How to get back at parking space stalkers

[protege]

old BMW's are fun to drive actually, it's the new ones that get the assholes because they're expencive

Exactly. Years ago, people bought BMWs, Mercedes, and similar cars because of their reputation for good handling and quality. Now, people buy them simply because of their price tag. Of course they then bitch about getting them serviced, but that's another story

[Becks]

Whenever I see people driving their new expensive cars like jerks, I mutter under my breath, "If you're afraid to drive it like a normal person, why buy it??"

[greensinestro]

Whenever I see people driving their new expensive cars like jerks, I mutter under my breath, "If you're afraid to drive it like a normal person, why buy it??"

I would never buy a car like any of the ones described because in South Florida, those cars normally have the nasty-ass, rude and ugly senior citizens driving them who have more money than the entire Earth, yet bitch and complain about how expensive things are, plus they refuse to part with any of their millions.

I'd rather drive a Hyundai than a Cadillac.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Back in the time before I got my own bike, my boyf used to pick me up after work sometimes on his motorbike, complete with spare lid. I remember one Saturday afternoon, walking down the carpark being followed by a woman in a sports car cuz she just assumed I was walking to my car. I can just imagine her fury as she saw me instead taking a lid from a guy on a bike and getting on the back.

[tacohuman]

At university I used to work for, several students who drove some obnoxiously expensive cars Daddy bought them started parking such that the line was under the middle of their cars thereby taking up two spaces. That way no one would park next to them and "ding" the paint. There never had been enough spaces on the campus for all the students with cars, so parking already was scarce. These kids became the subject of much hatred.

at my university, parking like that will get you towed. with 50000 students, and probably somewhere around a third of that number of parking spaces, parking restrictions are strictly enforced. that's why i always scheduled my classes to start in the first session of the day, so there was always parking available.

[Gurndigarn]

Have you seen the bumper sticker?

BACK OFF!
I care less for my paint job
than you do for yours!

[ArenaBoy]

I would never buy a car like any of the ones described because in South Florida, those cars normally have the nasty-ass, rude and ugly senior citizens driving them who have more money than the entire Earth, yet bitch and complain about how expensive things are, plus they refuse to part with any of their millions.

Come to where I live in the hand state, you see these types everywhere young, old, middle-aged, you name it! All these people live in McMansions and it's quite a laugh.

[CrazedClerk]

A couple of years ago, in front of a shopping mall on a Saturday, my family saw a Dodge car TRIPLE parked right in some of the closest spaces to the mall.

It had been nicely TP'd and had various other garbage on it, with one rather amusing note someone had left: "Get over it, you drive a NEON!"

[iradney]

One thing I cannot get over is the parking at the gym. You go to gym to work out, right? So why, why, why drive up and down the spaces looking for the closest one? I always park at least a minute's walk away from the gym. I don't mind the walk, heck, I'm supposed to get my heartrate up! As I was leaving today, someone saw me walking near a car, screeched to halt and put his flicker on. As I walked past him, I got the Glare of Doom for daring to walk past cars that I don't own and don't itend on driving.
Honestly people. It's not rocket science!

[Rapscallion]

That reminds me of people who get racks on their cars to hold their bikes while they drive around looking for somewhere to ride.

Hello? Back there - did you see that point as you whizzed by it? Oh? You missed it, you say?

Rapscallion

[MystyGlyttyr]

One thing I cannot get over is the parking at the gym. You go to gym to work out, right? So why, why, why drive up and down the spaces looking for the closest one?

*raises hand, heh heh*

I don't drive around for longer than a minute looking, but I very much prefer to park close to the gym door...not because of walking in, but because I work out to a degree that by the time I'm finished, it's all I can do to stay upright long enough to make it out to my car. I work out until my color vision goes away.

[OfficeSlug]

I do that too! Having someone riding on the back of my shoes pisses me off something terrible!

[Auto]

When you spend time in the big city, NYC especially, the test for thinking like a city person is how you hunt for parking.

No NYer would ever look for the perfect parking space. When you see one that's close enough to where you're going, you take it. Yeah, as you walk to your destination, you just might see a better spot. But you probably won't. So take the first available space and get on with your life.

So when I see someone spending minute after minute hunting the perfect spot, rather than saving time by just taking the next spot that's available and walking, I want to ask them why they're pissing their life away like that.

[SuperDan]

Six to eight people can lift and carry a compact or mid-size car a fair distance, more than enough to "help" the owner into that spot they just couldn't make it into.

And for the repeat offenders, the carrying trick can work for creative parallel parking too (like about half an inch beyond each bumper before it hits the next cars, trees, walls, whatever).

[zzapp the witch]

We did that once with 4 people and a VW bug.