Comments on: Boston: a place for friends

By: Can you dig it? | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com

Can you dig it? | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:31:01 +0000

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By: SecondSolution

SecondSolution — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:25:39 +0000

If that had been Chicago, they wouldn’t have bothered leaving a note. The car owner would have come back to find his tires slashed, window broken, and/or water poured onto the car.

As for “How long can someone shovel a spot on a public street and expect to keep it?” I don’t know if it is the same in Boston but in Chicago people put their old crap (lawn chairs, broken furniture, boxes) in the spot they shoveled to “save” it for an indefinite amount of time, sometimes weeks.

By: marisee

marisee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:29:19 +0000

OH MY GOD!
one time, someone parked in my friend’s spot at his apartment buliding.. he’d shoveled it out himself too.
he parked somewhere else then came inside and got his shovel and buried the guys car!

By: Mishee

Mishee — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:52:27 +0000

then you don’t live in the good part of california. where are you? Modesto??

By: =/

=/ — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:50:56 +0000

Um, whaaat?
I live in California, and I can safely say zero of those things are even relevant to my housing situation.

By: Squeegy

Squeegy — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:15:10 +0000

I think the point is ‘If you want to park, dig out your own spot.’

By: kendra

kendra — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:54:42 +0000

While I do agree that it’s terribly rude to take someone’s shoveled spot when you’re aware that someone shoveled just to park there herself, I don’t understand how the offender in this situation was to know that the person was going to be coming back immediately. Is it common knowledge in Boston that a shoveled spot means someone is planning on using it asap? How long can someone shovel a spot on a public street and expect to keep it?

By: dez

dez — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:22:57 +0000

this is the best, most fitting analogy.

From,
Boston, MA resident (but sold my car cuz of the parking!!!)

By: dez

dez — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:18:40 +0000

There’s a huge difference between a winter in Boston and a winter in Baltimore. I highly doubt Maryland city-dwellers need to spend over an hour digging their cars out of the (literally) 4-6 foot snowbanks that plows push up against parked cars. The only problem I have with this note is that the person didn’t follow the commonly accepted Boston rule of leaving a folding chair in the newly-shoveled space.

By: marcopuffin

marcopuffin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:08:53 +0000

When foiled by a nasty, unfair trick out of my parking space, I pushed a large chocolate profiterol into the handle on the driver’s side of the offending vehicle. Would this be considered PA or just A? PS: I had just been shopping, I don’t usually carry such an arsenal.

Team notewriter, though with reservations – why whine in a note when direct action could hit the spot so much more effectively?

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:06:35 +0000

I live in Michigan. Yes we get some pretty heavy duty snowfalls. And I have stood outside digging for hours to get my car out, just to run to the corner store. When I get back, there is a nice clean car who took my spot. Clean because they were parked in a garage during the storm. I don’t blame the person who wrote the note at all.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:34:53 +0000

Hey West Coasters–If you’ve never spent an hour shoveling ice and snow after a Nor’easter and almost gotten your car free only to have the city snow plow come by and sock you back in with snow and rapidly freezing slush, you cannot understand;
anymore than the rest of us can fathom living on a fault line, where the hills slide away if it rains and the whole State catches fire if it does not, all the while ignoring the fact that the most beautiful mountains in your storybook view are active volcanoes aiming pyroclastic flows at your cul-de-sacs.

By: Whoever

Whoever — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:03:49 +0000

Clearly you non-Bostonians don’t get it.. Will’s analogy is dead on. You put in the work and dig out a spot, it’s yours till that snow melts. And yes, it CAN take hours to dig out.. Last year my roommate’s car was stuck for three days after a particularly nasty storm. This is not a joke up here- to illustrate, a couple years ago a friend of mine who lived in, but was not from, Southie parked in someone else’s dug-out spot. When she returned to her vehicle, all her tires had been slashed and her windows had been broken. True story. And the kicker? This was not considered unwarranted by most of her neighbors.

The person who got that note got off waaayyy easy.

By: Misheeâ„¢

Misheeâ„¢ — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:04:17 +0000

I just got a humor email from a friend regarding the Darwin Awards – Entry #3 made me think of this posting…

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space…understandably, he shot her.