Double parking is often a ticketable/towable offense. This guy was just an asshole.
A minor hijack. I think th use of the term double parking for this might be a regional thing. In south Georgia I’ve always heard what the OP describes called double parking and have always called it that myself. I never even realized there was a term for the act that is said to be described by the correct use of double parking. I’d have just called it ‘being blocked in.’
I didn’t even realise there were people who would even do such a thing. On a scale from 0 to asshole, that’s a solid 11.5 on my charts.
“This asshole goes to eleven.”
I got lost after “flimsy little cocktail dress and strappy heels, with a totally inadequate coat over it.”
It’s usually done with the blinkers on, for somebody who just needs to run somewhere for a minute or five, but, yeah, quite common in big cities. Pisses me off, too. Here’s a San Francisco report on it, with many visual examples. Here’s some dude driving through Philly. Examples start at 1:08 or so. Language is a little strong in places, so be advised.
At least there’s some excuse for quick double-parking for drop-offs or pick-ups in San Francisco, given the city’s notoriously horrible parking problem (i still think it’s wrong, but sort of understand the frustration that leads to it).
In Baltimore, however, i frequently saw people double-parked alongside empty parking spaces!!! The only possible excuse for this was that they were too fucking lazy to pull into the parking space. Delivery drivers were especially bad for doing this.
Yes, as pulykamell’s link illustrates, that’s exactly how the guy was parked.
And no, the dry-cleaning coupon did not have any of my personal info on it…it was given to me by the apologetic dry-cleaner after I complained about the $26.00 price of dry-cleaning the very same dress I was wearing that night. ($26 bucks for about two yards of fabric?? Are you kidding me? That deserves another Pit thread!)
As for your point, Heffalump and Roo, yes perhaps I did crave a negative response at that point. Or at least SOME response. Considering the weirdo was actually up and staring out his window at four o’clock in the morning watching his car. Which is the weirdest–and oddly the most unremarked-upon–incident in my OP. It’s not like his land-yacht had an alarm which went off…I would find that a lot more understandable.
But literally I hadn’t walked more than three yards away before he walked out to pick up my note. Which means he was watching me the whole time. Or at least watching his vehicle…and then walked out the door the moment he saw me approach it. Who does that? What kinda weirdo stakes out his own vehicle?
I find that a lot more bizarre than my leaving him a note about his asshole parking job. There’s been a lot of times I’ve thought about leaving people notes about their parking jobs…I’ve just never been pissed off enough to actually do it. Kinda like I think about writing angry or complimentary notes to management about their staff’s behavior in any given store. You think about it, you get lazy or forgetful, and you don’t end up doing it.
This was my first time ever writing anybody a note about such a thing, in thirty years of existence. (And fourteen years of driving.) Anybody who thinks I’m crazy can feel free to carry on thinking it, but dammit I was cold and pissed off and the guy was a douchebag!
You are such a filthy perv. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
You punked him like the little bitch he is. He probably went home and beat his little dog to get even with you. P.A.B.
And what the hell Catsix?, why didn’t you bust a cap in the mercedes owners ass? I know you. Probably have a Walther 22 laying around the house with a silencer. Nobody would have been the wiser. The doc that fished it out would think it was a pellet.
Or he was taking his dog out to pee?
He’s an asshole, and you were a bit in the deep end. I’ll need pics of you in the dress to decide if I’ll still sleep with you or not.
Not into vandalism? Take a brick or large stone and place in behind one of the tires, as hidden from view as possible. They get in, put it in reverse, and they go nowhere. They give it a little gas…nothing. They either gas it harder so they fly over the brick/rock (hopefully flattening a tire) and go shooting backwards or they have to get out of the car and inspect. The harder the rock is to find, the longer you have them standing out in the cold or calling a mechanic.
How is that not Vandalism?
It’s just passive-aggressively attempting to slash the tires.
That’s my guess. He was just popping out to let the dog pee and saw you leave something on his windshield.
You can always hope he caught a cold walking around in the sleet with no shoes on.
What do you call it when someone parks horizontally across three or more spaces? There’s some tool in my building that does that with his 95 Caddy with giant gold rims and one of those color changing paint jobs.
The tools who do this are usually obsessed with avoiding dings or any other contact with their vehicle. I’ve always thought it would be fun to buy a really crappy beater of a car, and park it about 8 millimeters from the driver’s side door of these assholes, so they can’t open the door and have to get in the passenger side. Even better would be to use two cars, and prevent them from getting in altogether.
No, even better would be wearing steel toed motorcycle boots and kicking a dent right in the side of the car, but that would be wrong.
The Asshole-y Trinity.
And give the OP a break, you finger-wagging scolds. If she’d written a similar note because the guy was mean to a widdle kittycat, you’d be falling all over yourselves to hoist her on your metaphorical (and somehow, still slouching) shoulders.
No, we’d still be thinking about her attire.
I hate it when people do crap like that. Around here all the guys with their Ford Compensator and Dodge Magnum duelys like to take up four spaces in parking lots. It’s not enough to prevent people from parking beside their lovely “rig,” they have to pull forward so no one can park in the two spaces opposite either.
I’d put a note on their trucks if I could reach the windshield.
Huh. One might think that given the state of your dress, the time of the night, the physical state you were in (headache from drink and cold and tired) and your mental and emotional state, you might have considered yourself fortunate the next day that there was no negative response. I can think of some negative responses that would end very unpleasantly for you. There were very few negative responses that would have ended happily for you.
As people have noted, it might just have been coincidence having to do with the dog or something else.