Parking and door dings

[jambo101]

What is it with people who insist on parking so close to your car that you have to squeeze yourself into your car even though the mall parking lot is not crowded and there are vast numbers of empty parking spaces available.?

[andi9899]

People are assholes.

[swamp]

Nov 10, 2015 15:00:04 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

People are assholes.

[flamingo]

The worst is when I purpose park far out in the parking lot, so as to avoid people parking like assholes right next to me, and they do it anyway! REALLY?!?! There are literally hundreds of spots you could choose from, and yet, you chose to park right next me, so close that one of us will have a door ding before the day is over!

[wyouser]

Ah yes, parking lots. Besides being filled with idiots, they were designed to pack the maximum number of vehicles into the smallest amount of space. They then hired a three year old to layout traffic flow into them, inside them and out of them. You get the pleasure of trying to watch both traffic and shoppers coming at you from every direction possible and all at the same time.  Not only must you fear door dings, your car is suseptable to being backed into, t-boned, hammered from the sides, or being bushwhacked by runaway shopping carts. No wonder the S O B's are being hammered by Amazon!

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

What I loved at my last job was the people who insisted on parking their full sized SUV into a compact space.  More than once I needed to crawl into my car from the other side since I was not able to open the driver's side at all.

People are assholes, as others said.

[midjd]

Nov 18, 2015 12:26:06 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

What I loved at my last job was the people who insisted on parking their full sized SUV into a compact space.  More than once I needed to crawl into my car from the other side since I was not able to open the driver's side at all.

People are assholes, as others said.

One time I saw some monstrosity (I think it was an FJ Cruiser) in the "compact car only" space. I will give some leeway to non-compact cars and small SUVs when parking spaces are hard to come by, but this was pretty much the polar opposite of a compact anything. 

Annoyed, I took a picture and was going to post it on Facebook with a "WTF?" caption when I saw the State Representative license plate. Decided to keep my job and deleted the picture before posting. LOL. 

[Green Eyed Lady]

Oh dear. I was guilty of this once. We have a small parking lot at work. The lot isn't just for my particular office - but for a bunch of different offices in the building.  Usually, if the weather is decent, I park down the street and walk simply because that parking lot is really hard to get out of at the end of the day as you have to pull into a busy street and you can sit there for a long time.

It was a rainy fall day last year. I had neglected to bring my umbrella so I decided to park in the lot by the building instead of walking in the rain. There was one space open. The person in the parking spot to the right of my vehicle had pulled in with her tires over the line on what would be her left. I'm not talking an inch.  I'm talking like a foot.  These spaces are not large and I only know it was a woman because she was outside throwing a fit about it as we were leaving.  So, when I pulled in, my car was very close to her driver's side door.

I wasn't trying, on purpose, to make her life hard.  I had expected to leave early that day and figured I'd be gone before she left to go home.  But yes, she would have had to enter her car on the passenger side to get in.  I was parked fully between my lines.  Even when everyone parks correctly, there isn't a whole lot of room for error.  These spots are marked by bright yellow lines.

So...when I'm getting into my vehicle she starts yelling about how she can't get into her car.  I had enough sense to not add to the upset by pointing out that she couldn't park either. 

Moral of the story.  Park appropriately and be considerate of others.  If you don't, you may be stuck. Had I actually thought about it after I realized I wasn't going to be able to go home early, I would have moved my car.  I wasn't purposefully trying to make someone have a difficult time (maybe I was - maybe it was Freudian or something like that).  In addition, I didn't want dings in my door.  But?  It slipped my mind.  I was kinda one of the assholes that day, I guess.

[midjd]

If someone is outside the yellow lines, I don't think they get to yell at anyone about their parking. You weren't the asshole.

[Green Eyed Lady]

Well...thanks.  Sometimes, I just feel like people are doing the "I got my spot. Screw you." thing when they do something like this. I bet if I examined my intentions a bit more, I'd find they weren't really as honorable as I'm thinking they were!  I'm glad they don't extend into asshole territory, tho! 

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Nov 18, 2015 13:21:07 GMT -5 midjd said:

If someone is outside the yellow lines, I don't think they get to yell at anyone about their parking. You weren't the asshole.

She could have chosen not to park there though, it exacerbated someone else's assholeness.  More than once, I have bypassed parking (especially when parking was at a premium at the university) and wound up parking even further away to avoid boxing someone in.  

I've gotten boxed in twice while working at UK.  The second time, I had to crawl into the car through my trunk as the person on the other side had backed into their space and didn't check to see that they had left enough room on the passenger side.  This was after calling security and waiting 45 minutes for security not to show up.

[Deleted]

I can't remember the last time I have had this problem.  A couple of parking lots are spaced really tight.  If it isn't absolutely essential, I just avoid them and go somewhere else.  For example I go to the movies slightly further from my house because I like the parking better and I generally avoid downtown.  I have really poor depth perception, so the tight spot thing makes me too nervous. 

[Value Buy]

Nov 10, 2015 15:22:28 GMT -5 flamingo said:

The worst is when I purpose park far out in the parking lot, so as to avoid people parking like assholes right next to me, and they do it anyway! REALLY?!?! There are literally hundreds of spots you could choose from, and yet, you chose to park right next me, so close that one of us will have a door ding before the day is over!

Those people are like Ben Carson, explaning how he told the robber to shoot the other guy, instead of him.
They want the thieves to steal your car rather than theirs

[verrip1]

Yep.  Some people with big vehicles are azzholes and deserve part of the blame.  I have absolutely no sympathy for the complaints of my brother who bought an clubcab, full length bed pickup truck with double wheels on the rear axle.  OF COURSE he can't find places to park.  DUH!!!

However other drivers are not the only azzholes involved.  Local planning commissions demand that builders include ridiculous proportions of compact spaces in the parking lots.  It's their desire to force people to be inconvenienced if they dare to use personal vehicles, particularly larger vehicles.  IOW, your local planning commission KNOWS that they design in stuff like door dings, and do it to make parking something between difficult and impossible for everybody.  Our "public servants" at work.    [damned bureaucrats]

[mroped]

I carry a litle hammer in my truck and if I park too far as not to touch the door of the next vehicle, I just take my litle hammer and put one in the neighboring door!
There! Teach you a lesson to park here when you knew I'm coming!

[zibazinski]

I park between fancy cars! No one door dings me!

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 10, 2016 20:39:02 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

I park between fancy cars! No one door dings me!

  Me too or I park so far away from the store that no one else wants to walk that far so no one parks next to me. Of course that backfires on me sometimes like when the bottom falls out just as I leave the store and I dang near get drowned getting to my car!! 

[zibazinski]

Jul 11, 2016 4:59:48 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Jul 10, 2016 20:39:02 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

I park between fancy cars! No one door dings me!

  Me too or I park so far away from the store that no one else wants to walk that far so no one parks next to me. Of course that backfires on me sometimes like when the bottom falls out just as I leave the store and I dang near get drowned getting to my car!! 

Yup, I took DS and his girlfriend out to dinner and parked between a Mercedes and an Escalade. Went out of my way to do it. DS told her that's why my cars never have door dings.     She laughed. She drives a Mercedes.  

[mroped]

Been going to Lowes a lot lately and sometimes with a 16' trailer behind. My truck alone is 24' so altogether I'm 40' long.
I park farther in the lot and when I need to load I just pull in the loading lanes.
These lanes are clearly marked one way and wide enough for bigger combinations pickup-trailer.
However there is the occasional Joe that figured how to pull the trigger on a circular saw and at which end to hold the hammer that decides to take on projects arround the house and since he drives some F150 crew cab and 4' bed for his golfing clubs, he's using it to haul materials.
No offense to office people but if you drive a pickup and go at the lumber yard at least read the traffic signs!

One of these people was blocking to lanes the other day and driving the wrong way too so when I pulled up to load I just blocked his exit partially with my trailer. Someone else backed up against his back and the poor shmuck sat there for 15 minutes waiting for us to clear so he could pull out while everybody is honking at him for driving the wrong direction
All he had to pick up was a few 2x4 and a piece of plywood that weren't even fitting in his truck.
He had enough room to squeeze by my trailer but I think he was afraid of taking the dust of the fenders!

[Kolt!]

I think if you're going to be parking close to the store entrance you have to deal with other cars and close parking encounters. I think you're the A** if you expect nobody to park next to you or take up more then one parking space and you're up close. I also think it's wrong when parking is limited and such and someone takes up more then one parking place.

However...

If there's lot of parking and you park far away to save your car...go for it. It'd be an a** move if someone pulled in close to you when you're far back...

But if you're up close that's a different story.