Parking spaces

"Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!" (patrickgruden) 10/05/2015 at 09:54 • Filed to: None

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I know we’ve kind of discussed this before, but I had to take a quick pic the other day of a parking lot I occasionally frequent. Why are these spaces this damn narrow? What am I supposed to do if I had a large car? I just don’t get the thinking sometimes

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 09:58

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I think that the idea is that if the lines are closer together, you’re less likely to see the crossover over the line blocking your door.

marshknute > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 09:59

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Elio Motors to the rescue!

RazoE > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:01

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First time I’ve ever seen these with orange signals.

davedave1111 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:06

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That looks fairly sensible to me. The islands are to separate the spaces so that people don’t park all the way over to one side or the other.

crowmolly > RazoE 10/05/2015 at 10:14

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JDM breh

wiffleballtony > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:16

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Maybe at some point they were labeled “compact” which means any car older than 1990 won’t fit.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:18

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It’s a Jersey thing...no really the amount of narrow spots I’ve seen in jersey is ridiculous

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > RazoE 10/05/2015 at 10:25

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That’s a vinyl overlay. I don’t care for the clear look, and they were pretty cheap. It helps a little bit to pick my car out of the crowd, since it’s such a common car and color

RazoE > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:28

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They look good! I have yellow overlays on my fogs (with 4300k HIDs) and they look awesome.

FazeRacer > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:28

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The narrower the space the more cars you can fit in the lot. I don’t think they realize that ‘Muricans like cars that are as big as the whole outdoors.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:32

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You do exactly what you did, you’re best.

Imagine a full size pickup pulling in, if the honda doesn’t fit they sure as hell don’t.

It’s one thing when the big cars don’t fit but this is crap, do your best is all you can in a lot like this.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > FazeRacer 10/05/2015 at 10:34

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Yeah, I get that theory. But as you said, we ‘Muricans like our cars big.

An interesting side point to this, I’ve only ever seen these comically narrow spaces in plazas that have (or used to have) a Kmart in them.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > wiffleballtony 10/05/2015 at 10:37

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I remember those spaces. They were great when I drove a CRX. Sadly in this instance this is not the case. The entire parking lot is this way.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > davedave1111 10/05/2015 at 10:43

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When you look at it that way, it kind of makes sense. But, I’m not convinced that people will do that, as evidenced by the Hyundai Veloster I saw in this same lot later that day that was way over to one side. And it was on the driver’s side no less. Apparently some people never learned to color in the lines in kindergarten.

Steve Zissou > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 10:46

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I think when they make them that narrow but with the double lines instead of single, they’re just trying to encourage people to park in the center of a spot better. If they split the difference of the double lines and gave you that with a single line, people would go anywhere they’re within the lines and risk more boxing in of non-ModelX doors.

davedave1111 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 10/05/2015 at 11:19

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Move to England, our bays are too small for shenanigans - if you don’t park down the middle, you’re not in the bay.