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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is horribly rude to take someone's hard-earned/shoveled parking spot in a storm such as the one we have had. It is more than rude and rings of the person's sense of entitlement. 
However, it is not illegal to steal that spot so there is that. But, yes, in the world of "snow etiquette" a person should not take another's spot ever.[/quote]

Question. I worked overnight in the hospital through the weekend storm. Parked in hospital garage. Drove home (very carefully) on Monday. All spots within about a mile radius of my home are blocked off with chairs. What do I do here?  Other than just go back and park at the hospital garage and commit to living on my work unit for the next 3 weeks until the snow melts, because I am not allowed to park on my street due to the fact that it snowed a few days ago and there are chairs and cones blocking all the spots (since everyone is back to work etc and driving around normally)[/quote]

Park in one you can see while you shovel yours out.

We have a driveway but I know my neighbors and their schedules fairly well, and I moved a chair so I could free my driveway space for my house cleaner. But I kept an eye on it (working from home) and the neighbor could have texted me if they came home early for some reason. But they didn't, and I just put the chair back when I was done.[/quote]

Every single spot on my block and the next block up is shoveled out and blocked with chairs. Not joking. There is no spot for me to dig out. They are all dug out! And marked with cones! I’ve been parking in spots 6-7 blocks away (I’ve dug out a few in the last week since I’m able bodied) but it’s ridiculous for people to decide I’ll never park on my block again because I was working in the ER during the storm and wasn’t here for the digging on Monday morning. Like, when can I park on my block again? March? People are ridiculous. Monday morning when they all drive into work yet again and block their spots yet again, I’m throwing all the chairs in the trash. [/quote]
So you live in a spot where you routinely can’t park on your street. What is your problem then? Park on other streets like normal.[/quote]

well, "like normal" is that there are let's say 40 cars with owners on our block but only spaces for 30 of them.  "Like normal" is that throughout the day, some people are at work, or shopping, or away on a trip, and others are home.  And usually everyone who is home can get a spot on our block- every now and then, someone gets home pretty late from a show or dinner or a bar, and parks a few blocks over, definitely.  But as it is now, the 30 cars who happened to be on our block before the snowstorm hit (while my car was in the parking garage at my hospital where I was camped out working for a couple days), seem to have permanently claimed those spots, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE AT WORK OR SHOPPING OR OUT TO DINNER etc etc etc, because they block those spots off with folding chairs or cones when they leave for 9 hours and fully expect no one else to be allowed to park in that spot for that time.  So the same 10 cars- mostly people who were stuck out of town, or stuck at work, during the storm- now apparently no longer EVER get to park on our block, until spring time.  Even if only 20% of the block is parked in- the other 80% are blocked off by chairs and cones, sometimes for 8-10 hours at a time, while I park half a mile away.  All because I have the audacity to be a hospital nurse at work during the snowstorm.  
But it's a moot point, me and another health care worker neighbor tossed the chairs/cones in a pile a few days ago at the end of our block and no one was brave enough to go retrieve them and put them back, I guess.  It's like 10 days after the snow, life is back to normal, I guess even they know they don't have an excuse to be dicks anymore. [/quote]

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