Parking woes

[PhotoChick]

I've been a long time lurker and have directed several people to this site. Gotta give some back. Check out this website - sooo many jack@$$es out there.

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com

One of my co-workers found that site and brought in a bunch of those filers. We have so many bad park jobs at work. He hasn't actually put any one cars but we keep joking that we're gonna stay with a third coworkers car. He takes up FOUR spaces. The only reason we don't kill him is cause he only does it one weekdays when we're not full and he parks out in no man's land with the trucks w/ trailers and the big box trucks.

[AFpheonix]

When we arrived at the restaurant, we noticed a BMW parked crooked across two parking spots. Mom had a theory about this--it's always people with fancy cars parking so retarded, so that nobody that park in the space next to them and ding their doors.

And then they wonder why their doors got keyed

I'll park over a few spots, but only if I've got the truck and horse trailer, and we stay waaay in the back of the parking lot so I can get out again later

(I did manage to parallel park the rig once to go to a Dairy Queen. That was an experience, let me tell you)

[Alephcat]

When we arrived at the restaurant, we noticed a BMW parked crooked across two parking spots. Mom had a theory about this--it's always people with fancy cars parking so retarded, so that nobody that park in the space next to them and ding their doors.

I don't really believe it, but it's worth checking out.

One of my cow-irkers used to do that which really annoyed the rest of us to the point we got the estates department to stick signs on his windscreen telling him he was parking illegally (their carpark, their rules). Now he just parks a long way away from everyone else.

[Polenicus]

I've been a long time lurker and have directed several people to this site. Gotta give some back. Check out this website - sooo many jack@$$es out there.

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com

My favourites gotta be the people without handicapped stickers parking across TWO handicapped spaces. That requires a special, limited-edition style suck.

[strawbabies]

My dad still does that with his Mustang. Either that or he parks out in Egypt and walks half a mile to the store.

The 2nd one is what I do. The exercise is good for me anyhow.

[infavorofnaturalselection]

My favourites gotta be the people without handicapped stickers parking across TWO handicapped spaces. That requires a special, limited-edition style suck.

Do they get one fine or two since they violated two handicaped parking spaces? I think there needs to be more meter maids or other traffic/parking cops these days. Used to be a city would get a lot of money chasing down those violaters and you would be surprised at how many criminals got caught because the meter maid ran the plates down.

[protege]

(I did manage to parallel park the rig once to go to a Dairy Queen. That was an experience, let me tell you)

I knew a guy who would drive his school bus to college classes in the morning. He actually did a good job parallel-parking that thing. Kinda gives a whole new meaning to "taking the short bus to school"

Locally though, people are not exactly kind to people who can't park. It's usually pretty bad during the winter. Somehow, not being able to see the lines makes people park in the aisle (usually behind another car that's legally parked!), on the sidewalk, in the middle of the road, etc. And yes, people *do* mess with their cars--everything from leaving notes, to keying them, to breaking windows, and flattening the tires. I don't do that, but I do enjoy seeing them get what they deserve. Sorry, but I don't tolerate stupidity.

[MadMike]

You'd get someone try to squeeze in anyways, or someone causing deliberate damage because you're parked like a dumbass.

When I had a smaller car, I used to do the "Squeeze in anyway" thing you mentioned, just to tick off the idiot who parked like that. And one time, someone parallel-parked right up against my rear bumper because otherwise they'd be close enough to a fire hydrant to get a ticket. I don't know what posessed me to do this, but I pushed the other car backwards with mine, and left his car right next to the thing. I was hoping he'd get ticketed, but when I went around the block to look, he was already gone.

I don't try to squeeze in much anymore, because my car is only a year old, and also because it's not as easy to squeeze into some places as the old one. Although, about a month or so ago, we went to the movies, and the only spot I could see was next to this car that was parked so that the passenger side tires were right on the line, so I squeezed in there. The owner, who looked like she was barely old enough to drive in the first place, was still in the car, got all annoyed and started complaining, until her friends pointed out that she was right on the line. I think she actually re-parked it after that.

I don't always get in the lines on the first try, but if I don't, I back out and try it again. Ironically, the only time I got a nasty note about my parking was when I had parked slightly crooked, but was well inside the lines.

[Jack7957]

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.

[blas]

I've told this before but it's always worth another go...

In the college housing areas, where tenants only have a one or two car driveway (or NONE at all!) and random party goers and self centered idiots park in their driveways or take up all available space, if it's a small enough vehicle, it's not uncommon to see big burly college guys picking up the offending cars and moving them.

It's awesome to watch.