No, you don't own the parking spot you dug out for the next two weeks

OOmis

“They will take up TWO spaces instead of moving one foot forward or back, so that another car can fit. Sorry that I feel that is wrong.”

Agreed though that isnt the discussion

“I would NEVER call a tow on someone,…”

Check with your LOR it is probably muttar

“So please forgive me for my strongly felt opinion that it would not be a bad thing …”

No need to ask for forgiveness. It is a very frustrating time and it is causing you not to think this through rationaly. I really do get it. I too spent a while digging out my car knowing ful well as soon as I left somebody else (who dug out his car too) will take “my” spot.

“I dug out my car AND the spot next to it, so two cars could fit there”

As I said I agree if you dug out a spot nobody should take it before you do. IS that what happened?

“Why should someone who paid NOTHING for the work we had done, benefit that day or the next?”

Becasue otherwise the city couldnt function. There isnt enough metered parking that self digs itself to allow stores to function.

“I did NOT take anyone’s parking spot from them. I parked at meters when I went shopping.”

I have news for you somebody shoveled many of thsoe too! as for that where empty before the storm that were plowed by the city there siply arent enough for all of us.

“Someone took our spot in front of my house, last year, and LEFT their car there for a week!…

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No that isnt nice. But doesnt change anything youve said.

Also dont you have a driveway?

Parking on snowy days in NY seems to be bringing out the true inner self of a lot of people around here.

Which category does this fall into?

I know it’s not b’koissoi, as I would never accuse my fine fellow CR members of driving (or parking) while inebriated.

Is it b’keessoi or b’ka’assoi?

Do you have a driveway?

Me? No.

Do you? Can I block it? Did I block it?

Not you; Oomis. I don’t understand why she is all upset about street parking if she has a driveway (as she seemed to indicate).

Yes, I have a driveway. You can block it if you give me fair warning that you’re showing up. Did you block it? I dunno, was that your car? If it ended up getting vandalized, then you probably blocked my driveway without telling me you were coming.

The sign said,

So I put up the following response:

That was even smarter.

We live in very affluent times.

When I walk into the supermarket I’m sometimes overwhelmed by the dazzling array of produce that is mine for the taking, when I know people who were literally starving just a little over 70 years ago.

Yes, we all give Tzedaka; we are after all rachmanim bnei rachmanim.

But how often are we actually confronted with the challenge of dealing with limited resources?

This thread brings to mind the famous story of the blanket that Rav Nosson Tzvi ZTZ”L told the CEO of Starbucks.

Something to think about when our streets are blanketed in a thick snowfall…

You don’t know the dynamics on my block ( I don’t live in Brooklyn), and how unmenshlech some very young people have been all too often. This weather does bring out the worst in people. Very often, I am unable to GET into my driveway, because some kid (and worse, some adult on his way to minyan) has thoughtlessly parked in such a way blocking my driveway enough, that it’s impossible to get over the mound of snow next to us. Now, not only had he taken my dug out spot, but also prevents me from parking in my owned spot. I have never, ever done that to anyone. The woman next door to me is even older than I am, and has the same problem. It’s frum people doing this.

Whether or not someone has a legal right to the street parking, is not up for debate. I understand your point. But that which is legal, we all know is not necessarily ethically or morally correct. Think about some of the marriage laws which have been passed recently.

I think that there could be an inyan of hasogas gevul here. I am not asking my LOR if that is so, because I refrain from doing it to others. I just hope people who have been guilty of this, will give it some thought, and try to avoid this, for a couple of days after a storm. That’s all. Thank you, for your insight and input, which was expressed respectfully.

You think you were laughing hard? I put up the sign, but some other poor shmoe was the one who parked there!

I knew that! I was the one who parked there, and then hired someone to try to dig it out who was in on the joke, and I stood and laughed, and the joke was on you because while you were standing and laughing, I hired someone else to put a sign by someone else’s spot threatening to slash their tires, and signed it with your name and address, and then slashed their tires.

I knew you would do that, which is why I gave you a phony name and address.

haha,joke’s on you, because I didn’t do any of that, and instead wasted all your time on this thread.

I knew you would. That’s why I also used a shell corporation to post here, and my shell corporation’s totty can beat up your shell corporation’s totty.

I switched all the cars.

I switched all the shell corporations.

In Baltimore here, almost everyone puts chairs out..In my opinion, if you spend hours of backbreaking work digging out you have a right to put a chair there..at least for a few days or so.

When I moved to Baltimore from NY I never knew of that concept,however in NY people would prob just move your chair and take the spot, and I dont blame them since parking is hard to find in NY

Guys just move to the suburbs. Driveways. Parking lots. Luxuries.