Car parkers

doublediamond wrote: This kind of stuff used to annoy me until I realized that unless I'm outside watching people park, things happen, like cars of different sizes come and go. That's how you get big gaps in between cars. Most people pull up reasonably close to the car in front, and give "bumper room." However as time passes, one car leaves, a smaller car pulls in, or a large oldsmobile pulls out leaving a weird large space that the next car can't fill, etc. and you get gaps.

There's no way to control this unless every person who parks comes out every time someone leaves and adjusts their car accordingly.

Subject: Re: Car parkers

Innocent X wrote: I can't believe the amount of people who park selfishly here in Prospect Heights. I park my car (and live) on Prospect Place between Carlton and Vanderbilt. Pretty much every week someone does something so selfish and so annoying with their car. Examples:

There's a private garage on the Tuesday/Friday side of the street on Prospect up on the edge of Carlton. There should be three spaces for cars after the opening for the garage. But many times the first car doesn't pull all the way up to the white stop block. I don't know why they don't. So then the second car is pushed back far enough to put the third spot out of play unless you have a Mini Cooper. Also, as is the case right now, the first car did a decent job pulling up but the second car, some Wagonner or other SUV, didn't pull all the way up to the bumper of the first car, so the third spot, again, is out of play. Finally, there's the guy in the white SUVish/mini-vanish vehicle who actually owns a space in the garage. And he parks in front of the garage a lot --- no harm to anyone, it's his garage space --- and goes into his house across the way. Sunday, however, he parked half in the third space and half in front of the garage therefore not allowing another car to park in that third space.

If you're one of these people, you're a jackass.

More examples of parking jerks to come...

Mr. Tips wrote: [quote=doublediamond]This kind of stuff used to annoy me until I realized that unless I'm outside watching people park, things happen, like cars of different sizes come and go. That's how you get big gaps in between cars. Most people pull up reasonably close to the car in front, and give "bumper room." However as time passes, one car leaves, a smaller car pulls in, or a large oldsmobile pulls out leaving a weird large space that the next car can't fill, etc. and you get gaps.

There's no way to control this unless every person who parks comes out every time someone leaves and adjusts their car accordingly.