Posted on 01/27/2016 6:33:07 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- From North to South Philadelphia, shovel-weary residents on blizzard-battered streets are using the time-honored orange cones, folding chairs, and garbage cans to save their spots.
"It's been an unwritten law," said Stephen Flemming, a public school teacher from Southwest Philadelphia. "If you take a [saved] parking spot, you run the risk of causing an argument, a fight, or worse."
Jennifer Williams, a Mount Airy homeowner, said: "How is it that I spend all this time shoveling out my car in front of my house, yet I can't save my spot? Why am I paying property taxes again?"
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Ahhh. Life in the city.
This is why I don’t want to live in large cities, ready to kill for a parking spot.
although there are reasons that are sufficient to kill another human being, a parking spot is not one of them.
What? She is a homeowner but doesn't have a garage or a driveway? What kind of "home" does she own, anyway?
Maybe it’s a matter of timing. If a person runs a quick errand and comes back to find their “saved” spot taken, I can see how they’d be mad. If they’ve been gone for hours - like a work shift or something similar - they have no right to complain.
What? She is a homeowner but doesn’t have a garage or a driveway? What kind of “home” does she own, anyway?
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I can park two cars in my garage and six in my driveway, ‘course I don’t live in a big city, just a small town in fly over country.
Spoken like someone who hasn't gotten off the shopping streets in a city. Most of the older row houses in cities, the bungalows, built in the '20s through the '40s, back on an alley, with the garage. That alley is filled 6 feet high with drifted snow, and is only one car width wide. If your car was in the garage, you won't drive it until Spring. The city is NOT going to plow your alley, since there is no place to push the snow. They could use a front end loader, and a dump truck, but there are hundreds of miles of alleys, one bucket full at a time.
You were far seeing enough to move your car to out front of your house. After the snow stopped, you were out there with the garden spade, the kitchen broom, and the snow shovel that broke 10 minutes in, until you found your car. You missed an entire morning's work, digging. If the plow has been thru, you had to move twice as much snow. If the plow came thru after, you get to do it all again, twice. Now, after that much work, you sort of have an investment in that space. You put that raggedy chair from the basement in the spot, two hours later, some jerk, (And I use the term since your actual reference is banned in 47 countries.), has parked in it.
I'm for Savsies, and gunfire is a logical response to violating it.
Same here. Perfectly happy in the boonies. The view is better, too. Manmade view vs. God-made? God-made view every time.
CC
When stationed at Ft. Devens, Ma., after a snow storm I cleared the two feet of snow off and around my car in front of my house. When I came home, my fat a$$ed lazy neighbor had parked in my cleared spot and refused to move. To my surprise the next morning his car was coated in 3/4 inch of ice and frozen to the ground.
When asked about it I surmised that it was probably an act of God or one of his disciples.
PS .... no acts of God required in West Texas now.
I’m guessing the city of Philadelphia could learn a little from capitalism. If a person shovels snow in front of their own house, they should be entitled to the spot they cleared out. If the city enforced that rule more people would shovel off the streets.
Calling 911 on the savers — wonder how that’s working out in the mafia neighborhoods?
Correct. This is actually another example of the socialist state. Rather than expending effort to clear your own spot of snow, you take one from someone who put forth that effort.
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