We need to change the attitudes that we have about parking spots. Ft. Adam Pally
Summary
Adam Pally wants to change how people react when you ask if they're leaving a parking spot. Instead of a friendly "no, sorry," New Yorkers always respond like "No, no, NO, NO, NO," as if you've personally offended them by asking a reasonable question. Kareem pushes back hard, claiming people are actually nice to him at food trucks and parking spots. Pally thinks that's ridiculous. The conversation spirals into a debate about New York attitude versus Minnesota niceness, with Pally getting increasingly flustered about whether his take even matters when "people are being shot in the face." He stands by it anyway. Kareem diagnoses the real problem: his boy's got a chip on his shoulder.
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So, what's your take? Um, I—I don't—I, uh, I think we need to like change the attitudes that we have about parking spots.
100% disagree. You know, when you have to get a spot and you pull up and you see someone in a car and you're like, "Are you leaving?" The attitude is never like, "No, sorry." It's always like, "No, no, NO, NO, NO—"
"NO." "I MEAN, THAT MIGHT BE YOUR EXPERIENCE." It's everybody's experience. It's universal.
I go like this. That's because you're leaving. But most people, if you're trying to get a spot—
Yeah. They're like, "Don't—" and you don't know cuz like, how would you know when they got there or what's going on? You're like, "Are you leaving?" The response is usually like, "No, no, you stupid idiot." It's like, how—how am I supposed to know? Same attitude with like a food truck before it's open. You ever go up to like a food truck, like when a food truck's parked and they haven't opened yet and you don't know what time it is? So you go up and you're like, "Um, I'll have—"
"THEY'RE ALWAYS LIKE, 'WE'RE NOT OPEN.'"
"AND YOU'RE LIKE—" They don't. What New York do you live in?
I live in the same way that everyone does. They're always like, "Hey, wait till 11:00. It's 11. If not—" you're like, "Why is everyone so nice to me?"
"Cuz they want to get on Subway Tapes." That's not why. I don't—they don't even know me. I think you got to approach nicer. Maybe you walk up and you go, "You open?"
Even if I did that, I'd be nicer than 99% of New Yorkers.
Look at how you're delivering this. What do you mean?
Very kindly, I said, "So what's your take?" And then you got freaking mad. I didn't get mad. And I got flustered cuz I'm like thinking about like, shoot, is this even worth it? People being shot in the face. I'm sitting here. It's like a rearranging deck chairs on a Titanic. Even doing anything funny right now. So I'm like in my head I'm like, you know what? I DON'T KNOW. PEOPLE ARE DICKS IN PARKING SPOTS. SO WHY DON'T WE change the way? I don't watch anything. I'm going to stand by my take. I just—I disagree.
Here's my advice to you. See this? My boy's got a chip on his shoulder.
Yeah, of course. I'm from New York. Are all the food trucks in Minnesota open all the time?
No. People are just nice. Shout out Minnesota.
Nice.
Yeah. Yeah. Nice. That's what I'm saying. I'm having a hard time like—
It's okay. We're here for each other, brother. Thank you.
Yeah. I love you. I love you too, for real. And I—