This is brilliant. I take it Boston doesn't do the snow emergency thing, where you have to clear your car off the streets so the plows can get through, or your car is towed.I am not sure. I don't live in Boston, proper. I think though, what they do is have snow removal times, and until then, people use that unofficial save-your-own-spot method.
Sheesh, your mayor is all proactive. Every snow here, the lawnchairs, dinette chairs, really ugly upholstered chairs and various other unidentified items are broken out and every single night they've got some police spokesperson on the local news telling people not to do that blahblahblah, but they don't do anything beyond that.
I think last year, there were problems. People from Southie know you don't take someone else's reserved space. But the yuppies move in, see the chair in the spot, move the chair, and then yuppies get murdered. And fair enough, says I, even though except for about two years, I have always had a driveway.
Because this...
Wow, people putting stuff in the road to hold a parking spot while they were out would drive me batshit.
But I shovelled out the!*&$*@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spot! It took two hours! It is right in front of my house/apartment! Go shovel your own !*&$*@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spot.
See? Bitter.
Yeah. Very bitter. And see some of these neighborhoods have no driveways, no garages, no parking lots. They predate the auto, or at least predate it being widely used by city dwellers. The yards are the size of postage stamps, and there's hardly anywhere to put the snow. I can understand why people come to blows. If you lose your own spot, there might actually be no where else to park, not even a new spot you could shovel out.