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You spent hours clearing a car-shaped hole out of ice and snow, and you still have the sore back to prove it. So what's so wrong about protecting that spot, earned through pain and sweat, with a household item or two?
Plenty, Chicago officials said Thursday, wagging their fingers and shouting a stern "no fair" to the time-honored tradition of dibs. Citing a rare run of snowless weather for the city, the Department of Streets and Sanitation asked residents to remove the myriad folding chairs, orange cones, beer kegs and garden gnomes that have held sentry over precious patches of cleared asphalt in recent weeks.
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