Hey you park like a total a'hole thread
03-31-2012, 12:16 AM
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Earlier, at In-n-Out:
I should add that, around lunchtime, this parking lot is always completely full to capacity, so parking like this is not justifiable. The next-closest available space was across the street.
Turns out that if you drive it up onto the curb, a '90 Miata will just fit into the space to the left of that Toyota with the passenger-side mirror folded in, leaving about an inch to spare. I kept hoping that someone would show up on a motorcycle and park on the right side.
I should add that, around lunchtime, this parking lot is always completely full to capacity, so parking like this is not justifiable. The next-closest available space was across the street.
Turns out that if you drive it up onto the curb, a '90 Miata will just fit into the space to the left of that Toyota with the passenger-side mirror folded in, leaving about an inch to spare. I kept hoping that someone would show up on a motorcycle and park on the right side.
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03-31-2012, 09:09 AM
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in fact there is a "parking theory" that if you park your car (within your space I guess) diagonally at an angle in a spot like that that you increase the available door-swing space.
Though it would seem only on one side?
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04-04-2012, 06:29 PM
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Lol, I think that guy has it wrong...
I also stumbled across this "Diagonal Parking Theorem" about the infinite number of stupid ways to park: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2...ng_theorem.php
I also stumbled across this "Diagonal Parking Theorem" about the infinite number of stupid ways to park: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2...ng_theorem.php
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05-16-2012, 10:57 AM
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Legit reason, but that guy's a dumbass. If you do it, do it right and make sure both spots are unusable for any other car, and [i]definitely don't do it next to a handicap spot. Do you really want to tempt some invalid to try parking their Grand Am in that spot and then smacking your passenger door 14 times with their cane?
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05-17-2012, 02:15 PM
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Legit reason, but that guy's a dumbass. If you do it, do it right and make sure both spots are unusable for any other car, and [i]definitely don't do it next to a handicap spot. Do you really want to tempt some invalid to try parking their Grand Am in that spot and then smacking your passenger door 14 times with their cane?
If I was handicapped, you're damn right I would park next to him, and I'd use the whole parking spot to get out of my car.
If he doesn't want someone parking next to his aston martin, he should have left it at home.
When I see an infinity/lexus/bmw/mercedes/jaguar/insertluxurymakehere on the road, I immediately want to f#ck with them. In most cases, I won't, because there are a few drivers who actually scraped by for a few years to make payments on those cars to own them, but I know that the likelihood of that driver being a self-centered douchebag who cuts in front of people without using a turn signal is immediately higher, and as such, I'm already in a heightened state of douchebag prevention whenever they're around me on the road.
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