Using Your Child to Reserve a Parking Space?

[jenny1223]

I think it's weird that the letter writer will respect a lawn chair holding a spot but not a person. Presumably, the chair could be there for a lot longer than a person would leave their child.

[summer]

You simply do not get to save a parking space under any circumstances. The only way that space becomes yours is by putting your car in it.

I'm getting a bit of the rages that someone had the audacity to leave a note on this person's car! And the rages that s/he is second guessing themselves about this. Of course, you didn't go too far.

If you leave your chair in a space, then you will find you chair on the curb next to my car. Is this a thing really??

[pamela]

If you would respect the chair, you absolutely should respect the person, child or adult.

[Cicero]

I want to know what the note said.

[pixy0stix]

No one has a right to reserve a space on a public street.

[stealthmom]

Sept 15, 2014 15:54:47 GMT -5 summer said:

You simply do not get to save a parking space under any circumstances. The only way that space becomes yours is by putting your car in it.

I'm getting a bit of the rages that someone had the audacity to leave a note on this person's car! And the rages that s/he is second guessing themselves about this. Of course, you didn't go too far.

If you leave your chair in a space, then you will find you chair on the curb next to my car. Is this a thing really??

yes it is.

It is why I would not buy a place in my hometown w/o off street parking.

Every once in a while we'd park in front of our house and we would get notes not to park Iin front of their house or not to pull up on the curb bc it will ruin the sidewalk in front of their house.

The problem w moving their shit is it's a good way to get your car keyed. Best to call the non emergency number and let the cops handle it.

[Cicero]

I respect saved parking spaces only because someone entitled enough to think they deserve a specific portion of a city street free of charge and excluding all others is more likely than not the kind of person who would get pissed off when the spot was taken to do something about it. I don't want my car to get keyed.

[summer]

Sept 15, 2014 15:59:21 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sept 15, 2014 15:57:08 GMT -5 Cicero said:

I want to know what the note said.

It's at the link, which is worth visiting because the comments are cracking me up.

why are there so many people saying you should move on and not argue over a space?  Please tell me if I keep reading the comments eventually there will be dragging of the 10 year old's parents going on.  I really don't see how you can put anything other than a car in a space.

[msmerymac]

When I was in high school, we used to do that. Once this woman honked at me and a friend and when she parked she said, "Oh, were you trying to save that space?" Nope, just enjoying the Buffalo winter in the middle of the street, dumbass.

I don't think it's the safest or most mature thing for adults to engage in. It reminds me of fast casual restaurants where people come in and send one person to "reserve" a table. It's kind of cheating.

[summer]

Sept 15, 2014 16:06:43 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sept 15, 2014 15:54:47 GMT -5 summer said:

You simply do not get to save a parking space under any circumstances. The only way that space becomes yours is by putting your car in it.

I'm getting a bit of the rages that someone had the audacity to leave a note on this person's car! And the rages that s/he is second guessing themselves about this. Of course, you didn't go too far.

If you leave your chair in a space, then you will find you chair on the curb next to my car. Is this a thing really??

Oh yes, this is is HOTLY debated every time there is a snow and people have spent time shoveling out their spaces only to come back and some non-shoveler has wedged their car into that space and now they have nowhere to park. People would almost come to blows over this thang. My elderly neighbor says he shouts down people who try to get in my spot after I shovel it out (because sometimes I'll shovel him out, too so he's being helpful) if I'm gone to work or whatever.

I've been away too long, so now I don't understand.  So it snows and then you move your car where? And then someone drives in when you go to get your car and park it again?  set the scene for me. 

[redheadbaker]

Sept 15, 2014 16:11:30 GMT -5 summer said:

Sept 15, 2014 16:06:43 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Oh yes, this is is HOTLY debated every time there is a snow and people have spent time shoveling out their spaces only to come back and some non-shoveler has wedged their car into that space and now they have nowhere to park. People would almost come to blows over this thang. My elderly neighbor says he shouts down people who try to get in my spot after I shovel it out (because sometimes I'll shovel him out, too so he's being helpful) if I'm gone to work or whatever.

I've been away too long, so now I don't understand.  So it snows and then you move your car where? And then someone drives in when you go to get your car and park it again?  set the scene for me. 

No, it's like, you go outside and shovel your car out, to go work or wherever. While you're gone, someone comes and parks in that shoveled-out spot. Now you have nowhere to park. 

[redheadbaker]

There was a thread about it last winter: pandce.proboards.com/thread/295243/philadelphia-police-parking-violators-nosavesies

S.O. and were having a bet about when the first shooting over a parking spot would occur.

[andrealynn]

Sept 15, 2014 15:53:41 GMT -5 jenny1223 said:

I think it's weird that the letter writer will respect a lawn chair holding a spot but not a person. Presumably, the chair could be there for a lot longer than a person would leave their child.

Yeah, but children can move themselves. Chairs require you to get out of your car.

[summer]

Sept 15, 2014 16:22:12 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sept 15, 2014 16:11:30 GMT -5 summer said:

I've been away too long, so now I don't understand.  So it snows and then you move your car where? And then someone drives in when you go to get your car and park it again?  set the scene for me. 

It snows, I shovel my car out to go to work. I come back home and someone else is parked in the spot I shoveled. They didn't shovel out a spot, they may have just pulled their big deer-smacking SUV out and let the snow get all packed and now it's hardened ice because the sun melted it during the day and they don't want to/can't get back into that spot. Plus the snow has to go somewhere and some of the parking space gets cut down in that way.

I've never gotten into blows over it because up until last year I had a car that couldn't be driven in the snow so it would be parked in the garage at work. But last year it snowed 100000ty times and I kept having to shovel my car out and my neighbor was sick so I did his too, because his teenage and very able grandson was just sitting in the house watching TV and not being worth a damn. In return my neighbor made sure no random came along and settled into the spot I had spent time digging out.

I would have no idea that the space "belonged" to the person who shoveled it out, unless I needed a permit to park there.  Is this just regular on-the-street parking?   

This all stresses me out. I would just take the bus. 

[NitaX]

Sept 15, 2014 16:56:17 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sept 15, 2014 16:47:17 GMT -5 summer said:

I would have no idea that the space "belonged" to the person who shoveled it out, unless I needed a permit to park there.  Is this just regular on-the-street parking?   

This all stresses me out. I would just take the bus. 

But, if you didn't shovel it then, theoretically, it's not yours. You know? People feel like they put the work in and goddammit that's their spot. DO NOT PARK YOUR CAR IN A SPOT IF YOU DID NOT SHOVEL IT.

This whole exchange is why I still live in the South. 

[sparrowsong]

This reminds me of another type of savies - pool side lounge chairs at vacation resorts. There are so many assholes that send a family member down at dawn to claim their chairs in the best locations. Then when other people get to the pool after the sun is actually up there's nowhere to sit. Finally you find a spot and then often spend hours watching these peoples chairs remain empty while they are off doing something else entirely.

[cookiemdough]

I assume a 10 year old is just doing as their parents instructed so I wouldn't get into an exchange about it.

[cookiemdough]

Sept 15, 2014 17:09:11 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

This reminds me of another type of savies - pool side lounge chairs at vacation resorts. There are so many assholes that send a family member down at dawn to claim their chairs in the best locations. Then when other people get to the pool after the sun is actually up there's nowhere to sit. Finally you find a spot and then often spend hours watching these peoples chairs remain empty while they are off doing something else entirely.

I blame this on the resort for having a pool that doesn't have enough umbrellas.

[ECB]

Sept 15, 2014 16:56:17 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sept 15, 2014 16:47:17 GMT -5 summer said:

I would have no idea that the space "belonged" to the person who shoveled it out, unless I needed a permit to park there.  Is this just regular on-the-street parking?   

This all stresses me out. I would just take the bus. 

But, if you didn't shovel it then, theoretically, it's not yours. You know? People feel like they put the work in and goddammit that's their spot. DO NOT PARK YOUR CAR IN A SPOT IF YOU DID NOT SHOVEL IT.

Even after living in the city for 10 years, I still HATE the spot savers in the snow. Yes, I may take "your" spot, but why? Because someone was in "my" spot. Did they dig out a spot too? Maybe, maybe not. But chances are they probably did.  If my car just happened to be 3 blocks away when the snow hit, that doesn't mean I now have to park 3 blocks away until all the snow is gone.  A spot is open on my block?  I'm taking it. 

It sucks - the whole thing. But still. It's a city street where there are no "my" spots. DH and I dug and dug and dug our cars out over and over and rarely ever came home to those same spots. 

This is one reason I'm glad to have moved and why I love, love, LOVE my private driveway!.

[AJL]

Sept 15, 2014 16:36:07 GMT -5 andrealynn said:

Sept 15, 2014 15:53:41 GMT -5 jenny1223 said:

I think it's weird that the letter writer will respect a lawn chair holding a spot but not a person. Presumably, the chair could be there for a lot longer than a person would leave their child.

Yeah, but children can move themselves. Chairs require you to get out of your car.

Oh! Baby in a car seat! Problem solved.

[stealthmom]

Sept 15, 2014 17:09:11 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

This reminds me of another type of savies - pool side lounge chairs at vacation resorts. There are so many assholes that send a family member down at dawn to claim their chairs in the best locations. Then when other people get to the pool after the sun is actually up there's nowhere to sit. Finally you find a spot and then often spend hours watching these peoples chairs remain empty while they are off doing something else entirely.

oh I have no problem moving those towels. That's easy. Best is when they come back and get this crooked look on their face bc they're pissed that you took their chairs but they also know they were assholes to reserve them in the first place. And then they try to play it off all breezy.

Some lady once had the gall to complain and lie to my sister after my sister moved her stuff. She was all- I JUST put our towels down 15 min. Ago. And my sister was all- no. We've been here for 45 min. So you've been gone nearly an hour.

I really appreciate facilities that enforce their own rules and take up the towels themselves.

[sparrowsong]

I'm always too chicken shit to move stuff. I hate confrontation. One time though someone had saved a group of chairs with a towel on one, flip flops, each on their own chair, and a bottle of sunblock on another. I was like no, this is ridiculous and helped myself to a flip flop chair. Way at the end of the day a man came and collected his scattered belongings. They never even used the chairs at all.

I would appreciate a hotel that collected stuff from obviously unused spots, but I've never been to one that does.

[cookiemdough]

Sept 15, 2014 18:00:59 GMT -5 stealthmom said:

Sept 15, 2014 17:09:11 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

This reminds me of another type of savies - pool side lounge chairs at vacation resorts. There are so many assholes that send a family member down at dawn to claim their chairs in the best locations. Then when other people get to the pool after the sun is actually up there's nowhere to sit. Finally you find a spot and then often spend hours watching these peoples chairs remain empty while they are off doing something else entirely.

oh I have no problem moving those towels. That's easy. Best is when they come back and get this crooked look on their face bc they're pissed that you took their chairs but they also know they were assholes to reserve them in the first place. And then they try to play it off all breezy.

Some lady once had the gall to complain and lie to my sister after my sister moved her stuff. She was all- I JUST put our towels down 15 min. Ago. And my sister was all- no. We've been here for 45 min. So you've been gone nearly an hour.

I really appreciate facilities that enforce their own rules and take up the towels themselves.

Wait you can't leave and grab lunch or something?

[hamster]

We used to do this in the dorms. There were limited spots with no time restrictions. If you saw one open you and a friend would run down. One person would stand there while the other ran to move their car.

[vanillacourage]

Sept 15, 2014 18:59:18 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

Sept 15, 2014 18:00:59 GMT -5 stealthmom said:

oh I have no problem moving those towels. That's easy. Best is when they come back and get this crooked look on their face bc they're pissed that you took their chairs but they also know they were assholes to reserve them in the first place. And then they try to play it off all breezy.

Some lady once had the gall to complain and lie to my sister after my sister moved her stuff. She was all- I JUST put our towels down 15 min. Ago. And my sister was all- no. We've been here for 45 min. So you've been gone nearly an hour.

I really appreciate facilities that enforce their own rules and take up the towels themselves.

Wait you can't leave and grab lunch or something?

No, you can tell when a chair hasn't been used yet that day. There's no towel thrown all the way over it, things are obviously spread out to claim space, etc. The resorts I've been to put a rolled-up towel in the crook of the chair at like 6am - if the towel's still there unrolled at 11am then darn right I'd move stuff off it. Tacky!

[scout8]

Sept 15, 2014 16:22:12 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Sept 15, 2014 16:11:30 GMT -5 summer said:

I've been away too long, so now I don't understand.  So it snows and then you move your car where? And then someone drives in when you go to get your car and park it again?  set the scene for me. 

It snows, I shovel my car out to go to work. I come back home and someone else is parked in the spot I shoveled. They didn't shovel out a spot, they may have just pulled their big deer-smacking SUV out and let the snow get all packed and now it's hardened ice because the sun melted it during the day and they don't want to/can't get back into that spot. Plus the snow has to go somewhere and some of the parking space gets cut down in that way.

I've never gotten into blows over it because up until last year I had a car that couldn't be driven in the snow so it would be parked in the garage at work. But last year it snowed 100000ty times and I kept having to shovel my car out and my neighbor was sick so I did his too, because his teenage and very able grandson was just sitting in the house watching TV and not being worth a damn. In return my neighbor made sure no random came along and settled into the spot I had spent time digging out.

Do you put anything in the spot to reserve it? In Chicago, you can park in any open shoveled spot as long as there isn't anything in the spot to hold it. If there is anything in the spot, i.e. cone, plastic chair, ironing board, then you do not park your car there unless you want to risk death. It is called dibs and people take it very seriously.

[summer]

Sept 15, 2014 22:21:51 GMT -5 scout8 said:

Sept 15, 2014 16:22:12 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

It snows, I shovel my car out to go to work. I come back home and someone else is parked in the spot I shoveled. They didn't shovel out a spot, they may have just pulled their big deer-smacking SUV out and let the snow get all packed and now it's hardened ice because the sun melted it during the day and they don't want to/can't get back into that spot. Plus the snow has to go somewhere and some of the parking space gets cut down in that way.

I've never gotten into blows over it because up until last year I had a car that couldn't be driven in the snow so it would be parked in the garage at work. But last year it snowed 100000ty times and I kept having to shovel my car out and my neighbor was sick so I did his too, because his teenage and very able grandson was just sitting in the house watching TV and not being worth a damn. In return my neighbor made sure no random came along and settled into the spot I had spent time digging out.

Do you put anything in the spot to reserve it? In Chicago, you can park in any open shoveled spot as long as there isn't anything in the spot to hold it. If there is anything in the spot, i.e. cone, plastic chair, ironing board, then you do not park your car there unless you want to risk death. It is called dibs and people take it very seriously.

But all this you all are talking about is not private permit parking, right? If someone is visiting a friend or just in the area, they have just as much right as anyone to park.

I used to live in Hyde Park, so believe me I get the parking fiasco, but those parking spaces weren't "mine". Hence, like I said, I never bought a car.

[stealthmom]

Sept 15, 2014 18:59:18 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

Sept 15, 2014 18:00:59 GMT -5 stealthmom said:

oh I have no problem moving those towels. That's easy. Best is when they come back and get this crooked look on their face bc they're pissed that you took their chairs but they also know they were assholes to reserve them in the first place. And then they try to play it off all breezy.

Some lady once had the gall to complain and lie to my sister after my sister moved her stuff. She was all- I JUST put our towels down 15 min. Ago. And my sister was all- no. We've been here for 45 min. So you've been gone nearly an hour.

I really appreciate facilities that enforce their own rules and take up the towels themselves.

Wait you can't leave and grab lunch or something?

no I'm talking about people who reserve chairs but aren't even at the pool yet. Like somebody will come down at 6 am or whatever and put towels on the chairs they want. Then they come down at 10 or whenever they feel like it. It is a giant pet peeve of mine.

[cookiemdough]

Sept 16, 2014 2:20:25 GMT -5 stealthmom said:

Sept 15, 2014 18:59:18 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

Wait you can't leave and grab lunch or something?

no I'm talking about people who reserve chairs but aren't even at the pool yet. Like somebody will come down at 6 am or whatever and put towels on the chairs they want. Then they come down at 10 or whenever they feel like it. It is a giant pet peeve of mine.

Oh okay. The example you have was for 45 minutes that's why I was kind of like huh? That's nothing. If I have to go upstairs to change my kids poopy diaper I could be gone for that long after all their distractions when on vacation.

[demandypants]

Sept 15, 2014 15:57:19 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

No one has a right to reserve a space on a public street.

Unless it is winter and you spent an hour shoveling all of the plow hardened snow out of said space to get your car out of it. Then the chair should be respected.  /gavel /pittsburghrules