I think certain vehicles are just targets. I used to have a '95 Taurus LX. Seemed like someone was always beating on it. My Explorer never gets touched. The only dings on the Excursion are the ones Kevin installed... specifically a gigantic dent in the front bumper.

It does irritate me when people ding somebody's car and play like it didn't happen. I've been known to leave notes on the offended person's car with the make, model, color, and license plate number of the offending vehicle since I don't have the legal right to rubber hose anyone.

AGAIN!!!!!  You have the worst luck of anyone I know with this stuff

And I can verify that D parks as far away from possible from other cars.  I've gone shopping with him, gone to restaurants with him.  Caught more than one shuttle to the store or restaurant.

Sad fact is you might be targeted BECAUSE you park so far away.  Don't think there's not some stupid kids out there thinking "Dude, look where that guy parked, he think's he's protecting his car, let's show him!"

At least you're not one of those arrogant knobs who feel they deserve to take two spaces as close to the store as possible because their car is so valuable.  I don't care if their cars get keyed.  They're asking for it.

I know you're kidding, but I HAVE parked my car right along side there's as if there's an invisible parking line between us.

Screw em. They're no better than anyone else. If their car is so precious to them they can join you out in the far end of the lot where they can have 15 spaces on each side of themselves.

I just can't stand that attitude of "I can do what I want, I'm more important than everyone else"

It is pompous.  Even worse...people parking in handicap spaces without a plate or obvious disability.

Karma is a bitch.

I try to assume the otherwise healthy looking person parking in handicapped parking may have a heart or breathing condition. It does work my nerves when I KNOW the person and I KNOW for a fact that they are using a placard for a family member just to get a better space.

Mad Mema wrote:

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I try to assume the otherwise healthy looking person parking in handicapped parking may have a heart or breathing condition. It does work my nerves when I KNOW the person and I KNOW for a fact that they are using a placard for a family member just to get a better space.

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Yeah. It never fails. If I don't get to work before 8:30, I don't get a decent handicapped spot. Mema knows for a FACT there is at least 1 person who's rocking the handicapped placard on behalf of a loved one. That person almost always beats me to the spots closest to the building.

Dings make me mad too.

SOOOOOOO many times, I've seen a REALLY large person trying to get out of their car. They open the door and give it a push with their foot, bang the car next to them and roll out without a care in the world of what they just did. If you can't get out of you car without dinging the one next to you, then maybe YOU should be the one to go park way out in the end. First, you won't do any damage to the innocent person next to you, second, the walk may be good for your heart.

IDIOTS! They BREED!!!

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C'mon, guys. All handicaps aren't immediately visible. Mental & neurological symptoms aren't always right out there.

We all know about the mentals, don't we??? Do you really want us roaming the parking lots?

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You raise a good point and honestly one I don't typically think of when I see that.

The guy at the store yesterday didn't even have a card or sticker, he was just an ass that didn't want to get wet in the rain.

I'm a little over-sensative to the issue because I had an uncle who barely needed a handicap card and he'd pass it around to the family like a party favor.  I remember one year when we were going to the State Fair he tried to get my Dad to use his card so we could get a primo parking spot (my uncle wasn't coming with us) and my Dad really let him have it.  Something along the lines of "yeah, I'll make some legitimately handicapped person fight for a spot and possible have to walk or wheel from 10 blocks away so I can get a spot on the fair grounds, you a**!"

Kind of stuck with me

 

Makes you just want to keep saying it, doesn't it?

No, I think we could always say ass. But I'm guessing we still can't say ****, ****, or ****.

Bring on the cartoon cuss words!

I'm one of those that park way out in the boonies in parking lots in an effort to keep my car ding free, but it never fails.......I come out of the store and there will be a car parked on either side of me. 

I've seen guys with really expensive sports cars park in boonie town and take up 6 different parking spots......they park on the dividing lines.  I've also seen them get blocked in.