Hey everyone thanks for the response so far. I agree now, better to try a more friendly method then resort to push & threaten. So frustrating though, easy to get caught up. Would love to see some of those printed cards/flyers Mark!
Cheers Dan On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > >> So maybe I'd try a bit of gentle humor. >> >> I'd park my EV behind an ICEd spot. I'd have someone take a picture of me >> holding the charging cable that I'd pulled out past the ICEV toward my EV >> - >> but darn it, it just won't quite reach. >> >> I'd make a windshield for the offending vehicles flyer with that pic, and >> a >> little text, something like "Sorry for the inconvenience, but could you >> please try to leave at least one of the EV chargers available?" I'd sign >> it >> something silly like "A member of the rare and endangered Nova Scotia >> species, EV Driver." >> >> That's just off the top of my head, and I'm sure you can come up with >> something much more creative and entertaining. >> >> But I think the key is to (at least at first) avoid being confrontational. >> Assume they're polite people, which is probably easier to believe in >> Canada >> than in the US, and just need to be gently reminded of their manners. >> >> I love it! It's worth a try. :-) > > I remember a study on how hard it is to make signs that people will > actually respond to. You have to somehow make it memorable, connect with > the reader, and make him want to join "your" side. Humor is a good way to > do this. > > For example, a sign that says simply "No littering" is completely useless. > In contrast, one of the most effective was an old Pogo cartoon for Earth > Day. It shows Pogo Possum attempting to clean up the litter in his beloved > swamp. The caption reads, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." > > -- > If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to > each other. > (Mother Teresa) > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group > /NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20171208/b24e35b8/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
