Friday, 30 January 2009

Reserved space

greek way to reserve street parking

The Greek way to ensure you'll find your parking space outside your house on an inner city street.

14 comments:

  1. I think this sort of cry from the heart is fairly common wherever you are.

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  2. This is found here in Malta too and to be honest I get a little frustrated when I am trying to park and see this :( !!

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  3. If you did that here you'd risk getting that brick through a window - yesterday I moved a wheelie-bin off the pavement into someone's drive so my wife could get by in her wheelchair - a fellow came out and remonstrated with me for moving the bin into his driveway! We took a different route home.

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  4. lol!
    in mumbai someone would have started selling something out there using that chair!

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  5. People get attached to their surroundings i suppose..."This is MY parking space, it's a state within the Greek state and i am marking its borders clearly (!!!!)" :-D :-D :-D

    I have heard stories about such "areas" being additionally occupied by grandmother guards...and you don't want to get into an argument with them or they WILL prevail.

    You could still park there of course, only certain people (disabled for example) get permits to reserve their own space close by to their homes.

    Here in the UK the use of parking space is monitored very closely while most homes have some space allocated for a vehicle (wow...simply....wow)...Therefore it is almost certain that you will get a ticket if the car's wheels are inexcusably close to prohibited spaces or if you have parked in some permit holder's space. The city council's people do their rounds very regularly.

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  6. They do this here in Malta but they usually use an empty beer bottle crate instead of the chair!

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  7. i remember seeing this in athens when I lived there! so funny. don't think you can get away with it here in the States!

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  8. Must be a Mediteranean thing; I saw the same thing in the Italian neighborhoods of South Philadelphia USA. Aloha!

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  9. Yeah, they do that here in southern Italy, too! If it's a short time thing they will often leave a wife or mother-in-law to physically occupy the spot!

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  10. Funny but effective at the same time!

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  11. That is nothing compared to the way some Norwegian's watch over a parking space they have just cleared of snow! Next stop the law courts - if you are lucky.

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  12. I had a neighbour who used to do that. He was Greek Cypriot, but I wouldn't claim that it is a cultural thing!

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  13. I thought it was pretty interesting and then Seretta mentioned the wife or mother-in-law. Sheesh!

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