Not a productive post

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

My apologies if you're the one whose lawn chair I ran over (and over) and then parked on, but you shouldn't leave garbage in a public parking spot.

Comments

Re: half of it

[mraudet.livejournal.com]

i agree with you. i don't want to assume. i don't need to assume. i shovel my own spot if i don't have one. everyone gets what they want and nobody gets upset.

and to be clear, because arguments can become conflated: i'm not speaking of, and have not spoken of, people who put out chairs before a storm. or people who put chairs in spots cleared by others. i'm discussing the spot i cleared for me.

Re: half of it

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

How would anyone else know, when looking at a chair in the street, how much work the owner did?

And you still haven't explained why having been parked on the street during a storm entitles you to the spot going forward.

(Oh, and can I park on the street instead of my driveway, and thus clear that spot and reserve it for the week so that when friends come over, they have a place to park, too?)

Re: half of it

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Dunno... Perhaps you can mark the chair with the smell of your own sweat from shoveling...

Re: half of it

[mraudet.livejournal.com]

clearly there is no way to determine how much effort the owner of a chair did to clear said spot. of course, that is the wrong question to be asking. the right question is: how much effort did you make to clear that spot?

i did not explain that because that is a moot point. it is the effort of clearing that has earned me the spot. mind you, i have always said "temporarily". "going forward" suggests a time frame i've made no claim to: i.e. in perpetuity.

parking on the street when you don't need to is a judgment for you to make. me? i would not.