A whole parking lot, and they need to park near me

jarcher · 03-21-2007, 04:18 AM

A friend of mine and I went to the movies tonight and, since it was a week night the large parking lot was mostly empty. So I parked at the far end of the lot, thinking that would prevent anyone else from parking near me. I took just one spot at the end.

Well, of course when we come out some jerk had parked right next to me! Literally hundreds of spaces all closer to the door, and this jerk had to park right up next to my brand new RL. Why do people do that? I was tempted to wait for him or her to come out and ask them. I checked for door dings, but it was dark and the car is black, so I didn't see any. I'll check again tomorrow. Very annoying!

marlboromike · 03-21-2007, 06:38 AM

it always happens...so many times. People suck...bottom line

wt2ga · 03-21-2007, 07:15 AM

CountryGirl · 03-21-2007, 07:38 AM

And, if you go to Wendy's, and there are dozens of open tables, the people with the screaming kids will sit right next to you.

lostcause · 03-21-2007, 08:02 AM

lol...so I'm not the only one who will park at the farthest point in the parking lot even if it's literally blocks away from the entrance of where I'm going just so there's no one else parked near me?

chris67 · 03-21-2007, 08:10 AM

Same thing happened a couple of days ago......all alone out in the boonies at Target.........I come out....cars on both sides....tons of spots closer in.....plus it was a really windy day....blowing junk around..including......(here you have to play the Jaws music for this).....a shopping cart slowly rolling (but picking up speed)...in the direction of the Sky........SCARY!

xmicro_Redline · 03-21-2007, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by chris67

Same thing happened a couple of days ago......all alone out in the boonies at Target.........I come out....cars on both sides....tons of spots closer in.....plus it was a really windy day....blowing junk around..including......(here you have to play the Jaws music for this).....a shopping cart slowly rolling (but picking up speed)...in the direction of the Sky........SCARY!

That happened to my Mini Cooper S. I parked far away from the stores in the middle of the lot. When I came out of the store a shopping cart came flying down the hill from the grocery store on the top of the hill and BLAM!
It looked like a car hit me. I still think someone pushed it on purpose.

People do suck, jelous aholes who do not understand how a passion for a car can be so serious!

**Ahnuld** · 03-21-2007, 08:53 AM

At work the parking lot is divided every 20 spots or so with a curbed peninsula area, where they have some landscaping. I try to grab one of the spots next to the peninsula so I can shift closer to the curb and only have one car next to me.. and even then it has a lot of extra cushion room between that car and I.

After a recent snow storm, the roads were clear but piles of plowed snow remained, and I drove my sky in. That first spot next to the curb was mostly filled up with icy plowed snow... less than 1/4 on the edge closest to the next spot was asphalt. No car was parking there, so I took the second spot.

Would ya beleive someone in a Subaru Outback drove up the snow/ice pile and parked there... to make matters worse the outback was actually on an angle and leaning towards my car... making it almost impossible to get into the sky!

Why?! Why!?

Someone had to stop and put though into this... Will my car fit? Can I make it up that incline? What about that other car?

Ahhh hell with it... lets go for it.

idiot

Rick Tinley Park · 03-21-2007, 09:09 AM

On the other side of the coin, went to dinner last night and the restaurant had the WIDEST spots I have ever seen for parking! It was really nice. If you park in the center you can open both doors and neither gets to the yellow line of the spot next to you!
Needless to say that and the fact that their food was very good - moved that place up to the front of our list!

07_SKY_RL · 03-21-2007, 09:52 AM

I have the same remote parking philosophy, and experience the same idiots who have to park next to me.

I have a theory that explains some of the behavior. If its raining, and I don't park way, way out at the edge of the lot, but just maybe 10 spaces away from the main "clump" of cars, then I suspect some of those people can't tell where the edges of their cars are (and there's a whole bunch of those people out there).

I think they're actually somewhat considerate. If they can park where there aren't many cars around, they won't hit anyone. However, they can't tell where the car fits in the spot, so they have to find a single car alone that they can park next to and align with. When I actually see the driver, its usually a blue-haired old lady in the last land yacht her husband bought before he left this world.

Of course, when I'm so far out in the lot you can't see the store over the horizon and someone parks next to me, then its likely they're just a clueless drooling moron (and there's a whole bunch of those people out there). When I see these drivers, they're usually "tuner-wannabes"

CountryGirl · 03-21-2007, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by xmicro_Redline

People do suck, jelous aholes who do not understand how a passion for a car can be so serious!

It's not even that, there's some other kind of pathology going on. I park out in the back 40 no matter what I'm driving, and there's usually somebody right next to me when I come out.

I really don't understand people. I do my best not to park next to SUVs or anything else where they might have trouble getting in without dinging my car (or truck). I've seen people park their cars just a few inches from my husband's F150. No way he can get in without his door touching their car. Makes you want to fling it open. Maybe they're trying to set us up...

Skystar · 03-21-2007, 10:19 AM

At the local mall there is one parking space that for some reason is wider than the rest at the Sears tool section entrance so of course that's the one I always look for first. This being the same type of parking area that Ahnuld described, I parked next to the curb leaving plenty of room between my vehicle and the next one over. When I returned some jerk had pulled ( wedged) his small car directly over the space dividing stripe. I had to back out so my passenger could get in and yes there was the first paint chip.

Rick Tinley Park · 03-21-2007, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by shenvalley

It's not even that, there's some other kind of pathology going on. I park out in the back 40 no matter what I'm driving, and there's usually somebody right next to me when I come out.

I really don't understand people. I do my best not to park next to SUVs or anything else where they might have trouble getting in without dinging my car (or truck). I've seen people park their cars just a few inches from my husband's F150. No way he can get in without his door touching their car. Makes you want to fling it open. Maybe they're trying to set us up...

I'm like you -- normally I park far away even in my 97 SC2! And you're right there is like a magnetic field set up - as soon as there is one car another is attracted. With the SKY I have taken to parking at the end of rows, to free up a door. Some places (Was mentioned here) have groupings of spots with landscaped areas -- I shoot for them.

One place I saw an example of respect for car in general - but in particular Sunni1, was the local Pep Boys. I figure all the people there are car people any way, so it helps. But I see people checking the car out all the time - and -- this is a shocker. I parked with a space next to me (Actually two) at the end of a row and a guy pulls up with a car and parks in the spot next to me and gets as far away from the car as he could. Then he stood there, looking, for a long time (I was waiting in check out...)

MidniteBlues · 03-21-2007, 10:28 AM

Sometimes just sometimes others are thinking like us. What I normally do is look for spaces that empty are next to expensive brand new cars. Benz, BMW Vettes, other Sky/SOL Z4's anything brand new and expensive, and sporty looking will do I then pull in next to them, as close to the main entrance of where I am going. My assumption is that these people hopefully will be as anal as I am when they open their doors. After, if they ding my car, the possibility exists that they would of put a ding in their doors edge also or chip their paint.

Like minded people think alike. I pulled into a hotel parking lot, both spaces next to me are empty. The next morning I find a Corvette on one side of me, and a BMW Z4 on the other--You got to figure that they thought the same as us, "hey let me park next to that cool looking nice, clean, blue roadster, they won't ding up my door when they leave I bet." So I look for the same chances when parking--It works BTW--So far I have no dings following this procedure. (so far)

And I don't haveta walk as far--

nscrbug · 03-21-2007, 12:33 PM

I think some people do it (park right next to a Sky that is parked out in boo-foo egypt) on purpose...I really do!

I firmly believe that some people will deliberatly park next to us, even though there could be hundreds of open spots much closer to the door. I think they do it to just to get a rise out of us because they know when we come back out to our cars and see that some doofus has parked next to us, they know that it will piss us off. And guess what...they're right!

Maybe I'm just paranoid...but that's how I feel.

1994SC2 · 03-21-2007, 12:42 PM

Sky Baby had a similiar occurance - best you can hope for is just that people will be more mature in the future, you arent harming anyone by giving yourself more peace of mind when you park.

wireless · 03-21-2007, 12:42 PM

Not much problem here! I park way out in the parking lots and also take up multiple spots and butting up to a light pole at Wal-Mart. Most of those idiots just drive around looking for an empty handicap spot. IDIOTS....

CountryGirl · 03-21-2007, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by nscrbug

I think some people do it (park right next to a Sky that is parked out in boo-foo egypt) on purpose...I really do!

I firmly believe that some people will deliberatly park next to us, even though there could be hundreds of open spots much closer to the door. I think they do it to just to get a rise out of us because they know when we come back out to our cars and see that some doofus has parked next to us, they know that it will piss us off. And guess what...they're right!

Maybe I'm just paranoid...but that's how I feel.

Yeah, you're right. Sometimes I forget there are people like that in the world.

SunneySky · 03-21-2007, 01:02 PM

Yes... True confessions here... Back in the days when I drove an old VW beetle with dents and no body parts of the same color... I used to go out of my way to park next to really nice cars. I fugured it made it less likely that someone would abscond with my pride and joy. Really, why steal a junkbox when there is a really nice expensive looking beauty right next to it?

Anyway, the benefit of agrivating somebody as some sick joke never crossed my mind! Why would they park so far away anyway? I figured they just wanted to get more exercise by walking a little farther.

Now that the roles have changed... I feel your pain.

jarcher · 03-21-2007, 02:32 PM

Wow, thanks everyone! After I posted that I thought I was being foolish, but not anymore! I also look for end spots (that spot last nigth was an end spot) and failing that, I look for nice cars to park next to for the same reason as posted. Failing that, I look for cars with 4 doors, because 4 door cars have shorter doors. I never park next to a junker.

I also have never parked in such a way as to deliberatly use more than one spot. Last night, my friend suggested that, and I said it would probably get me keyed and, in any case, who would park near me? He agreed so we went in to the movie.

Also, someone suggested there is more at work here when this happens. I have to wonder if there is some kind of herding instinct at work. Are some people just so mindless that their subconcious takes over and they just park next to the first car they see?

Who knows. It's just very frustrating.

Devoking · 03-21-2007, 03:58 PM

I think one thing that happens is they park there to check out the car, and then just walk in from there rather than relocate.

Second you didn't mention what kind of car it was but maybe they were just as concerned for their cars safety as you were yours.

Third, if you drive it at all, something is eventually going to happen. Stone chips, door nicks or whatever. Do yourself a favor and lighten up. Life is too short ot worry about the small stuff.

03-21-2007, 04:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
jarcher First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Smithfield, RI Posts: 474 My Photos: (0)	A whole parking lot, and they need to park near me A friend of mine and I went to the movies tonight and, since it was a week night the large parking lot was mostly empty. So I parked at the far end of the lot, thinking that would prevent anyone else from parking near me. I took just one spot at the end. Well, of course when we come out some jerk had parked right next to me! Literally hundreds of spaces all closer to the door, and this jerk had to park right up next to my brand new RL. Why do people do that? I was tempted to wait for him or her to come out and ask them. I checked for door dings, but it was dark and the car is black, so I didn't see any. I'll check again tomorrow. Very annoying! __________________ Black Sky Redline Black and red interior 6 Disk Monsoon XM Chrome wheels Deck Lid Spoiler 3,500mi 1 speeding ticket, dismissed!

03-21-2007, 07:38 AM	#4 (permalink)
CountryGirl Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 555 My Photos: (0)	And, if you go to Wendy's, and there are dozens of open tables, the people with the screaming kids will sit right next to you. __________________ Bluestone/Black REDLINE Perma-grin since Jan 2007

03-21-2007, 08:10 AM	#6 (permalink)
chris67 First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Minneapolis MN. Posts: 495 My Photos: (0)	I feel your pain! Same thing happened a couple of days ago......all alone out in the boonies at Target.........I come out....cars on both sides....tons of spots closer in.....plus it was a really windy day....blowing junk around..including......(here you have to play the Jaws music for this).....a shopping cart slowly rolling (but picking up speed)...in the direction of the Sky........SCARY! __________________ Silver Pearl plate# SKYCNDY VIN # 2523

03-21-2007, 08:53 AM	#8 (permalink)
Ahnuld First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NJ-TP: Exit 3 Posts: 1,454 My Photos: (1)	At work the parking lot is divided every 20 spots or so with a curbed peninsula area, where they have some landscaping. I try to grab one of the spots next to the peninsula so I can shift closer to the curb and only have one car next to me.. and even then it has a lot of extra cushion room between that car and I. After a recent snow storm, the roads were clear but piles of plowed snow remained, and I drove my sky in. That first spot next to the curb was mostly filled up with icy plowed snow... less than 1/4 on the edge closest to the next spot was asphalt. No car was parking there, so I took the second spot. Would ya beleive someone in a Subaru Outback drove up the snow/ice pile and parked there... to make matters worse the outback was actually on an angle and leaning towards my car... making it almost impossible to get into the sky! Why?! Why!? Someone had to stop and put though into this... Will my car fit? Can I make it up that incline? What about that other car? Ahhh hell with it... lets go for it. idiot __________________ Photos below taken at Dover Airforce Base

03-21-2007, 09:09 AM	#9 (permalink)
Rick Tinley Park Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: SW Suburbs of Chicago Posts: 4,819 My Photos: (11)	On the other side of the coin, went to dinner last night and the restaurant had the WIDEST spots I have ever seen for parking! It was really nice. If you park in the center you can open both doors and neither gets to the yellow line of the spot next to you! Needless to say that and the fact that their food was very good - moved that place up to the front of our list! __________________ Find out about my radio show http://www.anj.westpm.net Founder: www.chicagolandroadsters.com Rick Tinley Park Delivered June 15, 2006 VIN - 3099 Sunburst Yellow Name - Sunni1 IL License # - YLO SKY 1

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03-21-2007, 06:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
marlboromike First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Marlboro, NJ Posts: 7,126 My Photos: (6)	it always happens...so many times. People suck...bottom line

03-21-2007, 07:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
wt2ga Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: SkyLess in Atlanta Posts: 1,912 My Photos: (13)

03-21-2007, 08:02 AM	#5 (permalink)
lostcause Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 1,251 My Photos: (0)	lol...so I'm not the only one who will park at the farthest point in the parking lot even if it's literally blocks away from the entrance of where I'm going just so there's no one else parked near me?

03-21-2007, 09:52 AM	#10 (permalink)
07_SKY_RL Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cleveland OH Posts: 81 My Photos: (0)	I have the same remote parking philosophy, and experience the same idiots who have to park next to me. I have a theory that explains some of the behavior. If its raining, and I don't park way, way out at the edge of the lot, but just maybe 10 spaces away from the main "clump" of cars, then I suspect some of those people can't tell where the edges of their cars are (and there's a whole bunch of those people out there). I think they're actually somewhat considerate. If they can park where there aren't many cars around, they won't hit anyone. However, they can't tell where the car fits in the spot, so they have to find a single car alone that they can park next to and align with. When I actually see the driver, its usually a blue-haired old lady in the last land yacht her husband bought before he left this world. Of course, when I'm so far out in the lot you can't see the store over the horizon and someone parks next to me, then its likely they're just a clueless drooling moron (and there's a whole bunch of those people out there). When I see these drivers, they're usually "tuner-wannabes" __________________ Chris (formerly CPK0767) Midnight Blue/Black Leather/Black Top Red Line

03-21-2007, 10:19 AM	#12 (permalink)
Skystar First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Grovetown, Ga. Posts: 414 My Photos: (0)	At the local mall there is one parking space that for some reason is wider than the rest at the Sears tool section entrance so of course that's the one I always look for first. This being the same type of parking area that Ahnuld described, I parked next to the curb leaving plenty of room between my vehicle and the next one over. When I returned some jerk had pulled ( wedged) his small car directly over the space dividing stripe. I had to back out so my passenger could get in and yes there was the first paint chip. __________________ Silver Graphite 2.4L Cloth Interior Manual...Chrome Wheels...Spoiler Deposit...7/25/06 Born.......3/12/07 At home..3/29/07

03-21-2007, 10:28 AM	#14 (permalink)
MidniteBlues Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 3,586 My Photos: (0)	Sometimes just sometimes others are thinking like us. What I normally do is look for spaces that empty are next to expensive brand new cars. Benz, BMW Vettes, other Sky/SOL Z4's anything brand new and expensive, and sporty looking will do I then pull in next to them, as close to the main entrance of where I am going. My assumption is that these people hopefully will be as anal as I am when they open their doors. After, if they ding my car, the possibility exists that they would of put a ding in their doors edge also or chip their paint. Like minded people think alike. I pulled into a hotel parking lot, both spaces next to me are empty. The next morning I find a Corvette on one side of me, and a BMW Z4 on the other--You got to figure that they thought the same as us, "hey let me park next to that cool looking nice, clean, blue roadster, they won't ding up my door when they leave I bet." So I look for the same chances when parking--It works BTW--So far I have no dings following this procedure. (so far) And I don't haveta walk as far-- __________________ 2.4L Midnight Blue, Premium Trim Package, Automatic, Monsoon Pre Audio 1-CD, Std Rear. GMPP CAI, 3M Clear Bra, Splash Guards, Black Top, Fiam Frwy Blastr 2-horn Opel Ant - WR V2 - Flux Capacitor -

03-21-2007, 12:33 PM	#15 (permalink)
nscrbug First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Chicago burbs Posts: 1,421 My Photos: (6)	I think some people do it (park right next to a Sky that is parked out in boo-foo egypt) on purpose...I really do! I firmly believe that some people will deliberatly park next to us, even though there could be hundreds of open spots much closer to the door. I think they do it to just to get a rise out of us because they know when we come back out to our cars and see that some doofus has parked next to us, they know that it will piss us off. And guess what...they're right! Maybe I'm just paranoid...but that's how I feel. __________________ Linda 2008 RL Delivered - 08/25/2007 Silver Pearl/Black Cloth Polished Alloys Automatic Monsoon 1 disc

03-21-2007, 12:42 PM	#16 (permalink)
1994SC2 First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Washington DC/Carlisle, PA Posts: 1,377 My Photos: (21)	Sky Baby had a similiar occurance - best you can hope for is just that people will be more mature in the future, you arent harming anyone by giving yourself more peace of mind when you park. __________________ 1994 SC2 (Obituary) 2007 SKY (Thread 'n Pics) VIN 326 5 spd, black trim, chromies, XM 6-disc, deck spoiler, LSD

03-21-2007, 12:42 PM	#17 (permalink)
wireless First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Vicksburg, MS Posts: 195 My Photos: (0)	Not much problem here! I park way out in the parking lots and also take up multiple spots and butting up to a light pole at Wal-Mart. Most of those idiots just drive around looking for an empty handicap spot. IDIOTS.... __________________ *Wireless* "Imagine Everything Wireless" SKY Redline Mnite Bl, Man Blk/Tan leather Monsoon 1CD Chrome Wheels Spoiler Splash Guards MagnaFlow Exhaust Stubby B Antenna Windrestrictor V2

03-21-2007, 01:02 PM	#19 (permalink)
SunneySky First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Crawfordville Florida Posts: 370 My Photos: (0)	Yes... True confessions here... Back in the days when I drove an old VW beetle with dents and no body parts of the same color... I used to go out of my way to park next to really nice cars. I fugured it made it less likely that someone would abscond with my pride and joy. Really, why steal a junkbox when there is a really nice expensive looking beauty right next to it? Anyway, the benefit of agrivating somebody as some sick joke never crossed my mind! Why would they park so far away anyway? I figured they just wanted to get more exercise by walking a little farther. Now that the roles have changed... I feel your pain. __________________ I LOVE MY SKY Bluestone R/L with Tan roof Manual Chrome Wheels Billet Grille HIDs Race Precision GT exhaust R/L CAI Exhaust Depot Charge Pipes In Dash GPS nav touchscreen XM radio & rear view camera No more Black and Tan Base

03-21-2007, 02:32 PM	#20 (permalink)
jarcher First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Smithfield, RI Posts: 474 My Photos: (0)	Wow, thanks everyone! After I posted that I thought I was being foolish, but not anymore! I also look for end spots (that spot last nigth was an end spot) and failing that, I look for nice cars to park next to for the same reason as posted. Failing that, I look for cars with 4 doors, because 4 door cars have shorter doors. I never park next to a junker. I also have never parked in such a way as to deliberatly use more than one spot. Last night, my friend suggested that, and I said it would probably get me keyed and, in any case, who would park near me? He agreed so we went in to the movie. Also, someone suggested there is more at work here when this happens. I have to wonder if there is some kind of herding instinct at work. Are some people just so mindless that their subconcious takes over and they just park next to the first car they see? Who knows. It's just very frustrating. __________________ Black Sky Redline Black and red interior 6 Disk Monsoon XM Chrome wheels Deck Lid Spoiler 3,500mi 1 speeding ticket, dismissed!

03-21-2007, 03:58 PM	#21 (permalink)
Devoking First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Defiance. OH Posts: 171 My Photos: (0)	I think one thing that happens is they park there to check out the car, and then just walk in from there rather than relocate. Second you didn't mention what kind of car it was but maybe they were just as concerned for their cars safety as you were yours. Third, if you drive it at all, something is eventually going to happen. Stone chips, door nicks or whatever. Do yourself a favor and lighten up. Life is too short ot worry about the small stuff.