Next time, put out a chair
By adamg - Wed, 12/14/2005 - 1:28pm.
If you're going to get all irate about somebody parking in an on-street space you dug out after a snowstorm, the least you can do is put out a chair (or some cones or an old TV). Don't just sit by your window stewing and then composing crabby notes to people who happen to park there.
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I think that writing a note
I think that writing a note was a good way to handle it, as opposed to keying the car. Its no longer acceptable to put a chair or tv in a spot so it is up to the person parking the car to see, gee, someone spent an hour shoveling this spot. Let me get my own shovel and clear a spot unitl I get my cable bill or can park in the house garage.
Welcome to winter. (Thank heavens I have off street parking, although my neighbors block me in while they shovel or if friends visit, but they ask first and I can move my car as needed.)
Public means you don't own it
It is a public street, you don't own the space just because you moved the snow. People will just use any little thing as a excuse to act like idiots.
I am not saying acting like
I am not advocating acting like idiots. Nor am I saying one owns the street. But someone obviously put a lot of work into shoveling.
My story: I had a neighbor (in his 30s) who was notorious for just driving over the snow to head to work, and then would come home and park in a spot down the street that someone else cleared out. He always picked my next door neighbors. My next door neighbor was a man in his 60s and took care of his 80 year old mom. The man in his 60s would wind up shoveling out two spots (I'd usually help him out) so that this jerk from 10 houses up could have a spot to park. Before I'd moved in, everyone got together to talk to the jerk, saying how unfair it was of him to park where someone else shoveled. Let's just say, the cops wound up being involved. My older neighbors said they prayed for him and would rather they shovel the spot for him than have him another brawl on their hands.
I guess if you have ever had this happen to you, you would understand. I take the high road and grit my teeth, but I feel if you have not shoveled and just drove over the snow, you have no right to park in a spot that someone else shoveled. Fair is fair.
To borrow a wickedgood conference subject...
"Reasons To Point And Laugh At City People"
How about, if you want to reserve a space that you shoveled out, you fill it with snow instead of some junk?
That way nobody gets "your" space without shoveling.
It's illegal to reserve
It's illegal to reserve spaces with articles of any kind, chairs and cones included.
If you know you haven't shovelled out the space, it might be courteous not to park in it (if you have a choice, that is).