Before Mayor Richard M. Daley made that stupid comment about people keeping a parking space after shoveling it out, only two people on my block were doing the claim-your-spot boogie. Then, after he made that comment, my block looks like a garage sale gone bad.
There’s no parking anywhere except on the one street just off my block that, for some weird reason, has zoned parking just on that one part of the block. Fortunately the police have not been ticketing the people parking there without a permit (thank you!), so there has been a small refuge for our cars away from the greedy people. I have not been able to park in front of my own house since the first snowfall. I’ve lived in my neighborhood three years and never had this problem before.
I heard on the news that the junk in the streets has to go–so when? They also said on the news that the city workers were going to put the furniture, etc., on the side for the owners to reclaim. I wouldn’t have the workers put the items on the side for the owners to reclaim, because they’re just going to put it back in the street. Have a garbage truck go down the streets and throw it out. As I recall, any items in the street are considered abandoned property (garbage, if you will), so get rid of it.
For goodness sake, the street is public property, not private property. You can’t claim public property as your own. I have never saved a spot in my entire life as a Chicago resident, and I think it’s tacky and selfish to do so. You don’t see this saving of spaces on the busy streets, so why do we have it on the side streets? Didn’t Mayor Daley’s mama ever tell him: Think before you speak?
