Roadway and Parking Lot Idiots!

[Harmon]

Serious lack of consideration towards others. Happens everywhere, not just where you live and not just from people with little fish stickers on their car.

 

[werk]

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[Ambrus]

Heh heh.

 

[werk]

I'm still not sure whether the predominant factor is an inability to park the huge monsters or just a general disregard for people.

I think it is inability/bad driving skills combined with being in too much of a hurry (gotta get the last iPod before they're sold out or Timmy will stop believing in santa). I don't think they are trying to protect their vehicles, they are just horrible, careless, selfish people with complete disregard for others.

I saw the same situation last night when I went shopping, a hybrid minvan/suv overflowing the first spot in the aisle into the second. You know it always happens in the first spot because they can't turn tight enough to park right.

TAKE 15 EXTRA SECONDS TO NOT PARK LIKE AN IDIOT, please, thanks.

I've considered printing up some permanent adhesive stickers that say something like "I park like a moron". Stick it on the bottom of the drivers side window so everyone knows who you're talking about.

Not a pet peeve or anything. Not holiday stress venting. Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

[Chaldfont]

A couple of days ago I saw this clip on CNN about joke gifts. Included was a website where you could print off these handouts to put on badly-parked cars. I missed the website, and google is letting me down.

Others from that same clip include:

http://www.roadrage.com/ -- road rage cards
http://www.coudal.com/shhh.php -- cards to give to annoying cell phone users

If anybody knows the site with the parking instruction cards, post it here!

 

[Arnwyn]

So one day a buddy and I get back from lunch and park in either side of her, so close there was literally no way she would be opening either her driver's or passenger side door. She was pretty fired up!

Ahhhh.... this warms my heart.

 

[Warrior Poet]

I've considered printing up some permanent adhesive stickers that say something like "I park like a moron". Stick it on the bottom of the drivers side window so everyone knows who you're talking about.

Reminds me of the stickers Y.T. carries in Stephenson's Snow Crash. She's harpooned on to Hiro's car and he's trying to shake her as she uses his car to tow her to her delivery destination. He tries a move. She slaps a sticker on the window, with the words on the sticky side so it can be read from the inside, that reads, "LAME". When he tries a second maneuver to shake her loose, she adds another sticker: "THAT WAS STALE".

Brilliant.

I keep thinking that if driving requirements were tougher, it would make for better drivers, but I guess that's probably not true, huh? Driving tests every two years, both written and operative? Parking tests as part of the operative test (I had to parallel park, first thing, as part of my driving test. If you didn't pass the parallel parking portion, you failed the whole test. My test was administered by a Texas State Trooper, mirrored sunglasses and drill sargeant's hat and all. I was nervous. Passed, though! )? Required defensive driving courses? Required inclement weather driving courses?

It's all a pipe-dream, isn't it?

*sigh*

Warrior Poet

 

[Ranger REG]

I was out shopping tonight, and for the third time in just a little over a week I saw a luxury car parked diagonally taking up two parking spaces close to the entrance. Yep, sure enough, there was the little fish symbol on the back of the vehicle. Once, one of these morons had the gall to take up three spaces.

Must be Pat Robertson, or one of them Beemer-driving televangelists.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Normally a mild-mannered fellow, I find driving in general and parking in particular gets me pretty fired up and ready to key the cars of inconsiderate pr*cks such as you describe. I would recommend letting air out of tyres or getting to work with your keys, but that would be bad and wrong, so perhaps sticking with some of the other people's sticker ideas might be safer and more amusing.

I don't wish to get anyone fired up, since it seemed to provoke some comment, but I don't understand the significance of the fish symbol?

 

[Krieg]

I don't wish to get anyone fired up, since it seemed to provoke some comment, but I don't understand the significance of the fish symbol?

It's a symbol of Christianity that goes back virtually to the beginning of the religion.

During the Roman persecutions the fish was used as a secret symbol to help Christians identify one another.

Much of the association comes from the fact that St. Peter was a fisherman and that Jesus referred to his Apostles as "fisher's of men".