AZ is an "in your face" about having an expensive car and parking it for attention. First week here I was blown away by the sheer #'s of expensive german sedans parking right up front in handicapped and the owner gets out to go to dinner- and apparently being handicapped in AZ means you can't read symbols on the parking lot stalls or the little signs in front.

Employees at retail stores park their cars up front instead of the customers

Same thing with driving on the highway. Bigger the truck is, the closer you tailgate.

Running red lights while on a left turn is obligatory, same with merging on the highway at 40 MPH to screw up the on ramp.

Ever wonder where the stereotypical rich chauvinist was penned up? In AZ, that's where.

Sorry, but driving here sucks.

rjp

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PS this state has NO SHORTAGE of scraggly bald white kids with too many tattoos riding on bikes with ape hanger bars and cranking Shinedown.

No shortage at all. It's the kind place where a Tattoo parlor can afford to have a retail store front (like an Autozone) and a lit roadside sign that rivals a Burger King sign..

rjp

Edit: Maybe it's just Mesa. I gotta leave Mesa, pronto. Help me.

But these aren't even expensive cars! A Chevy Cobalt and a run-of-the-mill 5 series Bimmer. Both grow on trees. The primary offender in the first post in this thread was an effin Mitsubishi beater. I saw three Audi R8's in one hour this morning and one of them was also taking two spaces, but they were the farthest two spaces in the whole lot, so I thought nothing of it. Sure enough, when I came out of the store, another car had parked right next to him to teach him a lesson. I was in my 993 and parked with the common folk. The biggest d'bag parkers around here are in cars they have no business bragging about or thinking entitle them to two spots.

aren't the tattoo parlors in Seattle like that?

Hell no. The tat parlors in Seattle are always in decrepit old buildings in bad parts of town. Not in a strip mall.

It's like middle-america friendly shopping mall focus group tested and mother and Mormon approved "bad boy" but yet still socially acceptable storefront....

I've seen minivans around here driven around by 20 y/o something mommies with baby seats and a hello-kitty logo in the rear window- and the hello kitty is sporting a machine gun.

Kind of ruins it trying to be soccer mom AND a rebel at the same time.

rjp

I know Rick, I know.

that's the tragedy of it all.

I love the accessibility, I love the road system, I love the flatness, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE HOUSING VALUES I love the closeness to CA, but I'm really trying to understand some of the locals, really, really trying.

rjp

PS thankfully the annual scourge of Blue hairs is presently migrating back to Minnesota. That's worth another 15 MPH on the highway.

Nothing tests your patience more than a sea of Cadillacs, Lincoln Town cars and golf carts all over the roadway.

Sun City, AZ.

rjp

I stopped by a buddy's shop today and saw this..

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1335385230.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1335385289.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1335385322.jpg

After my typical jokes about "maybe some girl got pissed off that the owner for hitting on her boyfriend, ect, one of the other guys there says that the owner took two parking spaces, and there was no spaces left when a guy tried to pull in, the camera on another recorded a guy walking up to this pink one, picking up someone off the ground and walking around, kicking & scratching it. Every panel has some sort of damage, and don't let the Pinkness fool you, this thing has a big honking turbo and is very fast (if you are going to have a Pink car, it better be fast:p)..

Wtf?

How some people deal with d-bag parkers...

I'm sorry Byron, I meant "Whoa, that pink...WTF?"

Hey, don't judge the color until you've seen the driver. :)

What does the driver have to do with it? That's an assault on my optic nerves.

I found a pic of the driver.....

https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/im...Sy_GOlWdNpPmML

:eek:

I think there is more pink plastic in her than that crappy pink Miata...

You say that like it's a bad thing!

I'm with YOU, Tom!!! :p:p:p

I ran the pic and it's A MAN, BABY!

Spoilsport!

LOL, so is the owner of the car....