This is what we do in lieu of leaving a note:D


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That's a more appropriate response after refusing to let the guy on the street clean your windshield.

Not sure where this was:

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If You Park Your Corvette Like A Douchebag, You Deserve To Be Trolled Like This

Like.

New Jersey, just outside the Lincoln Tunnel.

i'd have parked closer.

awesome

Everyone should have a special vehicle (German, of course) to snuggle up along side the doors of these self-entitled owners.

I especially like the roof rack and the vehicle's lawn mowing potential, but it seems it could use add'l low-end torque. I won't continue with its noise and vibration issues and other Road&Track-like vehicle review comments.

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This response is a little more "in-your-face".
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Sherwood

I'm probably gonna get ripped (and if someone had already pointed this out, just ignore this post), but I usually park my Porsche in more than one space. However, it's always in the back of the lot and there's always hundreds of other parking spots that are closer. How can that bother anyone?

Nothing wrong with it at all when it's in the back and spaces are plentiful. It's just that doing so tends to draw more attention to you than parking in one space with the pack would. Wouldn't bother me at all, but then I'm not one to mess with someone's car, even if they richly deserve it.

Well, it bothers me a lot, and I'm probably hundreds of miles from you. :)

Kidding. If you're some distance away from the herd and there's otherwise no space issues, no one should have a legitimate beef. Still, some will, just because there are people who strive for order and conformity (think/dream within limits, round pegs only in round holes, etc.).

S

How do you know that later in the day it won't fill up to where you are parked? Just asking.

If it's in the back of the lot and there are plenty of other open spaces then in theory no one will park next to you so you only need one space.

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^^^this.

I also try to park away from other people, in spaces where only one side of the car will be exposed to another car. Then I get as far away from that other potential car as possible without going outside of my own space. I have been successful so far.

When I owned my Scirocco, I would often park three inches away from the driver door of a two-space-taker. And still be completely within one parking space. :)

I remember when I got my first Porsche and went to a big shopping center lot and parked (in one space) far far from the store and 3 rows from the nearest car. Came out of the store and some dickhead had parked about 2' to the right of my car -- still with three empty rows between 'our' spots and any other cars.

I would classify these as minor, since they are not technically using two parking spaces. I'd still think its a bit dangerous, because those spaces are free to give other cars the width to turn right.



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^End spots are gold, I consider that strategic placement ;)

Probably it tells people that you think that they are irresponsible....which tends implies that you are not....which further implies that you assume you're better than they are (and/or that you're willing to take more than your share of resources).

It's not the space. It's what the action means to people.

Oddly -- it can create a self-fulfilling prophecy...

I also always try to get as much parking space around my car as possible, sometimes also take two spots diagonally. People are so unconcerned about what their doors do too other cars. I got this "car-door-courtesy-call" just a few weeks after I drove the car off the dealer's lot:

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I don't need any more of those!

^^^"Parking Lot Rash" has hit epidemic proportions here on the 'wet coast'
Cheers
JB

I have a friend who once told me his parents and their next door neighbor had side-by-side driveways. After numerous ignored warnings to the neighbors about dings from their car doors, my then young and impetuous friend said he paid them back with a series of well-placed, anonymous "door ding's from his father's collection of ball peen hammers.

Not sure what happened after that as I was laughing so hard, I didn't hear the follow up, but I think they moved shortly after.

I may have repeated and embellished this same story on a very early page of this thread, but who remembers what happened on page 2? This topic is so timeless, future generations of vehicle door owners will keep this thread active for generations.

BTW, there's a need to bring the ubiquitous parking note up to speed. There should be an APP to send a text message to vehicle owners via their license plate number - it should make it's coder a millionaire overnight.

Until then, perhaps a small on-board label printer to create fortune cookie-size reminders we might feel compelled to create with deep philosophical meaning. E.g. "Are there quotas on douche parking?"

Sherwood

Got out walked away, then came back and took a picture of it and walked away again. There was a gross sweat stain up the center back of her dress.




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Parking like that just draws attention... begging to be keyed....

This was at the Gun Show 2 weeks ago
 

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Finally, at least this made big city news - LOL
Chicago FD parks in handicap at Trader Joes while shopping... non-emergency:
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This am at work.... Really???

Questionable driving skills...

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^^ Not much of a foul. It is their parking lot.

The Grove?

Nah this is in the San Francisco Bay Area...

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Exactly, why, if there are so many open spaces, do you need to double park?

In some circumstances, I will park sort or like that. I'll park on or over the line when there's empty space on the other side of the line to make sure there's ample space on the opposite side.

labels with REALLY aggressive adhesive!

Pretty funny on both counts. could have been a lot worse for the prankers.

My neighbor and I take up two spaces on the street. He on one side and me on the other. The problem lies in the amount of street left for traffic, it's not two way anymore, and I could park elsewhere. It's a blind right hand (or left) curve. The annoying WRX owner down the street loved to goose it through the turn with his loud arse exhaust. No more of that.