What Does the Chair Mean?
The meaning is remarkably simple.
“I shoveled this spot. Please don’t take it.”
There isn’t necessarily a formal agreement between every resident on every street.
Instead, it’s an informal neighborhood custom.
Someone clears a parking space after a storm. They place a chair or another household object there. The object communicates that the space has been claimed according to local tradition.
It isn’t the chair itself that matters.
It could be:
- A folding lawn chair
- An old dining chair
- A plastic patio chair
- A battered recliner
- A bucket
- A cooler
- A traffic cone
- A child’s chair
- A homemade sign
The object is simply a visual symbol.
The real claim is based on the work that happened underneath it.
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