Parking morons
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That's gotta be for the new 2105 Corvette diesel Ted Nugent Edition I've been hearing about. All wheel drive, gun rack, snow plow, its got it all. Lots of torque, can pull its own trailer. Not sure how the knobby tires will do on a road course, though...
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So, if I understand this correctly.......At some point yesterday you felt that NOTHING else had a higher priority on Christmas day than logging onto your PC and calling me an "idiot" because you didn't LIKE it that back in 2008 I poured 8 oz of liquid on a POS $250 car that looked worse that something you'd see in a junkyard?
Reallllly?!!
Do me a favor and just sit and think about that for a while.
You will eventually realize that YOU are the idiot.
Reallllly?!!
Do me a favor and just sit and think about that for a while.
You will eventually realize that YOU are the idiot.
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Entertaining thread to say the least! That said, I also park my daily driver C6 in the back/unoccupied areas of any parking lot I have to use because I learned my lesson with my C5 and Ram Air T/A both getting hit in front because they are "Too Low" to see when parking acrtoss from them and my C4 got door dings galore from general parking population at work. While the Buick in the original pic might look a little scary at first glance, it is parked straight and in the center of it's space so I'd have no issue.
I have encounterred this only once - One time coming out of work but wouldn't dream of flattenning any tires. I simply took a seat on the curb and waited. Needless to say when the first woman came out and saw all 6'5" long haired and annoyed looking me leaning against her car there was nothing but apologies coming from her mouth until her friend in the other car also came out and quickly turned around to pretend it wasn't her car.....
It was absolutely done intentionally and they were caught.....both had parking privlidges revoked and they now are street parkers.
I have encounterred this only once - One time coming out of work but wouldn't dream of flattenning any tires. I simply took a seat on the curb and waited. Needless to say when the first woman came out and saw all 6'5" long haired and annoyed looking me leaning against her car there was nothing but apologies coming from her mouth until her friend in the other car also came out and quickly turned around to pretend it wasn't her car.....
It was absolutely done intentionally and they were caught.....both had parking privlidges revoked and they now are street parkers.
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People never cease to amaze me. There were ~10 empty spaces on the driver's side of the car, and (obviously) none parked the rest of the way down the row on the passenger's side.
I actually had to jockey the wheel the back out of the space. Not visible is the way the Camry is angled into the space with the driver's side front fender just over the line into my space. People can be such @ssholes sometimes.
S.
I actually had to jockey the wheel the back out of the space. Not visible is the way the Camry is angled into the space with the driver's side front fender just over the line into my space. People can be such @ssholes sometimes.
S.
One idea to one -up a ridiculous stunt exacly like this one in the future is to open both of your doors, with the passenger door open to about 1 inch of hitting the perpetrator's car, then start dusting off your door jams, cleaning your windows and detailing your car with the 2 doors left as far open possible. Maybe even leave the Windex bottle and other supplies on the ground directly under his drivers's door. Just kind of set up shop right there as if HIS car didn't exist.
This obviously involves having a rag/towel and some stuff already available and an unlimited amount of time on your hands, as you need to continue until he returns.
When he returns, just look at him, nod, and say, "What up?" very nanchalantly. Then just start whistling, "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White or something. This is just your non-verbal, sarcastic way of saying -
Ahh well, I guess we're just BOTH going about or normal business today, INCHES FROM EACH OTHER'S CAR.
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One idea to one -up a ridiculous stunt exacly like this one in the future is to open both of your doors, with the passenger door open to about 1 inch of hitting the perpetrator's car, then start dusting off your door jams, cleaning your windows and detailing your car with the 2 doors left as far open possible. Maybe even leave the Windex bottle and other supplies on the ground directly under his drivers's door. Just kind of set up shop right there as if HIS car didn't exist.
This obviously involves having a rag/towel and some stuff already available and an unlimited amount of time on your hands, as you need to continue until he returns.
When he returns, just look at him, nod, and say, "What up?" very nanchalantly. Then just start whistling, "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White or something. This is just your non-verbal, sarcastic way of saying -
Ahh well, I guess we're just BOTH going about or normal business today, INCHES FROM EACH OTHER'S CAR.
This obviously involves having a rag/towel and some stuff already available and an unlimited amount of time on your hands, as you need to continue until he returns.
When he returns, just look at him, nod, and say, "What up?" very nanchalantly. Then just start whistling, "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White or something. This is just your non-verbal, sarcastic way of saying -
Ahh well, I guess we're just BOTH going about or normal business today, INCHES FROM EACH OTHER'S CAR.
How old are you?
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And I also have better things to do than sit around in parking lots waiting to bitch at people for parking like idiots.
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this raises a good question to me. do you find a problem with others intentionally banging their door into you for example, or inflicting intentional scratching? is it a good idea to park away from others or as some porschers do, at an angle across 2 spaces?
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I have picked up nails in two of my Vettes over the years at Home Depot. I now use my wifes car to go there 