Well, in order for compact spaces to be useful, they have to get the people with compact cars to actually use them in preference to the other spaces, hence they offer an advantage to using them.
On the other hand, I can’t recall ever having seen lots laid out like this, but I don’t have a car, so it’s not like I pay much attention.
I’ve never seen this either. The only places I can think of seeing compact spaces is under trees in a parking lot, where the tree has a border guard that cuts down the length of the space, or in a garage where poles, columns, tight turns, and narrow, one-way lanes are the norm and basic geometry rules.
In addition to those kind of spaces (which I didn’t think were under discussion here), around here, there are parking lots that have two or three rows out in the middle or even toward the rear of the lot that are not obstructed in any way except that the lines are closer together and the curbs have “compact only” painted on them. I don’t feel a lot of guilt about pulling in there astride the line. I don’t try to wedge my vehicle in between two cars parked within the lines because that would inconvenience me, instead I take two spaces, leaving more room for the two, likely even larger vehicles, parked astride the line on either side.
So you admit you’re an asshole, then?
Yeah, so? Not as big as shizaru, but still an asshole.
Oh PUH lease! :rolleyes:
I am “only” a girl, and when doing field work I drive a GMC crew cab full sized bed pickup. And our truck’s nighttime “home” is in an ancient downtown garage with a corkscrew exit ramp.
I manage to drive into and out of spaces in this not-large-enough-or-well-laid-out-enough garage with just a little extra effort. Same with parking in a store parking lot. I don’t have a prosthetic, but I have a metal plate and bolts and I can STILL manage to park this behemoth farther away and simply walk a wee bit farther.
100 feet? Oh WAaaaah. So what? I’m old, overweight and I’ve got a leg that has never fully recovered, either mobility-wise, or pain-wise, from the break and I do it all of the time.
If a person has a handicap and needs to park closer (which is VERY understandable and LOGICAL), then they need to simply get one and not bitch about something that is a completely different issue.
Well, actually, some people do have that right. But that’s why there are HANDICAP spaces, which are there for a reason, and as I said, are a completely DIFFERENT issue than the compact vs. big truck issue.
Klaatu is asking for the right not to have to walk so far. Something he is perfectly within his rights to have. But that has NOTHING to do with compact car vs big trucks. Since, as others have said, it is the owners of each business who have the right to decide how their parking lots are laid out.
They can pay to have them striped however they please, that doesn’t mean I’m going to adhere to their suggestions.
That reminds me, take a look at the vehicles that belong to the owners of the company I work for, and where they park every day. (Daddy’s V12 Lamborghini not pictured. Usually occupies next space.)
Of course not. But since you’ve already admitted you’re an asshole when you park so, there’s no sense in arguing with me. I don’t disagree with you on that point, you obviously can and do park wherever and however you wish.
People who refuse to park in a considerate manner (see above regarding the behemoth that I drive at work, and how I as "only’ a girl can manage to park it just fine, evenly between the lines and everything), either can’t drive, or are rude assholes, or both.
This is a separate issue from whether or not they are required by law, or something, to avoid the compact cars only spots and follow the rules.
Obviously the rules don’t fall under those of the law, so until then, people are free to be rude, no surprise there, that’s always the case. But since you and others like you are well aware that you are being grade a Assholes when you behave in such a way, oh well, we haven’t managed to cure the ignorance in that case.
Wow, that’s just sheer arrogance and something I don’t have the words for.
Have you turned them in? Isn’t the handicapped space state mandated? It’s $200 bucks here.
Yeah, I don’t park my car purposely in a space allocated for a smaller car thinking “fuck 'em” and wanting to kick people in the nuts for even creating the space! How dare they make something that doesn’t add to my convenience! They deserve to have their balls smashed! Right, I’m a real evil bastard… :rolleyes:
I may park may vehicle astride a line painted on the pavement but at least I don’t engage in willful damage to the property of others.
bolding mine
Opening the door of a car with a bit of anger or wishing physical harm on someone? Hmmmm…neither of us are angels it seems, but I’m not upset over the world not accommodating me.
Considering that the probability that I would ever actually discover the person that originally thought that compact parking spots were a good idea is vanishingly small makes my statement hyperbole. Yours is an actual admission of guilt. I’ll be up here on my moral high ground if you need me.
Neither can I, the 20 parking spots in front of the bar were taken up by 3 SUVs, a pickup, and a Hummer. 
The point is that when that a person driving a large vehicles in a compact space takes up 2 or 3 spaces. Not only does this inconvienence other, but it also is the “I’m going to do what I want to do and fuck everyone else.” attitute that a lot of Americans have.
I understand that if a lot has all compact spaces, then you do what you can - but the situation that brought on this rant involved many empty regular spaces 10 feet away. Now you’re saying to yourself, Cad, if it’s OK for them to walk an extra 10 feet, why didn’t you park in a regular spot?
A) Ummm . . . I’m not the one violating the rules of the parking lot. Would you be so blase about people picking and choosing what parking lot rules to follow if the run through a stop or turn the wrong way down a one-way lane and almost hit your truck?
B) The SUV parked after I had parked, leaving me about 2 inches to open my drivers door. If some asshole had done the same on the passenger side, I would have never gotten into my car! But I guess you and UncleRojelio feel that’s OK to do to someone.
I don’t try to wedge into a space that is too small. That usually turns out to be inconvenient. I don’t have a compelling need to park in the front row either because there are usually more people wandering around near the front of a parking lot. I tend to park at the rear, sparsely populated areas. But if there are compact spaces back there, I don’t feel real bad about taking up two of them, thereby actually leaving more space between my vehicle and the others.
