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What is a Pittsburgh Parking Chair? Well, if yinz are sincerely asking this question, one can determine yinz avoid driving with-in a 5-mile radius of dahntahn Pittsburgh in the middle of the winter. With that in mind, the best way to explain to an outsider what a Pittsburgh Parking Chair is... A chair that is placed by a vehicle owner to reserve a cleared public parking space in inclement weather (aka SNOW). Technically, this is illegal, but over time it's become such a common practice that the city of Pittsburgh does not place legal sanctions against those reserving their cleared parking space.

Just like any "illegal" common practice, many will generally accept things as they are, while a select few will take exception (like Mary Alice from dahn the street who always lets her dog mark your grass n'at). City Police have often gone on KDKA, WTAE, or WPXI and reiterated the fact that items like a chair, trash can, broken ladder, or 1957 ironing board cannot legally reserve a public parking spot, furthermore these items are actually considered abandoned furniture and/or litter.

So let's weigh some of the pros and cons of a Pittsburgh Parking Chair:

Pros:
Reserved Parking Spot
Making great use of your 3-legged plastic chair

Cons:
May disgruntle the new neighbors that just moved in from Mississippi
Yinz risk becoming "thems guys" the rest of the year n'at
Technically illegal and it makes public snow removal a little trickier

All-in-All. The Pittsburgh Parking Chair is widely accepted in the overly populated street parking area's of the Burgh (especially when people have gone to great lengths to remove a lot of snow)... and heck, when Wikipedia gives your city credit for something as silly and awesome as the Pittsburgh Parking Chair, how do yinz not accept and embrace it?

This n'at

Comments 2

Pittsburgh Parking Chair 17 Jan
You are sooo right!
John 21 Mar
I've never been to Pittsburgh but it sounds lsopicisusuy similar to Glasgow, Scotland where I'm from. However, I have been to Denver and after three trips to that little isolated piece of rug all I could think was, What the-?! There is no "there" in Denver! It's like a cold weather version of Los Angeles w/o the entertainment industry to keep things interesting. Virtually every person I spoke to there (and I spoke to quite a few) would follow up an introduction with "do you ski?" to which I'd reply yes, what the f- do you do the rest of the year? Horrible rental housing options, very little in the way of "culture" and a tiny insignificant art scene. In short, the town had no soul. At the last minute, we were saved from having to relocate there from NYC and when people ask I usually say, I'd have preferred to move to Pittsbugh!!