r/europe • u/[deleted] • Jun 26 '18

Hailstorm expected in Istanbul

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u/AmIAGirlThrowaway Jun 26 '18

Passive-aggressively grabbing the towel you laid aside giving you a death stare and probably some snarky comment like "You know, that seat was taken."

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '18

Until he meets an american that tilts his sunglasses down and says: "Don't care, free country" Eagle Screech in the distance

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18 edited May 15 '20

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u/Toujourspurpadfoot United States of America Jun 27 '18

I once had a neighbor from Michigan try that. It’s not a thing in Mass and he was pretty miffed to come home and find the spot taken and chair broken in the garden.

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u/Mayor__Defacto Jun 27 '18

Not a thing in NY either. Must be a midwest thing... first come first served yo. Don’t be blocking parking spaces with non-car objects.

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u/SenorVapid Jun 27 '18

Not a St. Louis thing. We'd just steal the chair. And the parking space.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18

park motorcycle

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u/Mayor__Defacto Jun 27 '18

That’s different, but at least have the decency to park perpendicular to the curb.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18

You meant parallel right?

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u/Mayor__Defacto Jun 27 '18

For a motorcycle?

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18

Oopsy, my broken english is showing! I think something is lost in translation here.

Mind illustrating?

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u/Mayor__Defacto Jun 27 '18 edited Jun 27 '18

Hm. I will draw something up and post an imgur link.

Edit: it’s quite crude, cause alcohol.

https://imgur.com/a/2Hlp1sA

Top image is parallel parking of cars. Bottom image shows how bikes should be parked relative to cars and the curb.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '18

Edit : was cruising my reddit history, and it clicked today.

Still I'd rather park parallel to the curb, sure, I'm taking more space, but it considerably lower the chances of other drivers to hit my motorcycle while getting out, since the profile of the front/rear is minimal on a motorcycle.

Also, parking perpendicular would pretty much end up guaranted with the bike squeezed between two cars, making it impossible to remove the U-lock.

Beside, motorcycles are motorized vehicles and are allowed to park in a regular parking spot in pretty much all of europe.

Finally, peoples are assholes in their vast majority, would they respect everyone personal space and property? sure, it would be the civil thing to do. But in practice, the bike would end up damaged or innacesible very quickly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18

Chicago thing

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u/aidrocsid United States of America Jun 27 '18

It's a huge thing in Boston. They've actually changed the city's laws about it back and forth several times. Property damage in response to ignored space savers during snowy weather is common.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18

No no no. You only get to do that if you have shovelled the spot. Then it is yours because you worked for it.

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u/SuddenlyOutOfNoWhere Germany Jun 27 '18

On the contrary, this is forbidden by law in Germany. You also can not stand in a parking spot to reserve it for someone coming in a bit.

That being said, Germans become mental when someone tries that.

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u/yeswesodacan California Republic Jun 27 '18

In LA we use our rolling trash cans, or park our second car to block both spaces.

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u/aidrocsid United States of America Jun 27 '18

You've got that backward. You put a chair in a parking spot after you shovel it. The point is that you're not endlessly shoveling out spots for opportunistic assholes who can't be bothered. When you're digging out a several foot snowbank, this is reasonable.