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Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.
“You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home.”
Is that… commonism?
Yep. Textbook.
Sounds amazing?! The bus just picks you up at home?
Well, even when you park in the parking lot, you have to walk to the area where the bus stops in order to pick you up. For the sake of convenience, let’s call that area a “bus stop.” So, you simply need to find the “bus stop” near your home.
I actually lol’d. (not actually, but I’m in a better mood than I was before reading it, so it’s as close to ‘lol’ as it gets)
That sounds reasonable. So it’s like a meet up point for me, my neighbors, and the bus…
I refuse to take any kind of public transport. That’s why I carry my own elevator with me in case I need to enter a skyscraper.
Imagine McDonalds Drive in, but instead of everyone has his own car, everyone has 1 big car they ride in.
I actually love this way of phrasing it so much I’ve saved your comment.
In America, you have thousands in tiny cars. Weak and undisciplined, unable hold more than four people.
In Germany, one big car on a long steel road carries thousands of people.
Usually it’s transit + walking + park-and-ride, not ‘giant garage under the market.’ When the space is for people, you don’t need to store cars there.
Ironically this specific market has a giant garage under the market
Which one is it?
Striezelmarkt in Dresden.
The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas” about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.
You ever think that this meme is just about a moron?
Usually it’s about someone from an hour outside any civilization.
it seems the british mind also cannot, cos imgur’s blocked here 🥀
On a christmas markets or similar action i usually go to drink som alcoholic beverages how does it work in us if you have to drive home?
Wait until you hear about parking minimums at bars.
Imagine looking at this photo and wondering aloud about the parking. Not very realistic
Sadly, from my experience in my German city we don’t have the upper hand here. All streets in the city center are completely overcrowded between 4 and 10 pm during our christmas market season. Same with parking garages near the city center.
To be fair, that’s also then a big motivation to take public transport, when you know you won’t find a parking spot. Kind of difficult to fix that without people rushing in to unfix it.
tl;dr yes there are parking garages nearby, at least in my city
The American reaction will either be confusion or envy, there is no in-between.
I’m the latter.
you missed fear
This American doesn’t want to be around that many people in the first place
Me neither. But I want to be able to choose to be.
Your Hermit accreditation has been revoked.
What if the other people weren’t american?
If they’re not American then I’ll give them a chance.
But I still want to live where no one can see me doing yard work in the nude
That is a valid dream to pursue. Best of luck!
That’s Dresden. The Altmarkt. Cool.
But if we are honest, there is a big parking garage right under there xd
I heard drunk teenagers urinate between the cars there. Wouldn’t park there.
This comment has the exact cadence of a german joke translated to english - and I’ve been agonizing between trying to decide if it’s that german kind of “referential humor derived from the extreme awkwardness that arises from a sarcastic comment delivered with a geometrically straight face” or if there really are drunk teenagers that urinate between the cars and you’re just letting us know about that.
I was gonna say, looks like Philly lol
Or Chicago’s Christkindlemarket
This meme is older than the poster of said meme
There’s always an “U-Bahn” station nearby. Public transportation and Americans…WTF…and your damn pick-up trucks and SUVs would not fit in the European parking garages!
