put in the time to do a good job cleaning out a spot, it's yours until it melts. If everyone actually did a good job, no one would need to "spaces." But just because you half assed it, doesn't mean I did, and it doesn't mean you get my thoroughly cleared spot.

Where are you getting these rules? On a public street, there is no saving spaces. That is universal.

It's not a law. It's etiquette and consideration from others. Clearly you have none.

You're probably the same person who has 3-4 cars on limited street parking, when you never need more than 1-2.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. But your neighbors already know you're not a good neighbor.

No, you're projecting this on one of your neighbors. I have a driveway and a two car garage so no need for street parking. But I do have neighbors that load up their garages with stuff and feel entitled to park their 2-4 cars on the street in front of my house. Should I be mad? No, it's a public street.

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Anonymous wrote:If you live on a street with any kind of parking sign - two hours except residential, etc - you can't save your spot. That's urban living. The spots turn over.

If you're out in the burbs it's a different story but you should expect temporary parkers to use cleared spots during the day. But your neighbor doug who lives two doors down should not park in it overnight.

This is my neighborhood. We are near a very popular shopping/ grocery area. The first day or two people would save their spot and it would be there when they returned, but after that, enough people were coming and going and enough people from “outside” were back to regular life that saving a spot wasn’t realistic. A few people tried for a few more days, but it’s over now.

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Anonymous wrote:If you live on a street with any kind of parking sign - two hours except residential, etc - you can't save your spot. That's urban living. The spots turn over.

If you're out in the burbs it's a different story but you should expect temporary parkers to use cleared spots during the day. But your neighbor doug who lives two doors down should not park in it overnight.

But isn't it completely illogical to suggest that neighbor Doug ASLO didn't shovel his car out in order to be able to drive it in the first place?

People forget that the suburbs aren’t all single family homes with a garage.

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Anonymous wrote:If you live on a street with any kind of parking sign - two hours except residential, etc - you can't save your spot. That's urban living. The spots turn over.

If you're out in the burbs it's a different story but you should expect temporary parkers to use cleared spots during the day. But your neighbor doug who lives two doors down should not park in it overnight.

But isn't it completely illogical to suggest that neighbor Doug ASLO didn't shovel his car out in order to be able to drive it in the first place?

People forget that the suburbs aren’t all single family homes with a garage.

& Doug can park there too.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk, I think in the city where the cars turn over a lot and people come and go all day, you can’t save a space. But in the burbs, I think it’s okay to park in a cleared space temporarily but not overnight. Like if I take my kid for an afternoon play date, I will park in a cleared space on their street if it’s vacant and not blocked. But I wouldn't park overnight in someone’s cleared space near my house.

Don't do it! We spent 3 plus hours digging our cars out. If I run to the store, I'm going to need that spot back. We don't have a driveway and rely on street parking!

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But what if someone else on your block also ran to the store and their spot was gone because someone on the next block also ran to the store and THEIR spot was gone? I mean if everyone is driving to work and to the store then parking is free game again. Sorry. We all dug spots out, how do you think we are all driving around? Because we dug our cars out, right?

Just because someone does you a bad turn, you do it others?

I don't get this logic because if 10 people did out their cars and one of them gets their spot taken, someone is going to be out of luck. By taking a neighbors spot if this happens to you, you're just deciding it won't be you. you see why that's kind of sh**ty, right?

No, because once everyone is back to school and work and popping out to the store for an hour, then the snow emergency is over, and everyone just takes whatever spot is most convenient to them when they return home, just like every other day of the year. And yes it means some people will be closer to their front doors than they were before, and some people will be further away, and some people will really get the shaft and have to go park in metered parking a quarter mile away for a few hours and come back and circle the block later. Just like every. other. day. of. the.year.

No, because not all spots are the same. The space I cleared for my sedan is not the same as a space your SUV or truck rolled out of. You can get into the spot I cleared, but I can't get into yours. Clear your space well and thoroughly, and we wouldn't have this issue.

There is no “my space” once you leave. It’s called public parking. Good lord. How entitled are you?

What? You think you're entitled to a spot I put hours in to clear?

I think you need to check yourself - you're the entitled one. Once again, clear your own spaces well, and no one would need to save a space.

You are definitely entitled. Demanding public parking space belongs to you because you shoved snow is as Karen as it gets.

[Anonymous]

Our street is small and there is enough parking for everyone who lives here. Everyone has dug out a space or spaces for their cars. Our street is also near a Metro and a few schools and retail. Sometimes people park here who don’t live here. We all have chairs in our spaces and will till the snow melts. Visitors will need to dig out their own spots.

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Anonymous wrote:Our street is small and there is enough parking for everyone who lives here. Everyone has dug out a space or spaces for their cars. Our street is also near a Metro and a few schools and retail. Sometimes people park here who don’t live here. We all have chairs in our spaces and will till the snow melts. Visitors will need to dig out their own spots.

No, I’ll move your chair and run my errand.