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My answer to DIBS: shoveled out 5 spaces in my neighborhood this morning on my day off. Will do more this afternoon. Public parking is public. (imgur.com)

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[–]Wood_Ape -41 ポイント-40 ポイント  (34子コメント)

People here might not like me for saying this, but whatever. I think it's a dick move. Imagine having to dig your car out on Monday morning at the ass-crack of dawn in order to get to your shitty job. After a long day of work and having to fight your way up and down your street, you finally arrive to where you originally parked only to have found that someone took the spot. That's a pretty fucking shitty thing to have happen.

Now, I'm not saying people should be given dibs all the time or anything like that. What I am saying is that if you do the work to clear out a spot on a street that hasn't been plowed, you absolutely deserve to keep that spot until that street is plowed. The only people who should have a problem with this are people who poach a parking spot because it's been cleared already. Any compassionate human being would recognize the effort another human took and reward that person by not being a dick and taking the spot they dug out.

[–]chicago_bunnyRiver North 53 ポイント54 ポイント  (8子コメント)

if you do the work to clear out a spot on a street that hasn't been plowed, you absolutely deserve to keep that spot until that street is plowed.

No. You don't deserve shit.

Change your hypo. You just worked the graveyard shift at your shitty job. After your long day of work and having to fight your way up and down your street, you are ready to dig out a spot to park in. Unfortunately, you see that the only spots without cars in them have been marked with dibs. Now you have to decide whether to risk having your car keyed by some maniac who suddenly thinks s/he owns a spot on a public street until spring.

Fuck dibs.

[–]linds360 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (13子コメント)

But here's the thing, in order to go to work everyone had to dig themselves out. Digging out your car does not make you a unique snowflake.

The fact that everyone with a car who works had to dig themselves out, means we're all equal and now all those spots are cleared of snow. You have no more right to a spot cleared of snow in February than you do in August.

[–]CaptOblivious 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

No, that is just incorrect. Lots of people do the absolute minimum to get their car out, up to and including just driving out of the spot if they can.

[–]NotARealAtty 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I do the minimum because I have the foresight to pay for a covered spot every month. If you want you'r own spot then be willing to pay for a private spot. If you want to park in a public spot, then be prepared to share your spot with the public.

[–]linds360 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

From my experience, those people aren't the ones who put stuff in the street to call dibs.

Those spots remain open until someone comes along and digs it out. They're basically "free" spots if somebody does the work to take them as they wait to park.

[–]CaptOblivious 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

depends on the people but the real point is that if everyone did their share of the work, the street would be clear and no one would need to call dibs.

It's the jerks that do nothing and then park in the spots other people worked hard to clear that cause dibs.

Personally I bought a house with a garage on an alley so now I get to help shovel the whole alley. Between the 6 houses around me 5 of us work together to do it, the 6th she's old and frail and we do it for her too.

[–]gravityplanx 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

But here's the thing, in order to go to work everyone had to dig themselves out. Digging out your car does not make you a unique snowflake.

If that's the case, and if everyone used dibs, then everyone would take back the same spot and there'd be no conflict, right?

[–]linds360 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Or nobody uses dibs and things are just the same as usual. Everyone digs out their spots. Spots are open and are first come, first serve just like every other day of the year.

Please stop putting trash in my street.

[–]gravityplanx 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This assumes that some people aren't complete assholes, willing to steal spots without having dug out one themselves.

Assholes exist, unfortunately. And I would never dream of leaving dibs stuff in the street forever. It goes straight to the dumpster once the streets are plowed.

[–]sciencemaster5000 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

If the only places people ever traveled were between home and work, then yes.

[–]MakeMovesBucktown -5 ポイント-4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

here's the thing about your thing, there are special snowflakes: people with garages ....and they visit friends and work in areas where you gotta street park.

[–]R04RRRR 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Wouldn't they have to shovel a whole driveway then?

[–]gravityplanx -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Are you living in the same city as me? Every garage in my neighborhood drops directly onto the street.

[–]CarbineFoxJefferson Park 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

There are driveways in Chicago.

[–]bigharkEdgewater 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Dibs is never about waiting until the snow is plowed. It's about waiting until the easy parking comes back, and that means waiting until the snow is almost gone.

Nobody is entitled to make private property out of public property, but doing so for weeks at a time is the highest form of bullshit.

[–]gravityplanx 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Roscoe Village side streets have still seen zero plowing as of this moment. Simply driving through the neighborhood comes with an inherent risk of getting stuck somewhere.

Right now, it absolutely is about waiting for the streets to be plowed. Having a spot to go directly to means not driving up and down the neighborhood, getting stuck several times, and blocking tons of traffic in the process. Once the streets are plowed, that's no longer a factor, but right now it definitely is.

[–]ReevoEvo 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Public property. Case closed. It's about time people got some exercise

[–]RtardsAllOfYou 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Take the fucking bus if you can't afford a garage. Put your big boy pants on. So someone took the spot you parked in. Big deal, it's not yours. Until you pay the $1200/year in property taxes like I do on a freaking GARAGE you deal with the shitty street scraps and when I see your lawn chair out there I toss it in the nearest alley for the scrap guys.