Talk:Parking chair

Title
I have moved this page to Parking chairs, because this phenomenon goes beyond reserving parking spaces during snowstorms. --Blargh29 (talk) 06:16, 14 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with with this change. It is a simpler title. I just moved it to parking chair just to have it as a singular tense, and I made some other changes, so the paragraphs flow better into one another. Sebwite (talk) 07:10, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

"Criticism" section
The criticism section reeks of original research. For example, where is the verifiable evidence stating that people observe "parking chair" norms due to a fear of physical reprisal against themself or their property rather than courtesy? Much of the section makes the tradition out to be ugly, uncivilized, and barbaric. I'm very tempted to blank everything but the objective point regarding the efficiency of space allocation. &mdash;Bill Price (nyb) 01:33, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree, it's terrible. I want to delete that whole section. 196.215.78.94 (talk) 12:08, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

You should. The entire thing reads like it was written by someone who had his mirror knocked off for parking in a claimed spot. Bellfazar (talk) 14:38, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Interesting. I did not grow up in Chicago but lived there from 1988-2003. Having lived in a high-rise my first 5 years there, when I first encountered parking chairs after our first snow storm in a 3 flat on the near west side, I thought it was remarkably tacky/low brow/uncivilized. I later realized that if you grow up with this concept of "I dug it out so it is mine" mindset, it doesn't seem weird. (Compare to those who grew up with "Miracle Whip" and don't like real mayonnaise.) But, for those who've never encountered it, the idea that you get to keep a dug-out spot AFTER your car has departed is really childish. Or, at least, it seems to be to most of those I've told about this who didn't also grow up in places this was considered normal. (And, yes, this IS original research but at least its on a talk page. Oh, wait... I'm talking about the topic not its editing, etc. Sorry!) :-) dhugot (talk) 16:52, 6 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.129.204.114 (talk)

Length? Notability?
I was randomly linked here, and astonished to find so many words on this topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.138.42.36 (talk) 03:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There is actually quite a lot written about this from a large number of sources, plenty enough to make it notable. It is a practice that dates back decades. It goes on in the city where I live, among many others, leading me to research it and ultimately write an article. It may sound astonishing to you, but people have gone deeply into this. Sebwite (talk) 02:41, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

If someone is willing to do the research. This specific resource could possibly benefit from additional information expanding on retribution. Notable incidences as a result of retribution has garnered short-lived media attention. With just enough passage of time in between, long enough to be forgotten until a more recent day incident once again reminds society retributions in past have most always reached serious level of a felony crime.

Including vandalism, serious physical harm and murder. CHICAGOCONCERTMAN (talk) 23:35, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Worldwide perspective?
Someone put a tag at the top of this page, claiming this article was not written at a worldwide perspective. At the time I wrote this article (my part that is, since others have added to it since), I found sources describing it in quite a lot of northeastern US cities, but almost nothing anywhere else. I actually looked quite hard to see if people did it elsewhere in the world, such as in Canada, Europe, and other snowy places, and there was nothing. I was really surprised. In fact, I only found one source describing it in a place outside the Washington-Boston corridor, and that was in Kansas City, and it was too trivial to use in this article. I guess it is not that widespread elsewhere. Sebwite (talk) 02:41, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This doesn't have to occur in snowy places. People could place chairs to mark parking spaces they actually own (on their property), or they could just do it to mark spots if there are too many people and too few spots. This could be done in other places such as India or China, not just in snowy places or "Western" countries. So there you go: systematic bias. 68.105.192.216 (talk) 00:33, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * This practice is most likely in areas of high population density, where a parking shortage exists (too many cars/too little land), and during events which reduce parking over a wide area. This reduces the parts of the world where this activity is necessary. It won't happen everywhere. -- SEWilco (talk) 20:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

More Photos
I've uploaded to flickr and appropriately licensed some photos that might be appropriate for this page. Please feel free to grab, edit, and include them here (or elsewhere) with attribution. Szarka (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

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