# Have you ever been to a parking lot before? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828 "2005-02-01T18:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/21 "2005-02-01T23:41:25Z")
> [@Chotii](#): > > Well, of course, so do I - if there’s a space anywhere near those corrals. It’s when there isn’t, that it can become a problem. You know, as soon as I hit “submit”, I realized how this might come across to you. I didn’t mean that you had never thought of this; I was just explaining what I do, and I certainly didn’t mean to offend you. I don’t know why some stores think it’s so convenient to put a ‘customer with infant’ parking spot right near the handicapped spots…but nowhere near the cart corrals. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/22 "2005-02-01T23:43:32Z")
That one reason to have kids. They love running the carts back to the store or to the parking lot carrell. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/23 "2005-02-01T23:45:31Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Maybe it’s okay for you yankees and your pissant little cars, but down here in Texas, where trucks are the (vast) majority, it doesn’t make a lick of sense. I personally use take up two “compact” spaces at a time when I get a chance. Screw you if you don’t like it! Anytime you want the Republic of Texas back, you can have it. I don’t think anyone will miss you guys. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/24 "2005-02-01T23:49:26Z")
> [@PastAllReason](#): > > Sorry for the hijack, but doesn’t the furniture in the street simply get stolen? Or run over? I’m amazed that some people will bash out the windshield of a car, but leave the furniture sittingly pristinely in a space. It’s left alone thanks to the unwritten law of the street that says “Mess with my parking space at your peril…I know where you live.” I only ran afoul of it once, and purely by accident. I was very lucky to only get a nasty note on my windshield - apparently the kitchen chairs were in an alternate universe as there was nothing to mark it as “claimed.” I can only guess my good fate was due to the spot’s “owner” being able to find another spot nearby. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/25 "2005-02-02T01:04:15Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > That one reason to have kids. > > They love running the carts back to the store or to the parking lot carrell. 😃 My kids also love to shop. I can just walk down the aisle, pushing the cart, telling the kids what to grab. 😉 This whole cart thing is part of the reason I like Aldi’s. They have the 25cent thing on the carts. People who don’t care a damn about damaging your car will do anything just to get their quarter back. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/26 "2005-02-02T16:17:57Z")
> [@Gamaliel](#): > > Anytime you want the Republic of Texas back, you can have it. I don’t think anyone will miss you guys. Please don’t presume that **UncleRojelio** ’s attitude represents everyone in Texas. Most of us were raised with manners! And I (almost) always put my cart away. I don’t have little kids though. ---
**Author:** ![GraphicsGal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@GraphicsGal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraphicsGal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/27 "2005-02-02T16:58:26Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > This whole cart thing is part of the reason I like Aldi’s. They have the 25cent thing on the carts. People who don’t care a damn about damaging your car will do anything just to get their quarter back. Ooooh! I love Aldi, too. I think the quarter-to-unlock-a-shopping-cart thing is a great idea. I’d never seen it before I started shopping there. I’d never seen prices like Aldi’s, either. Just amazing. Sorry for the hijack… ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/28 "2005-02-02T17:27:45Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > 1. If the sign says “Compact Cars Only”, don’t park your Chevy Suburb in the space. You have these??? I’m so jealous! I drive a small car and I can’t tell you how many times a van, truck, or SUV parks on both sides of me and I can’t see shit pulling out of a spot. I’ve almost hit pedestrians and moving vehicles so many times. I just WISH they would force different aisles for the different size cars in Ohio. THIS. DRIVES. ME. NUTS. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: The cart thing really bothers me too. Quit being so damn lazy, you just walked all over the store, another 10 or twenty feet to put your cart back won’t kill you. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/29 "2005-02-02T17:33:37Z")
You, sir, are a grade A asshole. Did you ever consider that someone in a compact car might have difficulty seeing past the huge back ends of all the Super-Sized Compensation Machines you all drive? Or is it simply too tiring for you to lug the massive weight of your gargantuan penis the extra 20 feet from one of the many normal parking spaces? ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/30 "2005-02-02T17:37:19Z")
Oh dear. I left out the quote I was referencing in the above post. As some of you might have surmised, the above post was in response to **Uncle Rojelio** ’s Grade A asshattery, as evidenced by the following: > [@A Selfish Fucktard](#): > > Hell no, fuck that! If I ever find the asshat that originally thought that “Compact Parking” was a good idea, I am going to personally give them a swift kick to the crotch. What totally moronic concept! Maybe it’s okay for you yankees and your pissant little cars, but down here in Texas, where trucks are the (vast) majority, it doesn’t make a lick of sense. I personally use take up two “compact” spaces at a time when I get a chance. Screw you if you don’t like it! ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/31 "2005-02-02T17:50:07Z")
> [@picker](#): > > You, sir, are a grade A asshole. > > Did you ever consider that someone in a compact car might have difficulty seeing past the huge back ends of all the Super-Sized Compensation Machines you all drive? > > Or is it simply too tiring for you to lug the massive weight of your gargantuan penis the extra 20 feet from one of the many normal parking spaces? I wonder what he would say if one of the owners of a “pissant little car” would sue him for them getting into an accident because they couldn’t see around his hoopdy. If this ever happens to me, I’ll take the drivers next to me and the store down with me for making the parking lot unsafe. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/32 "2005-02-02T17:59:44Z")
When I was little my parents shopped at a grocery store with a drive up. We all went inside and got the groceries, then the nice bag boy would walk the cart to the pick up as we walked to our car and drove it to the pick up, then everybody would load the groceries and we would drive home. This was 20 years ago, so I’m sure it’s not a new thing. Maybe they have something like that where you live, **Chotii**. Also, since this is the pit, fuck the shitheads who take up more than one space, park close to the line, and wedge beast vehicles into compact spaces. Fuck them with barbed wire. I will feel no pity for you when your precious baby is keyed. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Chotii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Chotii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chotii)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828/33 "2005-02-03T04:11:32Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > When I was little my parents shopped at a grocery store with a drive up. We all went inside and got the groceries, then the nice bag boy would walk the cart to the pick up as we walked to our car and drove it to the pick up, then everybody would load the groceries and we would drive home. This was 20 years ago, so I’m sure it’s not a new thing. Maybe they have something like that where you live, **Chotii**. Lately, I’ve been taking the offer every time the checker says “Would you like help out to your car?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-a-parking-lot-before/287828.md?page=1)