TOTALLY GEEKED!

You did not include a NO option.  Perhaps not everyone wants to read about or post about others' parking dramas.  Just a suggestion, if you cannot do a poll that takes into account other opinions because of the variety of people on this board, then please don't.  Not everyone here takes delight and glee in the constant drama that makes its home here.  Thank you! 

Renegade Time Lord wrote:

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You did not include a NO option.  Perhaps not everyone wants to read about or post about others' parking dramas.  Just a suggestion, if you cannot do a poll that takes into account other opinions because of the variety of people on this board, then please don't.  Not everyone here takes delight and glee in the constant drama that makes its home here.  Thank you! 

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 Seriously?  All the crap that gets posted and THIS is what sets you off? 

 

Damn.  And ed - I wish you had left it, so I could see what on earth could have possibly been so offensive about parking stories. 

Sure, I would love to hear about parking wars.

I was watching some show this morning on A&E about ticketing and towing.

Thanks, Ed :)

Here's a short one for now ...

I used to live in a complex that had assigned parking in carports. It was set up as wall, 2 spots, pole, 2 spots, pole, etc. The complex did not paint a dividing line between the spots - not sure why but incredibly stupid. My spot was 2nd from the wall, carport partner's spot was next to the wall. He routinely would park either right in the middle or what would be right on the line and I couldn't get in my spot. Well, I could physically fit my truck in but he wouldn't be able to get in his car since he was too stupid to park properly. I would park elsewhere. I asked him to please park on his side of the carport. Didn't work. He didn't see a problem with his parking. I talked to the office and asked them to do something to rectify the situation. They weren't interested in dealing with it. Fine.

My Grandpa and I measured and put red duct tape right down the middle of the carport. After another couple weeks of carport partner continuing to be a turd, I got tired of being nice. I parked in my carport ... about 2 inches away from his driver's door. He was over the line that day. I folded in my driver side mirror and exited via the passenger side. I guess he got the hint because he parked right up against the wall from that day forward.

We were living in an apartment complex with assigned parking spaces.

Parking was head-in, and the spaces were narrow.

The elderly woman whose space was to the right of Spouse's space kept parking with her left side tires on the yellow line, so there wasn't enough room for Spouse's car in her own space. When we complained, her son came to visit us, and told us his mother was perfectly entitled to park where she was, and we should f-off.

 

Spouse started parking on the street in front of the building.

Soon after, we get a call at midnight, the police want us to go out to our Maverick.

It was Fall, it was damp and the leaves were falling ...

 

An off-duty police Sargent  driving his unmarked police car home for the night, had slid past a stop sign, across an intersection and t-boned Spouse's car.

Our insurance paid to fix her car, but didn't file a claim with the police department or the county. They'd read the report wrong, and decided that Spouse had been driving her parked car and drove sideways into the front of the police car.

It took us 2 1/2 years  to get our deductible back. Sargent Garrity still owes me for that.

 

I can't park worth crap. My friends make fun of me. I blame it on being short.