The following is a complaint that was published in the New York Times on Christmas Day. Do you feel the same way? (Added onto that could be a gripe about cars simply not leaving enough space for another car to park. Sure, parking is not as bad as is Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights, but do your neighbor a solid and check to make sure that you haven’t put the kibosh on a spot besides the ones you took.)
Cobble Hill is a neighborhood of old brownstones and narrow streets. It also has a hospital and nursing home whose employees often wait in their cars and save spaces for friends on the next shift – an annoying but not illegal practice.
What must be illegal, though, is cramming one’s car into too small a space. Having witnessed this one too many times, I could not stay silent when I saw the beneficiary of a saved space try to fit an enormous S.U.V. into a spot appropriate for a Smart Car. I forced a smile and suggested that perhaps his car did not fit. In fact I urged him to get out of his tank and take a look at the havoc he had wreaked on the bumpers of two cars!
He simply left his vehicle (partly parked on the sidewalk) wedged between the two dented cars and went to work. No doubt returning eight hours later to sit in his S.U.V. and save a space for his friend – you know, the one driving the 18-wheeler.
MELISSA GLASS, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
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