The owner for got mad at me for parking to close to her car.

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
03/29/2018 at 19:03 • Filed to: None

& that her husband could not get in because I parked too close.

I’m not a person to get up in their face, so I just told them to park in the lines next time than drove off. Risking a door ding, yes. Handing them the truth, priceless.

DISCUSSION (29)

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:09

But she drives a luxury-Infiniti, A Super-Fast Awesome-handling Sport version(Did you notice the S badge?)

so she’s automatically better than you and deserves preferential treatment.

pip bip - choose Corrour > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:11

slash their tyres next time

Carbon Fiber Sasquatch > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:13

Give her one of these

Kinja'd!!!

victor > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:13

I would’ve just parked a bit more over (closer) next time.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > pip bip - choose Corrour
03/29/2018 at 19:13

She was on the line, so not justifyable.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:15

You’re a bad person for parking correctly.

Also, when it’s a tight squeeze for the passenger, I just back out the car for them. Quite a concept, you know.

WilliamsSW > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:15

Well she was in your parking space first

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > victor
03/29/2018 at 19:17

It bugs me if I’m not the middle of the spot.

gettingoldercarguy > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:18

This is totally on them

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
03/29/2018 at 19:19

Referring to if I were the person who parked like a jackass and then couldn’t get back in*

TorqueToYield > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:20

That’s not even close...

If her passenger couldn’t get in why not just pull out first...

vicali > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:22

Over the line Smokey.

ToyotaFamily > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
03/29/2018 at 19:23

Blue S badge so it’s a hybrid too.

Saving the environment with sportiness.

Urambo Tauro > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:23

Did she park next to one of those cart corrals? If she needed to use both doors, she should have know better than to park there.

A lot of those corrals, especially the ones with the big chunky plastic bumpers, are too big for one parking space. Not because they cross the line, but because they infringe on the shared door-opening space.

(I hope I’m making sense here. What I really need to do is post a full rant about this, because it’s too much for one comment...)

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ToyotaFamily
03/29/2018 at 19:24

Oooh Fancy! Now I know where here smug sense of entitlement comes from

His Stigness > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:25

So the owner got mad at you because they can’t park?

Huh?

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Urambo Tauro
03/29/2018 at 19:30

Cart Carroll’s take up one space & have no plastic bumpers.

InFierority Complex > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
03/29/2018 at 19:30

That’s just doing entitlement wrong, though. Other people need to adjust to hypothetical you’s poor actions, not the other way around.

Chariotoflove > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:32

This is the correct response.

Can’t understand why they wouldn’t cut a fellow Nissan-er some slack anyway.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > InFierority Complex
03/29/2018 at 19:40

Damn, I knew I was missing the secret to happiness

Urambo Tauro > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 19:41

Yeah but how much of that “one” space do they occupy? I see a lot of corrals that take up the entire width, so that if you park perfectly centered in the space next to it, you will have only a foot (maybe a foot-and-a-half) to open your own door.

If everyone drove cars that took up the full width of their own parking space, no one would be able to get in or out of their cars. Extra-wide cart corrals give us a glimpse of what that would be like.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Urambo Tauro
03/29/2018 at 19:58

Walmart abuses these corrals like none other.

People still don’t use them in the first place. When they do, they don’t get cleared because they’re under-staffed and don’t have enough people scrambling about.

I know all about cart recovery. By the end of the day you want a hot shower and a soft bed.

Urambo Tauro > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
03/29/2018 at 20:05

Yeah the ones at my local Walmart fill up pretty quick too. But I like the design of those corrals because they’re narrower and are thus able to leave better margins on either side for door-opening. Sometimes they get shifted over to one side, though. Is it from the attendant trying to turn a long train of carts out of the corral?

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Urambo Tauro
03/29/2018 at 20:07

Generally the shifting occurs when one of the attendants is manhandling the doors. They sometimes rust stuck after a hard storm, or the spring loaded handle decides it doesn’t want to play ball.

Other times, it’s simply people bumping into it with their car doors, or just shoving it out of the way.

Urambo Tauro > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
03/29/2018 at 20:12

Yeah, I sometimes push them out of my way, too. But only to return it to the center of its space, not to push it against the other side. If they’re properly centered, these plain corrals (no roof, no plastic bumpers) are only about 6 ft wide, the approximate width of a normal car.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 20:19

They need to just back their shit up and he can hop in. We get boxed in like this around here all the time. As long as one of us can get in the driver’s seat, we just pull out and grab the other. Why does anyone make a thing of this?

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
03/29/2018 at 20:20

I recommended the same because that’s what we do. Is this really so hard? Even if the person was there we wouldn’t bother acknowledging it. Pick your battles, and this one is definitely never worth it.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 20:53

I once did that to an LAPD car at Wendy’s. I was young and didn’t think about the effects my actions could have on public safety if the cop wasn’t able to jump straight into his vehicle, but at the same time, fuck him for parking like a complete asshat.

They did track me down by my plate and came into the restaurant to ask me to move my car. There was a knowing smirk of approval from the second officer, and I did take a little satisfaction from that.

nermal > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/29/2018 at 21:26

You should have peed on the tires in order to assert dominance.

Alternatively, you could have told the husband that this is a sign that the universe is not correctly aligned. What he needs to do is take the keys, dump her, and have an affair with a lady (or dude, if that’s his thing) that is skinny enough to get in the car with that much space.

That would have shut them both up. Or at least got them to start yelling at each other and leave you out of it.