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I'd get on my cell phone to the local medieval Catholic church castrati choirmaster and have him rush his choirboys over to initiate the idiot into their choir.
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On my fourth trip, I went to park along the outer perimeter of the lot (I always prefer a direct shot in and out in lieu of passing by the entrance) and aimed my sis-in-law's well used Explorer to one of two parking spots under a shade tree, which happened to be the only shade that 85 degree day. In the other spot to my left happened to be a d-bag in his yellow C6 convertible barking to someone on the phone and using the classic d-bag phone pose of holding his arm out at 90 degrees to his body. I thought nothing of it and made my way to the store when at about 30 feet away he calls out "hey a**hole, 100 spots in this lot and ya gotta park that piece of s*** next to me?.....dumbf*ck" Still with my back to him, I stopped. Turned around, and slowly walked back to the Explorer. Fired it up. Promptly popped it in reverse and whipped it around in to the spot on his left literally 2" from his drivers mirror (I still don't don't know how I did that). Now face to face, I looked down at him and said very calmly, "thanks for pointing that out f*uckhead, I think I like this spot much better" Hopped out the passenger door and went into the store. He was gone when I came back and there was no damage to the Explorer. |
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They could see their cars from the water and surfed until the driver showed up. The guy paced back and forth furiously for a couple minutes then just stood there helplessly, looking out at all the surfers. My buds stayed out for another 40 min. or so then came in, laughing their asses off at the guy and left. The guy just stood there, well away from them, scowling but saying nothing (wisely :D). |
I would not call him names or get loud. I have found it very effective to not back down and calmly ask him what his problem is and what he is going to do about it. AH's like this are turds and won't do anything about it.
Although many years ago I saw my dad do something about it in a very similar situation. The guy was about 6 4 and my dad is abut 5 9. The big guy backed down. |
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Go low tech, use a very small speck of gravel. Open the tube and drop it in. Air goes out ant the little pebble is never noticed. Works like a champ. The other is cardboard and dog poop or less nasty but equally effective, slimy mud on the door handle. |
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Bueller, anyone? |
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I think he would forgive them....
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i would marvel at the persons ability to accurately assess me in such a brief time.
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"He was gone when I came back and there was no damage to the Explorer."
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The whole time I was away from my vehicle I'd have been wondering if the prik was out there fking it up - while feeling stupid for putting myself into that position. Been there, done that - when I was younger and stupider than I am now. But I still be stupid somewhat an' waste time arguin' on issues like this one. :rolleyes:......I gave up on fantasizing about Clint Eastwood responses to the Stu Pedassos of the world a long time ago; there's just too many of them out there. :cool: |
I thought more would agree with me but I guess my wife is right, I do have anger management issues. She said I fly off the handle a lot. I chose option 4.
This took place two years ago when I was having a heck of time making my sales quota. I was just having a really bad day and was on auto pilot as I drove into the hospital parking lot to see my fourth customer of the day. I was being called on to the carpet to answer for incorrect invoicing and technical/service issues. This customer had threatened to go with another vendor before and I thought I had the problems fixed. Anyway, I wasn't thinking straight otherwise I wouldn't have parked next to Mr Chrysler 300. He called me an idiot and I said something like, "What did you say, motherfucher?" Things got worse but it did not come to blows. I stayed and he left. I'm not a big guy but I am pretty wide for my height. I grew up in the inner city and ran with the wrong crowd, did a lot of really stupid stuff that should've landed me in jail. I've changed since then; got my GED, finished high school, joined the military, finished college, started a family, got a job I enjoy that pays well but for the stress of the quota, going to grad school now and am living a good life. But, the old neighborhood is still with me and I guess it doesn't take much to bring out the OG. I have issues. |
Get the baseball bat out of the trunk.
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Exactly. Why park right next to him - I could see one space over... Maybe we don't understand the facts here.... it seems he had gone out of his way to park way away from everybody else & that there were many other "way away" places you cvould have parked... is that right??? Just say - sorry, I have a bunch of bad things going on right now and was on autopilot - want me to move my car? |
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I did, and will continue, to do this since it makes sense to me and I always hope (but don't assume) that the driver of the other car will see it that way also. So far, no encounters of the bad kind have resulted. If one does, I'll do as I said; move to another spot and put it out of mind. To me, that is not inconsistent with my avoiding pulling into spaces between ill kept, dinged up cars but rather trying to find a space between nice cars. Seems like common sense to me. Cantdrv at least recognizes that he has anger management issues and questions his angry response (I think?) to the arse whole who mouthed off to him. That's a good thing. If he didn't park crowding the other vehicle, I can't fault him for anything but his angry response to the arse whole. |
I probably would have told him to go eff himself, he's not that important and neither is his car. Oh, and I would have written down his license plate number just in case.
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Well... a few weeks ago in Auckland a guy called me a wanker. I was dumbfounded. Huh, how did he know that!
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that's how we always park at work, our office is an old building with a courtyard turned parking lot with designated spots rented out. We park 5 cars on 3 rented spots, and we tend to still be faster at chucking our cars in and out then the others who use 1 spot for one car...they have parking assist, and are always a good 2 feet from the wall, where we are maybe an inch from the wall without parking assist. Takes a bit of coordination though, first in , last out, so if you need to go somewhere, don't come early or it means everybody has to come down to make a shuffle and let you out. |
I voted STFU and move your car, but only because it could've very well been me calling you an idiot. I hate it when guys do this to me. I park way across the parking lot; I don't angle my car or anything, but I make sure I'm not gonna get a door ding. If there's no where to park, I'll park a block away and walk.
9 times outa 10 when I do this I come out and there's a car next to me. Still no door dings though. Now if someone calls me an idiot I'm gonna ask them politely for an apology. If they don't apologize I'll ask them if they could please take a swing at me so I can beat the **** out of them, usually invading their space. Idiot's not so bad, but anyone swears at me, especially the FU command and I go into an irish rage. As for tires, all you do is take the cap off, place a small pebble inside and screw the cap back on until you hear a small hiss. Tire will be flat in about a half hour ;) |
Wow! What a post! I can't post anything without serious concern about public safety.
101 Ways to Get even in a parking lot by Capt. Crunch. Lol |
Hey cantdrive,
Funny you ask that here and get a totally different answer, smilar to what I would expect. I was a little sad when they called me names there. I need to go to bed. It is after 2:00 and I am still working. Jeff |
Yeah, where have I read about this before...?
I don't recall anyone ever getting pissy because I parked next to them. In fact, my parking next to them is doing them a favor because I'm courteous enough to not ding their car so I'm actually offering protection on that side... and because they're out in the middle of nowhere I'd assume that they would be just as concerned, protecting my side. Of course, after reading several threads on this I guess it's true that some people really get their panties in a twist over nothing so I guess I won't bother trying to help anyone out anymore. Anyway, back to the question, I'd probably ignore them or laugh at them and get on with my life. The only thing that would make me consider moving my car was out of fear of some kind of retaliation... otherwise, I'd just leave it there. I'd spend a few moments wishing I had a '76 Buick POS so that I could apologize for disturbing him while getting back in my car and slamming my door into his car and then drive off because there's really nothing he could do about it as it will be his word against mine. SmileWavy Sometimes I do wish I had that '76 Buick POS, tho... BB. |
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As far as my dad. 2 weeks back from Vietnam, 3 day old new car and the guy slams his door into the car, I mean throws it open and slams into the car, which resulted in a brand new car in the body shop. What set dad off was when he got out of our car he called to the guy and asked him if he had seen what he had done. The big guys response was "SO WHAT". Now dad was completely non-crazy and not aggressive at all. Well that comment changed him and my brother and I recognized the shift all to well. Dad said to the guy, very calmly, "wait right there". Dad goes to the back of our brand new and now damaged Chevy and pulls out the tire iron. Takes out the guys side windows and headlights, puts the iron away walks up to the guy, I mean right into his face and proclaims, "I think we are even". Nothing happened. We talk about these things now and Dad, although very successful, had a rough time on return. He is doing fine but boy there was some crazy stuff. Funny thing is that he changed toward us, seemed to handle us with more firm gentleness. He was there for the entire year of 1968. |
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I can't even begin to imagine, God Bless him! As for "Assessing" somebody instantly; it's all part of losing; you win some, you lose some; if you're gonna "Assess" then you might as well just get some popcorn, sit back and watch cause you ain't in the game pal. ;) |
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The iron thing on his car is even with the dent. The iron on him would be even on the "SO WHAT".
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I would just tie a dead fish somewhere under the car
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i'd have moved it. but if he had anything to say after i did so, things might get fun.
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one thing i have noticed about parking my car as far away as possible is that almost invariably i come back out to find someone parked next to me. this is usually as far from the door to the grocery store as i can get. i don't get it. yeah, the car is a porsche, but it is over 20 years old and not pristine, and it is nothing special, so that cannot be the draw.
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