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I thought I was a good person but the way I react when people drive slowly in the left lane would suggest otherwise
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(OK, it's from the end of the current USA "BMW Summer On" sales campaign TV/streaming commercial, but the bad parking example with a BMW logo attached is too much to pass on even as a BMW owner.....)
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to be fair most are probably old and can't see straight enough to park anyways
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I think this confirms the theory as to why people park near us at the far end of the parking lot. Folks are not using the lines, you can clearly see they have positioned their car between yours and the one two spots over, as in right in the middle, so they are using the surrounding cars to line themselves up, not the lines.
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08-02-2023, 01:38 PM | #73 |
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^Yup, that and herd mentality, some ppl just wanna be near other ppl (read: vehicles) lol.
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Here's another one from this ad campaign, with gas cars and without the fake prop EV charging station. Still bad parking, and apparently also blocking the pedestrian walkway onto the beach.....
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I wish that they showed them from the back side, so that we wouldn't have to see those *huge* grilles.....
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Hard evidence of a parking fail.
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From a few years ago but even Honda drivers are not immune…
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We're an angry bunch in this thread. Most people are just clueless and don't park near you intentionally, there are those assholes out there, but many people are just out to lunch. I watched a lady try to park in a spot in the parking garage for about 3 minutes today before she gave up... she had a Toyota Corolla.
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Last night I pulled into a spot at the restaurant. Got out, looked at the line on driver side, seemed kind of far. Walked around front and I was over the line on passenger side.
INSTEAD of shrugging and heading in to get pizza, I got back in the car and parked in the middle of the lines. In my defense, it was the wife's big-assed Highlander, and I backed into the spot so she could drive straight out later with no issue of impending collision with incoming vehicles.
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If I'm in my commuter Honda and I see a spot open next to a nice car, especially somebody parking like we all do, looking for cover, then I will often park next to them to give them cover. Not if the lot is sparse and they are 10 rows from the next car, but I'll do this if it is busy enough that it's likely somebody will take the spot. I figure better to have me there (guaranteed no damage) even if it makes 'em nervous. And if I'm in one of the BMWs, I will prefer to be next to something that looks like the owners care as much as I do.
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All of this is why my DD is the wife's MT Mazda 3. While it has virtually the same exterior dimensions as my M240i, it drives and parks noticeably smaller.
The real reason I use it, of course, is that I don't care what happens to it the way I would if the BMW was being abused in the parking lot wars. I park the MZ3 in the far corners of supermarket/mall parking lots like I would the BMW. That's just common sense and force of habit. Ironically, after 9 years of ownership, the Mazda has sustained not a single parking lot ding. Had the DD been a BMW, I feel certain I wouldn't be able to say that.
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What do you do.
You are waiting in the parking lot for someone. You see a large SUV pull up beside you with not enough space. A few seconds later a thump and your car shakes mildly. |
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The eternal parking lot question: Why are all parking lots sloped so that runaway shopping carts will run in to your car no matter where you park?
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