I saw this today and thought of that thread...
Enjoy. 
Reminds me of the parking deck at Perimeter Mall.
now I want to know... I always park out near the outer edges of the parking lots. Not to protect my cars.. but I enjoy the walk and I refuse to get stuck in the 'searching for the closest spot" race. Why is it every time I come out, somebody has parked right NEXT to my car.. when there are 50 all around it?
mad_machine wrote: now I want to know... I always park out near the outer edges of the parking lots. Not to protect my cars.. but I enjoy the walk and I refuse to get stuck in the 'searching for the closest spot" race. Why is it every time I come out, somebody has parked right NEXT to my car.. when there are 50 all around it?
Makes it easier to wipe their privates all over your door handles....
-Rob
I am never going to look at my door handles the same way.. thankyou very much
In reply to mad_machine:
I have experienced this before as well, and I have a theory. Well, two theories. The first is that the person is an shiny happy person, and parked there because they thought it would bother you or wanted to intentionally leave you a door ding. The second idea is that the person likes your cool car and wanted to park by you in a show of solidarity in awesomeness.
The first theory is the one I arrived at after finding someone had their POS parked next to me way out with lots of empty spaces around. The second occured to me when I parked my POS near a new M3 with lots of spaces all around because I wanted to look at it and be cool by asociation by parking near it.
as a poor college student I worked at a Kmart and would park the farthest spot out. I always had a cart (buggy - down south) next to my door.
I have a third theory: sheep theory.
People make the unconscious decision to park next to other cars because starting their own car island amidst a sea of empty parking spaces is a little scary.
I do like the schmekel-smear theory though.
that sheep theory is a bit frightening
But true.
I am an island maker and I end up with a lot of sheep. I've always wondered why that is. Now I know.
yea... I can only guess you have to park WAY out in the next zip code to avoid magetically attracting all the sheep?
Friend of mine had a 73 impala he used to park out at the end of the lot.. not to keep it safe, but because it was easier to park that way. We would always lose his car due to all the SUVs that would park around it.
mad_machine wrote: now I want to know... I always park out near the outer edges of the parking lots. Not to protect my cars.. but I enjoy the walk and I refuse to get stuck in the 'searching for the closest spot" race. Why is it every time I come out, somebody has parked right NEXT to my car.. when there are 50 all around it?
I think we had a thread about that awhile back, too.
If it's something cool parked next to my black Corrado, I figure its a "strength in numbers thing".
If it's something crappy parked next to the Golf (which still has primer on the back), I'm insulted.
EastCoastMojo wrote: I am an island maker and I end up with a lot of sheep. I've always wondered why that is. Now I know.
You mean the dongle-wiping theory?
Yep.
The video shows a good point. A smart wife knows to use the back of the car as a battering ram, and protect the radiator.
rob_lewis wrote: Makes it easier to wipe their privates all over your door handles....
Damn, if I would've known this was going on I would've stopped licking people's door handles years ago!
The way I park annoys a lot of other people. I just go to the first spot I see where I can pull through, never near the front. I enjoy walking, so it does not bother me.
TJ wrote:rob_lewis wrote: Makes it easier to wipe their privates all over your door handles....Damn, if I would've known this was going on I would've stopped licking people's door handles years ago!
this is going somewhere bad...
mad_machine wrote:TJ wrote:this is going somewhere bad...rob_lewis wrote: Makes it easier to wipe their privates all over your door handles....Damn, if I would've known this was going on I would've stopped licking people's door handles years ago!
Too late. It's cool when someone who has a similar car parks next to you. Not cool is when it's the same color as your car and you walk up to it stick your key in the door and wonder why it doesn't open with a dumb look on your face. Not like that's ever happened to me before, ok it has.
I used to love parking my clapped out E30 with dents, stickers, over-sized roof rack and and rally scuffs next to newer beemers for a sort of before and after look. I also wanted to subliminally encourage them to actually USE their machines not just be a lot princess.
PS have you ever felt the cool kiss of a 63' Valiant door pull on your frank and beans?
My GF and her friend did this once.
lewbud wrote: Too late. It's cool when someone who has a similar car parks next to you. Not cool is when it's the same color as your car and you walk up to it stick your key in the door and wonder why it doesn't open with a dumb look on your face. Not like that's ever happened to me before, ok it has.
I have a calypsorot BMW 318ti.. the chances of there ever being another car that shape and colour parked next to mine are astronomically small.
In reply to mad_machine: Mine was a 1980 red K5 Blazer with a white top. I walked up to a red 1980 K5 Blazer with a BLACK top. Earlier that day I had rubbed out the paint from its oxidized pink state to the actual color. I miss that old truck. The only thing that would have made people get out of its way faster was to get one of those 3 inch round grill guards in the red oxide primer, beat the heck out of it with a chain and let it soak in salt water til it got a nice patina on it and then mount it. Got about 3 gas stations to the mile but gas was cheap back then.
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