View Full Version : "If you'd parked better..."
Lysondra
04-12-2008, 06:59 PM
In the end, No Chrissy, you're not bad at parking. There's much worse out there. ;)
GentlemanX
04-12-2008, 09:18 PM
You were EMAILING while parking. You parked on the line. And then you wanted someone else to go out of their way to compensate for your mistake. Can't say I disagree with the note.
Lysondra
04-12-2008, 09:21 PM
You were EMAILING while parking. You parked on the line. And then you wanted someone else to go out of their way to compensate for your mistake. Can't say I disagree with the note.
Oh hey I didn't catch that.
youngBUTbanking
04-12-2008, 09:23 PM
You were EMAILING while parking. You parked on the line. And then you wanted someone else to go out of their way to compensate for your mistake. Can't say I disagree with the note.
Would have to agree.
noelle
04-12-2008, 10:46 PM
^^^It's egocentric to want your car not to get scratched? I park like that often, if I'm going to be quick and theres lots of spaces, why not? Perhaps I'm a egocentric douchebag, but I don't have any scratches on my car.
Seriously? Wow... Just look at VG's post. If you keep parking that way, I hope your car does get scratched by someone who is 7 months pregnant and hates your egocentrity.
Chrissy68
04-13-2008, 12:42 AM
You were EMAILING while parking. You parked on the line. And then you wanted someone else to go out of their way to compensate for your mistake. Can't say I disagree with the note.
apparently you dont read carefully. I parked. THEN finished up an email that I had started writing (at a red light before turning into the lot). and i parked "almost on the line" meaning there was still line visible.
aviendha
04-13-2008, 12:42 PM
^can you say Aston Martin? Or yanna, the Delorian. :)
Actually, you wouldn't have to worry about scratching a DeLorean. They're stainless steel--you could just buff it out! 8)
lizlizliz
04-13-2008, 01:50 PM
You were EMAILING while parking. You parked on the line. And then you wanted someone else to go out of their way to compensate for your mistake. Can't say I disagree with the note.
I'm pretty sure she was sitting in her car after parking, emailing.
lizlizliz
04-13-2008, 01:51 PM
Actually, you wouldn't have to worry about scratching a DeLorean. They're stainless steel--you could just buff it out! 8)
Goddammit, now I REALLY want one!
Get me a flux capacitator, like now.
kikidejavu
04-13-2008, 02:04 PM
philly, i remember a pic where you were posing in your gorgeous backyard (with a rifle lol) and i dont remember where. its 30 degrees in the chi, and i could use some sunshine pics. More please!
end of threadjack , and yes that lady was a bitch. i hope someone hits her car and doesnt leave a note lol
AudreyLeigh
04-14-2008, 10:04 AM
THAT'S bad parking?
Then what the flying fuck is THIS?!
(took this photo myself in a store parking lot)
I always park at the very end of the parking lot where no cars are so I dont have to park like that tho I could if I wanted. No one ever parks next to me - theyre too busy fighting for closer parking spots while Im walking and I still make it into the store first...
Zinaida
04-14-2008, 01:47 PM
^^Me too. It's so much easier to just park quickly where there's no one else, and no matter where you park in the parking lot it's always going to be no more than a thirty second walk into the store lol. I hate people(like my mother!) that will spend ten minutes circling and circling a small parking lot for a close spot. We're not crippled!
Lysondra
04-14-2008, 07:52 PM
^^Me too. It's so much easier to just park quickly where there's no one else, and no matter where you park in the parking lot it's always going to be no more than a thirty second walk into the store lol. I hate people(like my mother!) that will spend ten minutes circling and circling a small parking lot for a close spot. We're not crippled!
I HATE THAT! I just park further away.. it's not like I'm NOT walking in the mall either. FFS.
Zinaida
04-14-2008, 09:43 PM
^^Exactly. It really bothers me in parking garages when you're literally trapped behind the people being annoying and they're all driving around the bottom three floors for a half hour, when motherfuckers, it's the same ten second walk to the elevator whether you're on the second floor or the eleventh floor. UGH!
threlayer
04-17-2008, 12:08 AM
Put a note on the car (that you didnt hit) after the person has gone in the store (watch):
Sorry I bumped into your car, it was so poorly parked I didnt expect it to be way there. I didn't really damage it much so I'm not leaving any ID. Hava nice day!!
They will spend a few hours figuring out what was damaged. You will spend a few hours laughing at them trying to figure out what is different.
GentlemanX
04-17-2008, 07:36 PM
apparently you dont read carefully. I parked. THEN finished up an email that I had started writing (at a red light before turning into the lot). and i parked "almost on the line" meaning there was still line visible.
So, you just further elaborated that you weren't paying attention while driving. If you weren't paying attention, it stands to reason you were distracted while parking. Perhaps you drove in to the parking lot at an odd angle. Being almost on the line still is not good enough to get out of the car if there is a car parked in the next spot. Bottom line: you weren't paying attention and did a shitty job parking. No biggie. We've all been there at some point. But then you asked someone else to go out of their way to correct your mistake. Since you were already in the car, with it running, couldn't you just back up and re-park without bothering other people and then whining that a complete stranger did not cater to your laziness? Sheesh.
Oh wait, you were busy writing an email. You couldn't be bothered. The world revolves around you.
ajbaer
04-17-2008, 07:45 PM
If the ladies car door was open it probably wouldn't be a good idea to repark...she was probably moving around the vehicle and could have been endangered by her re-parking.
I really don't think it's a rude gesture at all to ask her to close the door. We've all made mistakes, and it's not like she yelled at the lady to close the door.
People seem soo mean when it comes to this kind of thing. I mean, seriously OK so maybe she did park wrong, but is it REALLY too much to ask someone to close a door for a second so she could get out. In the big scheme of things was her whole day ruined because someone parked wrong? Probably not, unless she is already a negatively thinking person.
I had a lady get really mad at me once. I had just purchased a new car and still had some difficulty parking it. So I pulled into a spot and realized I was too close to the other car for the person to get in. So I shifted my car into reverse and looked....the person was standing there YELLING at me through the car window that I park like shit and how inconsiderate I was. WOW I thought...
I calmly rolled down the window and said I just got the car, realized I parked poorly and I was going to re-park. She looked so appalled and profusely apologized once I was re-parked.
The OP has a valid argument, so did the other person probably from their point of view. It's so sad how one little thing can become such a huge blown out of proportion debate.
threlayer
04-17-2008, 08:08 PM
Apparently we have all become ill-mannered, impatient, and loud-mouthed. Maybe I should become a hermit.
Chrissy68
04-17-2008, 10:19 PM
^^ thanks threlayer. I was thinking something similarly.
No, GentlemanX (whose screenname is clearly a misnomer), I was STOPPED at a red light (that is what you're supposed to do, right?) and heard my phone get an email. So i look. I begin to respond. I see the light change. I put the phone down and inch out so that, when the two lanes of traffic going in the opposite direction stop, I can turn. I pull into Whole Foods. I park. Not centered in the spot, but not on the line either. Happen to be closeR to the left line. I turn my car off, as that's what's good for the environment. I finish my email. I go to get out. She has her door open as far as is mechanically possible. I can't do anything, repark, or get out. Nothing.
I knock politely and smile so I can get out. And then she pulls the uber bitch move.
keeeeerrriiiist. Give it a rest! Unless, of course, you'd like to make a youtube of you parking and post it here so that we can all learn from your ways o wise one?
BrunetteGoddess
04-18-2008, 11:19 AM
If somebody's door is open all the way, even if Chrissy did park centered in her spot she wouldn't be able to get out.
GentlemanX
04-18-2008, 11:09 PM
Okay but you obviously saw that she was putting her groceries in her car when you parked, if you were paying attention with the 17 other things you were doing. It's your responsibility to pay attention, remember.
You don't park next to someone putting groceries in their car. That's common courtesy. Bottom line: you admit that you were not properly in the space. Thus, its your fault.
Think of it from her perspective. She was minding her own business buying groceries to cook for her grand kids. She is putting them in the car when she gets attitude from some young whipper snapper. What is she supposed to do, not put her groceries in car? She needs the door open to put the groceries in so her grand kids can eat. There are numerous simple ways to avoid this issue. They all involve being aware of what's going on around you and realizing that you aren't the most important person in the world.
Stop emailing when you drive (a read light is not enough time, sweety and you were cleary preoccupied when parking). Start paying attention. Problem solved.
GentlemanX
04-18-2008, 11:11 PM
and finally, stop asking strangers to do stuff for you when you can't get it right yourself. A sense of entitlement is not attractive.
Golden_Rule
04-18-2008, 11:20 PM
I told this to PhillyVixen over dinner tonight and she says, "Who leaves notes anymore these days???"
Well, actually, I do. On cars that park on or over the line in their parking spaces who leave dents, dings and scratches in the doors and fenders of my $60,000.00 car when they open their doors into my car at the mall because they were parked too close.
I could be a royal dick and take two parking spaces because I drive what I drive and be the "I'm special" guy, but I'd rather not be that guy. I would just rather that people pay closer attention to what they are doing.
Sorry. You did post PV's question. That's the answer. :)
^ yeah, that'd make sense, except that i saw her come and open her door, without even glancing at me. i actually thought, well, how many groceries can she fit in the front seat of an outback, lemme just finish this email now and wait a sec. but then she took her SWEET ASS TIME.
Well there I am with you. If I saw someone waiting to get out of their car, man or woman, I'd have stopped loading, apologized for not having noticed them, and moved out of the way. Then go back to what I was doing when they got out of their car.
People have no courtesy anymore. It's disgusting. So many people seem to live in their own little world. Population: One.
Golden_Rule
04-18-2008, 11:25 PM
Bitch
I had to leave a note on a windshield the other day. It read:
Sorry. I hit your car...
It wasn't a good note to read.
End of threadjack
If you actually hit the car I hope it said more than that. Like your contact and insurance info so the person could get their care fixed.
[Hey, I just believe fair is fair. If I hit someone's car and couldn't wait around for them that's what I would do.]
Chrissy68
04-19-2008, 12:44 AM
Okay but you obviously saw that she was putting her groceries in her car when you parked, if you were paying attention with the 17 other things you were doing. It's your responsibility to pay attention, remember.
You don't park next to someone putting groceries in their car. That's common courtesy. Bottom line: you admit that you were not properly in the space. Thus, its your fault.
Think of it from her perspective. She was minding her own business buying groceries to cook for her grand kids. She is putting them in the car when she gets attitude from some young whipper snapper. What is she supposed to do, not put her groceries in car? She needs the door open to put the groceries in so her grand kids can eat. There are numerous simple ways to avoid this issue. They all involve being aware of what's going on around you and realizing that you aren't the most important person in the world.
Stop emailing when you drive (a read light is not enough time, sweety and you were cleary preoccupied when parking). Start paying attention. Problem solved.
Uhhhhh doood. I never said she was there when I parked. She was NOT THERE when I parked, or else I would not have parked there. She came in the 3 minutes that I was sitting in my car, with the engine off.
She was NOT an old person, she was my mom's age. She took attitude with me, not the other way around. I REACTED (not acted first) to her tude.
I was NOT preoccupied when parking, I had placed the phone back in it's case. But let's be honest here, how much brain activity does one actually need when parking?
You are reading WAYYYY too into things here. Did someone piss in your cheerios? Seriously man, I cannot fathom why you've chosen to take an attitude and nitpick my story apart, however you're seriously reaching. I did nothing wrong, and this story was inconsequential, solely posted to make others laugh at the nuttiness of the whole event.
Please stop posting in my thread.
eta: I never asked anyone to do something for me that I could not do myself. However, getting out of my car without being David Copperfield was not happening.
Chrissy68
04-19-2008, 01:22 AM
Omg. Douchebag of the day awards! I used to give those out at work, "Congratulations, you're the douche of the night because ..."
That's such good therapy LOL!
dangerousdiva
04-19-2008, 01:22 AM
I've left a note on someones car before. They were parked in my spot in the middle of the night, it was raining, I had luggage and the closest parking was on the street!
So yeah, I even put it in a zip lock baggy (so it wouldn't get soggy) with "FUCK YOU, this is my spot!", written in bold and put it under their windshield...I was sooo pissed. They took it to my apartment manager who brought it back to me and laughed.
I do think the lady in your rant was an uptight bitch though.
GX :loco:
VenusGoddess
04-19-2008, 01:54 AM
Okay but you obviously saw that she was putting her groceries in her car when you parked, if you were paying attention with the 17 other things you were doing. It's your responsibility to pay attention, remember.
You don't park next to someone putting groceries in their car. That's common courtesy. Bottom line: you admit that you were not properly in the space. Thus, its your fault.
Think of it from her perspective. She was minding her own business buying groceries to cook for her grand kids. She is putting them in the car when she gets attitude from some young whipper snapper. What is she supposed to do, not put her groceries in car? She needs the door open to put the groceries in so her grand kids can eat. There are numerous simple ways to avoid this issue. They all involve being aware of what's going on around you and realizing that you aren't the most important person in the world.
Stop emailing when you drive (a read light is not enough time, sweety and you were cleary preoccupied when parking). Start paying attention. Problem solved.
You're obviously lacking in the reading retention skills and succeeding in the "adding words that were never said" department. ::)
MOST people put groceries in the BACK of their cars...not in the front seat. If no one parked by anyone loading groceries, the grocery store parking lot would have no cars. It's common courtesty, that even if you are loading groceries, to make sure that other people can get in and out of the parking lot.
Start learning how to read, SWEETIE, and learn how to really be a gentleman. >:(
ajbaer
04-19-2008, 02:00 AM
If you actually hit the car I hope it said more than that. Like your contact and insurance info so the person could get their care fixed.
[Hey, I just believe fair is fair. If I hit someone's car and couldn't wait around for them that's what I would do.]
that's where the ... part came in. And actually as I was returning to my car they showed up and we talked etc.
They got their car fixed and my insurance covered it. I wasn't that nasty.
Golden_Rule
04-19-2008, 08:49 PM
that's where the ... part came in. And actually as I was returning to my car they showed up and we talked etc.
They got their car fixed and my insurance covered it. I wasn't that nasty.
Tres cool. And thumbs up for being one of the good guys. :)
MixedBabe88
04-19-2008, 09:56 PM
oops.
MixedBabe88
04-19-2008, 09:59 PM
When people are parked too close to the line I "accidentally" open my car door too much. I am curteous and always make sure I am centered, no matter what I am doing or how hungry I am. It's just fucking rude. "Almost" on the line is too close to the line, but then again I understand sometimes people are in rushes. But, if they parked next to me, they're getting their shit dented with my indestructable door. "Oops, oh shit...looks like you parked a little close there...my bad".
Mr Hyde
04-20-2008, 06:31 AM
Yesterday I was incredibly busy, and it got to be 3:45 and I realized that I hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch. I was starved, and passing Whole Foods. So I pulled into the parking lot and parked. I am a good parker. I parallel park all the fucking time because of where I live. This is a regular spot. I pull in, and park, and my side is slightly closer than center, almost on the line.
I'm finishing up an email, so I finish on my phone, and then go to get out of my door. Well, the lady in the car next to me has her passenger door open ALL the way, and I can't get out. She's putting groceries in the front seat. So I knock on my window, like hello, can you let me out please? kthx! I smile. She shuts her door, and then says with a huge attitude, "You know you're barely in your space there."
My jaw dropped.
"I'm sorry my poor parking abilities inconvenienced you. Would you like me to repark for you?" And then I walk away, and say, "Bitch." Under my breath, as I'm passing her.
Well, I'm like, incredulous, but laughing at the whole experience. And then I come out of the store, and SHE LEFT A NOTE ON MY CAR! It says:
"Point was, if you'd parked better, you'd have been able to get out of your car."
:O;D::)
I told this to PhillyVixen over dinner tonight and she says, "Who leaves notes anymore these days???" She's so right. Whatthefuck was up that woman's rigid tight asshole? I think she needed a good screwing. Man! Hilarious. So, moral of the story: beware of rigid women in subaru outbacks and how you park next to them.
If that had happened to me, that woman had better hope I never saw her car again. I'd key the ever-loving shit out of it.
ajbaer
04-20-2008, 08:17 AM
When people are parked too close to the line I "accidentally" open my car door too much. I am curteous and always make sure I am centered, no matter what I am doing or how hungry I am. It's just fucking rude. "Almost" on the line is too close to the line, but then again I understand sometimes people are in rushes. But, if they parked next to me, they're getting their shit dented with my indestructable door. "Oops, oh shit...looks like you parked a little close there...my bad".
Wow...that's just as rude as the person that parked incorrectly (which is still correctly as long as they're in the lines.) Ever think what that person had going on when they parked? A new car they can't handle 100 percent correctly yet, a child screaming, an old lady that doesn't see perfectly. I mean, gimme a break not EVERY person that parks a little crooked is a douche bag. Also, if that person SEES you do that, and gets a dent or scratch CAN report you (ask for insurance etc) if they were within the lines. It's happened.
On a side note, I know park way the fuck in the back of the lot. All these people talking about fucking with other peoples cars has me worried. The walk doesn't hurt either.
VenusGoddess
04-20-2008, 09:22 AM
When people are parked too close to the line I "accidentally" open my car door too much. I am curteous and always make sure I am centered, no matter what I am doing or how hungry I am. It's just fucking rude. "Almost" on the line is too close to the line, but then again I understand sometimes people are in rushes. But, if they parked next to me, they're getting their shit dented with my indestructable door. "Oops, oh shit...looks like you parked a little close there...my bad".
This is bullshit. Intentionally hitting someone's car is just bad ju-ju. Did you think that if the parking lot is packed and busy that the car that is not parked "perfectly" centered, but within the lines did so because the person in the next spot was parked off centered because the person next to them was, etc, etc, etc??
In fact, this brings up a nice point. I had just put my kids in the van at the store this morning and some teenage snot came zooming into the parking spot, threw the car into park and swung the door open, putting a nice big fat dent in my door. Huge. I walked over and said, "Excuse me, but what the hell? You just dented my door." She laughed and said, "Oh, so sue me..." and walked away. So, I called the police and they came over, grabbed her car insurance info (and I called while they were all standing there to make sure that it was current). She was livid. So I gave her the option of paying for it out of pocket or I call her insurance company. I got home and not 2 minutes after I walked into the door, the phone rang and the girl's dad was on the phone with my husband talking about paying for the damage out of pocket.
I would have been much nicer had she apologized and offered the info. I made sure that I got on the phone with the dad and told him about his daughter's driving manners.
If you ever parked next to me and did that, I would be sure you paid for every fucking scratch on my door whether you put it there or not. It's one thing to accidently ding a door...but to do it intentionally when someone is parked within their lines is just asking for trouble.
Chrissy68
04-20-2008, 12:45 PM
^^ you go girl! :highfive:
That's awesome. I love it! Was her dad apologetic? Oh, man, what a snot. I love it! Way to teach her a lesson.
Yeah, MixedBabe's behavior is wholesome bad karma, and it'll bite her in the ass at some point.
Sunshine73
04-20-2008, 01:23 PM
Right on, VG!!!!! People need to be held accountable for their actions.