"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
07/07/2014 at 17:49 • Filed to: None | 3 | 19 |
"We should be wearing ski masks when we ask people to pay this much for parking" - me to my boss
Yes you are reading that sign correctly, for 4th of July weekend we were charging $60 USD for parking 1 car all day. That may sound a little absurd but people still pay it! Every holiday weekend the lot I work at manages to pull off this basically robbery due to some simple supply and demand. We open up at 12pm since all the other lots charging $25-$30 have filled up by then. Since there is literally nowhere else to park within 2-3 miles of the lot, people will pretty much pay anything to park. The shocked looks on the faces of people driving by is priceless. I feel really bad for the people who actually pay the money, especially the ones that leave after an hour or two. But hey, capitalism at its finest!
Anyways, I have been working this job for the past 5 years of college during the summer weekends and so I will be there all this summer. There is so much crazy stuff that goes on with the drunk people, angry people, and of course some interesting cars every once in a while. So I will definitely be posting some pictures if I end up seeing something cool. Below I just have some random pictures from work that I took over the holiday weekend.
We pack em in nice and tight. This is the really fun part of the job honestly. You have to judge the angles right and just know when to turn a car. This of course has really helped my parallel parking skills in my own car. Believe it or not, this picture shows the lot in a very organized and underfilled state.
Up front in the lot we generally try to keep some of the nicer cars or in the case of that Lexus, anyone that gives us a nice tip to take care of their car. Also that Porsche Panamera sounded wicked as hell when it fired up.
This picture is from the inside of an Audi. I just thought the extremely long message in the middle was so unnecessary. With 1-2 words per line that message takes up such a crazy amount of space. Not to mention the fact that it is a standard across all cars that you step on the brake to shift out of park.
This is a picture of skid marks from when an idiot in a riced up VTEC IS KICKING IN YO acura integra decided he didnt like the price of $60 so much that he needed to go pull the ebrake and chuck rocks everywhere in the middle of the lot.
I just think that two door wrangler in the back is so much cooler than the four doored one in the front.
Plasti-dipped BMW 3-series. It seemed almost ricer to me, but I thought the color was kinda nice.
I really like the new face for Mazda frontends and I like that red color even more. I wonder what a Miata would look like if they put that on there though.
This was a pretty sweet Chevy Caprice that has an interesting licence plate choice. I also really got a kick out of the ABS badge. That just seems like a very pointless badge to put on a car lol.
Some Fireworks to end the weekend!
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 17:54 | 1 |
Better hope that your boss doesn't piss anybody off, he could get nailed for price gouging .
JGrabowMSt
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 17:57 | 0 |
I move my car early, like before I check out of a room if I stay the rest of the day, and then I only pay like, $5. Then when I go and leave, the price usually goes up exponentially, and I'm laughing as I leave with the guy, because I know I got a deal (car gets a babysitter all day), and he knows he's making a fucking killing.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/07/2014 at 17:59 | 0 |
Haha I never thought of that way, but the whole boardwalk is about price gouging the tourists pretty much. $6 for a funnel cake that probably cost about $0.10 to make is in the same league. There is also free parking if you drive down the side streets, but most people are too lazy to walk.
RazoE
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:00 | 0 |
Audi is the reason automatic transmissions have to have a shift-lock.
#Neverforget
heliochrome85
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:05 | 0 |
Thats the only way you can get estoril Blue on a non-MSport model. That car is the base model with a sunroof. Dealer stripped out special.
lone_liberal
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:06 | 4 |
ABS was once only found on high end cars like Mercedes. When the cheaper cars started getting it they let everybody know about it. You can thank 60 Minutes for that novel in the Audi's cluster.
Nife - dat Wheelspin
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:08 | 0 |
Yeah, this is annoying my TT has it, My dads Q7 has it...
How stupid does Audi think it's drivers are? I wonder if I can disable it via Vagcom....
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:11 | 0 |
Got to love shoobies.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/07/2014 at 18:33 | 0 |
or BENNYs as we call em here in NJ. I would rather just call them cash cows though
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:45 | 0 |
South of AC they're shoobies, I'm guessing you're in Sea Side?
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/07/2014 at 18:52 | 0 |
point pleasant! thats interesting to know though, I thought that was a west coast thing
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 18:54 | 1 |
I think it was along the lines of Shoobies are from Philly and Benny's are from New York. Either way both can be annoying as fuck when you're trying to work.
Eric in the PNW
> Nife - dat Wheelspin
07/07/2014 at 20:48 | 1 |
Audi was brutally attacked by the media as the original "unintended acceleration" brand. The reality was that Americans are pretty shitty drivers and that the uniquely-poor ergonomics of American cars due to mechanical mediocrity was actually a pure-chance safety feature. The text on the screen is because they were burned the hardest by it.
If you ever wonder why it's such a PITA to do a heel-toe in a manual because the accelerator is way back/below/away from the brake, you can blame old automatic American cars and the media for that.
Eric in the PNW
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/07/2014 at 20:55 | 0 |
They dropped the "ABS" badge by '94, but at the time this car was made it was still relatively exotic to have ABS in one of these cars. Ironically, the ABS seemed to always fail in these cars from this era and after about 2000 I can't recall one where it worked (light came on when you turned it on and went out when started).
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Eric in the PNW
07/08/2014 at 00:37 | 0 |
Well the light doing that is just to prove to you that it works. Same as the check engine and battery lights coming on I believe
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/08/2014 at 09:34 | 0 |
Ahh, i miss my days on the Jersey Shore.
Grew up in Morristown, went to Michigan State and stayed in Michigan after graduation. I haven't been to the Shore in like 7 years
Eric in the PNW
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/08/2014 at 11:21 | 0 |
Only that initial flash. If it stays on after starting the car, something is wrong, just like with the CEL.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
07/08/2014 at 18:30 | 0 |
Ive never really seen the draw of it. Mostly overpriced and crowded places. But yeah, I guess I might miss it too if I was away long enough. I really just like how its much cooler at the beach than further inland.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/09/2014 at 09:29 | 0 |
Yeah it is.
And there's just something about it. It's a feel that doesn't exist anywhere else. To me the Boardwalk feels like a never ending cheesy carnival lol.
The only time I get to the ocean these days is down in South Carolina around Hilton Head, which is beautiful, it's just a different feel.