Seen on a car windshield at the corner of Summer and Lowell

[spatch]

A note reading, in part (and I'm slightly paraphrasing here and cleaning up spelling):

YOU ASSHOLE.
I DID NOT SPEND THREE HOURS SHOVELLING OUT THIS SPOT SO THAT YOU COULD PARK IN IT.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
YOU ARE NOT AN AMERICAN.

Yeah, Somervillians tend to get mighty territorial out here when the snow drops.

Comments

From Chicago, a solution.

[spritelord.livejournal.com]

Round here, you shovel out a spot and put a lawn chair or two in it. And then nobody takes it. It works.

Odd, innit?

[trysha.livejournal.com]

Here you cann also put a lawn chair into the spot.

Someone will drive over the lawn chair and put a note on the windshield saying "your chair is underneath my car"

[cropherb.livejournal.com]

I think the reason why Chicagoans respect the lawn chair is everyone at least half-believes that great urban myth that goes around about how someone once dissed the lawn chair and parked in someone else's carefully shoveled spot, so the shoveler turned a garden hose on the offending car until it had a three-inch thick coating of solid ice all over. Nothing like a little incredibly poetic vigiliante justice to put the respect in people.

[wahhappen.livejournal.com]

YESSSS!! Poetic justice.