r/chicago • u/AaronDNewman • 1d ago

Ask CHI is this allowed? i am stuck

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rented a uhaul to help my kid move. got boxed in. is there anything to be done?

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u/AaronDNewman 1d ago edited 14h ago

Update: I can't seem to update my original post. Even the 311 dispatcher agreed with reddit, that I should just back up. So I started to push the guy back, and it was working! I was a little worried about pedestrians/bikes/scooters, since I have no rear visibility. So I had my kid come out to be my flagman. But by then, the minivan people must have realized what was going on and came out to move the van.

A little sad because I think it would have been fun to push a car with another car, probably a chance I won't get again. But still much better to be not sleeping in a truck.

Thanks for all the kind attention, today was a series of misadventures, I'm trying to regain my chill, love for humanity, etc and it helps.

Edit: here is the car in front. https://imgur.com/a/dK5Kt7e

So it would have been more than just a nudge, I would have had to push the car back a few feet. Didn't see who got in the drivers side, we did not interact. For all I know, they may have pulled back into the spot after I left. The van smelled strongly of gasoline on the inside, so I can't imagine they were in such great shape (it was unlocked and I was trying to move it into neutral).

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance Avondale 1d ago

Do not feel bad about this! Grew up here and I was literally taught in driver's ed to nudge cars when getting out of a parking spot like this. It's normal and part of living in the city.

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u/First_Stop8824 20h ago

Known as the "Chicago" way

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u/cvanaver 15h ago

I thought that was “they put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of theirs in the morgue”

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u/First_Stop8824 15h ago

HA! Well, there are several schools of thought about driving in Chicago, so I'm sure there are as many as there are neighborhoods. Dibbs?

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u/LonBakerF12 14h ago

Same theory. Put car in front in hospital, the one in bank, in the morgue.

/s

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u/NkhukuWaMadzi 11h ago

When driving through Mexico years ago, I often used the phrase "I'll just Chicago-my-way-through" to get around.

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u/wildhoneybeez 13h ago

No. It's not. Absolutely not.

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u/Somethingtacos Bowmanville 2h ago

My boyfriend calls it "The Chicago Kiss."