Every day when looking for a parking spot in the parking garage at school, there is always this one space I start to pull into, but have to back out because there’s not enough room. Why? Because some asshat Jetta owner parks his car crookedly, semi double parking in such a way that makes it impossible for anything wider than a Mini Cooper to squeeze in. Many people attempt the Impossible Parking Spot, and I admittedly have had my shares of failed attempts.
EVERY DAY this asshole does this. I’m tempted to write an annonymous message on a paper and put it on his windshield, or maybe take it up with parking security. Because either this guy is really bad at parking, or doing a damn good job at pissing off everybody trying to get in the adjacent space :mad:
Well, if it’s every day day, start out with a gentle note, and escalate. I had one such a-hole in my ramp. I wrote notes. In a weak moment, after at least 5 notes, I spit on his windshield. When I came out after work, I saw that somebody else had spit on his driver side window.
Keying the Jetta would be excessive. Putting a note on the car which cites the Jetta owner’s assholish behavior and apologizes for keying the car in a fit of temper is a much better solution.
He’ll spend hours looking for the nonexistant scratches.
I had a similar problem with a pick-up driven by one of the construction workers at the mall where I work. Those guys would get there at 6:30 in the morning, and one guy consistently parked with his rear end sticking out of the space. Not a big problem when there are only 20 cars in the entire lot, but after the mall opens and people are trying to drive up and down the aisles, it was creating traffic jams. So one day I wrote a nice little note and explained that if he would just be careful and pull up 12 more inches he’d make everyone’s day more pleasant. And I never saw his truck sticking out too far again.
I’m doing this the next time someone does the selfish parker thing. I am only a pedestrian for the nonce, but there are a few jerkish p/u truck drivers who pull the noses of their trucks up into the walkway area so that you practically have to climb the fence to get over their bumper.
It is a rather ingenious idea, except that I would be more general about it: “I apologize for the damage I did.” He won’t know whether it’s the body, the chassis, the tires — he’ll need to search quite thoroughly. And every creak and stutter he hears from then on will spook him and remind him of the incident.
My friends and I came up with a novel way to deal with people who can’t park properly. We were at a very crowded movie theatre and one asshole in a Fiero had parked right on the yellow line taking up two entire spaces. We got out of our car, lifted the back of the Fiero up off the ground and proceeded to slide it sideways until the front and rear were facing the cars parked on either side…with about 4-5 inches of clearance, not enough to move. Ahh the satisfaction we got when we came out from out movie to see the asshole on a cell phone calling for help. Of course this won’t work with an SUV…
Bongmaster that is truly the greatest ever. I remember once someone blocked my firends car in with their jeep, which wasnt even in a space just sitting in front of it so we jumped in put that bitch in neutral and managed to move it into a parking space.
For some reason, seeing a car parked like this always makes me sneeze…on the windshield.
I look at it this way. Keying is just bad form. Presenting the car’s windshield with the hock-a-loogie award is more appropriate. No physical harm done, and the message somehow reaches through.
It’s quite cold here right now, the idea of him standing out in the cold, frantically going over his “baby” for some mysterious damage fills my evil little blonde “has to climb over his damn bumper to get to the sidewalk that leads to the bus stop” heart with glee.
My friend Kerry drove a 76 Valiant. The thing was a tank.
One day, whilst at the mall we noticed someone had parked their nice, shiny expensive new car horizontally across two spaces.
Practically squealing with glee, Kerry parked her car right beside it, also horizontally across the two spaces, effectively preventing escape.
Her rationalization? One half space and one half space makes one whole space. He was taking up one whole space, and so was she.
