As an émigre Noo Yawker, I find the "defended" parking spot a fine indicator of a clannish, sh*thole neighborhood.

BunnyBasher: As an émigre Noo Yawker, I find the "defended" parking spot a fine indicator of a clannish, sh*thole neighborhood.

you sound like an outsider.

So what happens when someone parks there anyway?

I'm from Idaho. We don't put random stuff in the street.

If it's left in the street it's abandoned and is fair game.

pizen: We do this in the south during the spring. Except instead of snow it's pollen kudzu. Many a beat down has occurred when someone tries to steal your parking spot after you spent all morning cutting down the kudzu.shoveling out the pollen.

Out here in the West, we drive things called 'trucks' that are equipped with 'snow tires.' No shoveling needed to park or get out of a parking spot.

You guys should try it some time.

Hey look, free stuff.

As someone who lives in Philadelphia and has to dig out there spot I say that "saving" it is a dickhead move. You do not own the parking spot. IT IS NOT YOURS. I don't care how long it took you to shovel it out. Retaliating for someone parking in your "saved" spot is also extremely asshat thing to do. If I wanted to be a real jerk, I could simply move whatever you put in the spot so someone else thinks it is OK to park there. Now you have messed with someone who may not have originally taken the spot.

The Angry Hand of God: As someone who lives in Philadelphia and has to dig out theretheir spot I say that "saving" it is a dickhead move. You do not own the parking spot. IT IS NOT YOURS. I don't care how long it took you to shovel it out. Retaliating for someone parking in your "saved" spot is also extremely asshat thing to do. If I wanted to be a real jerk, I could simply move whatever you put in the spot so someone else thinks it is OK to park there. Now you have messed with someone who may not have originally taken the spot.

Beeblebrox: So what happens when someone parks there anyway?

I'm from Idaho. We don't put random stuff in the street.

Your car get keyed, widows broke, tires flat, or someone whoops the shiat out of you

Beeblebrox: So what happens when someone parks there anyway?

I'm from Idaho. We don't put random stuff in the street.

It's Boston so the "owners" of the spot just shrug and accept their loss. Then puppies and kittens rain down on the offenders car. This occasionally causes minor cute and colorful scratches to the finish.

/lolIdaho

You can take my parking space when you pry the snow shovel from my cold, dead fingers.

Except that I moved to TX 30+ years ago, and never looked back, except to visit in the autumn.

// Yeah, that's a big exception, but I prefer it as an exception to winter as a norm. Now living in GA, vacation in Big Bend TX and South AZ in the early spring. I never lived to ski, so I can live without winter. It was -20F the day I left Ohio.

Pollexabator: Beeblebrox: So what happens when someone parks there anyway?

I'm from Idaho. We don't put random stuff in the street.

It's Boston so the "owners" of the spot just shrug and accept their loss. Then puppies and kittens rain down on the offenders car. This occasionally causes minor cute and colorful scratches to the finish.

/lolIdaho

Don't judge me. I was just asking a question. That's how we learn about foreign cultures.

I mahk my spowt with a recycling bin.

/lives in Somerville

being from Seattle I need some explination for terms you are using

"Parking Space'????

you mean you can PARK in your city?

vernonFL: MrSteve007: Out here in the West, we drive things called 'trucks'.

Your 'truck' wouldn't fit down my one way street that was built in the 1700s.

That's what she said?

The Angry Hand of God: The Angry Hand of God: As someone who lives in Philadelphia and has to dig out theretheir spot I say that "saving" it is a dickhead move. You do not own the parking spot. IT IS NOT YOURS. I don't care how long it took you to shovel it out. Retaliating for someone parking in your "saved" spot is also extremely asshat thing to do. If I wanted to be a real jerk, I could simply move whatever you put in the spot so someone else thinks it is OK to park there. Now you have messed with someone who may not have originally taken the spot.

while reading the comments, this was the first thing that jumped into my head. this seems like a ridiculous situation...

God damn, fark living in a city.

People who mark spots should be farking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

Not just Southie. That shiat works in JP too.

The Angry Hand of God: vernonFL: MrSteve007: Out here in the West, we drive things called 'trucks'.

Your 'truck' wouldn't fit down my one way street that was built in the 1700s.

That's what she said?

well played

/+1

Pokey.Clyde: So, this isn't just done by assholes in Chicago?

This. I thought dibs was a local douche tradition, turns out they do it everywhere. The plow guy should make one extra pass after these assholes put their crap all over the street.

This thread is filled with a bunch of lazy entitled pricks. Shovel your own space out you jackholes.

Wait. Doesn't a plow come through and clean the street, thereby negating what you just tried to save? The whole block is plowed, FFS.

Saving spots doesn't happen here, I guess. So weird.

How long do people actually claim to have a spot on the street that took two hours to shovel out? It should be about two hours right?

It's a set of rules that work fine, and have been working fine for decades. The only people who complain are d-bags who just moved there and fancy themselves more civilized (and are stupid enough to listen to the mayor and park in a garage during a storm, thereby having no spot to claim) and a-holes who don't live there and feel the need to dictate the behavior of neighborhoods they have no right to. On behalf of all of Southie, "Go f*^# your mother."

Someone needs to create a reality show around parking bait cars in these parking spots and taping the retaliatory vandals so they can be arrested.

FuelCycle: How long do people actually claim to have a spot on the street that took two hours to shovel out? It should be about two hours right?

Around Philly it seems to be 3 days to a week.

Jackwagon parked in my recently shoveled out spot once. Just a little more shoveling and I filled his car with snow.

/Thank FSM for my escape to SoCal

So in Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh, and Chicago where there are shiatloads of snow, people park outside on the streets while down south we park in garages.

Seems something is awry in this equation

Happened to me once -- in front of my house after a 23 inch snowfall. Took me a long time to clear out that spot. Small truck parked there while I was out. No plow that day or the next.

/put a broken toilet in the back of the truck.
//still think that was funny.

joyride75: Wait. Doesn't a plow come through and clean the street, thereby negating what you just tried to save? The whole block is plowed, FFS.

Saving spots doesn't happen here, I guess. So weird.

Mains yes
Sides no

It's only 18 inches of snow. Why do you have to shovel it?

The Angry Hand of God: FuelCycle: How long do people actually claim to have a spot on the street that took two hours to shovel out? It should be about two hours right?

Around Philly it seems to be 3 days to a week.

Wow, if only the rest of life was like that:

"I put in my two hours of work, so I should be good for the rest of the week, and if you try to tell me differently I will stab you in the neck with a screwdriver."

JohnCarter: So in Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh, and Chicago where there are shiatloads of snow, people park outside on the streets while down south we park in garages.

Seems something is awry in this equation
And you still can't drive in one inch of snow

The Angry Hand of God: As someone who lives in Philadelphia and has to dig out there spot I say that "saving" it is a dickhead move. You do not own the parking spot. IT IS NOT YOURS. I don't care how long it took you to shovel it out. Retaliating for someone parking in your "saved" spot is also extremely asshat thing to do. If I wanted to be a real jerk, I could simply move whatever you put in the spot so someone else thinks it is OK to park there. Now you have messed with someone who may not have originally taken the spot.

This.

/Montreal

Parking war?

It's only a matter of time before someone drops the bomb...

/You know what? You see where this is going. I'm going to make you fill it in yourself.
//Fark you and the farking car you rode in on, you granny-shifting, ten-under fark. Learn to farking merge, navigate farking one-way roads, turn right without stopping farking dead while the asshole behind you drives into you, and drive a farking rotary before I run your dumb ass into the farking ocean.