On 2017-12-06 10:31 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 12/5/2017 11:27 PM, dsi1 wrote:

>>> How does one steal a parking space?
>>
>> It's a heck of a concept, ain't it. I will just say that it is indeed
>> possible and leave it at that. I shall not be responsible for
>> corrupting the minds of the folks up North by teaching them the
>> concept of "stealing a parking space." That would be unforgivable.
>>
>
> If you live in a city that gets snow you should understand the concept.
> People shovel out a spot and think they are now the owners of it even
> though it is on a public street.Â* People have been killed over parking
> arguments.

There are no hard and fast rules. If I ran the world and there was lots
of street parking you would be entitled to shoot someone for parking in
the space you cleaned out. It would not be allowed if there was high
demand for parking spaces.

I used to get very frustrated with the women who lived in the apartment
above us when we were in a fourplex. We had a common driveway shared
with the buildings on either side and two carports, each large enough
for two cars. I used to shovel our driveway all the way from the road
to the car part. No one ever cleared out the other side of the drive or
the parking space at the end. One of the women would park her car in the
part I had cleared. I didn't expect them to shovel our the other side
of the drive that belong to the building next door, but they could at
least have helped with the snow clearing.





>
> In parking lots sometimes a car is waiting for another to pull out but
> another car can sneak in ahead of them.Â* That is not always a good ending.
>
> When I was about 16 and my brother 17 we cleared an area in front of out
> house to park.Â* We were the last house on the street in the middle of
> the block so there was another couple hundred yards to park but a woman
> from a block away took our spot.Â* It was freezing weather and the next
> day her car was coated with ice.Â* The only one on the block too. Strange
> how that happened.