There was another dipshit I was watching for the first half of the semester who would park his big-ass truck in the handicapped parking in my lot, put a handicapped hang-tag on the mirror, then jump out and walk very, very quickly to his class in the nearest building.
While I know lots of handicaps aren't visible, and therefore I give people the benefit of the doubt, the day I saw this guy JOG to class (it was 8:58 in the morning ... obviously a 9:00 class!), I started giving him the fish-eye. Never quite got around to calling the campus cops on him, but someone else did because they started lurking in our lot.
And one day I saw the truck with a citation for parking inappropriately stuck to his driver's window. Two days alter, I saw him again, with it still there -- I think maybe he was doing the old "put a parking ticket under your wipers and they'll think you've already been cited" trick.
However, I've never seen him again, so I think it didn't work. :)
I will never forget the time I saw a Hummer messily parked on an angle to take up two parking spots in the parking lot of Whole Foods. My thought was, "Shopping at Whole Foods isn't going to make up for anything else you're doing, jackass."
Haha >.> Lucky for others, I try as much as I can to not be "crook park-ed". Personally, my issue is ROOM. I drive a big, old-school TownCar, and yes!, I hate when businesses have ONLY compact-sized spaces. Or when, for some dumb reason, those are the only empty spots. Or, the only spot that's open, the idiot on the other side is a foot or more into my space, leaving my already extensive rear-end hanging out in a dangerous place. I hate leaving parts "hanging out", and I always get out and check both sides to make sure I'm not on or over the lines. Couldn't everyone else with a full-size vehicle be so considerate?
I used to have the opposite problem - I drove a Honda CRX, and I always worried that I'd come out of a store to find my rear end bashed in when someone didn't realize there was a car in that spot between two larger ones. XD
I can never get used to being in tiny cars like that! I had a tiny car like that for about two weeks, and as much as i loved it, I felt like I was driving around in a tiny, smush-able fiberglass box.
Now, the one crime I will admit to is that if its the only spot open, and I can manage to get in, I HAVE parked in compact parking spots! Not much room to work with, though. Haha, barely open the doors to get in and out.
Things like this tend to make me into a raving madman.
I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I once urinated in a gas tank of someone committing a similar - albeit more heinous - offense. But at the time I was much younger and more hotheaded than I am now.
but surely for a guy who needs to support his ego with a big ass car like that, the park-wherevery-you-want-permit is built in? *raises surprised eyebrow a la Mr. Spock*
Okay, not really, but sometimes it seems like that. Note that the guys here with the huge trucks all tricked out with everything they can get always have them spotless, rather than honestly beat up and dirty like anyone who *needs* a truck like that for work would have.
>> ... huge trucks all tricked out with everything they can get always have them spotless, rather than honestly beat up and dirty like anyone who *needs* a truck like that for work ...<<
For me, this is in the "designer jeans that cost $300" category. People, they're jeans. You know, what you wear to muck out stalls, change the oil in the car, and weed the garden ... ?
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While I know lots of handicaps aren't visible, and therefore I give people the benefit of the doubt, the day I saw this guy JOG to class (it was 8:58 in the morning ... obviously a 9:00 class!), I started giving him the fish-eye. Never quite got around to calling the campus cops on him, but someone else did because they started lurking in our lot.
And one day I saw the truck with a citation for parking inappropriately stuck to his driver's window. Two days alter, I saw him again, with it still there -- I think maybe he was doing the old "put a parking ticket under your wipers and they'll think you've already been cited" trick.
However, I've never seen him again, so I think it didn't work. :)
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Now, the one crime I will admit to is that if its the only spot open, and I can manage to get in, I HAVE parked in compact parking spots! Not much room to work with, though. Haha, barely open the doors to get in and out.
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I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I once urinated in a gas tank of someone committing a similar - albeit more heinous - offense. But at the time I was much younger and more hotheaded than I am now.
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Okay, not really, but sometimes it seems like that. Note that the guys here with the huge trucks all tricked out with everything they can get always have them spotless, rather than honestly beat up and dirty like anyone who *needs* a truck like that for work would have.
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>> ... huge trucks all tricked out with everything they can get always have them spotless, rather than honestly beat up and dirty like anyone who *needs* a truck like that for work ...<<
For me, this is in the "designer jeans that cost $300" category. People, they're jeans. You know, what you wear to muck out stalls, change the oil in the car, and weed the garden ... ?
*slaps forehead* But of course!
^^