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Parking spaces are plenty big here. They're much smaller in Europe. I parked against a curb at the grocery store tonight around 8pm (totally empty lot) and a minivan parked right next to me. No biggie, since the spaces are so big, he couldn't have hit my car if his passenger had opened his door as far as it would go. But why park right next to someone else in an empty lot? I don't get that.

Probably the same reason someone uses the next urinal to you in an empty toilet....

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Probably the same reason someone uses the next urinal to you in an empty toilet....
Hahaha!

There are a lot of people who don't follow the one-man rule.
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I bet it would help.
nope. it isn't that they can't park in a single space, they WON'T park in a single space.
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Yesterday I swung by the local grocery store and was in the 911 so I parked waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in the cheap seats. (I like to walk anyway so it works) and when I came out there was some jack wipe that was parked right next to me. There were at least 100 other open spaces out where I parked. There was also some butt head with an old Ford truck (mid 80's vintage) that was parked close to the store who had taken 4 spaces. WTF is wrong with people? I know they all suck!!
this happens all the time, when i park my 951 at the grocery store. and my 951 isn't anything special. cracks me up.
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Parking spaces are plenty big here. They're much smaller in Europe. I parked against a curb at the grocery store tonight around 8pm (totally empty lot) and a minivan parked right next to me. No biggie, since the spaces are so big, he couldn't have hit my car if his passenger had opened his door as far as it would go. But why park right next to someone else in an empty lot? I don't get that.
Maybe they feel it will deter a break in. Safety in numbers?
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Only two? This D'bag needed four parking spaces for his precious...

The parking lot was full requiring people to park on the street because of this considerate soul.



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Why fuzz out his license plate?
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Why fuzz out his license plate?
So we can't hunt him down and give a 100 lashes for being a d'bag.
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I didn't...Just crappy cell phone camera quality.
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A tow truck could take care of that d-bag in 5 minutes.

If the owner of the store/mall/lot wasn't willing to have it towed, I bet you could find 10-15 people inside of 10 minutes who would be willing to chip in and pay the tow truck driver cash.
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This was at a golf course in San Diego. I let the pro shop know and they had a golf marshall go hole to hole looking for the d'bag...No one fessed up to it, though. When I saw it I felt like putting a heal into his door. It really pissed me off.
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One of those valve core removers are a part of my travel kit...just saying.....
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This was at a golf course in San Diego. I let the pro shop know and they had a golf marshall go hole to hole looking for the d'bag...No one fessed up to it, though. When I saw it I felt like putting a heal into his door. It really pissed me off.
i bet they would have fessed up if part of the golf marshall's spiel was that it was going to be towed in X number of minutes.
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This was at a golf course in San Diego. I let the pro shop know and they had a golf marshall go hole to hole looking for the d'bag...No one fessed up to it, though. When I saw it I felt like putting a heal into his door. It really pissed me off.
Hole to hole? Why all the effort? Why not keep it simple and just call for a tow?

It's not like it could've been a mistake.

Please tell us they at least put a note on it saying it would be towed immediately if he ever did it again.
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One of those valve core removers are a part of my travel kit...just saying.....
I have a few Tools in my kit that do the job quicker
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ok, who will put a nasty note on this one??



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You guys are doing it all wrong

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today at the home depot:





the local home depot seems to attract these folks. that said, a couple of them do have trailers. AND they are nearly at the end of the lot. the one trailer, however, is sticking out into the lane of traffic about eight feet.
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Saw this idiot the other night, had I been driving my Burb, I would have parked in the spot..


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