Ok - So I Freaking Double-Parked Today

The BBQ Pit
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So here’s the situation:

This morning (Sunday) I need to go to my bank in Secaucus to deposit a check so that there will be enough money when my student loan payment is deducted next week. (Yes, the bank is closed on Sunday but the ATM machine works just fine.)

So I get there, and the bank parking lot is totally full. Not a single spot. Obviously, non-customers are parking in the lot. Not unreasonable, since it’s Sunday. However, there’s nowhere for me to park.

So I park my car right in front of a few of the cars. Yes, I’m blocking them in - but it will just be for the 3 to 5 minutes I need to make my deposit. So I go in to the bank, and make my deposit. Just as I’m finishing up I see that some people need to get out but my car is kinda in the way. I quickly pack everything up and hurry out. It turns out that the church across the street is just letting out.

So I quickly start getting into my car to get out of everyone’s way, and this freakin’ bitch walks by and says “nice place to park your car.”

I say “well, it’s funny, but I think that a lot of the people who are parked here are not using the bank.”

She says “the bank is closed”

Umm, excuse me bitch, did it occur to anyone that somebody might need to use the ATM machine?

Not that I mind you parking in the bank parking lot (it’s Sunday after all) but don’t freakin’ get all offended if you have to wait an extra minute to leave because someone actually needs to use the bank!!

And here’s the icing on the cake - after her words with me, this freakin’ c*nt proceeds to walk into the bank foyer to use the ATM. I so wanted to step right into her way and say “sorry honey, the bank is closed - Sunday, doncha know?”

Oh well, I wonder what they’re teaching these jokers in Church anyway?

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How is this icing on the cake? Her “the bank is closed” comment addressed why people were using the parking lot of the bank (a direct answer to your comment). You’re not suggesting that this has anything to do with using an ATM, a machine for use during off bank hours, when a bank is closed?

You were in the wrong to double park. Period. The other people did not know how long you had been double parked there.

You seem to be suggesting that they were wrong for parking in the banks lot. For all you know, the church may even have specific permission from the bank to use their parking lot on Sunday. Even if they don’t, unless there is signage prohibiting such usage, I find it hard to call their use of the parking lot improper.

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Umm, that’s the point - that people might still want access to the bank even on Sunday.

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Disagree. If it’s a short amount of time, and the double parker is in the immediate vicinity, ready to move his or her car, I don’t see the problem. This is particularly true when the car that is blocked in is parked illegaly.

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I don’t know whether or not you are an axe murderer.

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Not at all, just that if they fill up all of the bank’s parking, they shouldn’t object to the slight inconvenience of a double-parker who needs to use the ATM.

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As a matter of fact, there is a sign that specifically says “parking for _____ Savings Bank customers only”

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**beagledave’s ** correct about the possability (I’d call it a probability) that the bank and the church had an agreement, which would mean, of course that the cars weren’t parked there illegally.
Such an agreement wouldn’t be provided on signage.

The company next to mine has signs all over it saying that it was their parking lot only, as does the YMCA across the street. And both have agreed to allow my company access to their parking in certain situations.

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Uh , guys? It’s one thing for the woman to express her Christian charity by making snarky comments regarding the double-park situation, but to then go into the closed bank (about which she had just commented), puts her on the far side of wrong–moving swiftly into mean and stupid territory.

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OTHO, tom, w/a/d/r, blocking in other people’s cars is pretty much the apex of rude behavior described in the OP.

here’s the continium as I see it:

  1. People parking in the banks parking lot, filling it, on a Sunday (possibly w/the banks permission).

  2. Person making snarky comment about car double parked.

  3. Person who had double parked, responding snarkily to rude comment (instead of saying , sorry, I was only going to be here for a second, and there was no where else to park).

  4. pretty much everybody else.

  5. Somebody deciding that their desire to go to that ATM at** that** time trumped the rights of the other people parked there to have access to their cars.

So, Possibly the other people parked there were in the wrong (insufficient info), woman making snarky comment about double parked vehicle was not being smart about the situation, person double parking then responding rudely when being called on it, definately in the wrong. (then of course bitching about everybody else)

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Yeah. What tomndebb said. When she used the ATM herself, her actions were “admitting” that there was a valid reason why BANK CUSTOMERS might need to use those parking spaces. You know, the BANK parking spaces.

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I disagree. She first commented negatively on some one double parking by blocking in other people’s cars. her subsequent intentions to use the same lot for the bank purposes are irrelevant.

The OP argued w/her observation that he’d done something shitty. That’s absurd - you’re caught doing something stupid and mean, don’t argue w/the person observing it.

was she perfect? no. BUt the OP, IMHO, was the bigger offender by far.

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Double parking is uncool. However, the woman had no reason to cite “The bank is closed” for a reason to fill up the parking lot with non-bank customers, which was what obviously was going on.

The bank wasn’t really “closed” if its customers are still in need of parking spaces to use the bank’s services (i.e. ATM). And she knew that, since she used the ATM herself.

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she gave the ‘bank closed’ in response to the OP’s lack of good manners to acknowledge that they were in the wrong.

and once again - it is entirely possible (and very likely) that the bank and the church have an agreement for the church to use the parking lot.

The OP was in the wrong. All around. And some one called him on it, and then he want to get all upitty about how she called him on it?

A. Wrong action.

B Some one calls him on it.

C He gives smarmy comment back.

D She gets snarky back.

and you want to focus only on “D” and ignore A - C which led to it?

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I think the problem lies with her response, “The bank was closed.”

See, if it were true that the bank had given the church permission to park there, why didn’t she just say it?" Why? It would have been such a more appropriate answer. “The BANK allows us to park here when they are closed, bozo!” (Or some more polite variation.) But she didn’t do that. She just said, “The bank is closed.” Which makes me wonder if she (and the rest of the people parking in the lot) knew that they had no permission or justification to park there. They just went ahead, because “usually” no bank customer needed to park there.

Double parking is not cool, but if I were a customer of the bank and discovered that a lot of non-bank customers were clogging up the parking lot, I wouldn’t be too happy about it either. UNLESS it was explained to me that there was a prior arrangement with the bank to allow non-bank customers during certain times. But we have no knowledge of that. Certainly the woman didn’t clear things up for the OP. And she so very easily could have, (and would have been even more in the “right”) if indeed such an arrangement were in place.

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again, the snarkiness originated w/the OP

He parked, blocking people in the lot. When returning to his car, some one makes the comment to him about his parking rudely. Instead of explaining “I know, but I was only running to the ATM, and this is the banks’ parking lot, I don’t know why all these cars are here”, which explains that his intention was to only block the cars ‘for a second’ and that he hadn’t expected the cars to be there etc, he gets right into, ‘all these other peopel were in the wrong first’.

not cool in my book.

He was being a jerk. some one called him on it. She was less than polite about it. Oh well.

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wring said it better than I did. I didn’t mean to suggest that the woman who made the comments in the “snarky” manner wasn’t also in the wrong…just that from the info provided, he didn’t own up to a misdeed, however slight it might have been…but instead tried to shift the blame.

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Tell ya what…next time you bump into “church lady” in the liquor store, just ignore her. That’ll show her.

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Another possible outlook. Sure, double parking is never good. I personally have been kept from leaving due to it. Most banks I see typically have a reserved space or two for ATM parking. Since the bank likely collects a buck or two for every non-deposit holders withdraw, it is a money maker. Of course, the church crowd likely goes there to get money for Denny’s.

Let the bank know. They should reserve a couple of spaces for that.

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Double parking is never cool, but there are certain rare situations in which it has to be done. When I do it, however, I try to give people enough room to get around me. Obviously, this wouldn’t work in a one-lane street or a crowded parking lot, but sometimes I am able to double park for a very short moment without inconveniencing anyone.

In some cases, though, double parking is just incredibly rude and unnecessary. Here’s an example: I used to work in an ice cream shop on a busy downtown street. Most of the time the parking spots on the side of the street were taken, so you would have to park your car in a nearby parking lot or on another street. Some of my customers were so impatient, they would double park in the street, run in and get their ice cream, and run back to their cars. This was bad enough, but one particular day this group of people double parked in front of the store, bought their ice cream, and then just sat outside eating and chatting. T hey did this for a fucking half hour. All this time, their car is just sitting there blinking in the middle of the street.

This made us so mad, we called the police. Before they could get to us, though, the stupid pricks finished their ice cream, got in their car, and left. :mad: Grrr…

I guess the moral of the story is…if you absolutely have to double park, please don’t be a prick about it. That is all.

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Other then medical emergencies and the like, I cannot think of any situations where double-parking ‘needs to be done’.

So you have to park a block over and walk your butt to where you want to go. Deal with it, but don’t block someone to convenience yourself.

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Medical emergencies are what I meant when I said there are certain situations where double parking “needs to be done.” I guess I should have specified.

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I think I’ve got the perfect solution for everybody. lucwarm, next time you go to the bank, park at the church.

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I think you did a dumbass thing and got caught thats all. Nothing you needed to start a pit thread about.

Imagine if the roles were reversed. I can see the Pit thread now: "So this bitch parks her car right behind not one, but TWO cars and goes into the bank and spends almost 5 minutes inside at a goddamn ATM machine. Who the fuck spends 5 minutes at an ATM machine? Then when we came out of church the bitch had the nerve to get snide when she was called on her assheadedness. What if there was an emergency and someone needed to get to the hospital? Sure she would move her car, but what if it wouldn’t start?

Fucking double parking bitches."