Taking two parking spaces at once

Does someone taking two parking spots bother you?

  • Yes, and I'll key the car, break the lens or throw cole slaw on the paint

    Votes: 12 16.9%

  • Yes, but I just curse under my breath

    Votes: 46 64.8%

  • I don't even notice

    Votes: 6 8.5%

  • No, it just means I'll get more exercise, and I need it.

    Votes: 7 9.9%
  • Total voters
    71
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Back in my younger days if someone straddled the yellow paint in a parking lot I'd pop the tail light lens as I walked by. Others prefer keying the car. Of course I've matured over the years and no longer do that. (plus, they started arresting people for that.)

I'm curious if that bothers many other people.

My next thread will be about people who park right in front of the door, waiting on someone, making people who go in/out walk around their car.
 
Life's to short to worry about inconsiderate people,or their actions.
 
If I'm driving one of my nicer cars and don't want to risk door/shopping card dings I will double park sometimes but when I do it's always way off in the back out of everyone's way.
 
Choice #5: Yes, and I want to key the car, break the lens or throw cole slaw on the paint, but won't because I don't want to get arrested, sued, shot, or stabbed.

Although, I honestly can't say that I have seen that more than a couple times since I started driving 22 years ago. I think they know that in NY, that would not go over well. :nono::nono::nono:
 
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Amazing.

Double-parking is retarded. So is vandalism. How dare anybody else exist in your personal universe. :nonod:
 
cowman said:
If I'm driving one of my nicer cars and don't want to risk door/shopping card dings I will double park sometimes but when I do it's always way off in the back out of everyone's way.
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If you're way in the back out of everyone's way, why would you need to straddle two spaces? I would be tempted to straddle the next space by your driver's side door(but would actually just take the closer legit parking space)

:)
 
Do it in the "prime" spots anywhere near the front of the lot? You're an *******. Do it in a lot that's jam-packed? You're an *******. Do it in a half-ful lot at the back, far away from the "prime" spots? I don't even notice.
 
Just write "I'm An Azzhole" with a big fat red Sharpie across their back glass.

It comes off..eventually...and might take them a few days to notice.
 
We double parked once - cross ways - because the business owner had positioned a dumpster cross ways across the front end of the two spaces. Parking was tight and we thought we were helping out by using spaces that were otherwise unusable. Our thanks was to get *itched at for it. We don't frequent that restaurant much. Wonder it if would have been a problem if it hadn't been a car that everyone loves to hate. At least the car wasn't damaged.
 
On a similar topic - what's the fascination with ALWAYS having to back into the parking space ? I don't get it unless you're a cop or maybe a. volunteer fireman.
 
My usual thought is that, if you are so worried about your car that you can't use a space like the hundred plus other folks in the lot, well, you've probably bought too much car.
 
Art VanDelay said:
On a similar topic - what's the fascination with ALWAYS having to back into the parking space ? I don't get it unless you're a cop or maybe a. volunteer fireman.
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There's a while nother thread on that already . . . Let's not mix them up on the first page of this one!
 
I was once in a high school parking lot while a community college football game was occurring. The community college police were patrolling the lot. Some drivers created their own parking spots so written warnings were left under their windshield wipers. Then an officer came across a vehicle parked across two spaces. That vehicle's owner was ticketed instead of warned.
 
My teenage daughter uses chalk to outline the offender and label it 'Fairy Parking'.
Originally she wanted to key the car but I wouldn't let her do that.
 
I saw this near a local coffee shop this past weekend.

Clearly, they are double-parked, and frankly, I don't blame them.

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Does anyone have any idea how much that car is worth? I didn't until I googled it. WOAH!
 
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Special place in hell for some people:
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Now if I had some time on my hands and some chalk:

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I NEVER park in a parking lot, unless I get 2 spaces, it is deserted, or I get an end space and they out the tires on the curb for more room. I drive a pick up truck. There is no way I can park in a regular space and open the door without hitting the car next to me. Not gonna do it! I park in the fire lanes in front of the stores if needed, but why would I park in a space too tight to open the doors normally?

Don't blame me! The morons who design the minimums for parking spaces are to blame, and the morons who open there doors into my truck. I hate door dings.
 
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Art VanDelay said:
On a similar topic - what's the fascination with ALWAYS having to back into the parking space ? I don't get it unless you're a cop or maybe a. volunteer fireman.
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Backing over kids sucks. When you first pull up you know what is around you.
 
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Sam D said:
My usual thought is that, if you are so worried about your car that you can't use a space like the hundred plus other folks in the lot, well, you've probably bought too much car.
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Sheep being led to slaughter. Why think like everyone else?

I have to have a dependable / good looking vehicle. It won't stay that way if I wrestle with the shoppers at Walmart.
 
tlglenn said:
I was once in a high school parking lot while a community college football game was occurring. The community college police were patrolling the lot. Some drivers created their own parking spots so written warnings were left under their windshield wipers. Then an officer came across a vehicle parked across two spaces. That vehicle's owner was ticketed instead of warned.
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I would gladly pay the ticket. I wish they offer paid parking of double spaces up from in stores to keep the riff raff out in the boon docks. They need the excercise more than I do. :yes: :dunno:
 
Sam D said:
My usual thought is that, if you are so worried about your car that you can't use a space like the hundred plus other folks in the lot, well, you've probably bought too much car.
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Saw one of those Italian supercars, Ferrari, or something in a crowded shopping center parking lot. Was more impressed that the guy parked in a regular spot amongst us poor schmucks then by the car. I can see not wanting door dings but if you are going to drive a car it is part of life. That said I get offended at the parking SOP in the nearest city they bump park, back in til you hit the car behind you. Street parked city cars are obvious by the lack of paint on the bumpers. Paint is protective not ornamental right? :sad:
 
StevieTimes said:
I saw this near a local coffee shop this past weekend.

Clearly, they are double-parked, and frankly, I don't blame them.

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Does anyone have any idea how much that car is worth? I didn't until I googled it. WOAH!
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So, like, I get to work a little late one morning. And, being as it was an auto manufacturer, they didn't get the concept that people would drive a car to work and you should provide enough spaces for everyone to park in. I cruise the whole lot and there is not one single empty space except for way in the back where some guy with a similar car had parked diagonally across about 1 1/4 spaces. Now, at the time I was driving a full size van with chrome reverse wheels (installed by a previous owner), and by the time I was done squeezing in, the corner of the bumper on Mr. Don't-Park-Next-To-Me's car was actually inside the dish of the left front tire. (I never touched his car in the process.)

Had there been extra room on the lot, I wouldn't have cared. But, since that was the ONLY space left...
 
I got a nastygram on my windshield (admittedly I was driving a large truck) bitching from someone who had a hard time getting into his car. My car was parked evenly between the lines. If he couldn't get in he must have parked way off center in his poopbox.
 
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