Feckin a$$holes!!!!
10-28-2017, 02:09 PM
#61
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I usually park about 4 or 5 spaces past the last car or so, usually in a spot that's not too convenient. I try to make it look like the place was busy, but people around me have left. That way I'm by myself but not enough so that it attracts the "farging iceholes" in the world. I've found if you park a nice car way out by itself you're just openly advertising and asking for trouble.
It's truly sad that there are people in the world like this.
It's truly sad that there are people in the world like this.
10-28-2017, 02:59 PM
#62
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I have been parking like this for many years with all of my vehicles, not just the Vette, and have never had any issues before. I will continue to do so; I realize the eventuality that my number will likely be up some day.
Maybe the wife's parking methods will take care of my number, though. She will drive around in the parking lot for 15 minutes to get a close parking space, and squeeze between 2 junkers, for the privilege of getting their car doors opened into hers and ending up with door dings.
Maybe the wife's parking methods will take care of my number, though. She will drive around in the parking lot for 15 minutes to get a close parking space, and squeeze between 2 junkers, for the privilege of getting their car doors opened into hers and ending up with door dings.
I find it hilarious that, at my gym, folks will jockey and wait long times for a close in space only to enter the gym and then do an hour on a treadmill.
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10-28-2017, 03:17 PM
#63
Unfortunately I fear this situation reflects poorly on how others today respect both themselves and especially their fellow mortals. In addition to the Vette, I have a new Taurus for the wife. I drove it on day to the Post Office, parked and left her sitting in it. When I came back she was fuming. A young lady had parked next to the car--passenger side and slammed her door into the rear side, causing a small dent over the wheel. When confronted about her actions, her reply was, I was in a hurry I guess and didn't pay any attention to what i was doing--sorry. It is all about me don't you know--would have been a better answer.
10-28-2017, 05:16 PM
#64
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Except that you are not too likely to find those 2 cars parked close together in a Walmart parking lot! 🤣 At least not in middle class, vanilla central MO.
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10-28-2017, 05:51 PM
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10-28-2017, 06:08 PM
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10-29-2017, 02:06 PM
#67
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Haha true. I forget that Collin County Is one of the top 5 per capita incomes in Texas, it’s not Greenwich but there are a LOT of bmw, merc, and high trim level domestics.
10-29-2017, 07:44 PM
#68
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Mix in with everyone else and you'll most likely never have a problem.
11-01-2017, 10:41 AM
#70
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Sometimes I worry at car shows when parents drag along their little tots and don't pay any attention--the new generation--as to what they hell they are doing. It gets to the point these days that you would prefer to just leave it in the garage.
11-01-2017, 07:40 PM
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11-01-2017, 07:49 PM
#73
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Pretty much.. I park as close as I can get to where I am going.. I have never understood why people get so upset over things so trivial. Don't run errands in the car if you car about door dings and such. At the end of the day, it really is just a car. There's nothing you can do about it if you put yourself in the situation to begin with.
11-01-2017, 07:57 PM
#74
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All of my toys are for pleasure since I retired. And yes, as I stated, it is just a car and I drive it. Doesn't mean I don't care if it gets dinged up. People should show a little respect for other people's property but I guess if they don't give a crap about their own stuff they surely don't care about mine.
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11-01-2017, 08:03 PM
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You said it! Have a 2001 and a 2010 and unless it is an extreme emergency would never do shopping errands in either. Why invite something to happen. Don't even understand why someone would be going shopping in a vett.
11-02-2017, 06:27 AM
#76
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Maybe because it's a car, and they were made to take you places, including shopping. It's not like we are driving a Bentley or a Ferrari.......
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11-02-2017, 06:46 AM
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11-02-2017, 07:07 AM
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C6s are about to become two generations old. A 2013 is about to turn 5 years old; an 05 13 years old. Realize this is an enthusiast's forum, but come on, these are high production cars that sell in the range of many common cars today. A Ford Raptor is more than a C7 base.
Given the window sticker price on my C6 and a Bentley Continental GT in the same year, I could have bought 3 brand new C6s and a spare Mini Cooper or Kia to handle groceries.....
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11-02-2017, 08:43 AM
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WRONG! People should respect other people's property. I don't open my car door into someone else's $100 hooptie, let alone someone's nice car, because I was raised right and am a responsible person. As I have stated several times in this thread, I will not be held hostage worrying about my car in the parking lot. I will park in such a way that if someone damages my car, it was because THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE just like the a$$hole that put the cart on my fender.
THEY, the jealous a$$holes, are the ones with a problem - not me. And I will complain when it happens, and wish I caught the responsible party in the act so I could make them feel the pain by making them have to pay for the damage. Maybe they would then be a little more careful in the future.
THEY, the jealous a$$holes, are the ones with a problem - not me. And I will complain when it happens, and wish I caught the responsible party in the act so I could make them feel the pain by making them have to pay for the damage. Maybe they would then be a little more careful in the future.
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