Cul-de-sac parking

"Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!" (patrickgruden)
06/26/2014 at 13:45 • Filed to: None

Time for a stupid pet peeve of mine that drives me up a wall. I see this a lot in my development when I go for a walk/run. Why does no one understand how to park correctly?

You park like you do on a regular street, not pull up like you're at a 7-11. I know it's stupid but this really bugs the shit out of me.

Ok, rant over.

DISCUSSION (30)

CalzoneGolem > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 13:49

Directions unclear got my dick caught in a slurpee.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > CalzoneGolem
06/26/2014 at 13:51

almost spit soda on my monitor. lol

spanfucker retire bitch > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 13:51

Good god, people do that?

That's fucking horrifying.

CAR_IS_MI > CalzoneGolem
06/26/2014 at 13:51

At least its not a vacuum again this time.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 13:51

people seriously park like that?

What the hell is wrong with them

CalzoneGolem > CAR_IS_MI
06/26/2014 at 13:55

Henry still won't look me in the eye.

Kinja'd!!!

cabarne4 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 13:56

One of our neighbors did this in our old neighborhood. They were the house at the end of the cul de sac. Everyone else did what you're supposed to do.

But because they did it in a large truck, it made it difficult for everyone else in the cul de sac to get into and out of their driveways. Also made the mailman and the trash guys angry, because they couldn't get to each house. They even got ticketed once when the trash guys called it in. They kept doing it afterwards... What's really odd was their driveway went from the cul de sac, down the side of their house to a garage in the basement, and actually had a parking pad in front of the house. They would stop in front of their own driveway and park there. If they literally pulled forward 20 feet they could park in the parking pad no problem.

Grindintosecond > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 13:57

I don't think it's a question of them knowing how, it's probably a question of them not caring and being so lazy about it. Besides, parking properly, and having to deal with the incorrect parked cars could require some forward/reverse actions just to get out depending on how close you your driveway they did it.

McMike > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 14:00

I live on a cul-de-sac, but on the straight bit just before it opens. I feel sorry for the folks at the bottom, because there's no street parking in front of their homes.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 14:11

Erm what?

I live on a cul-de-sac, and NO ONE ever parks like this. Mainly because if they did, those of us with longer than 12 foot trailers (read: EVERYONE) couldn't maneuver around to back into our driveways without hitting something. (Everyone also has dollies for cars, so if someone was stupid enough to do this, they would easily find their car moved someplace where they didn't leave it. And the neighbors would help move it too.)

Do you just live in a neighborhood with a bunch of morons?

thebigbossyboss > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/26/2014 at 14:14

You're neighbourhood sounds like Jalop heaven.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > thebigbossyboss
06/26/2014 at 14:18

There's a post from back a few days where it asks you to list out the coolest car on your street. I actually know what everyone drives, and outside of the one guy with a Hyundai Sonata and a couple Hondas and Toyotas, I have the only European cars on the street. And the only European bike.

However, I'm also the youngest homeowner there as well. By about 35 years.

thebigbossyboss > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
06/26/2014 at 14:19

How have you not seen this before? I always see this in cul de sacs. The other brilliant move is parking like you're the median, ie in the middle of the cul de sac. But cul de sacs suck regardless. Through streets ftw.

cabarne4 > cabarne4
06/26/2014 at 14:20

Kinja'd!!!

I made a thing... Red square is NOT a parking space. We lived in the house on the corner.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > thebigbossyboss
06/26/2014 at 14:30

yea i've been on a lot of cul de sacs and i've never seen this, where do you guys live?!

I haven't seen this in any of the 3 states I've lived in (and been on cul-de-sacs in) - NJ, SC, and MI

thebigbossyboss > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
06/26/2014 at 14:32

Canada. That image is actually from a cities website in canada. No idea where staple face lives though.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > thebigbossyboss
06/26/2014 at 14:33

that explains everything.

silly canadians

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > cabarne4
06/26/2014 at 14:48

wow looks like that dude had the most paved parking on the street, what an ass

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > thebigbossyboss
06/26/2014 at 14:54

I live in south jersey. It's funny, that's my first image found when I google searched "cul-de-sac parking" lol

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 15:03

Perks of having a circle thing in the middle of my cul de sac, no one can do this.

thebigbossyboss > cabarne4
06/26/2014 at 15:29

Not to defend his parking but that doesn't look like it make it hard for other people to get out.

thebigbossyboss > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
06/26/2014 at 15:30

Do people park around the circle? Because I have seen that a lot too.

The Compromiser > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 15:31

I had a hero come into mine and park on the inside curb. Properly, but on the inside curb (Green space in the middle). I have seen where people park in the middle of a paved centre like a mall. It works, but really? I have a hydrant one one side of the driveway so I don't get a lot of cars parked there. I do get the same idiot time and again who hangs his ass 4 feet into my driveway though. I love my car or he would be on the lawn.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > thebigbossyboss
06/26/2014 at 15:53

They park on the outer part, but not next to the circle in the middle.

cabarne4 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
06/26/2014 at 15:57

Yeah, and there's 3 garage spaces down the hill (2 car garage on the side facing the top of the photo, one carport underneath the porch on the other side). They owned 2 cars. One would park there, the other would park at the very top of their driveway. It was a young couple with 2 young kids, so no reason they couldn't walk downstairs to go to their cars.

cabarne4 > thebigbossyboss
06/26/2014 at 16:06

The houses on either side of them were elderly couples. When backing out of their driveways, they would have to make an odd turn around the parked truck in order to face out of the cul de sac. Our house was the one on the corner. Doesn't look like much in that picture, but our driveway / garage was pretty hard to maneuver around. There's a two car garage there, with a 3 car wide driveway (if you look closely, you can see the difference in pavement where we added the extension to the inside corner). My parents would park their trucks in the extension and middle space, with my brother's car behind my dad's truck in the middle space. My cars ('75 Beetle and '07 Civic) would be in the garage. The Beetle would be in front of the middle driveway space. So getting the Beetle out of the garage, I'd have to start turning inside the garage, back between the Civic (in the garage) and the truck, then turn the other way to get out of the driveway, and then do a really weird left-right turn to get off the curb from the driveway, and around the parked car. I'd have to do that every morning, sometimes in six inches to a foot of snow.

To make the cul de sac even more difficult, occasionally the guy in the other house in the cul de sac (top center) would bring his horse trailer home from work. He'd park it appropriately, against the curb, and would always give everyone fair notice (plus he was an old family friend, and we got along great)... But between a badly parked truck, a truck with a horse trailer, and our ridiculous driveway, it was always a fun game trying to park our cars.

...Not to mention the few times we had to back a trailer into our driveway.

EDIT: thebigbossyboss's comment below reminded me... sometimes the badly parked truck would be about 5-6 feet from the curb (at least), essentially parked in the middle of the cul de sac. It wouldn't have been too big of an issue if they pulled all the way forward, but I guess they were afraid of birds pooping on their truck or something.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > cabarne4
06/26/2014 at 16:37

that's insane.

Its like the people across the street from me. 2 car garage behind the house, enough room to park 3 cars in the driveway.

They park 1 car in the driveway and put 2 cars in the street, typically 1 in front of theirs and 1 in front of mine. It's a skinny street you can barely fit between there cars.

THANK GOD he got rid of his Super Duty. F350 Super Crew, with the 8 ft bed. Only thing that could have been worse is if it was a dually wheel.

DanZman > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 17:15

I hate this too. I dont see it very often, but when I do, it seems like it spreads like a plague. Like, it will infect an entire subdivision.

ranwhenparked > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 21:00

I actually do this when I visit my uncle, only because every single person on his cul de sac parks this way and there's typically no good spaces left to parallel park, especially if more than one house is having a party at the same time.

wiffleballtony > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
06/26/2014 at 23:44

Seen it a couple times. Pure laziness, usually the same people's garages are full of garbage as well.