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    Making Your Own Parking Spot

    The market I go to regularly has two parking spots that have carriage corrals in them. The corrals are less than half the length of the spot and sit back so a lot of people start to pull into the spot then realize it's not an actual parking spot, back out and move on.

    I just finished putting groceries in my trunk yesterday and turned with my carriage to put it in the closest corral and I see a guy backing into the spot where the corral is. I almost yell because I think the guy doesn't realize the corral is there and is going to hit it but then I realize he is backing up real slow and getting as close to the corral as possible.

    I get up to his car just as he finishes getting as close to the corral as possible and I realize he's decided that since he has a short car that doesn't stick to far out into the lot he is planning on actually parking there!

    I can't put my carriage in the corral because his car is blocking the opening so I put it right next to his drivers side door (that he was just about to open). He gives me a WTF! look. I pointedly look at the corral then look back at him, shrug my shoulders and walk away. He decides to give up on his parking scheme and exits the corral to find an actual parking spot.

    Like I told my wife when relating the story, if you're going to deliberately park your car where the carriages go then your going to have to deal with a car surrounded by carriages!
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    I like this. You got to teach him a lesson that being a jerk doesn't mean others will not repay him for what he did, and you got to do it to his face.

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    • #3
      you know... i do get annoyed when i see an empty spot in a long line of cars... only to see that it's a cart-corral (or that the backside of the corral goes into the spot).

      but ... i just grumble and park elsewhere. i never considered just parking there anyway. Especially since stores will NOT pay for cart-damages. parking there is pretty much just asking for damage.

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      • #4
        I once saw a car park INSIDE an empty cart corral. It was wide enough and the car was small enough it managed to squeeze in there. Though he must have had some fun time actually getting out of his car.

        As for your bit of pwnage, that was simply beautiful.
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        • #5
          This thread has me thinking of this picture.
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          • #6
            Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
            I once saw a car park INSIDE an empty cart corral. It was wide enough and the car was small enough it managed to squeeze in there. Though he must have had some fun time actually getting out of his car.

            As for your bit of pwnage, that was simply beautiful.
            I saw a motorcycle in one once, when I was on vacation last year.
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            • #7
              Someone parking in such a spot would also have to worry about all of the nice new dents and dings that suddenly appeared on their vehicle. I have to wonder if this sort of thing is the reason why ALL stores with carts have sings up saying they're not liable for damage caused by carts...

              "Huh? Oh! yeah, I pushed my cart into that big red cart with the rubber wheels. I had no idea they made carts that HUGE! It took a few tries, but I made it fit..."
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              • #8
                I probably could have done this back when I was driving my dad's Smart Car.
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                • #9
                  Quoth PepperElf View Post
                  you know... i do get annoyed when i see an empty spot in a long line of cars... only to see that it's a cart-corral (or that the backside of the corral goes into the spot).

                  but ... i just grumble and park elsewhere. i never considered just parking there anyway. Especially since stores will NOT pay for cart-damages. parking there is pretty much just asking for damage.
                  For me, it's the itty-bitty cars - nothing like trundling down a full row, spotting a gap...nope, it's a Mini! It's a Smart! Gah.

                  As for making one's own parking space, the one that kills me to this day was back in college - plowed parking lot, all the snow heaped up into a giant, space-covering mound on one end. And a beat-up, offroad-modded Jeep perched neatly atop the drift. I never knew who it was, but...way to go, dude.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
                    I once saw a car park INSIDE an empty cart corral. It was wide enough and the car was small enough it managed to squeeze in there. Though he must have had some fun time actually getting out of his car.

                    As for your bit of pwnage, that was simply beautiful.
                    If he had a sunroof (as my previous vehicle did) that's probably how he got out. or by climbing out of a window.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                      This thread has me thinking of this picture.
                      *snip*
                      Same here (although I've never quite been able to figure out what that particular driver did to deserve it). Would be lovely to have these cart corral-parkers come back out and find 150 carts jammed in behind and around their car everywhichway, requiring them to take an hour or more to untangle the carts before they could get out ...

                      Quoth Ceir View Post
                      For me, it's the itty-bitty cars - nothing like trundling down a full row, spotting a gap...nope, it's a Mini! It's a Smart! Gah.

                      As for making one's own parking space, the one that kills me to this day was back in college - plowed parking lot, all the snow heaped up into a giant, space-covering mound on one end. And a beat-up, offroad-modded Jeep perched neatly atop the drift. I never knew who it was, but...way to go, dude.
                      THAT is creative! I hope the driver didn't end up with a parking ticket, since I'm pretty sure that was officially a no-parking spot, LOL.

                      Yeah, I hate those blasted tiny cars too, for the same reason. They should all be required to hoist a large flag from the car's roof when they park, dammit! (So should I, since at least it would give me a fighting chance of finding my damn car when my shift is over.)

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                      • #12
                        Quoth pzychobitch View Post
                        If he had a sunroof (as my previous vehicle did) that's probably how he got out. or by climbing out of a window.
                        It was something like a Ford Focus or similar style, so I presumed they exited through the rear.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth Ceir View Post
                          As for making one's own parking space, the one that kills me to this day was back in college - plowed parking lot, all the snow heaped up into a giant, space-covering mound on one end. And a beat-up, offroad-modded Jeep perched neatly atop the drift. I never knew who it was, but...way to go, dude.
                          Quoth Pixilated View Post
                          THAT is creative! I hope the driver didn't end up with a parking ticket, since I'm pretty sure that was officially a no-parking spot, LOL.
                          From how I see the description (along with what I've seen "in the field" with plowed parking lots), my understanding is that the pile of snow was on top of a bunch of "sacrificial" parking spaces. That would mean the Jeep wasn't parked in a no-parking spot, he was parked in an "official" parking spot that was buried under around 10 feet of snow. Of course, he might have been parked across multiple spots (hard to see the lines under those circumstances), but I doubt if anyone would be complaining that his parking in that manner kept them from being able to use the neighbouring spot.

                          Back when I worked in a machine shop, the snow got plowed to one end of the (already too small) parking lot. I'd frequently take the last spot - half blacktop, half beginning of the snow pile. For the record, I was driving a subcompact - and you'd NEVER see some of my co-workers, who drove 4x4 SUVs, taking that type of spot.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Pixilated View Post
                            Same here (although I've never quite been able to figure out what that particular driver did to deserve it).
                            I'm thinking it was probably a prank on an employee by his coworkers, or some similar horseplay.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Ceir View Post
                              For me, it's the itty-bitty cars - nothing like trundling down a full row, spotting a gap...nope, it's a Mini! It's a Smart! Gah.
                              I had a wonderful version of this: Mini, smart... ooh, empty.. nope! Horse!

                              Yes, there was a horse wandering around in the car parking spaces!
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