[Nachbar]

I kinda like, how this thread escalated 😁

[S1nner]

This is how you get dents on your door. My only question to a lady was, why would you park next to me when the parking lot is empty? No answer...

Bad pic, but you can see those dents...

[DocL]

Originally Posted by Conissah

If someone parks ignorantly close to me, especially if they're crooked and/or leave their wheels turned, I always just fold their mirror in. Open my door, shoulder against mirror, little push, climb in, and off I go.

Literally had a dude one time open his door into my wifes mirror. I was sitting in the car while she ran into the store. He looked at me, shrugged, and went on his way. I got out, folded BOTH mirrors, and put his wipers up, then moved spots. People are just dumb nowadays.

Last summer I was sitting in my car eating a sub and this guy in a big four door pickup backs in next to me. He opens his door and it slams into my car. I open my door and get out and confront him. He completely denies it until I show him how his door fits perfectly into the ding he just made. I say I know shit happens, but my car has zero dings or scratches because I take care of my shit. He ultimately apologizes and I was able to get a PDR that day. The guy did venmo me that night, so you gotta give him vredit for that. But it should have never happened to begin with. Even when I drive our pos Chevy suv, I never park like a douche or ding another car. Although our suv looks like it's been used for BB target practice. I hate other drivers.

[M5Rick]

The odd occasion I have to use a multi storey car park I park next to concrete support, that way at least one side is protected.

[RickFLM4]

OK you guys talked me into taking Uber or Lyft to dinner tonight.

[Germanauto]

Happens occasionally, and once I'm sure even on purpose. Had parked my E90 all alone and returned to a dirty lifted pickup right next to me. And they wonder why people dislike trucks.

[Marmugmotleocay]

People suck and do this on purpose.

[RickFLM4]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/757295687/

https://www.amazon.com/Andaz-Press-V...0972LQZN3?th=1

[kscarrol]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

OK you guys talked me into taking Uber or Lyft to dinner tonight.

Up in Asheville I assume…. Where are you dining? We made our move to Greenville a month ago.

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

Up in Asheville I assume…. Where are you dining? We made our move to Greenville a month ago.

Nope we're in FL because we have work going on at the house. We'll be back in Asheville in late August for my wife's birthday.

We are heading to Avalon in Delray Beach (in an Uber).

Congrats on the move!

[ky0u]

Originally Posted by Onesie

2: So there is less chance that someone will park horribly next to me

Originally Posted by sygazelle

If you take the time to park far away from other cars, I get why you might be annoyed if someone parks next to you. Maybe they think you are careful with your car so you won't dent yours.

in my experience, the people who do this to me are also the worst parkers i've ever seen in my life. Whenever I park way out in buttfuck nowhere, and I've come out to someone parked next to me, that person is without fail crooked to the point of being over the line.

Multiple times i'll get myself a corner spot and wedge my car against the "end" side leaving 3+ ft of room between myself and next the parking spot, and I'll come back to a car parked so close to where my passenger would need to wiggle in.

I do not understand the lack of braincells needed to not only fuck up something as simple as slowly maneuvering your car between 2 lines, but moreso for those people that check their shit parking job after the fact and think "nailed it" and leave it. It doesnt help that a lot of these people also kick open their doors like theyre auditioning for the role of Leonidus in 300. Jackasses without an ounce of spatial awareness whatsoever

[Frostynorth]

Always thought it was some sort of tribal thing, strength in numbers. A car by itself attracts the assholes and the stupid.
To many people just don't care, it's a tool for getting from a to b.

Clarkson said:
If you don't care about cars, you don't care about driving.
If you don't care about driving, you won't be any good at it.

[zx10guy]

Originally Posted by DETRoadster

Oh my God, yes!!! The garage I used to park in had designated motorcycle slots that were as deep as a regular slot but maybe 1/3 as wide. Skinny and perfect for a bike. Some asshole in his beat to shit scooter kept seeking me out like a creepy stalker and wedging his busted ass scooter in next to me. It had clearly been dumped at least a dozen times. Mirrors dangling off it, no grips, body panels all tore off. It was a total mess. He wedged me in so badly one time that the only way to get my bike out was to physically move his. I had to call a buddy who was still in the office to come down there and help me pick the thing up and move it. I briefly thought about carrying it down to the alley and throwing it in the dumpster, but decided to be the better guy that day.

The unfortunate thing about those spots was that most cars backed in next to it so in order to help their drivers avoid crawling all over my bike to get in and out, I chose to roll my bike all the way to the back of the spot, thus inviting scooter guy to come share with me.

Damn....I'd lose my F'n mind. At least mine was a one time deal and it appeared the loser didn't scratch my bike at all. The way he parked his bike there was literally no space for him to get off his bike. Not even sure how he climbed off his bike.

The way that busted up POS is parked in front of your bike, it would take every ounce of restraint for me to not knock it over to move my bike out.

[Alfisti]

I think i mentioned this here before but whatever. I don't spend wasteful money easily so agonised over a 997 for years, finally bite the bullet and long story short, take the family out to a local park for the kids. Shit-tons of spots, i park with legit 6 empty spots on each side, car sitting there all shiny and freshly cleaned an porschey and shit.

I am sitting in the park staring at the sky or whatever and i see the range rover pull in RIGHT beside. Then out. Then in. Then out. Then in. I've seen porn with less pulling in and out.

I get up and start walking over and the family climbs out of the box on wheels, seems like the oldest daughter may have been learning? It was fucking BRUTAL to watch, was seriously worried she was gonna ding it up. So I go inspect and the ENTIRE LEFT SIDE (the side near my car) of the rangey was scratched to shit, not deep, like it had side swiped a low hanging tree branch/leaves.

Why on god's green earth would you choose to park near the most expensive car in the lot, with empty spaces all around, if you're that much of a fuck up of a driver?

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

Up in Asheville I assume…. Where are you dining? We made our move to Greenville a month ago.

Congrats!! I bet you're excited to be out of the city.

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

https://www.etsy.com/listing/757295687/

https://www.amazon.com/Andaz-Press-V...0972LQZN3?th=1

I think they deserve those stickers similar to the ones parking enforcement uses. The big yellow ones that stick to you window. Those are a bitch to get off and I think the point would clearly be made to never park like an asshole again

[No one]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

I get up and start walking over and the family climbs out of the box on wheels, seems like the oldest daughter may have been learning? It was fucking BRUTAL to watch, was seriously worried she was gonna ding it up. So I go inspect and the ENTIRE LEFT SIDE (the side near my car) of the rangey was scratched to shit, not deep, like it had side swiped a low hanging tree branch/leaves.

Why on god's green earth would you choose to park near the most expensive car in the lot, with empty spaces all around, if you're that much of a fuck up of a driver?

They must have told her it would take her a lot of hard working on the street to compensate if she scratched again that time. It could be how they taught responsibility (at your expense, which wasn't particularly responsible in fact).

Originally Posted by rebekahb

I think they deserve those stickers similar to the ones parking enforcement uses. The big yellow ones that stick to you window. Those are a bitch to get off

So you know.

[Dang3r]

Originally Posted by Nachbar

Imagine owning a i8.
Two times, I had to roll down the windows with the key fob and climb in my i8, through the window.

That was one of the reasons not to switch to an i8, because my garage isn't wide enough to open the doors w/o damaging them at the walls.

[vreihen16]

From some of these observations, I'm starting to think that perhaps we're not the bad people for parking diagonally across three parking spaces.....

[bogotaM3]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Drives me batshit crazy! Isn’t there some kind of etiquette like men at a urinal? Skip a spot, damn it. I go out of my way to find the perfect spot far away from everyone. It never fails that someone parks right on top of me. I don’t mind too much when it’s another enthusiast but mostly it’s someone in a shit box parked way too close.

Hahahahahaha...... Happens to me far to often. One morning 7 am parking at LOWES all the way out to back lot. A little shit box parked so close to me, I almost hit their door with my door. Crazy right.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

From some of these observations, I'm starting to think that perhaps we're not the bad people for parking diagonally across three parking spaces.....

I never do that. It’s an invitation for someone to screw with you.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I never do that. It’s an invitation for someone to screw with you.

Definitely.

People will screw with you for no reason. You don't need to give them one and make the chances that they will even worse.