We have similar issues at our garage... people like to wedge themselves in the same spot... only we have in house police so they go and write a ticket and if it happens a few times you arent allowed to park in the garage
Need to vent - Some people just don't understand
Warning, this is me venting at idiots who think that a car is just a car and that dings are inevitable.
So I park in a garage at work. At the outside corners, there's an open area, which isn't technically a spot (** in diagram below).
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I always park on the end, next to this open area, and a few inches over the line away from the car next to me to avoid dings. Lots of other people with nicer cars do the same. The parking situation is tight, so there are often no-open spaces anywhere.
Today I get back to my car and I have a note on my windshield:
Selfish @^!#!! You don't deserve 2 spaces! A$$hole!
I was literally a few inches over the line into a space that isn't even a legal parking spot. Meanwhile, there's a Toyota Corolla wedged into the corner, which somehow has managed to get in between my car and the BMW on the other side of the corner. I was angry at this point, but would never, ever, ever touch anyone else's car, so I wrote a reply on the back of the note:
Thanks for the nice note. Seeing as I was 3 inches over the line I don't think it's fair to say I was in 2 spots. Especially considering you aren't even parked in a legal spot. Have a nice night.
And put it on the Corolla's windshield and made a note of their plate. I'm not 100% certain they're the ones who put it there...but it's likely.
Why do other people not understand the love I have for my car and the need to protect it from accidents? My last car got so dinged up parking in this garage that I just gave up trying. Now I'm worried my car will be targeted for vandalism. Ugh.
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So I park in a garage at work. At the outside corners, there's an open area, which isn't technically a spot (** in diagram below).
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I always park on the end, next to this open area, and a few inches over the line away from the car next to me to avoid dings. Lots of other people with nicer cars do the same. The parking situation is tight, so there are often no-open spaces anywhere.
Today I get back to my car and I have a note on my windshield:
Selfish @^!#!! You don't deserve 2 spaces! A$$hole!
I was literally a few inches over the line into a space that isn't even a legal parking spot. Meanwhile, there's a Toyota Corolla wedged into the corner, which somehow has managed to get in between my car and the BMW on the other side of the corner. I was angry at this point, but would never, ever, ever touch anyone else's car, so I wrote a reply on the back of the note:
Thanks for the nice note. Seeing as I was 3 inches over the line I don't think it's fair to say I was in 2 spots. Especially considering you aren't even parked in a legal spot. Have a nice night.
And put it on the Corolla's windshield and made a note of their plate. I'm not 100% certain they're the ones who put it there...but it's likely.
Why do other people not understand the love I have for my car and the need to protect it from accidents? My last car got so dinged up parking in this garage that I just gave up trying. Now I'm worried my car will be targeted for vandalism. Ugh.
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Find him and punch him in the face!
(or her)
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(or her)
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Re: (tomedkaz)
Always a solution!
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| Find him and punch him in the face! (or her)
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Always a solution!
Re: (peter_reece2003)
I understand entirely.
My friends laugh at me cuz I always park as far away as possible. Many times there is someone right next to me when I come back to my car.
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I understand entirely.
My friends laugh at me cuz I always park as far away as possible. Many times there is someone right next to me when I come back to my car.
Re: (05BruzaS60r)
exact same.
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| I understand entirely. My friends laugh at me cuz I always park as far away as possible. Many times there is someone right next to me when I come back to my car.
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exact same.
Re: (GiRaff3)
I own a town home with shared parking lot. We have a reserved space in front of the house, but I park my Jeep, R, and XC90 in these 3 spots. If we take the XC90 out we put my wifes car in the spot to make sure no one parks there. I don't like people near my cars.
Edit: I wonder if its part of the reason the neighbors hate me.
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Modified by dave_n_ruth at 9:01 PM 3-19-2009
I own a town home with shared parking lot. We have a reserved space in front of the house, but I park my Jeep, R, and XC90 in these 3 spots. If we take the XC90 out we put my wifes car in the spot to make sure no one parks there. I don't like people near my cars.
Edit: I wonder if its part of the reason the neighbors hate me.
Modified by dave_n_ruth at 9:01 PM 3-19-2009
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Re: (dave_n_ruth)
This is not me being negative towards you so don't take it that way
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You know your neighbors hate you. And my guess being a DC Suburbs resident for 33 years and living in a condo and town home myself at one time, you are most likely violating your HOA by parking cars in spots reserved for visitors and or having more than two vehicles. Or maybe you have generous amounts of overflow parking but thats rare as hen's teeth around the DC Metro Area
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| Quote, originally posted by dave_n_ruth » |
| I own a town home with shared parking lot. We have a reserved space in front of the house, but I park my Jeep, R, and XC90 in these 3 spots. If we take the XC90 out we put my wifes car in the spot to make sure no one parks there. I don't like people near my cars.
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This is not me being negative towards you so don't take it that way
You know your neighbors hate you. And my guess being a DC Suburbs resident for 33 years and living in a condo and town home myself at one time, you are most likely violating your HOA by parking cars in spots reserved for visitors and or having more than two vehicles. Or maybe you have generous amounts of overflow parking but thats rare as hen's teeth around the DC Metro Area
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Re: (dave_n_ruth)
Probably, but I'd do the same thing
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| Quote, originally posted by dave_n_ruth » |
| I own a town home with shared parking lot. We have a reserved space in front of the house, but I park my Jeep, R, and XC90 in these 3 spots. If we take the XC90 out we put my wifes car in the spot to make sure no one parks there. I don't like people near my cars. Edit: I wonder if its part of the reason the neighbors hate me.
Modified by dave_n_ruth at 9:01 PM 3-19-2009 |
Probably, but I'd do the same thing
Re: Need to vent - Some people just don't understand (djkronik57)
I don't blame you. I have one of those spots at work and I always take it.
Fortunately there's a grassy curb thing in the corner so you can't park in it. I put a loose wedge of asphalt against the back curb behind the right wheel so I know how far to back up so I don't nick the exhaust. I back slowly up to it-no scuffs.
And yes, I park far away while my friends and family say,"Hey there's a spot!" "What about that one?"
Nope, we are walking...
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I don't blame you. I have one of those spots at work and I always take it.
Fortunately there's a grassy curb thing in the corner so you can't park in it. I put a loose wedge of asphalt against the back curb behind the right wheel so I know how far to back up so I don't nick the exhaust. I back slowly up to it-no scuffs.
And yes, I park far away while my friends and family say,"Hey there's a spot!" "What about that one?"
Nope, we are walking...
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Re: (Wilsonman08)
...as long as it's not *their* car...
I have one friend who doesn't give two isht's about his car (he's lucky if the oil gets changed) and one who doesn't take their car out if there's a 10% chance of rain. I let the two of them borrow my car (long story) and they came back with a push-on flag in the window (the kind that clips to the window then you raise the window to hold it in). I wasn't too happy and I make them take it off (it was on the rear window). I go to drive to dinner w/ them and they put it in the front window now, with me telling them now (this was the guy who doesn't take his car out) - scratched tint on both windows.
Another guy babies his car - spends every chance he can get leaning on my car... "I don't have any rivets"
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I don't care if you're wearing silk boxers over silk pants with a silk zipper, get the eff off of my car!
Pits in the bumpers from license plate nuts/bolts from (attempts at) other folks parallel parking and using the car in MOVING 2" as an indicator that there isn't any more room to move
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...and to top it all, the girlfriend parks her (now 3 week old) BMW in a parking lot at a local diner. There was a *slight* downhill and a geriatric (no offense to all you geriatric "R" owners) lets his Buick's door just slam into hers. We both look over, and she graciously opens the window and yells "ARE YOU F*CKING SH*TTING ME?!?! WHAT THE F*CK?!?!?! YOU F*CKING RETARD?!?! ........ (he and his friend look over... then look back and start to back out) WHAT THE F*CK?!?!?!" - so we get the plate number, call the police, file a report, get their insurance info, call their carrier, get an estimate, and have a check sent to her, no questions asked. If that would have happened while we weren't there, there'd just be a nice crease on the rear quarter with nothing to show for it but a nice crease
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Since this has already gone waaaaay further than I expected it to (as both a thread and as a post), I'll comfortably say that many people need to drive off a cliff (that's the "nice" version of saying what I want to).
...as long as it's not *their* car...
I have one friend who doesn't give two isht's about his car (he's lucky if the oil gets changed) and one who doesn't take their car out if there's a 10% chance of rain. I let the two of them borrow my car (long story) and they came back with a push-on flag in the window (the kind that clips to the window then you raise the window to hold it in). I wasn't too happy and I make them take it off (it was on the rear window). I go to drive to dinner w/ them and they put it in the front window now, with me telling them now (this was the guy who doesn't take his car out) - scratched tint on both windows.
Another guy babies his car - spends every chance he can get leaning on my car... "I don't have any rivets"
Pits in the bumpers from license plate nuts/bolts from (attempts at) other folks parallel parking and using the car in MOVING 2" as an indicator that there isn't any more room to move
...and to top it all, the girlfriend parks her (now 3 week old) BMW in a parking lot at a local diner. There was a *slight* downhill and a geriatric (no offense to all you geriatric "R" owners) lets his Buick's door just slam into hers. We both look over, and she graciously opens the window and yells "ARE YOU F*CKING SH*TTING ME?!?! WHAT THE F*CK?!?!?! YOU F*CKING RETARD?!?! ........ (he and his friend look over... then look back and start to back out) WHAT THE F*CK?!?!?!" - so we get the plate number, call the police, file a report, get their insurance info, call their carrier, get an estimate, and have a check sent to her, no questions asked. If that would have happened while we weren't there, there'd just be a nice crease on the rear quarter with nothing to show for it but a nice crease
Since this has already gone waaaaay further than I expected it to (as both a thread and as a post), I'll comfortably say that many people need to drive off a cliff (that's the "nice" version of saying what I want to).
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