How hard is parking a car?

[ArenaBoy]

Okay, I know how to park little cars and big cars. Parking is a breeze really especially pulling in, yes backing in is a little difficult but answer me this:

Why is it hard to park your car in one spot? Especially when the spots are wider than usual because the area the store is in is known for its residents driving big cars?. These spots are wide enough to fit a bed and a sleeping bag in there but yet you Mr. Jackass had to park your overly huge truck blocking out a good 2 spaces when the lot was obviously crowded. People like you were the reason I loved calling in the tow truck back at Whiskeyclone.

[blas]

Oh that's nothing....around here people are so entitled......

People like Mr. Corvette parking in the handicapped spots with no plates at all.

People driving pedophile type vans, parking in the fire lane (or whatever that lane is right in front of the store by the doors) and a family of 12 people walk out and the van sits there the entire time.

People with trucks or SUVs parking in between 2 parking spots

People parking vertically in an angle parking spot, taking up to 3 spots if the vehicle is big enough.

[altered_reality]

I experienced some bad parking the other day, excuse the language, some fuckwit blocked me in.

There's a dirt area at my uni where you can park randomly, no bays, its up to the students to sort it out. I pull in at 10 behind another car come back 3 and half hours later to this (red rectangle is my car):



How can people be so stupid to park there, both of those cars, one blocking me and the other the unfortunate guy next to me.

[Sliceanddice]

I wanted to call a tow truck for a little supped up i wanna be a racer car in two spaces today but mom wouldnt let me...

[crazylegs]

Something I've noticed, both here and in 'the real world' is that parking is one of the most emotive, contencious (sp?) issues around, everyone wants to park where they want, but they don't like where everyone else has parked, admitidlly the people featured in this thread are wallys but if I get onemore person asking me why they can't park outside their house I might have to undertake percussive maintenance on their cars bodywork!

Stay Safe

[Shabo]

admitidlly the people featured in this thread are wallys

A whosiwhatsitnow? (I think you are from the UK based on your spellings in another post... and I'm not down with all the lingo from there yet...)

Anywho. Yes, parking sucks. We have a huge problem with parking at my school. Not that there aren't enough spaces, but rather there aren't enough spaces that people want to use. Our new apartment style dorms have such little parking that if you get anywhere near the building you live in, it's a great day for you. I knew several people last year that parked illegally and got so many tickets that they ended up owing a couple hundred dollars-- just in parking tickets that were $10 each! I've gotten like 2 parking tickets in my 4 years here, and that was because I was parking illegally for a few minutes to bring groceries into my building so I wouldn't have to cart them from who knows where, and I just happened to be unlucky enough to get caught. But the worst part is that these kids had to pay off their tickets before they were allowed to graduate and they didn't realize how much they owed until a month or so before they graduated. Then they grumble and complain about how they owe the school so much money from the terrible parking, and I get to chime in and say, "Well, if you weren't so lazy about walking back to your building from a legal parking spot, then you wouldn't have gotten any tickets, now would you have?" Some kids get one ticket and leave it on their car so they don't get any more. Works about half the time.

My father works in a big city, and one time I got in his car and saw a stack of parking tickets. I was astounded, but then he told me that it was cheaper for him to park illegally (as long as it isn't a handicapped space or a fire lane) and get ticketed than to pay for actual parking. Makes sense, but it's still sad.

[crazylegs]

A wally is a term for someone who acts in a manner which is devoid of common sense.

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[XCashier]

The person in the parking space next to mine cannot park his car worth a damn! This isn't some huge Hummer, mind you, it's a standard small car. Yet he can't get within the lines! He's got his car parked at an angle in a straight-in parking space, his rear bumper is always taking up about a foot of my space, leaving me to break my right rearview mirror against the parking cover support pole to try to get out without dinging his car!

Seriously, how freaking difficult is it to park your car correctly inside two parallel lines that are more than wide enough? Do you need someone to hold your willy and help you aim when you go the bathroom, too?!

[Rapscallion]

Do you need someone to hold your willy and help you aim when you go the bathroom, too?!

Well, if you're offering...

Rapscallion

[Sliceanddice]

But the worst part is that these kids had to pay off their tickets before they were allowed to graduate and they didn't realize how much they owed until a month or so before they graduated. Then they grumble and complain about how they owe the school so much money from the terrible parking, and I get to chime in and say, "Well, if you weren't so lazy about walking back to your building from a legal parking spot, then you wouldn't have gotten any tickets, now would you have?" Some kids get one ticket and leave it on their car so they don't get any more. Works about half the time.

OMG!!! My mother told me how in 4 years she racked up get this 150 dollars worth of parking tickets. Not that bad. But they wouldn't let her graduate because of it and she had to borrow money because she didnt know how many she had or she couldnt graduate because of it. and by that time she had a husband and ME! (i was born near the end of the year when she was also owrking as a teachers assistant) so she did have extra cash.
but man do i tease her about it.

[Rahmota]

One of the reasons I prefer to park as far from the store or building as possible. A slight walk is not a big deal when you are the nly one for about a dozen rows or so.

But yeah I've kinda noticed that as well about how people react to the subject of parking. *shrug* Just another thing to watch out for i guess.

[symposes]

I work at a college, and its cheaper to risk parking tickets from the city police, then it is to pay the college parking people for a permit.(the bad thing about this place, is they oversell their permits. they have like 30k or 40k people buying permits for 20k parking spaces. No joke. Someone asked them once, and they said, Well not everyone will be here every day.)

yea, it sucks, I work for them, and I have to give them money for the privledge of working there.

[Jack7957]

Went and dug out an old post of mine.....
One year two of my brothers and I went to one mall here that has two underground parking garages on a Saturday during the Holiday shopping season. We went to the one that is usually less full than the other, since it's farthest from the three entrances into the mall parking lots. Drove through the entire garage and did not see a single space. My brother who was driving was about to leave when I noticed a Ford Escort taking up two spots in the far corner. Told him to go over there and myself and my other brother would move it. It was one of the smaller 2-door hatchbacks, can't weight more than 1500-1700 lbs, so each of us got on a wheel well, and would lift/push it, till we moved it over into one spot.


Syracuse is going to start booting cars after three tickets.

[BookstoreEscapee]

, leaving me to break my right rearview mirror against the parking cover support pole to try to get out without dinging his car!

Well, if you're going to end up damaging your car either way, I say ding him! Maybe he'll learn.

I'm not always the straightest parker (I prefer the term "slightly askew") but I always make sure I am well within the lines. If I'm a little crooked but it won't prevent anyone from getting in/out of the spots next to me, I won't worry about it, but if I see that I am really off or touching/over the line, I will back out and fix it.

My college lets all students have cars**, but only juniors and seniors are allowed to park on campus (and there are limited spots). There is also a large lot at the far end of campus, across the street where anyone can park. Considering that it takes only 10 minutes to walk from one end to the other at a reasonable pace, this is not all that inconvenient, and if you have to unload stuff from your car, you can park near the dorm temporarily and then move it when you're done. Otherwise, two of the dorms are on the perimiter of the campus and if you can find a spot you can park on the street. The town, however, at some point decided you can only park for 72 hours (they started marking tires with chalk so they could see if they cars were moved; of course, then people just started moving a few inches just to move the chalk mark). The 72 hour rule was passed because the townies don't like the college kids (it wasn't the college folks who complained), but the only people who parked on that part of the road were students, and all of the houses right across the street are also owned by the college, so really it was kind of a silly rule to enforce on that street.

**as of when I graduated 10 years ago, anyway

[tphillip]

Syracuse is going to start booting cars after three tickets.

The most amusing part of the whole thing is that the offender can remove the boot themselves after paying the fine. The next step is to put that same boot on some other random car.

This is the same city that allows lawyers to rack up thousands of dollars in parking tickets without doing anything to them. They're right there in court; how hard is it to arrest them and walk them down the hall to make sure they pay the fine? Sometimes I wonder about the priorities of that town.