AAARRRGGGGGHHH! I hate that! How in the hell did they ever pass drivers ed? One time years and years and years ago I had a '72 Pinto (told ya it was a long time ago). Anyway some jagoff parked so close to my drivers side there was no way I could get in. AND someone pinned my passenger side as well. Fortunately my car was a hatchback. And I was pretty skinny and limber at the time. So I just popped open the hatch and crawled in that way. And yes, plenty of people saw me.

Those dolts don't think they have an extra ten seconds and besides, they just don't care. The world revolves around them and if you aren't in their little bubble, you can just go to hell.

This bugs me, as well. Can you tell? :)

amen! i couldn't agree more. crooked parkers enrage me. and people who can't park in the lines at all make me homicidal. but then again, i can't tolerate oblivious people. nothing makes me more angry.

yesterday after work, i went out to my car and found the person parked in front of my car had parked so the front of their car was actually butted up against the front of mine. wtf! it just made me want to... arggggggggh!

btw, good for you for saying something to that woman!

I am a crooked parker. I am such a bad driver that I can not park straight in a spot. Even if I pulled out and pulled back in, the car would still be crooked -- just at a different angle. I could try it a half dozen times and not get it right. So I just try the once and leave the car where it lands.

(You can blame the state of NY for this -- they felt that I deserved a drivers license, and the other states I've lived in have taken NY's word that I know how to drive.)

yet another reason why i don't have a driver's license. cars are far more trouble than they're worth, both on the road and parked. :)

I have seriously wanted to get cards printed up that say: "Congratulations! You have just won my asshole-parking of the day award!" I thought I was going to have a stroke one day trying to park in the Philly airport - the machine SAID there were still spaces, and I drove around, and people had parked EVERYWHERE - on the walkways, at the end of marked rows, wherever their cars would fit. Drove me inSANE.

Wow, good for you for yelling after her. That's admirable. I doubt I would have done that.

That's great that you said something to her. It pisses me off to no end that people do that, but I think it just plain astounds me that it's that they're just so clueless to the rest of the world.

Amen to that! I always fix my parking if I pull in badly. This annoys the parking lot trollers who think I'm pulling out, sit and wait for the spot, and then find that I'm actually reparking. It really is that foreign a concept.

Hee ... I'm TOTALLY anal about parking like that ... I must be a straight parker, too ... though en realidad, I'm a little crooked. ;)

When I moved to Florida one of the first things I noticed was that the parking spaces were MUCH BIGGER ...

... and you guessed it, it's for all the OLD PEOPLE with BIG BOAT CARS that don't know how to fuckin' drive!!

Ok, but isn't this really funny, too? You probably gave the pleasant woman a clue, and after all, how friggin ridiculous can life be?

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Drives me crazy, too.

What drives me even crazier is crooked parking next to handicapped spots. That goes beyond selfish -- it's just plain cruel.

I know one jerk who parks his Acura 2-door diagonally (or straight, if the lot is painted diagonally) and halfway between the center-dividing line of the rows, so as to hog four spots, to create a larger space cushion around the car, which in his mind, lessens the chance that someone might touch it.

Arrogance. Pure arrogance. Over an *Acura*.

Whenever I see him, or anyone else, parked like that, I go over and touch it deliberately. All over. With nice greasy KFC fingers. Including the windows.

Okay, sometimes, a crooked parker makes me, normally a straight parker, park crooked just to get a convenient parking space. Then when I return to my car, I am looking like the crooked parker, as the originator has left. So, forgive me if it was me that parked crooked. I didn't do it purposely. (smiles)

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I am a crooked parker, but not an asshat. Just uncoordinated. I try not to drive, as a general rule, or I try not to park near people. I have been in multiple accidents that have been my fault, and most of them have been in parking lots. Damn parking lots.

This is why I love my paid for car. Any asshat in my town who parks incorrectly has my car's paint on their car doors. Parked too close to the driver's side? Oooops! So sorry! Oh my! Did I WHACK your car with my buggy? GOSH HOW TERRIBLE. Don't park like an ass.

Crooked parkers are a menace to our world-- and my sanity. Thanks for exposing them for the weasels that they are.

I think we need a bumper sticker that says, I am a straight parker, and proud of it. We've got bumper stickers for everything else, so why not?

I'm so glad you said something to her - at least made her consider that her actions affect other people. I sometimes end up blurting stuff like that and a lot of people are worried I'm going to get beaten up someday lol.

Anyway, I don't think the crooked parking is usually an act of defiance or outright meanness - just, as that woman showed, a complete lack of thought for anyone other than herself and her immediate world. Like stopping in the middle of the aisle to peruse the cereal aisle blissfully unaware that people need to get by. In a way, I'm kind of jealous of their ability to be so completely absorbed in their own worlds - not weighed down by concern for everyone else around them. Must be nice to really and truly be the center of your own universe.

Yes, but really irritating for the rest of us. It's like some people never got past the spoiled toddler stage.

The worst crooked parking I saw was in Phoenix. It was so bad my family started looking specially for badly parked cars so we could laugh at and rant about them. There were a lot.

(I'm lousy at parallel parking unless I have power steering, so I can't preen too much about being anal on the straightness of my pull-in parking, but I _will_ walk extra blocks so I can have room to park without looking like an ass (or being one).)

Can I also grouse about people who drive with their high beams permanently on? Grrr....

Oh, I DO have to preen.

Two parking coups:

(1) Squeezing my bug into a space that had only 3" of clearance on either side. One side was a non-space (so I was able to get out); the other, to the right, was occupied by a jerk who'd parked over the while line, with about 3 feet of empty space on the other side, so I didn't feel at all bad about blocking off the driver's side door.

(2) Driving a big honkin' U-Haul truck for the first time (and the biggest vehicle I'd ever driven), I was able to park _exactly_ parallel, and equidistant to both lines when I returned it to the lot. The storage/rental guy was impressed.

*scuttling off, having made a boastful dork of myself*

I am not surprised. A lot of people are a lot less anal than you are about anything and everything -- and sometimes a little absentminded. Don't take it personally - but they are also probably a lot happier than you are - being absolutely neurotic about everything doesn't reduce stress levels, as far as I know!