# OK you made your point, fat boy: NOW MOVE THE FUCKING CAR **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071 "2011-01-26T17:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/81 "2011-01-27T22:03:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > This reminded me of an incident that happened at work one time. How am I supposed to know how to feel about this anecdote without knowing the BMI of all parties involved? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/82 "2011-01-27T22:14:32Z")
> [@bup](#): > > “So let me get this straight…” is a great clue that whatever comes next is patronizing. It’s almost as dependable as the post that starts “Um.” Um…so let me get this straight…you don’t like posts that start that way? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/83 "2011-01-27T22:20:36Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > I’m not sure the old folks’ car was parked illegally. > > The person who said it was is the same one who blocked it in […] Well, according to the OP, the restaurant manager also was heard to acknowledge that the car was parked illegally: > [@the OP](#): > > That brings the manager over, who refuses to acquiesce to his demands, and then, patiently lets the patron know that since the old peoples car was parked illegally, they will tow it, BUT, will have to tow HIS car first to get to it! Of course, the manager could have been mistaken or lying about that, but that’s what we get from the OP, which is our only source of information on this incident, such as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/84 "2011-01-27T22:24:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by the OP > That brings the manager over, who refuses to acquiesce to his demands, and then, patiently lets the patron know that since the old peoples car was parked illegally, they will tow it, BUT, will have to tow HIS car first to get to it! Interesting. I’m going to hazard a guess that if the car is parked _illegally_; i.e, in violation of a parking ordinance, the restaurant has no standing to tow the car. If it is parked in violation of it’s own parking policy, it does. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/85 "2011-01-27T22:29:24Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Oh yes, I can remember my grandfather telling us he could see “well enough” to drive to the store, since he’s been going there for so many years. But he didn’t feel comfortable driving to someplace he hadn’t been to a lot. > > YIKES!! We’ll be taking those keys now grampa… The last time I rode anywhere with Grandpa driving was a trip to the local ice cream parlour. On the way back I started feeling something wasn’t quite right. Then it hit, we were _on the WRONG side_ of the rode!! :eek: And I’d been driving for 4 yrs at that point so it was pretty fucking bad that I took a couple minutes. :smack: His car got “sent away for repairs” soon after and we just let his licence expire. Actually I guess I would’ve realized sooner if we hadn’t been on a quite country road. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/86 "2011-01-27T22:38:28Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Um…so let me get this straight…you don’t like posts that start that way? Ha! You win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/87 "2011-01-27T22:45:43Z")
You know, tell the story with the fat guy parked illegally and the old farts blocking him in and it still comes off like the fat guy’s a dick. I guess that’s the point, fat guys suck. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/88 "2011-01-28T00:21:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Drivers trying to ‘educate’ other drivers, to ‘teach them a lesson’ is never a good idea and often downright dangerous. What an ass I dislike being told I wasn’t driving fast enough (in other words, over the speed limit) by angry Audi drivers through the interpretative movement of “over take then brake hard” routine. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/89 "2011-01-28T00:44:07Z")
Is there any indication beyond this one jerk’s testimony, however weighty, that the elderly couple’s car **was** , in fact, parked illegally? ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/90 "2011-01-28T00:52:31Z")
I hate fat people. Also, I’m assuming this is an eatery that has its own parking lot? Short of parking in a cripple spot, there is no such thing as parked illegally on private property. So what gives, fat man? Frankly, the eatery should have offered to re-warm his food for him while he took all of 30 seconds (well, let’s give him 3 minutes to waddle over) and then promptly spit in it. Fucking asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/91 "2011-01-28T00:54:42Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Well, according to the OP, the restaurant manager also was heard to acknowledge that the car was parked illegally: > > > [@](#): > > > > That brings the manager over, who refuses to acquiesce to his demands, and then, patiently lets the patron know that since the old peoples car was parked illegally, they will tow it, BUT, will have to tow HIS car first to get to it! > > Of course, the manager could have been mistaken or lying about that, but that’s what we get from the OP, which is our only source of information on this incident, such as it is. That sounds like the manager was simply stipulating, at least for the moment, the complainer’s assertion that the car was parked illegally. I doubt he would have had time to verify this for himself (certainly not without the complainer getting into high dudgeon that the manager dared to doubt the majestic gravity of his words). ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/92 "2011-01-28T00:59:41Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/93 "2011-01-28T01:42:08Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Well, the OP has courageously posted and vanished, so I guess we’re never going to get any more details of this alleged parking infraction.\ Well, he is The President. He’s a busy guy. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/94 "2011-01-28T02:28:43Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I guess that’s the point, fat guys suck. Well, they would if it didn’t take so much goddamned effort. Lazy slobs. Also, let me get this straight…people really use the word _eatery_? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/95 "2011-01-28T03:40:44Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > “Some of my best friends are fat people.” Ewww…you hang out with fat people? That’s just…wrong. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/96 "2011-01-28T03:42:22Z")
Won’t somebody think of the fat children? BTW, let me borrow your bathroom for about 30 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/97 "2011-01-28T03:51:12Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Around here, at least according to the police, if some asshole blocks you in by parking ‘illegally’ they can’t do a thing if it’s a private parking lot. Which, 99% of all lots are. > > I got blocked in at my own wedding by some asshole (thankfully not someone attending my wedding). Picture this, new bride and groom in tux and wedding dress trying to make it to their hotel, and they can’t go anywhere. > > Finally, enough of my own guests were able to move their cars that I could get out going the wrong way. Heh - My tactix would have been to get the guests to move HIS car…15 or 20 guys spaced around a car should be able to move it to a “better” spot ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/98 "2011-01-28T03:54:23Z")
Can you believe that that fat piece of shit made that poor old couple get up in the middle of their meal because that overblown donut sucking gasbag had **fucking parked illegally** and was now blocked in because he was too fucking fat and lazy to find a legal parking spot before going in to slop down another bowl of gravy. So now this old guy has to hobble his way out to the parking lot to let this walking pile of lard out of a spot he should have never in because he’s making such a scene at the restaurant - forcing the wait staff to go to every table to see who had trapped his fat-ass in. What a fat fucking prick, I hope he dies in grease fire (he’ll provide the grease). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/99 "2011-01-28T05:37:38Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Ewww…you hang out with fat people? That’s just…wrong. He’s got no choice - he’s trapped in their gravity wells. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071/100 "2011-01-28T05:52:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > He’s got no choice - he’s trapped in their gravity wells. I mis-read that as “gravy wells.” Oy vey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-you-made-your-point-fat-boy-now-move-the-fucking-car/569071.md?page=6)