people!!!
Racer
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 258
Likes: 2
From: Gurnee IL
I have traded cars in because of door dings. If i know i have to go somewhere and park, i drive a different car. I will not take my vette to any restaurant and go inside. I would be to worried about anything happening to it. Call me **** if you will. People dont care. And even if you park next to a nice car, that doesnt mean they care. Best bet, find another vette to park next to.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 3,248
Likes: 4
From: Palm Beach County, Florida
Learned about parking lot idiots early. I was sitting in my beater a long time ago when a 50ish woman pulled up next to me in a new Cadillac. BAM! She hits my door with hers really hard. "Hey lady! That's my car!" She gave me a disgusted look and said "so what! it's old".
Sad, and truly pathetic.
Sad, and truly pathetic.
Drifting
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,393
Likes: 38
From: Connecticut
Last week I came out of a pharmacy and an old lady was leaning on my trunk with her cane resting on my rear quarter panel. I asked if she needed help, I felt like giving her a swift kick, and she just said no, my son is bringing the car around. Her son pulls up behind my car and the old lady grabs her cane and walks over to her sons car, gets in, and leaves. I did my best not to get real pissed off but it was very aggravating. I swear every other car next to me was a piece of crap but she had to choose the clean car to rest on.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 3,373
Likes: 62
I am trying to find this TV ad that's on now and then. It is of an entirely empty parking lot with a nice car parked in the middle of the lot. An old dirty pos Ford is screaming through the parking lot past the parked nice car. The Ford slams on the brakes with screeching and smoking, stops, backs up to the nice car and screams into the spot next to it with the drivers side just an inch from the nice car. Then the drivers door BANGS! against the nice car. This ad is hilarious because you can't help but think that's exactly how it happens.
Sorry, can't remember the ad or find it on the web.
Sorry, can't remember the ad or find it on the web.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 936
Likes: 36
From: SWFL 🇺🇸
Learned about parking lot idiots early. I was sitting in my beater a long time ago when a 50ish woman pulled up next to me in a new Cadillac. BAM! She hits my door with hers really hard. "Hey lady! That's my car!" She gave me a disgusted look and said "so what! it's old".
Sad, and truly pathetic.
Sad, and truly pathetic.
Last week I came out of a pharmacy and an old lady was leaning on my trunk with her cane resting on my rear quarter panel. I asked if she needed help, I felt like giving her a swift kick, and she just said no, my son is bringing the car around. Her son pulls up behind my car and the old lady grabs her cane and walks over to her sons car, gets in, and leaves. I did my best not to get real pissed off but it was very aggravating. I swear every other car next to me was a piece of crap but she had to choose the clean car to rest on.
Last edited by Tropicana; Apr 29, 2014 at 10:36 PM.
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Instructor
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 103
Likes: 2
From: Chester New York
Correct, you can't fix stupid but you have to keep in mind that stupid will park next to you all the time, as you said she had the could have parked in other places, HEY you should have parked there in other places, well away from the stupid people, get mad at your self !!!! 
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,118
Likes: 122
From: Madison (Huntsville) Alabama
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St. Jude Donor '09
Saw something interesting at Applebee's (the same one where I got my first and only door ding two weeks ago) a couple days ago. One car was on the end parking spot, and in the spot crooked and the front was on the line. Another vehicle, a big SUV, was in the spot next to him ... and the tires were literally touching. The car bodies were about a quarter inch apart in the back of the parking spot. I can't help but thing there was something personal going on there. Wish I'd gotten a picture.
Back to Vettes ... you have to hit a Vette pretty hard to chip the paint. And thank goodness they don't bend like a metal car, so the paint dings are fixable to a great extent.
Back to Vettes ... you have to hit a Vette pretty hard to chip the paint. And thank goodness they don't bend like a metal car, so the paint dings are fixable to a great extent.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 5,783
Likes: 400
From: Paoli, IN
St. Jude Donor '17, '19
Learned about parking lot idiots early. I was sitting in my beater a long time ago when a 50ish woman pulled up next to me in a new Cadillac. BAM! She hits my door with hers really hard. "Hey lady! That's my car!" She gave me a disgusted look and said "so what! it's old".
Sad, and truly pathetic.
Sad, and truly pathetic.
Racer
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 406
Likes: 18
While meeting my buddies at a pub, I drove around the lot at least three times looking for a safe spot. I finally pick an aisle with an opening next to it and a guy immediately pulls in...with an immaculate C5. I hop out and say 'I was nervous until it was a vette next to me'. He laughs and says 'I was too until you finally parked that thing'. He must've been looking for a spot too.
My buddies were in the pub patio, cracking up watching me circle.
My buddies were in the pub patio, cracking up watching me circle.
