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3 years in Lincoln Park taught me something about winter parking
Last week I watched a guy spend 15 minutes digging out a space he'd shoveled hours earlier, only to have someone else grab it. That was me my first winter here. After 3 years of street parking, I finally realized saving spots with lawn chairs is a Chicago tradition, not just laziness. My neighbor Mike explained it to me after I got an earful moving his orange cone - he's been parking on the same block since 2017. Has anyone else had to learn the unwritten parking rules the hard way?
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terry_jones17d ago
Hold on, is this really that deep though? I mean, yeah it's annoying when someone takes your shoveled spot, but it's just parking at the end of the day. People act like they staked a claim on a gold mine with a lawn chair, and I don't know, maybe I'm too laid back but I've never felt the need to save a spot on a public street. It's Chicago, not a war zone.
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jenniferw8217d ago
Flip it @terry_jones what if they're not trying to be territorial but just warning neighbors about a deep ice patch they hit? I almost faceplanted on a hidden black ice spot last winter and would've killed for a sign.
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