A great and entertaining video as always ! A great topic to explore for a mini episode is the music origins that came out of Chicago. Like House music or Chess Records . Btw Stay safe in this harsh weather! :)
@@TupacShakurr you don't own the fucking land "i dug it out" doesn't make you entitled to it I've dug out plenty of spaces and I leave Not leave a chair for multiple hours and leave the public area unusable
@@oldheadtv3152 facts. Imagine him spending hella hours digging out a parking spot only for a mfer who didn’t dig for it park in that same spot. Now where you gon park???
This phenomenon happens in Boston, especially South Boston, too. Government officials are writing rules these days that these kinds of arrangements can only exist for 48 hours after the snow stops falling. Narrower streets, often one-way, in Boston make this a very controversial topic. Thanks for this video... love how you capture the essence of the issue, and go "on-site" to record your video about this issue.
You’re so awesome! I just stayed at the Palmer House Hotel in the loop. You should try and make a video about that! Incredibly historic! Also I love this channel. Keep up the good work! Btw, I live in St. Louis... and we also have dibs. But I think people get more crazy about it here to be honest. I had an 80 year old woman yell at me once cause I supposedly took her spot... woah... that was quite the experience 😂.
Never seen anyone Disrespect the "Dibs" rule til I moved to Wicker Park. Young hipster thought he'd say dahell with dibs & park in someone's shoveled space. When he came out, his car was frozen solid like a glazier, buried under a ton of ice. Bet he learned his lesson 😂
That's how you get a window busted or a flat tire. PERIOD. I spent 2 hours (yes, 2 whole HOURS) digging WET HEAVY SLUSHY snow. Its MINE until the mayor decrees the removal due to warm weather.
OH MY GOSH! I KNEW IT! I thought you had just posted a preemptive shot but it was from a video you made! Love it dude. The way I handle dibs is just by shoveling out my car and then leaving my car there. If I leave its open. If I don't have it when I come back that's fine. Because I am not an idiot that thinks they get a parking spot just because they shoveled it. Park and shovel it again if you need to. Dibs is as ridiculous as walking into a public restroom and cleaning off a toilet to use. Putting paper down on the seat or whatever. Then expecting to come back hours later and have that same toilet in the condition you left it in. Nice video buddy.
I live in Chicago and completely agree! Pretty rude to leave junk on a parking space if you’re gonna be gone all day. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this
Dibs for life. If I dig out a spot it’s mine. I don’t give a fuck what you think or feel. Now if you wanna test me and take my spot go ahead but don’t be surprise if your tires are flat or your windows are busted or worse case, car is frozen with cold water poured all over it. I do Agree once the snow is gone or to the point it’s low enough then dibs is gone. It’s goes to first come first serve.
I REMEMBER ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO SOMEONE TOOK A SPOT THE BLDG. OWNER SHOVELED THE GUY SAID TO BAD THE OWNER GOT OUT HIS HOSE AND WASHED THE GUYS CAR IN 20 DEGREE TEMPS.
Oh my goshhhhhhh. This is the MOST annoying thing. Ppl do that here in LA too. Omg, I've argued with people in my neighborhood weekly over their attempt to save a spot. Its It's annoying. Want a guaranteed spot? Shell out the money for an apartment with your own spot.
Wait......so if you shovel your car out you get your own private parking space without having to pay for private parking? I thought you have to shovel your car out so you can get to work or wherever you're going....everyone does...how does that entitle you to your own parking spot just bc you shoveled? Parking in Chicago is already difficult enough as it is and now we have to battle with chairs and junk on the street when it snows. Also...i hear that people will key or mess up peoples cars if they take a dibbed spot, but how do you know that car was the one that moved your dibs? Another car could've moved it before, left, and now another car came and sees a clean spot that isn't dibbed (bc the previous car moved it) but he or she has to suffer the consequence? i live in this shit city, hopefully not much longer, and i've never dibbed a spot before. I shovel because i need to get my car out, but that doesn't entitle me to my own parking spot.
That's how you get a window busted or a flat tire. PERIOD. I spent 2 hours (yes, 2 whole HOURS) digging WET HEAVY SLUSHY snow. Its MINE until the mayor decrees the removal due to warm weather.
Growing up in Chicago, we always saved our spots. It was always a normal thing. It was rude to think you can just park in a space someone else worked so hard to clear. When I did the same thing in the western burbs when I was an adult, omgosh, people were so upset. They didn't care that you worked so hard to clear a spot... well I guess they kinda did... they just wanted that space for themselves. People are just not as nice as they used to be.
I live in Chicago too but I personally have the opposite opinion, although I respect yours. I don't think it's right to have your own private parking spot just bc you shoveled. The "hard work" you put in to clear out your spot is so that you can get to work, or wherever you're going. Everyone has to do that if you want to get your car out, you're not entitled to that spot. Street parking is difficult enough as it in my neighborhood, and I don't feel it's right to dig out a spot right in front of my apartment to get a private parking spot right in front of my building for as long as the snow lasts. Plus, isn't that considered littering? Last time i checked if you chuck unwanted items onto the streets it's considered littering, and litter should be removed. I feel it's actually inconsiderate to dib because if you're leaving, someone else needs the spot. You want to claim that spot even though you're leaving??? What if you're going to be gone for the rest of the night, or a few hrs, you're going to hog that spot when other people need to park? You're not even going to be there! But again, this is just my opinion and obviously a lot of people in the city agree with yours. I've just never dibbed before and I have to shovel my car out just like everyone else, but i don't feel that hard work entitles me to a private spot, it's just what needs to be done to get my car out because I chose to live in Chicago where winter sucks every year. Sorry I'm drunk and i went on a rant. I didn't realize i typed so much.
@@-Stinky_Pinky Well Pinky. No offense but no one cares... If you park in my spot, there'll be hell to pay. Dibs is a tradition older than dying of the river Older than Purple haired yuppies or Gen Z's. How many spots have You shoveled? I'm guess not many? If you did, you'd understand.
@@geeman215 No offense but no one cares if you shoveled because EVERYONE has to shovel whenever it snows. I drive to work every morning. How do you think I get my car out if it snows overnight, you think I own a hover craft? EVERYONE has to shovel snow if you own a car. I just shovel to get my car out and I don't expect to get my spot back. Trust me, I would much rather shovel and claim front row parking for the whole entire day but I don't feel right doing it because it is damn hard finding street parking as it is in my neighborhood, even when it's not snowing. It's nearly impossible to find parking when there are chairs and junk left out on the street. There are too many people and too little parking spots here for people to be claiming when they're not even home. I probably shovel twice as much as you do just BECAUSE I don't dib my spot. I have to shovel when I leave and shovel again when I get home. Also, for the people that get back at the person who stole their spot, how the hell do you know who took it? Just because a car is parked in your spot doesn't mean that's the same person who stole it. Someone else could have stolen your spot earlier and left, and then the poor soul who sees an open spot with no dibs comes in and gets their car keyed?
@@-Stinky_Pinky Funny... You think you reinvented the wheel? You don't make the rules, they've been here before both of us were born. Good luck this winter driving in circles tryna find a spot. But Park in someone's spot,byou maybe Busing it to work. You write Another Solliliquy, if you like, the notion of "Dibs" will Outlast both of us...
@@geeman215 You're right I don't make up the rules, except these aren't the rules. It's tradition that people have created themselves. Look up what the legality of the laws are about street parking. They even mentioned it in the Chicago news asking people to quit doing that. Don't you think we would all love to just have to shovel and get to reserve it as a free private parking spot? You're right about one thing, it's never gonna stop. But tell me, how the hell do you even know who stole your spot? A pizza delivery guy could've tossed away your dib chair and left, and then someone else will come in thinking it's an empty spot because there's no dibs left there anymore. You're just gonna take out your frustration on an innocent random person because your "spot" is gone? btw I've taken a nice step ladder that someone used for dibs before, because if you leave it out on the street it's littering and free to take. And guess what, I didn't even park in that spot because I was leaving, I just wanted the stepladder. 😂
been searching for some spots that have been dibbed. Not that I would be taking it, I don't need a car in the city, but I just want to see this with my own eyes.
Snowfall here in Pittsburgh hasn't been too bad this year, just a lot of cold. However on a good snow day, especially up in the Laurel Highlands west of the city where there can be ten inches to a foot of snow at a time, the Pittsburgh Parking chair is mandatory! You spend all that time digging out the spot, you don't want some schmuck taking it from you while you're at work or out at the store grabbing toilet paper, bread and milk! Speaking of which Here in Pittsburgh those are the three items everyone goes out to buy when it snows a lot. How about Chicago?
I like to rep a shirt that has “dibs” and two traffic cones on it.
Keep up the great videos!
A great and entertaining video as always ! A great topic to explore for a mini episode is the music origins that came out of Chicago. Like House music or Chess Records . Btw Stay safe in this harsh weather! :)
This is the funniest shit!
When I first got to Chicago, I saw this and wasn't sure what was going on!
Awwww I just love Chicago love from Canada 😌
Thank you love from Chicago🇨🇦
Same here.
We did this when I lived in Chicago and we parked in somebodies space because ours was taken and someone threw a rock at our car and left a big dent.
Good. Don’t start no shit won’t be no shit
@@TupacShakurr you don't own the fucking land "i dug it out" doesn't make you entitled to it
I've dug out plenty of spaces and I leave Not leave a chair for multiple hours and leave the public area unusable
@@yashaikha7324 Doesn't matter. You lucky if you don't get your ass popped.
@@oldheadtv3152 facts. Imagine him spending hella hours digging out a parking spot only for a mfer who didn’t dig for it park in that same spot. Now where you gon park???
@@ItssDomoDoee Then have the nerve to move whatever item you placed there. That takes huge balls.
This phenomenon happens in Boston, especially South Boston, too. Government officials are writing rules these days that these kinds of arrangements can only exist for 48 hours after the snow stops falling. Narrower streets, often one-way, in Boston make this a very controversial topic. Thanks for this video... love how you capture the essence of the issue, and go "on-site" to record your video about this issue.
Always save you parking spot with a chair always a tradition greetings from Chicago too.
Im from Chicago. No way would I park my in a spot someone already shoveled and called dibs on. Your car will have a flat when you come back.
You’re so awesome! I just stayed at the Palmer House Hotel in the loop. You should try and make a video about that! Incredibly historic! Also I love this channel. Keep up the good work! Btw, I live in St. Louis... and we also have dibs. But I think people get more crazy about it here to be honest. I had an 80 year old woman yell at me once cause I supposedly took her spot... woah... that was quite the experience 😂.
I lived in the St Loo Demunn neighborhood and I can back up the dibs thing. Amd I grew up in Chicago so it was funny to me.
Dibs is a fact here, sisters and brothers. It's part of what forms our collective charm. Spring WILL come; just not as quickly as we wish.
shiddddd i just made me a parking spot the other day , we finna get another 6inches this week
@@bruceaskew2107 🤣
@@bruceaskew2107 I hope next month is warm
Never seen anyone Disrespect the "Dibs" rule til I moved to Wicker Park. Young hipster thought he'd say dahell with dibs & park in someone's shoveled space. When he came out, his car was frozen solid like a glazier, buried under a ton of ice.
Bet he learned his lesson 😂
I was looking for a story like this.
Yep. Looks a lot like Canada.
-15 c feels like -24 c outside mate !!
Two lawn chairs and a broom.
Yes, I remember dibs growing up their.
buckets and a piece of wood don’t qualify as dibs. i’ve seen folks use old household appliances. now that’s a dib worthy of the name. ;)
If I had a pickup truck, Id go shopping every snowstorm.
yello62 dude that was outside my house
Those should be and are ignored, screw the people that think they own a spot. You want a spot, pay for it otherwise your cones go in the dumpster
That's how you get a window busted or a flat tire. PERIOD. I spent 2 hours (yes, 2 whole HOURS) digging WET HEAVY SLUSHY snow. Its MINE until the mayor decrees the removal due to warm weather.
OH MY GOSH! I KNEW IT! I thought you had just posted a preemptive shot but it was from a video you made! Love it dude. The way I handle dibs is just by shoveling out my car and then leaving my car there. If I leave its open. If I don't have it when I come back that's fine. Because I am not an idiot that thinks they get a parking spot just because they shoveled it. Park and shovel it again if you need to. Dibs is as ridiculous as walking into a public restroom and cleaning off a toilet to use. Putting paper down on the seat or whatever. Then expecting to come back hours later and have that same toilet in the condition you left it in. Nice video buddy.
True. I agree
I'd like to invite you to park in front of my house after a heavy fall, I'll supply the shovel.
I live in Chicago and completely agree! Pretty rude to leave junk on a parking space if you’re gonna be gone all day. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this
Clearly you’re not from Chicago.
Dumb point. Do you live In the bathroom?
Dibs is about respect, ppl die from shoveling snow, nobody digging all that out before & after work jus so u can jus slide in & u don't live there
Yeah it's dibs till somebody steals your metal chairs.. always put out something that has no actual value.. ahh but that's the risk you have to take!
Madilyn lol true
Dibs Season is almost upon us
Dibs for life. If I dig out a spot it’s mine. I don’t give a fuck what you think or feel. Now if you wanna test me and take my spot go ahead but don’t be surprise if your tires are flat or your windows are busted or worse case, car is frozen with cold water poured all over it.
I do Agree once the snow is gone or to the point it’s low enough then dibs is gone. It’s goes to first come first serve.
What one needs to use, mes amis, is an antitank girder...as we do in Paris...France.
I REMEMBER ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO SOMEONE TOOK A SPOT THE BLDG. OWNER SHOVELED THE GUY SAID TO BAD THE OWNER GOT OUT HIS HOSE AND WASHED THE GUYS CAR IN 20 DEGREE TEMPS.
Oh my goshhhhhhh.
This is the MOST annoying thing. Ppl do that here in LA too. Omg, I've argued with people in my neighborhood weekly over their attempt to save a spot. Its It's annoying. Want a guaranteed spot? Shell out the money for an apartment with your own spot.
I get kicked out of dibs every year
Chicago Aussie i used a broken vacuum last year.
Wait......so if you shovel your car out you get your own private parking space without having to pay for private parking? I thought you have to shovel your car out so you can get to work or wherever you're going....everyone does...how does that entitle you to your own parking spot just bc you shoveled? Parking in Chicago is already difficult enough as it is and now we have to battle with chairs and junk on the street when it snows. Also...i hear that people will key or mess up peoples cars if they take a dibbed spot, but how do you know that car was the one that moved your dibs? Another car could've moved it before, left, and now another car came and sees a clean spot that isn't dibbed (bc the previous car moved it) but he or she has to suffer the consequence? i live in this shit city, hopefully not much longer, and i've never dibbed a spot before. I shovel because i need to get my car out, but that doesn't entitle me to my own parking spot.
That's how you get a window busted or a flat tire. PERIOD. I spent 2 hours (yes, 2 whole HOURS) digging WET HEAVY SLUSHY snow. Its MINE until the mayor decrees the removal due to warm weather.
Just made it to Chicago recently so thanks for these videos training me for the worst and most interesting things
I’m from New York where it snows a lot and I never come across shit like this. This is just nonsense.
Nice old footage in lay ..you really research this stuff...I just make it up...nice work
I like to drive down streets and steal people's dibs so when a person parka in that spot they get their tires slashed. It's cool to mess with people.
Nice I used to live in Oak Park. I made a snowman and snowfort once :D I had mixed feelings about the snow though
The best spot holder I saw once was a couch.
Good morning from nearby Elgin! Looks like more digging and dibbing this morning.
Growing up in Chicago, we always saved our spots. It was always a normal thing. It was rude to think you can just park in a space someone else worked so hard to clear. When I did the same thing in the western burbs when I was an adult, omgosh, people were so upset. They didn't care that you worked so hard to clear a spot... well I guess they kinda did... they just wanted that space for themselves. People are just not as nice as they used to be.
I live in Chicago too but I personally have the opposite opinion, although I respect yours. I don't think it's right to have your own private parking spot just bc you shoveled. The "hard work" you put in to clear out your spot is so that you can get to work, or wherever you're going. Everyone has to do that if you want to get your car out, you're not entitled to that spot. Street parking is difficult enough as it in my neighborhood, and I don't feel it's right to dig out a spot right in front of my apartment to get a private parking spot right in front of my building for as long as the snow lasts. Plus, isn't that considered littering? Last time i checked if you chuck unwanted items onto the streets it's considered littering, and litter should be removed. I feel it's actually inconsiderate to dib because if you're leaving, someone else needs the spot. You want to claim that spot even though you're leaving??? What if you're going to be gone for the rest of the night, or a few hrs, you're going to hog that spot when other people need to park? You're not even going to be there! But again, this is just my opinion and obviously a lot of people in the city agree with yours. I've just never dibbed before and I have to shovel my car out just like everyone else, but i don't feel that hard work entitles me to a private spot, it's just what needs to be done to get my car out because I chose to live in Chicago where winter sucks every year.
Sorry I'm drunk and i went on a rant. I didn't realize i typed so much.
@@-Stinky_Pinky Well Pinky.
No offense but no one cares...
If you park in my spot, there'll be hell to pay. Dibs is a tradition older than dying of the river
Older than Purple haired yuppies or Gen Z's. How many spots have You shoveled? I'm guess not many? If you did, you'd understand.
@@geeman215 No offense but no one cares if you shoveled because EVERYONE has to shovel whenever it snows. I drive to work every morning. How do you think I get my car out if it snows overnight, you think I own a hover craft? EVERYONE has to shovel snow if you own a car. I just shovel to get my car out and I don't expect to get my spot back. Trust me, I would much rather shovel and claim front row parking for the whole entire day but I don't feel right doing it because it is damn hard finding street parking as it is in my neighborhood, even when it's not snowing. It's nearly impossible to find parking when there are chairs and junk left out on the street. There are too many people and too little parking spots here for people to be claiming when they're not even home. I probably shovel twice as much as you do just BECAUSE I don't dib my spot. I have to shovel when I leave and shovel again when I get home. Also, for the people that get back at the person who stole their spot, how the hell do you know who took it? Just because a car is parked in your spot doesn't mean that's the same person who stole it. Someone else could have stolen your spot earlier and left, and then the poor soul who sees an open spot with no dibs comes in and gets their car keyed?
@@-Stinky_Pinky Funny... You think you reinvented the wheel? You don't make the rules, they've been here before both of us were born. Good luck this winter driving in circles tryna find a spot. But Park in someone's spot,byou maybe Busing it to work. You write Another Solliliquy, if you like, the notion of "Dibs" will Outlast both of us...
@@geeman215 You're right I don't make up the rules, except these aren't the rules. It's tradition that people have created themselves. Look up what the legality of the laws are about street parking. They even mentioned it in the Chicago news asking people to quit doing that. Don't you think we would all love to just have to shovel and get to reserve it as a free private parking spot? You're right about one thing, it's never gonna stop. But tell me, how the hell do you even know who stole your spot? A pizza delivery guy could've tossed away your dib chair and left, and then someone else will come in thinking it's an empty spot because there's no dibs left there anymore. You're just gonna take out your frustration on an innocent random person because your "spot" is gone?
btw I've taken a nice step ladder that someone used for dibs before, because if you leave it out on the street it's littering and free to take. And guess what, I didn't even park in that spot because I was leaving, I just wanted the stepladder. 😂
"Dibs" has been around since at least 1951. At least there is photographic evidence from that time, but of course it may be even older.
I respect the dib system. 🍺
Lol my mom us to do this. And if she wanted a parking spot one time she was petty and moved somebody’s chair.
Great video bro..!!
I use a old sofa from the trash to claim my Dibs
People do that in Baltimore, Maryland as well!!! It's also illegal there, but people do anyway!!! I've never heard a term for it in Baltimore, though.
This is so true! Hahaha Great video!
First video I've seen from you. Gotta say, great vid! Cool knowing there's even Aussies here!
been searching for some spots that have been dibbed. Not that I would be taking it, I don't need a car in the city, but I just want to see this with my own eyes.
Do houses there not have driveways?
They do this in my hometown too. (Munster, IN.)
Chicago Aussie We sort of just do it and no one talks about it haha. I’ve never heard it called anything besides “the spot reserve system”
Snowfall here in Pittsburgh hasn't been too bad this year, just a lot of cold. However on a good snow day, especially up in the Laurel Highlands west of the city where there can be ten inches to a foot of snow at a time, the Pittsburgh Parking chair is mandatory! You spend all that time digging out the spot, you don't want some schmuck taking it from you while you're at work or out at the store grabbing toilet paper, bread and milk! Speaking of which Here in Pittsburgh those are the three items everyone goes out to buy when it snows a lot. How about Chicago?