owc6

This is to document the idiots/rude drivers that go out of their way to make it difficult in the parking lot. Feel free to add your own pictures and stories of the Gregarious Instinct at work!

I always park away from other cars, usually out in the hinterlands of the parking lot. Usually, it's just some knucklehead who has to park in the very next spot next to me even though there isn't a car near me for Fifty spots. I've got plenty of pics of those, too.

This evening, I was parked out in the last row with no other cars around, and when I got back out to the car, there was a Honda parked so close to me, that there was no way I could get into the car.

I went back to the shopping center, and started going store to store until I found the owner of the Honda and his wife. I explained that I could not get into my car because he was parked so close to me, and could he please move it so I could leave. As we walked back out, he was explaining how he was parked right in the middle of the spot, so he didn't see what the problem was. I commented how I noticed that he backed in so he could exit his vehicle (I didn't even ask him why he thought it necessary to park RIGHT next to me---sheesh!), and then asked him how his wife got out.

He, then said he let her out before he backed in.

I was so flabbergasted that I didn't even know what to say at that point. What did he think I was going to do to get in? He is a perfect gentleman to HIS wife, at least.


lisa

hawkgfr

Get in passenger side...pull out. Then kick the dog crap out of his pos Honda.


go home...His sickness is cured.

dennis50nj

If you didn't back in their wouldn't be a problem

Yellogixxer

I hate this, too. Happens more than you would think. Can't figure some people out!

duckvett

I can't explain why he felt the need to park next you, but both of you are within the lines. Those are just REALLY narrow parking spots. The solution: Don't shop at that store again.

Jeff-Ford

Ive seen much worse. They look like very narrow spaces and he seems to be favoring his side already. And there is another car next to the empty lot. What did he think about you snapping a picture while he was inside his car? I wonder what story he is telling people right now LOL "Then this crazy corvette owner tracks me down at the shopping mall some how while we were Christmas shopping and tells me how he cant get into his car. So I obliged him and walked out to where the car was parked and pointed out the spaces are narrow and how I favored the drivers side already. Then I told the guy id move so he could get in his car. While moving my car i saw him taking pictures for some strange reason LOL

WICKEDFRC

Not necessarily.....

Honda guy would have pulled in on the OTHER side.


I am one who advocates for anyone elses vehicle regardless of year, make, model. For some, it may be all they have and could afford. So treat others as you wish to be treated.


But straight up douchebaggery sometimes deserves a gift out of the ordinary.

Torchsport

Paging R&L's wagon photo.

Baxter's Dad

Those spaces are 8' wide. Greedy owners do that to fit more vehicles into their lot. This type of crap is especially prevalent in areas of expensive real estate. Mostly seen in parking garages where the owner charges by the spot. The more vehicles he crams in the more dollars he makes.

What burns me is when you see 8'spaces in a big parking lot that's almost never full. It would be so easy to just make them 10'. I think some non-car guy architect learned in school that spaces are 8' and just uses the default size space.

Remedy is don't shop at this business, take two spots and get keyed by someone who thinks you're a privileged snob in a Vette or park in a handicapped spot and get towed.
No win situation.

I HATE small spaces,

Torchsport

dennis50nj

its like heads or tails, 50 50 chance

TKgs2010

WTF??

pala

sometimes when my wife and I go out in her ford fusion I always make sure to park next to vet, I know the owner will take care in not dinging my door, as I am,
i can say this though, i do see a lot of vets taking two spots/(karma).
just do what i do in those tight parking spaces. send the better half in the store while i sit out there and guard my bb. lol... or i have turned around and left if i don't like the spacing, makes my wife mad, lol

dennis50nj

Its a joke hence the grinning smiley

TKgs2010

You're excused.

R&L's C6

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ProfessorDeath

Never had this happen, then again, it's my personal opinion that parking out in the furthest reaches of the parking lot is like drawing a bullseye on your car. Lots of immature people will think "Look at this jackass thinking their sh*t doesn't stink." At least I did when I was younger. That car would get vandalized in a lot of areas.

I tend to park 5-6 spots away from the nearest car, but still in the main parking area. Haven't experienced a problem yet.

Adam_W

I don't have a story to tell, but I've learned this much: park next to pickup trucks that are clean or have nice wheels, not the ones actually used for construction that have tools in the back.

There is something in the nature of proud truck owners that is shared with Corvette owners - and not shared by owners of many luxury cars or other sports cars: truck owners who love their cars do their own auto detailing; they don't see their cars as merely a status symbol as a porsche owner might; they care about their cars in a way that Vette owners do, and I'm not worried about them dinging my doors.

BLD.70DRIVERMPG-RET.

Some pick up trucks are now approaching or have surpassed the cost of a Corvette.

AORoads

Well, it is a relatively expensive truck, Honda Ridgeline. And, except for the fact that he's parked all the way out where you are, and right next to you, both of you are safely w/in your spaces. I kind of agree w. both jeff and duck in that regard: they're just very narrow spaces insisted upon (number and design) by local development codes as cars (mostly) get smaller and narrower.

Local and fed codes have also shrunk the street and highway lane widths, and that can be really hazardous.

I'd say this driver/owner has a doofus attitude and only thinks narrowly, about HIS truck. Had it been someone (not you) with an attitude or a seemingly nice Vette but not really, they would have pried open their door and banged the crap out of the side of his truck, maybe even keyed it before getting in and driving away. He should consider himself lucky. You, not so lucky, but the car was ok except for the long walk to find him.