Earning Bad Parking Karma

[johno]

They park incorrectly, they pay the price.

I used to drive a very small car, very beat up car.

Lots of people park 1-2 feet over the line.

My car still fit.

I would often park right next to their car door. Sometimes with almost NO space between the cars.

I didn't care if they scratched or scraped it. *They* cared about scratching or scraping their cars though.

Comments

[mrlogic.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's exactly what traffic manuals tell you to do in that situation...

[aryx.livejournal.com]

I still do this.

*OH*, yeah!

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

We have a name for this: "Parking Lot Avenger"!

Z

P.S.: Go you!

[shaktiqueen.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I like you. You enjoy the little pleasures of torturing stupid people.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

I had my Beetle for about a week when I had to park in the Office Depot parking lot, the one across the street from Costco in Fremont.

As you may know, it's a small parking lot, made smaller by the inevitable spillover from Costco shoppers discouraged at ever finding parking at Costco.

There was only one spot left and some guy in a very nice car decided to take about 1/3 of it in addition to 2/3 of his own spot.

I parked anyway, popped the trunk, and crawled out the back.

My only regret is that I finished my business and was ready to go before the other guy could come back and experience the ignominy of defeat.

[xsongbirdx.livejournal.com]

Dang, you missed out on all the fun!! It would have been worth hanging around awhile just to watch him squirm!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Go you! I do this too. (15-year-old Corolla.) They deserve it, dang it. (If bad behavior is not rewarded, maybe it just might cease.)

Related story. Once, in a snooty crowded little town of no parking, the likes of which I have only ever seen in California, some construction project had caused a big dumpster to sit in one-and-a-third parking spaces in priiiiiiime territory along the main street. They tried to line it up in just one, but it was simply too long. I noticed the remaining area and said to may passenger "Oh look! Two-thirds of a parking space! Fortunately I have two-thirds of a car." Parallel parked in the little spot, got out, and smiled at my good fortune.