DIBS? In the winter after you shovel a ton of snow from YOUR parking spot, you place an old chair to show that you have'dibs' on that spot. A Chicago thing?
Has the Tribune ever printed a positive story about someone who was happy they moved from Chicago?
Yep, its illegal. You can shovel it and put your car there. But if you go shopping, don’t expect to have it when you come back. If you want a parking space that is yours, you can rent one. Streets are public property. You don’t own it because you shoveled it. You shoveled it to get you car out.
Well, Mr. J. Kass, if it’s alright I’ll just call you “Jack”.
Not a Chicago thing..we did it in Boston when I lived there.
“DIBS? In the winter after you shovel a ton of snow from YOUR parking spot, you place an old chair to show that you have’dibs’ on that spot. A Chicago thing?”
I have seen it more in New Jersey than in Manhattan, but maybe it is done in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
A neighbor of mine puts orange traffic cones in one of his spots (between him, his wife and three adult children they have five cars plus my neighbors tow truck).
The more suburban it gets - houses further apart and every house with a driveway and a two car garage - the less you see it in New Jersey. I think that is true of lots of places in the Northeast.
I didn’t know Chicago folks also had the Dibs thing in the winter.
You’d have to chloroform me, stick me in a sack, shove me in the trunk and drive me to Chicago these days.
It used to be a fun place to visit - the museums, shopping, theater, restaurants, Rush Street and such are top notch and all used to be SAFE. But to live there, now?
Nope. Nope. Nope! :)
“Dibs” is an informal social contract - it works when you have a true community where the majority have the pretty much the same values (and that’s what much of the city used to be, especially in the ethnic neighborhoods).
Once a residential areas become more impersonal, the social structure becomes more cutthroat, so forget about “dibs”. One can argue whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but in the end, it is a thing, whether one likes it or not.
One of our relatives was in the Peace Corp. She and her husband were hired by a private corporation to help a poor African country when their tour ended.
Recently, when the Peace Corp came home around the world post Corona 19, the company offered to pay their way home or increased security to stay in Africa.
One of her cousins said, “Where they were in Africa was safer than their home in Chicago. So why not stay.”
They opted to stay in Africa.
It’s a Pittsburgh thing, too. All year round.
Kass is in for some biiiiig disappointment
No way would I move to a city.. ANY city.