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    Parking (Picture!)

    In front of the shop we have angled parking. Now, this parking used to be at a different angle, and has since been repainted, badly. This means that there are two sets of lines. Most of the time, everything is fine. Sometimes, people park in the old lines, this isn't usually a huge issue though. The parking lot is also one way, so that it is easy to get into the angled parking.

    What happened today was a first. Lady pulls up, the wrong way, and parks reversed across two spots:



    And she proceeds to get out and go about her business, coming back about 10 minutes later. Not in front of our shop, so not our problem. Fortunately, I had my trusty MacBook Pro with me, so that I could snap a shot of this and share it with the board. The camera on this thing actually takes rather nice pictures.
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    oh the pictures I could show you of stupid cart parking. it really is too bad wal mart doesn't have one uniform cart they use so I could post pictures

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    • #3
      Looks like rain.

      How could that lady not know that you don't park that way? All the other vehicles are parking correctly!
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      • #4
        That's a common tactic by those who want to make sure no one can park close enough to their Statusmobile to scratch it with a carelessly opened door or some such. I would never actually key (scratch) someone's car, but those people do bring the concept into my fantasy world.

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        • #5
          BF likes to leave people like that little notes under the windshield that say, "I like how U park." with a smiley face.
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          • #6
            My friend got me a pack of fake parking tickets once. They just list off how much of a jerk you are and are bright yellow so as to scare the car owner. I've used a few, but I really need to put them back in my purse to carry with me.

            Side note, a manager at my store usually parks her car in the corner of four spots, but she at least has the decency to park in a rarely used portion of the lot.
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            • #7
              Side note, a manager at my store usually parks her car in the corner of four spots, but she at least has the decency to park in a rarely used portion of the lot.
              While keying cars is pure fantasy for me (with a couple exceptions I'm not proud of) ... parking like this brings it very, very close to reality.
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              • #8
                My dad sometimes parks like that when he's driving hi '69 camaro but he only parks at spaces far away from other cars.
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                • #9
                  That's not "parking". That's putting your car wherever you happened to last leave it before you got out. Kind of more 'stopping' than 'parking'.

                  I hate people that self-centred.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth marasbaras View Post
                    parking like this brings it very, very close to reality.
                    Exactly. Parking like an idiot is just *asking* for someone to mess with your car. I could understand if there weren't any lines, but you can see them quite clearly in the picture. Reminds me of a guy I used to know...who insisted on parking his BMW across two spaces where I used to work. He couldn't understand why he'd get nasty letters on his windshield, or why someone scratched up the car...and later let the air out of his tires. He'd been warned by the garage owner not to do that *multiple* times
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                    • #11
                      This happens all the time in front of my post office. Except the angle there is sharper and people parking against the lines usually take up 3 spaces. I can't stand those idiots.

                      I called one guy on it as I was walking up to the door as he pulled in and got out. My comment, dripping with sarcasm: "Nice parking."
                      His response: "Hey f*** you, a**hole."

                      I'm guessing someone is a bit sensitive to criticism, probably due to a lifelong inability to comprehend simple tasks like parking the same direction as all the other cars.

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                      • #12
                        I've parked like that once or twice.



                        NOT on purpose, though. I just suck at parking.
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                        • #13
                          I'll admit that I'm guilty of doing that... granted I do that at blockbuster when I've dropping a movie and I'm parking like that maybe 30 seconds... not 10+ minutes.
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                          • #14
                            www.youparklikeanasshole.com

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Umingmaq View Post
                              That's a common tactic by those who want to make sure no one can park close enough to their Statusmobile to scratch it with a carelessly opened door or some such. I would never actually key (scratch) someone's car, but those people do bring the concept into my fantasy world.
                              I once saw an idiot park normally, then back up, and park diagonally across two spaces. And a sweet little old lady "accidentally" let a trolley go so it rolled across the lot and hit the idiot right in the subsitute penis.

                              Also one time I saw a BMW driver park across two disabled spaces. As soon as he got around the corner, the parking inspector arrived. Yay for instant karma.

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