Leaving a note on someone else's car after they park so close to you that you have to get into your car through the passenger door -- C or D?

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Does anyone do this? Ever been the recipient of one? I've left notes a few times, once after some jerk in my apartment parking lot double-parked when there were limited spaces after a blizzard, once when someone did exactly what the title mentions ("PLEASE LEAVE ONE CAN OPENER NEXT TIME, ASSFACE") . Seems like it's one of those satisfying but useless gestures, since I'm sure anything I might leave ends up lying in the parking lot along with the crap left under your windshield wipers by the nail salons and tanning places.

How does someone end up that close to your car anyway? I mean, assuming I'm parked correctly, how does someone pull in that close and not notice, "Hey, that guy's not going to be able to get into his car? Oh well!"

phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Back in my more passive-aggressive days, I would unscrew the guy's gas-cap and throw it into the back of his truck bed.

(Always a truck, it seemed.)

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

this always happens because of SUV's and other larger cars. which makes it that much more infuriating....

ryan (ryan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

The particular case that prompted this, from yesterday, was just another midsize. It was just parked so badly . . . I mean, I was parked like the lines had been painted around my car, this guy pulled in about 6" from my driver's side. How do you do that and not figure out you screwed up?

phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've done this. We used to live by a Catholic church and their parishioners completely over-ran the neighborhood during mass, blocking driveways, leaving a single lane down the center of the streets, parking us in so tight we had no hope of escape. My notes were along the lines of "How would Jesus park?" "Mighty christian of you to park like an asshole" "What a fine christian example of how to be a Bad Neighbor". As an ex-Catholic, I'm going to hell anyway.

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

My car's a beater, and it's normally nicer cars that do this. So I think nothing of opening my car a couple of times and giving them a nice dent or two.

naus (Robert T), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

this happened to me one time at a place i worked. some lexus parked about four inches from my driver's side door, and i left a fairly nasty note. the guy owned the car was apparently one of the executives, i found out later.

gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

My notes were along the lines of "How would Jesus park?"

HAHAHAHAHAH!

i've done this a couple of times. best one - which i stole - is "thanks. next time you park next to me i'll bring a fucking can-opener, shall i?"

i also left a supremely snotty note for some dick in a BMW who parked across two bays in a car park that was all but full. "you might drive a BMW, but you don't have to be a cunt", i think it said.

(apologies to any BMW owners out there.)

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaah, but who here will cop to being a recipient of one of these?

Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

SILENCE

Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

I've never gotten a note, but I might have parked too close to someone with nausian tendencies once or twice.

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

When I was a young man, living by myself in Minneapolis, I spotted a car in the Mall of America parking lot with tags from my homestate of Arkansas. I checked out the dealer decal and realized that the car was from my rural hometown!

I wrote them a note that said only GO YELLOWJACKETS. Oh, it was so hilarious.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

never had one!

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Phild - were you in SF? Was the offending car a beat-up beige Volvo? If so, I felt really bad, but I was already late to take a test in class, and I figured there was a good chance I would be out of class before you came back to move your car. Otherwise, I apologize for all of the other bad parkers in the world.

viborgu, Friday, 3 March 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

The only time I ever did this was when someone blocked my driveway "The next time you park like this, expect a brick through your window." The awesome thing was that I lived in one of those four-apartment houses and the meathead dude knocked on the wrong door looking for the person who wrote the note, so my downstairs neighbors had no idea what he was talking about.

OTOH, a housemate of mine left a nasty note on some woman's car for "taking up two space" -- on the street. We tried to explain to him that our street was not actually divided into "spaces," that cars vary in size, and that the woman probably parked the way she did because of the way the other cars were parked at the time.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine, after a fortnight-long spate of assorted parking traumas, made some small xeroxed flyers to leave on windshields.

Dear Car User:

You have parked your vehicle in a manner that frivolously misuses the very limited amount of street parking space that we have to share in the Stevens neighborhood, and/or fails to respect the needs of other car owners. It would be wonderful if we could all park however we wanted; however, that is not the reality we are living in.

In the future, please make the following adjustments to your parking style when in this area: [space for handwritten notes]

Your vehicle make, model and license number have been recorded for our reference.

Sincerely,
Stevens Community Awareness and Resource Education

xero (xero), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

the same suv kept BACKING INTO a spot---well, two spots---at my work, day after day, with a parking line beneath the absolute middle of his/her vehicle. i dunno, maybe in some countries or planets this is how you park, rather than, you know, BETWEEN the lines. i was all set to leave a profanity-ridden note, but instead I wrote: "please stop taking up two parking spaces. thank you". he/she hasn't done it since.

oops (Oops), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

this thread reminds me about people that STAND in the left hand side of escalators where everyone KNOWS that's the walking lane. one woman was particularly obtuse about this the other day and I made a point of telling her, after we arrived at the top, that I hoped she realized that the left lane was for walking.

she was none too pleased. this is another thread really, but still. i've gotten to the point where if people are standing in hallways or doorways in crowds i simply say "excuse me" while actually gently moving them aside. if they get offended, i mean fuck it, this is new york goddamn city not mayberry.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

nausian tendencies

Love it! But I'm judicious about it, to be close enough to get the treatment you'd have to

a) Be double-parked, over the line and into the space where my car already is;
b) Have attempted to park an SUV in a space marked "Compact"; or
c) Be right on the line, but with more than enough space on your other side that you could have corrected it AND have bumper stickers which endorse beliefs or sentiments that I do not agree with.


naus (Robert T), Friday, 3 March 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

once i was inside my parked car, finishing a phone call, when some middle-aged couple in a bmw pulled in next to me, about ten inches away from my car, and the woman in the passenger seat just--wham!--throws open her door which collides with my side-view mirror. so naturally i put the phone done for a moment, stuck my head a bit out of the window to look at my side-view to check for damage. while i do this the middle-aged couple, now walking away from their car, sort of turn around and look at me warily. seeing this, i call to the woman, in a pretty non-aggressive way, "hey--did you know you hit my car?"

they both stop dead, she turns around, sort of mutters something like "huh?" i figure, whatever, there's no more than a few scratches, i'll let it alone. so i duck back inside my car to finish my phone conversation. but in my rear-view mirror i see the couple still standing in the middle of the parking lot, talking to each other. i believe i can make out the guy saying something like, "what did he say to you? WHAT DID HE SAY TO YOU?" and the woman being like, "oh, bart*, honey, don't worry--" (*it was a middle-aged person's name like bart). then i notice the guy sort of adopting this macho posture and starting to walk over to my car. "WHAT DID YOU SAY TO MY WIFE?!" so i put the phone down again, begin to turn around with a strange look on my face, stick my head slightly out of the window, and say something like, "you guys hit my car, but nevermind.... it's OK." "DID YOU SAY SOMETHING TO MY WIFE?!" from afar: "bart, just c'mon."

he just sort of stands a few feet from my car attempting this sort of "you insulted my wife's honor!" look on his face for about 20 seconds, then finally walks away. all this from a gray-haired couple in a BMW!

i hate driving.

amateurist0, Friday, 3 March 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

also sterling otm about escalators. usually this happens with tourists who i suspect don't know any better. which doesn't make me curse under my breath any less at that family of eight with their american girl place bags hogging up the entire escalator.

amateurist0, Friday, 3 March 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Phild - were you in SF? Was the offending car a beat-up beige Volvo?

No, this was in Arlington, VA, in the garage beneath my office.

I can't decide what's better: The deliciously profane notes or the witheringly sarcastic ones. I'm not there to see either reaction, and the profane ones feel viscerally better, but still. In the aforementioned double-parking-after-the-blizzard incident, I left one that said, "Oh, parking spaces have suddenly become so plentiful here that you can take up as many as you like, have they?"

And YES YES YES about the escalators.

phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 3 March 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I had a guy illegally park behind me once leaving no space for me to back up, and I had less than a foot in front of me to pull up (because I was one of two cars parked between the corner and a driveway, so I pulled up right behind the car in front because he had all kinds of room to pull away.) You could call what I left him a "note". I was driving a beater and he was driving a shiny Lincoln. I repeatedly backed up into him as hard as I could, until I had maneuvered out of the space. His bumper was folded in a few different directions. Mine, somehow, was not damaged at all.

Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only one on this thread that finds vandalism as a response to improper parking etiquette kind of excessive?

o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

xpost If you could back that hard into his fender, you probably had room enough to maneuver out of the space as well.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

next time this happens to me, i shall take advantage of the current frosty weather and scrawl "GR8 PRKNG NOOB" on their bonnet in teh frost.

the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

People who drive BMWs are actually the worst. BMW lowered their price point a while back and now are basically like Lexuses ie "luxury" cars for people douchy enough to insist on a luxury car yet cannot afford a Mercedes or something that is actually still made to the standards of their original price point. It's like they might as well hold a sign saying "HI I'M A FUCKBAG". Even better is BMW drivers with Bush/Cheney stickers and/or Jesus fish. Or the people who drive Lexus SUVs.

I'd throw in the insincere "Apologies to any BMW and Lexus drivers on ILX" caveat except I really doubt any of you are driving beemers or Lexuses.

I don't have a driver's licence so I have never ever had to worry about this car parking bonzanza but I do remember my mother always getting infuriated with people in AZ who would buy brandy new trucks and then park them SIDEWAYS in a parking lot. WTF is that??? Also good: old people in giant mobile homes who seem to feel it is appropriate to park them in the front of the supermarket blocking the entire driving lane much less 3 parking spots.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

everyone KNOWS that's the walking lane

Sadly, not true!

R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

In Denver once I got a note on my car due to my parking, but not because my parking per se was bad. DU has really draconian parking rules, all the streets in a radius a 10-minute walk away from campus are restricted to hour-or-less zones for nonresidents, and parking on the lot next to my building cost $10/hour, so everyone would (completely legally!) park on the residential streets just outside of the hour-only zone and trek to campus.

One day I did this, on a street with plenty of empty parking spaces (seeing as the houses all had garages, and it was the middle of a weekday), and returned to find that the woman who'd been unloading her car near me while I'd parked had left me a note: "[Street name] is NOT parking for DU students!!!!! PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!" that last bit all triple underlined, and the ballpoint had almost torn the paper, she must've been so incensed at my legal 2-hour-long parking. I saved it, since it made me laugh and I'd been having a shitty day.

sgs (sgs), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

On the other side of the arguement, have you ever seen those shiny new trucks that the owner has parked way on the backside of a parking lot? They usually park them across two spaces, diagonally, to keep anyone from parking next to them. The excuse for these truck owners is that they've parked their shiny new vehicle as far away from the store/mall as possible, so they're not inconveniencing anyone since most people try to park as close to the mall as possible.

Anyway. I've got a buddy who takes the most perverse thrill in parking right next to these guys, just to fuck with 'em.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hah. My parents do that from time time -- park at the farthest edge of the lot and take two spaces. Actually it's more of a Dad Thing. Granted he takes impeccable care of the cars both inside and out, and is also the one responsible for fixing every little malfunction and/or mar of the paint...and speaking as someone whose little driving mishaps have given him A FUCKING LOT of extra work to do, I'm sympathetic.

Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am the son of two BMW drivers. ;_;

To be fair, my dad should be locked up, the way he drives.

Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Not to do with bad parking, but one time a giant out-of-state SUV parked next to me, and in front of one of its headlights was a dead sparrow. I left a note that said, "Thanks for killing me. Signed, Sparrow"

Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

haha!

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Europeans: where Ally writes "BMW", read "VW Passat" (which rhymes with "asshat". Where she writes "lexus", read "Porsche". If you do that, she's OTM here, too.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I had a guy illegally park behind me once leaving no space for me to back up, and I had less than a foot in front of me to pull up (because I was one of two cars parked between the corner and a driveway, so I pulled up right behind the car in front because he had all kinds of room to pull away.) You could call what I left him a "note". I was driving a beater and he was driving a shiny Lincoln. I repeatedly backed up into him as hard as I could, until I had maneuvered out of the space. His bumper was folded in a few different directions. Mine, somehow, was not damaged at all.

In many European countries (notably Italy) this is how you create a parking space, not leave one :)

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

b) Have attempted to park an SUV in a space marked "Compact"

in the very crowded panera parking lot in alexandria, every parking space is marked compact. yet every single person who parks there is driving an suv.

Mary (Mary), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

liberal application of 3M photo mount and a handful of sand on the windshield say much more than words ever could.

art school vandal (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that's harsh. And, requires planning.

Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Not too much planning, if you use urine instead.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

The other night a brand new Carrera S was parked in my driveway spot and I wrote:

"Hey there, this isn't a common parking space, Thanks. PS - nice car"

Also, for a while years ago, I would see on other cars (I have never received a "note") a business card with Mickey Mouse giving the finger followed by the text "nice parking job assh*le." I wondered at the time where I could get a stack.

I'm from Hollywood, Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Art school vandal, you are a hero of the revolution!

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

the sand was part of the nearby landscaping. if planning had been involved i would have used glitter and charcoal dust.

art school vandal (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking the planning would be more on the lines of having a can of spray adhesive at the ready. Not part of my normal kit.

Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

people have parked in my spot in my apartment before. i simply park my already damaged motorbike behind them very close. with the good side of my bike facing me, take pictures including their numberplate. leave it there blocking them in for 3-4 days. got my motorbike damage fixed 3 times by doing this and them backing over it. take pictures to the cops.
WHO NEEDS INSURANCE!

jayden, Saturday, 4 March 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

this is ironic that this thread should be here because i am parked very close to someone at my apartment right now! i don't even care! also i have never left a note about this but one time i did leave a note because someone next to me had big anti-abortion bumper stickers and a poster inside that said how abortion causes breast cancer so i wrote them a note saying that isn't true.

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, is that escalater etiquette? I had no idea. Living in the south you don't deal with that kind of shit. My apologies, northerners, for when I did that in your area.

Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for a while years ago, I would see on other cars (I have never received a "note") a business card with Mickey Mouse giving the finger followed by the text "nice parking job assh*le." I wondered at the time where I could get a stack.

when i was in high school (back in the late 80s), these things were pretty common! though i may be aware of them b/c i may have been the asshole who got one of them for my teenaged parking.

Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm parked behind a crappy daewoo (or similar) which, wonderfully, has one of these on it:

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/E-Darwin5.gif

always cheers me up.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wanted one of those.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 5 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

>i BMW lowered their price point a while back and now are basically like Lexuses ie "luxury" cars for people douchy enough to insist on a luxury car yet cannot afford a Mercedes or something that is actually still made to the standards of their original price point. It's like they might as well hold a sign saying "HI I'M A FUCKBAG". <i

This is pretty much wrong. BMWs are consistently rated as outstanding performance luxury cars (emphasis on the word performance), but the fit and finish is somewhat lacking. Lexus are thought of as extremely well made, quiet, near perfect fit and finish, but boring. Mercedes have been dogged with quality issues in the last five years and don't offer much on the performance side.

If you want a peformance luxury sedan, BMW is the best choice. The 3 series has been on Car & Drivers Ten Best List for like 15 years running.

Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I take care of a VW Passat as part of a caretaking job, and though it drives like a dream, the door handles and window controls are shot to hell, just as badly as in any of the beater VW Rabbits I've ever had. What's the deal with VW? Every other car manufacturer in the WORLD has figured out the mechanics of door handles or window controls. The car's like a leper—the heart beating strong but the fingers and toes all falling off.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Or if you want a performance (little less emphasis on performance, I'll give you) luxury sedan that won't land you in a snowbank if you try to drive it in the winter, you could skip the 3 series and get an Acura TL :-)

Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Monday, 6 March 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

In Aus, the escalator ettiquete is to stand on the left and walk on the right! So take care if you come down here, touristas =)

Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 March 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've never gotten a parked-too-close note, but I've gotten a few notes about blocked driveways.

People who complain about blocked driveways almost always can easily and effortlessly get out out of their driveways, but feel the need to write a note anyway.

polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 6 March 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

In Aus, the escalator ettiquete is to stand on the left and walk on the right! So take care if you come down here, touristas =)

Yes, most of us realize that it follows the local auto traffic patterns IDIOT.

R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 6 March 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Asshat is such crap in the snow, I can't tell you.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but jw it is australia! the cars drive underneath the road.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Classic, if by "note" you mean "turd."

account settings (account), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, most of us realize that it follows the local auto traffic patterns IDIOT.

uh, not true?

~wj, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

if escalator passing were to truly follow the local traffic patterns, those wishing to go up faster would need to insert themselves into the underside of the down escalator, riding up underneath unmolested by stragglers (although possibly getting very dirty)

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

at least that's what sterling told me

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, most of us realize that it follows the local auto traffic patterns IDIOT.

Um. I believe one stands on the right on escalators in the UK, where they drive on the left. But thanks for playing, nobface.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

And in London every escalator has plenty of signs on it telling you what to do.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

"GET ONE PARKING SKILL" seems like a good one. Not that a lot of Dutch parkers would understand this, obviously. But still.

Gerard (Gerard), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

I once got a note on my windscreen pointing out that I had parked in a disabled bay in a residential street, and that the old fellow who lived there now had to walk 50 yards to his car. It was wet and dark and I couldn't see the disabled bay at all when I parked, so it was a fair cop.

Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

My siste-in-law carries an old lipstick with her to write on people's winshields when they park in a handicapped space. I have always wondered if she has written on one where the person was handicapped, but left their placard-thing in their other car.

Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well, in that case they shouldn't mind her avenging spirit.

"[Street name] is NOT parking for DU students!!!!! PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!" that last bit all triple underlined, and the ballpoint had almost torn the paper, she must've been so incensed at my legal 2-hour-long parking.

Almost exactly the same thing happened to me once. I was visiting a friend in her apartment, which had no visitor parking, so I parked, perfectly legally, on a street which contained very few cars. When I arrived back to my car later that night (and it was 9pm when I parked, so I reckon anyone coming home from work would have been home already, and I didn't even park near the houses, but at an empty green space towards the end of the street) there was a note on my car that told me in no uncertain terms that I was being watched and that if I ever parked my car there again, there would be CONSEQUENCES!!!!! I was really embarrassed about it and got quite upset that I had pissed someone off so badly, but then I realised it was a public roadway and I had done absolutely nothing wrong at all.
They even put the note into a clear plastic wrapper, in case it got rained on. Fucking loons.

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I would park there again and lie in wait for them, Trayce. Fuckheads.

In Boston there was a neighborhood controversy over people leaving lawn chairs and such in parking spaces they had shoveled out. They figured that once they'd put in that amount of work, the parking space was THEIRS. They would be wrong. The city collected all the lawn chairs and gave them to charity.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I piss on the door handles (if possible) if they park too close. I do this with hummers on general principle.

My friend in highschool shat in a sportscar (driver's seat) that belonged to a narc.

steve ketchup (steve ketchup), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

The city collected all the lawn chairs and gave them to charity.

this has made me smile for the first time in two hours.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/nathanwaite/mickey_parking_ticket_redone.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Our neighbors made a big production out of printing out a memo and leaving it in everyone's mailbox that they were having a retirement party and we might experience heavier than normal traffic patterns and if anyone's driveway got blocked due to guests parking we should immediately call this number. Meanwhile, I don't think anyone showed up at all.

Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

We've got a neighbor who lives down the street who absolutely freaks whenever someone parks a car on the street in front of our house when there's a chance of rain. They're scared of the scenerio in which water comes flowing down the curb, hits the parked car's tire, and the water somewhow SCHWOOPS into the next-door neighbor's yard. They've even knocked on the door at seven in the morning, and once, the dude stayed up until three in the morning, just so he could yell at me from his porch.

ANd be sure to carefully re-read that last sentence. lives down the street vs next-door neighbor. THEY DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE HOUSE THAT [allegedly] GETS "HIT".

The next door neighbor has said not one word to me since I moved in nearly five years ago.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

I would park there again and lie in wait for them, Trayce. Fuckheads.

Accentmonkey, pardon. Not that Trayce isn't an excellent ilxor to be confused with. And not that she, too, shouldn't lie in wait for them.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

we all should, wherever we may be

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Accentmonkey, pardon. Not that Trayce isn't an excellent ilxor to be confused with. And not that she, too, shouldn't lie in wait for them.

I accept your pardon. I did seriously consider lying in wait for them, but guess what? Not only is my life too short to leave plastic-wrapped notes on the cars of people who are not in any way inconveniencing me, I am also too bustling and full-lived to argue with such people.

Perhaps I am too nice. I am one of those people who would tell my friends not to park in other people's "spaces" on a public road if I was having visitors. If I'm going to my parents house for a big occasion and I know that lots of older and less able people will be following on later, I'll park further away from the house to give them more room.

Jesus, I'm Laura Ingalls.

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

he just sort of stands a few feet from my car attempting this sort of "you insulted my wife's honor!" look on his face for about 20 seconds, then finally walks away. all this from a gray-haired couple in a BMW!

amateurist, i cant believe you let bart get away with that.

phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm with Phil. One of the things I'm getting better at with age is being huge. By which I mean that I've always been huge, but now I'm less shy about using that fact to intimidate fuckbacks and thereby stem their fuckbaggery. Also, happy birthday 2 days ago, Phil.

Pork Cheops (willpie), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)


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