"SteveLehto" (stevelehto)
02/22/2015 at 09:25 • Filed to: None | 11 | 100 |
Remember when you were a little kid and they told you to "Color between the lines"? Whenever I see a person who never got that concept - evidenced by how they park their car - I snap a picture. I decided to put a few of my favorites here.
For example: Let's assume the genius above is entitled to park in a handicap spot. Why would you not use the actual spot? The spot (at a Home Depot) is already twice as wide as a normal car. More of this car is on the white stripes next to the spot than in the spot itself.
By the way, none of these vehicles I am pointing to here are in empty lots or our at the nether regions of the lot. These are just people who really do not understand how parking lots are intended to work.
Sometimes, it appears to be contagious. Look at the shoddy parking job of the person in the foreground: Were they inspired to park well short of the parking block because they were inspired by the maroon car in the next aisle? This kind of thing happens in Michigan in the winter when lots aren't plowed well and then the snow melts after people have parked. But this shot was taken in August. There is no excuse.
Now, this genius deserves special recognition. My understanding is that these are not reserved spots and this person is just choosing to do this so they can have an extra wide berth on both sides of their car. (I often run through this parking lot and have studied this person's parking habits for some time now. The car is often parked haphazardly, and in different places.)
I saw this car parked in New York City and made note of the nerf on his bumper. He had one in the front as well and I posted this pic at the time. The guy did not back his car up against the one behind him. When I walked by the first time there was no car in the back. That person saw the spot and just wedged up nice and close. Maybe they did it because they saw the bumper cover?
Or maybe they're just a horrible parker.
And I don't normally like to recycle stories here but this one deserves another mention. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . But it is not just one person. Several people share the silver truck on the left and most of them do not understand how parking lot lines are intended to work. Especially when they park next to my truck on the right.
I took this pic a few days after posting the article. And yes, I have tried talking with them.
The problem is, they do not understand what "it" was that I was talking to them about. So, I now park a hundred feet to the right of the spot in this picture, while these people live to the left. I did this shortly after I replaced the Explorer in this pic.
Since then, I have watched in awe as the silver Explorer people continue to color outside the lines. Seriously, the entire lot is 99% empty. And Look at the right rear tire.
I wonder if they have ever seen me photographing their truck?
Maybe we should set aside a nice spot here for a big photo dump of bad parking jobs. It would take up quite a bit of bandwidth, however.
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JGrabowMSt
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:34 | 4 |
First you ask the automakers to build better cars, then you ask dealers to treat customers better, now you ask the individual to learn how to park? I think youre crossing a line here, and are clearly asking too much.
Gosh...
But really, I hate to say it, but a dedicated thread for this would be 90% New Jersey and Florida...
$kaycog
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:34 | 5 |
What lines?
Rainbow
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:34 | 15 |
I will go out of my way to park next to these people. (I'm in the Escort and Kia) In both of these cases, the driver was forced to climb in through the passenger side.
Vimto
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:35 | 3 |
I was bad about this when I first got my Grand Marquis, mainly because it was 5 feet longer than anything I'd owned previously, but now parking just about anything is child's play. I'm not sure why people don't put an ounce of effort into making sure the vehicle is fairly centered and pulled into the spot properly.
Flavien Vidal
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:37 | 5 |
People who think they deserve two parking spots because they have a nice car or like in this case, because they THINK they have a nice car and don't want to get a dent. Can't stand those... Hate them with passion lol
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:43 | 20 |
and this is why I always park as far back and away from everyone as I can.
A: walking is good for you
B: more length to ride the shopping cart
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:46 | 5 |
I still can't really color in the lines. It was always a difficult task that was far too time consuming to do. I recall in preschool the teacher told my parents that I had some sort of issue because I couldn't color in the lines. My mom laughed because she knew I was just being lazy. Parking in the lines though, I treat that as an Olympic sport. Much easier to do if you back into the spot!
SteveLehto
> JGrabowMSt
02/22/2015 at 09:51 | 0 |
I see it everywhere. It is an epidemic!
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:52 | 6 |
keep a jack in the car so you can flip mother uckers on their roof.
STEVE LEHTO SMASH
JGrabowMSt
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:54 | 0 |
I wonder how to cure it...maybe put sensors in a car that make some alarm go off if its not parked properly?
Dusty Ventures
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:54 | 21 |
SteveLehto
> JGrabowMSt
02/22/2015 at 09:55 | 1 |
There is no cure. Since these are almost always on private property, there is no easy way to enforce it (except for street justice. Which I do NOT recommend).
Nibby
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:56 | 1 |
It's okay to color outside the lines, but almost never okay to park outside the lines.
Funktheduck
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:57 | 3 |
Somewhat related. This guy was driving on the wrong side of the lines. He's facing roughly southbound in the northbound left turn lane. He had to sit and wait while people stated at him. I'm pretty sure he saw me take a picture.
Dusty Ventures
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 09:57 | 5 |
Also, I drive a very large truck for a very well known parcel delivery company. If I can get that thing in the lines (and I do) then no one has any excuse not to.
NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
> beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
02/22/2015 at 09:58 | 1 |
STEVE LEHTO SMASH
The opening line of many a subpoena from Mr. Lehto, I'm sure. :-)
Klaus Schmoll
> $kaycog
02/22/2015 at 10:04 | 4 |
Yep, that's TWO handicapped spots! And I know the owners, they don't have any handicap whatsoever, just affluenza.
Svend
> Dusty Ventures
02/22/2015 at 10:07 | 5 |
That guy Mark needs a punch in the nuts. He admits he deliberately parked that way so people don't park beside him but when they do he criticises that they aren't parking correctly when they plainly are.
You park like this in the multistory parking spots where I am you will get a warning from the parking attendant and may even be asked to pay to two spots when leaving.
NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 10:11 | 4 |
The logo you see directly above is for the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. This is mostly a medical building—this driver was in Starbucks.
Agrajag
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 10:43 | 0 |
I remember in kindergarten and into first grade, being amazed at how many kids could not eat without getting half of their meal on their face. I figure these people were once those children.
McMike
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 11:19 | 1 |
In this case, I would have no problem displaying their license plate for all to see.
foobar5000
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 11:34 | 1 |
I see this a lot with long bed pickup trucks and giant suvs with a lot of ground clearance. They stick way out into the aisle and it kills my visibility when I park next to them and try to back out.
SteveLehto
> McMike
02/22/2015 at 11:41 | 1 |
I considered it but it was the only one where the plate was visible. And, I was going to call them some names which might have been actionable (but I decided not to in the final edit).
SteveLehto
> foobar5000
02/22/2015 at 11:42 | 1 |
People really don't know how long their vehicles are. Which is amazing. My father put his car in a garage for decades where he had about one inch of clearance in the front and back to allow the door to close. I'm willing to bet he never bumped the wall of that garage a single time.
Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey
> Dusty Ventures
02/22/2015 at 11:57 | 0 |
Please tell me you have a GPS that reads the directions in pacenotes.
Funktheduck
> Rainbow
02/22/2015 at 11:58 | 2 |
I did that when I had my corolla. It had missing paint and dents from parking in college lots so I didn't worry.
George McNally
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 12:08 | 4 |
I used to own a 2000 Plymouth Voyager with dents on every body panel but the roof.......I would love squeezing my van into what's left of a space after someone purposely took up two spaces. Bonus points when I could block in the drivers side.
To be fair, if you parked and took up two spaces at the far edges of a parking lot....that's totally cool- if you park like an asshole in the regular spots....you might have have wondered why a shit green minivan was parked so close to you.
Dusty Ventures
> Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey
02/22/2015 at 12:13 | 0 |
Still looking for one of those...
foobar5000
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 12:14 | 3 |
I often have to remind myself that the aggravating things other people do when driving are likely because they're incompetent/oblivious/not paying attention, not because they're arrogant assholes. I'd have to be a jerk to do a lot of these things so I assume others are too, but they're probably just not aware of their surroundings.
scoob
> NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
02/22/2015 at 12:14 | 2 |
That driver deserves to be in a wheelchair.
McMike
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 12:24 | 1 |
Then allow me.
Dumb shit selfish, half-witted Ohio inbreeds.
gmctavish needs more space
> SteveLehto
02/22/2015 at 12:48 | 1 |
All I have to contribute is what my coworkers and I do for fun
--
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 13:10 | 0 |
That car in the handicap spot in Home Depot - when I was on crutches post-op I'd park like that. Leave the passenger side in the "no-man's land" between spots (that wide area with diagonal lines) by a bit so I'd know I'd have room to swing my immobile leg into the car without having to exceed my range-of-motion restrictions and contort in a way my surgeon had told me not to.
Sure, I could have backed in, but I would just give myself a little room when I needed it if I wasn't going to interfere with the other handicapped parker in the next spot over.
Of course, I was in a normal-width spot, and I was never quite as extreme as in your picture. But that may have been why the parker parked like that.
SteveLehto
> --
02/23/2015 at 13:11 | 0 |
I saw the guy get out of the car. He just pulled in like that. He had no trouble getting out of his car. But I see how it MIGHT have made sense with someone who did it on purpose.
HiMyNameIsJayAgain
> Rainbow
02/23/2015 at 13:59 | 0 |
Wow that Escort looks tinier than I remember them being.
David E. Davis
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:02 | 4 |
Door dings go here.
Quasistellar
> Rainbow
02/23/2015 at 14:13 | 1 |
for great justice! I used to do this with my Contour, but now I won't risk it in the ST. I would only do it, though, if I was sure that the offender wasn't parking like that because some other cars weRe parked badly forcing them to do the same. I will actively avoid spots where I'm forced to park wrong due to mass idiocy in lots because I'm crazy paranoid that I'll look like "that guy"
Big Block I-4
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:16 | 1 |
I park outside the lines all the time, but I am always 100 feet away from the closest parked car. Two reasons. 1. I hope that no one parks near me 2. A little extra exercise never hurts. My cars are not that great or nice but I have had too many people slam their doors into my cars and it bugs the shit out of me. Just getting angry thinking about it.
SteveLehto
> Big Block I-4
02/23/2015 at 14:17 | 0 |
I'm with you. I only photograph the obvious ones, too close to the building or obviously parked by someone who doesn't care or doesn't know how.
PJ
> George McNally
02/23/2015 at 14:19 | 0 |
Edge of the lot or not, it's not cool. And I'm a guy that parks at the back / away from folks / on end spots where possible.
F2-Stang
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:21 | 1 |
At college I park about as far as anyone can park away from the dorms and thats already with crappy freshman parking. All the way at the end of the lot out from under any trees with a sidewalk on one side. I generally also have friends parking next to me so I would know who to go after....
Scott the Stagehand
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:30 | 0 |
SteveLehto
> Scott the Stagehand
02/23/2015 at 14:30 | 3 |
In what state is Douchiness a recognized handicap?
Scott the Stagehand
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:32 | 5 |
MJ
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:33 | 2 |
I dislike when people park like crap too. I did it once and it was a complete accident. The paint was nearly the same color as the parking lot...faded gray asphalt and with my sunglasses on I biffed it and parked over the line. I was still in the car checking the balance on a Starbucks gift card so I could buy my wife a coffee on my way home from the gym when a guy two spots down parked, walked over to me, leaned his head inside my car and called me an asshole for parking over the line. I was unaware I had done the unthinkable until I looked and yes I fucked up. I told him it was an honest mistake and would have been happy to move but wouldn't now that he was so quick to call me an asshole.
I noticed his window was cracked and when he walked inside the building I pissed in a water bottle and wedged it in the opening of his window. It emptied all over the driver's seat but enough was left over so he'd know it was PEE PEEEEEEEE. I suppose it was better than my alternative idea to fight him on his way back. I left sans coffee. Sorry honey.
Scott the Stagehand
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 14:34 | 0 |
http://advrider.com/forums/showthr…
If you want bad parking pics checkout this thread
SteveLehto
> Scott the Stagehand
02/23/2015 at 14:35 | 0 |
No access; I'm not a member.
ayaws
> Flavien Vidal
02/23/2015 at 15:07 | 0 |
I hear you. The nicest car in the article is likely the Hyundai. And that's pretty much a total bog standard rental box. Nothing special there. If you want to have parking privacy, park far away in a single spot.
ayaws
> Funktheduck
02/23/2015 at 15:10 | 0 |
This seems like par for most Prius drivers around here. Believe it or not, I saw one in the right-hand lane (and not the left) on the freeway the other day. I almost had a wreck when I fainted from surprise.
Hatch3t
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 15:16 | 1 |
It IS a Hyundai...perhaps they were afraid of getting a claim from having the doors fall of onto nearby vehicles.
Hatch3t
> Funktheduck
02/23/2015 at 15:24 | 0 |
Because Prius...
Alf Romio
> Rainbow
02/23/2015 at 15:28 | 1 |
You are my hero.
Funktheduck
> ayaws
02/23/2015 at 15:33 | 1 |
This was my first wrong way driver that wasn't super elderly.
My issue generally is what you said: left lane idiots going 10-20 under the speed limit.
AgentRockstar
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 15:37 | 1 |
He was in a hurry, to build a bridge to get over something.
AgentRockstar
> Scott the Stagehand
02/23/2015 at 15:46 | 0 |
Those make me want to buy a large novelty key and scratch scratch scratch like they're lotto scratchers.
AgentRockstar
> MJ
02/23/2015 at 15:51 | 2 |
So you retaliated against a guy for calling you an asshole?
Then you became an asshole.
Assholes are assholes whether it's parking or anything else.
Your action would only have been justified if he had done something to you besides words.
AgentRockstar
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 15:55 | 2 |
No, there's a way, but don't get caught sticking these on said cars:
http://www.zazzle.com/you_park_like_…
Scott the Stagehand
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 15:56 | 1 |
Sorry about that I forgot it's in a members only section.
Dake
> Rainbow
02/23/2015 at 16:07 | 3 |
YES! I love my FRS, but the one thing I miss about my little Echo was it could wedge into the tiniest of remaining spaces. I also always snapped a pic to include the other vehicle and their license plate in case I came back to a case of vandalism, but to the offending drivers' credit they seemed to understand they'd earned it.
Scott the Stagehand
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 16:09 | 0 |
Can you get a handicap plate for taking Cialis/Viagra?
SteveLehto
> Scott the Stagehand
02/23/2015 at 16:18 | 0 |
For NEEDING it, yes.
Hayden Simmons
> Klaus Schmoll
02/23/2015 at 17:17 | 0 |
Affluenza's a hell of a drug.
V4VtechYo!
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 17:31 | 0 |
I politely disagree with you about the "parking block" example. In the summer of '97, I got my first job out of high school as a valet at an exclusive, ritzy health club, in Tysons Virginia, during the heart of the .com boom. One day, I got the opportunity to park an Volvo 850R that was still wearing 30 day tags. As a non-written rule between us valets, we generally would park and the deliver the same car in hopes of generating regulars and tips. Retrieving the car for the guest, I reversed out of the parking spot and upon doing so, I heard the most horrid plastic on metal grinding followed by a loud, dull thud. I got out to check things out. Unbeknownst to me, the rebar securing the parking block had at some point shifted out of the ground. This in-turn, caused the front spoiler of the car to bend back as I reversed, and allowed for a large plastic shield and air box to fall from under the front spoiler. Being eighteen, I kind of just shimmied the whole contraption back into place and slowly drove the car to the customer. The guest got into his car, and I thought all was fine, that was until he turned out the lot and got on the gas. The shield and box came flying out, and were grinding on the asphalt so loud that we could hear it at the Valet stand that was about 100 yards away. The guest turns back into the health club and starts screaming at the valet manager. I play it cool, hold my ground, deny, deny, deny. After many hours, and working things out with the owner of the Volvo, the general manager of the club calls me into his office. He levels with me, tells me I won't be fired no matter what really happened, and that he just needed to know for insurance reasons. I came clean and end up keeping my job, although a new rule of only backing cars into parking spaces was instated. Shortly after this incident the club was bought out by Sport and Health who removed the valet service, but kept me as a locker room attendant. I spent one week hanging around a bunch of older gentlemen who proudly hung dong, while I picked up their poop-stained towels, before I quit, but how I miss my days as a valet. At eighteen, I got to regularly drive a NSX, a handful of air-cooled Porsches, E36 M3's, a few v12 Benz, jelly-bean 300z's, and a whole host of other sweet rides, yet at the end of the day, the biggest lesson i learned was to never trust a parking block. To this day I hate those things.
SteveLehto
> V4VtechYo!
02/23/2015 at 17:35 | 0 |
Tough call. The parking block example I show above - that guy is several feet back. You should know how long your car is and how low the front end is. I've had a couple cars with air dams that would scrape on blocks but I just learned where they were. It won't help you any if you protect the air dam by leaving the rear end of your car hanging out in the already too-narrow lane.
In your case though - with an unfamiliar car - you are justified in stopping way short. But you guys also owned that lot and could get away with it all day long. Who's going to complain?
V4VtechYo!
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 17:55 | 1 |
I agree with you, and generally know the dimensions of my own vehicle. Seeing the parking block was clearly a "trigger", however with regards to my valet job, we didn't own the lot which is why the valet service was needed. In fact the lot was shared with a high rise office building, and had constant construction traffic from another high rise being built on the perimeter of the lot. To be polite, it was a mess. Fun, but a mess.
Hiroku
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 18:31 | 1 |
I own a small hatchback, and I also own a Volvo wagon. Whenever I drive the hatchback for a long while and then jump on the brick I ALWAYS smash the rear of that poor thing on my garage back wall because I forget there is still like 5 feet of car further behind the C-pillar. I'm not a very smart person.
Needless to say, that wall is completely destroyed by now, while there's not even a scratch on the swede's rear bumper. Because Volvo.
Devin
> PJ
02/23/2015 at 20:14 | 0 |
I disagree. End of the lot not during Christmas is the designated parking are for service vans, full size trucks and nice cars.
I do not live in anything near being considered a major city. There is always ample parking, and taking some room is totally fine.
kalabaddon
> SteveLehto
02/23/2015 at 20:49 | 1 |
Small tip I heard when learning to drive was to have someone stand at each corner of the car so I could better place in my mind the dimensions of the car as viewed from the inside.
Side note I just want people to learn to drive period. lived at my address for 2.5 years, have had my "parked" car hit 3 time causing enough damage to require body shops. And numerous times where they just peel off some paint while parking or leaving. It was last hit Wednesday last week. On that Saturday someone scratched my rental while driving by it while it was parked:(
MJ
> AgentRockstar
02/24/2015 at 08:25 | 1 |
It's America. Let me be what I want to be.
PJ
> Devin
02/24/2015 at 09:21 | 0 |
If there is ample room / nobody is parked out there, why not park normally?
somethingfornothing
> SteveLehto
02/24/2015 at 10:41 | 2 |
There was a time not too long ago where I was buying supplies to change the oil in my wife's car. I had parked like a normal human being in the spot. While I was in the store getting everything I needed, a older guy parked his overly customized late 90's model GMC Sierra next to the car. I came out and saw how the idiot had parked which was so close to my car that I wasn't even able to open the door to get into the drivers side door and was at enough of angle that the bed of his truck was practically behind my car. The back end was behind me enough that even if I had crawled in through the passenger side and tried to leave, I wouldn't be able to. I put everything into the back hatch, looked at an employee that was outside smoking and just shook my head. Walked back in the store, found the asshat, luckily towards to the front of the store and asked him loud enough to not be rude but also make sure others heard me if it was his truck, if it was his and if so he needed to repark his truck so that I could at least get in the car. He kind of grumbled about it but walked out and moved the truck.
The only odd thing about his parking job was the angle that he had pulled into the spot as it was pointing in the opposite direction that you would normally pull into a spot coming into lot since there was only one entrance/exit. It was almost like he went to extra effort to park ridiculously or is just a really bad parker with a full size truck. I should have taken a picture of it with my phone, but told my wife about it when I got home and she admitted that she didn't know if she would have walked back in and confronted him about.
AgentRockstar
> MJ
02/24/2015 at 11:27 | 0 |
Well then, even if you don't care to hear it, just know that living that way will only find you dead at an early age. One day you'll do the pee thing again, the guy will see you and will have a gun and blow your head off.
MJ
> AgentRockstar
02/24/2015 at 11:42 | 1 |
It was a one time thing and isn't even close to a reflection on how I live my life. When I get mad I don't make sure someone has a souvenir of piss to take with them like it's my trademark. I told this story because my actions were absurd just like people parking like crap and making a big deal out of it is a waste. I don't feel awesome for doing what I did but it happened at a moments notice and for someone to be so brash towards me, it evened the playing field in my mind. When the dude put his head in to my car to berate me 6 inches from my face I took exception to it.
By the way. What's the point of you spending time even responding to my post? Are you trying to be wise and teach me a lesson to see that my actions were wrong in your mind? You're wasting your time. I posted for entertainment. If you want to teach others how to live the Utopian way then start posting in Domesticity.
AgentRockstar
> MJ
02/24/2015 at 11:54 | 0 |
Just had time to respond.
And yes, I just said what I wanted to say because I could.
Thanks for clarifying, may you live a long fruitful and happy life. (I mean it)
I care, whether it's a stranger or my co-worker. I'm weird like that.
And I didn't think I was being wise, it's simply how I think. I do frequent forums where advice is exchanged.
Duncan
> kalabaddon
02/24/2015 at 16:03 | 0 |
I have real questions about where you choose to park your car. People suck at driving, but either you're having a very unlikely run of bad luck or you park in a really stupid spot.
cream wobbly
> SteveLehto
02/24/2015 at 17:12 | 1 |
Next do one for people who drive nose-in to parking bays instead of reversing in like you're supposed to.
kalabaddon
> Duncan
02/24/2015 at 18:43 | 0 |
It is the road. I live on the 2 lane section of it which is for local traffic. but just a few blocks down it turns in to a highway, so we get people speeding all the time.
All 3 of my accidents where people hit me while I was parked was in a different spot on my block and the next one down. Every neighbor I talk to has had at least one accident with their parked car while living there (I have not talked to most of the people on the block but I know about 6 of them and they all have been hit while parked).
About 7 years ago a semi truck took out the entire block of parked cars. (yes it is a small road at this point and yes semi trucks drive up and down it every day :(... )
Also if it is not apparent, it is street parking.
abcs
> SteveLehto
02/25/2015 at 15:01 | 2 |
I remember driving around Manhattan in the late '90's looking for a street parking spot. I wanted to put my car in a garage, but my dad was trying to convince me that street parking would be just fine. While driving around, I witnessed another driver attempt to make a parking space between two other cars. Basically, the driver backed up and tapped bumpers with the car behind and then gunned the engine, trying to push the parked car backwards to make a space. I distinctly remember the rear of the parked car lifting up on its suspension but not budging. The driver tried this a couple of times to no avail. At this point, I headed straight for a garage. The cost of the garage was worth my sanity.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> SteveLehto
02/25/2015 at 15:22 | 2 |
Parking. I hate dealing with parking. On the first day I had my new car, my first NEW car, my first new vehicle in 18 years, some dumbass put a dent in it. It DIDN'T EVEN HAVE 100 MILES! It happened at church and was probably some dumb kid. There wasn't a car next to mine when I parked and there wasn't one next to mine when I came out. I was one of the first people out the door after service, so whoever did it arrived late and moved to a different spot after it happened just so I wouldn't find out.
This is why I decided to join the Asshat Club . I may park like an Asshat, but I will only do so in the far reaches of the parking lot where nobody else is affected.
Fortunately, I don't have to park like an asshat often. I found that owning a small car make a huge difference in parking options. I can usually find a spot that allows me to park really close to a curb or median, giving plenty of room on the other side for parking.
Viggen9er3
> MJ
02/28/2015 at 15:46 | 2 |
Wow, the guy predicted you being an asshole and was right. Fixing the parking job would have been more than redeeming for you. Sometimes you need to suck it up and live with making an honest mistake, we all make them.
Viggen9er3
> foobar5000
02/28/2015 at 15:56 | 0 |
How are you not aware of your surroundings when driving a car? People are just assholes sometimes, especially if they choose to text on their phone vs parking better.
Viggen9er3
> AgentRockstar
02/28/2015 at 16:04 | 1 |
Amazing! Keep a good jack in the car and some bricks. Jack said car up, brick the frame close to the middle.
Watch the confusion and flustered person try to move the car.
(don't actually do that, but it would be funny)
Viggen9er3
> Hiroku
02/28/2015 at 16:09 | 0 |
A simple rope and tennis ball setup from the ceiling would be perfect for you.
Also if the drywall is smashed up, you might want to repair it as co2 will creep up the inner wall inside the house.
Viggen9er3
> --
02/28/2015 at 16:13 | 0 |
I just give the handicap parking people the benefit of the doubt, unless they don't have a sticker.
Viggen9er3
> SteveLehto
02/28/2015 at 16:34 | 0 |
I have a really low front end car and air dam (stock). I park it perfect where it does not hit, and does not stick out. When my wife drives the car watch out air dam, you are going to get a beating! She generally parks well, but the air dam is her nemesis.
SteveLehto
> Viggen9er3
02/28/2015 at 16:42 | 0 |
I hear you. And for those who have a car that needs a wider berth, I have no problem with some of these kinds of sloppy parking jobs, so long as they don't take up prime real estate in the parking lot. Out at the edges and there are plenty of empty spaces around? Put it sideways across three - I don't care.
Viggen9er3
> MJ
02/28/2015 at 16:47 | 0 |
I was entertained by your story, it was good.
I don't think dumping pee in someone's car is justified for calling you an asshole, when you did make the initial mistakes
Anyway, enough said.
MJ
> Viggen9er3
02/28/2015 at 21:49 | 1 |
Way to be passive aggressive. A+
Viggen9er3
> MJ
02/28/2015 at 23:54 | 0 |
I loled when I read that.
Integra420co
> Viggen9er3
01/21/2016 at 00:36 | 0 |
Wow classic douchebag!!
Integra420co
> SteveLehto
01/21/2016 at 00:42 | 1 |
I always park at the back of the lot next to the curb or grass islands, only one car can park next to you reducing the chance of a ding by 50%. It maybe takes 10-15 seconds to walk the 40 feet difference.
Integra420co
> scoob
01/21/2016 at 01:02 | 0 |
Ya what a dick!! I think about keying cars like that but think maybe they might have a disabled friend of something with them. If I saw that asshole walk into Starbucks I would fucking ninja chop his fucking throat.
Integra420co
> TheRealBicycleBuck
01/21/2016 at 01:03 | 0 |
Moral or the story don't go to church.
Integra420co
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
01/21/2016 at 01:04 | 0 |
Ha Olympic sport! Me too, backwards too sometimes if I am feeling good
Integra420co
> MJ
01/21/2016 at 01:12 | 0 |
No he is right u are a fucking douche, he shouldn't have talked shit but pissing in his window was fucking childish. Karma will get u.
Integra420co
> AgentRockstar
01/21/2016 at 01:13 | 0 |
Ya he is a fucking asshole, probably small cock too
MJ
> Integra420co
01/21/2016 at 10:18 | 0 |
Thanks. Go fuck yourself.
Integra420co
> MJ
01/25/2016 at 21:49 | 0 |
Nah I'll just fuck your wife cause your baby dick can't get the job done. Fuck u fag
MJ
> Integra420co
01/25/2016 at 22:07 | 0 |
You don’t scare me in the slightest.
Integra420co
> MJ
01/27/2016 at 02:28 | 0 |
Ha great come back u fucking homo!!!