had to call the bitch out on it

[candyshopgirl]

well me and the hubby got a new car last weekend.Well the newest one we've ever had,2004 mercury sable.Anyways I went to goodwill and I done my shopping(brand new old navy coat with tags for 10.00).So me and the hubby come out of the store just in time to see this rather large woman(yes its fits into the story) get out of a monster SUV and run her door into our new car door,really hard.And she starts to walk away. I walked over and of course their is a 3-4 inch stratch on my car door.So I caught the lady and said to her lady do you know that you just stratched my car? She said oh I know,I'm sorry.So I said Okay so you just left and was not going to say anything.She turned kinda red and looked scared.She then said oh I'll pay for any repairs,I'm so sorry..I just told her that it was just a stratch and it was okay.Because by this point I think the woman was scared I was going to call the police or something.It was just the point that she knew that she did it but just was going to walk away,maybe she'll just think next time.

[bainsidhe]

Um, so what does the woman's size have to do with the story? I don't see how that has anything to do with her suckiness or the fact she carelessly hit your car.

[candyshopgirl]

Um, so what does the woman's size have to do with the story? I don't see how that has anything to do with her suckiness or the fact she carelessly hit your car.

oops sorry.Basically she parked her huge SUV in a spot that really didn't have room for it.But it made it worse because she was large and couldn't squeeze inbetween the door and car without smacking the side of the car next to her.Had she maybe been a little smaller she could have fit.

[depechemodefan]

That really sucked. I hate it when people can't park right. If she just open the door a little and realized that her car can't fit, and go park somewhere else, that would have been better. But no, scs don't care about the damage they do.

[Kiwi]

this happened a few years go... perhaps six but I remember it clearly because of who was involved.
I once had someone I knew (I knew them, they were NOT a family friend) park next to me in a mall parking lot.

Her daughter opened her car door SLAM straight into mine (her car black my car white)

the mother looked over but said nothing, I walk around my car and look, theres a scratch on the paint

she starts to walk off with her daughter into the mall when I call out and tell her what a wonderful parent she is for letting her daughter walk off without so much as a sorry and that my insurance company will be in touch

she walks back over with a cat butt face and tries to rub the paint off with her sleeve... it doesnt work she mumbles a "well sorry but theres no need to be rude "about it

we have more words.... lets put it this way I knew her from my competitve dance world (her daughter was a couple of years younger than me) and lets say her and my mother hand history, both are HARD CORE stage mothers and theres no friendlyness between our families.
the daughter was not in my age class so we werent directly competitive but were at competing schools and she cause A LOT of trouble for the other girls my from dancing school right down to pre-meditated sabatage sometimes

she ended up paying for it to be buffed off because she didnt want it reported on her insurance. The kicker for me is my brother worked as a car painter for 5 years and had the buffer to take the scratch off sitting in the garage at home....

if she or her daughter had apologuised to me I wouldnt have worried but I felt like getting one up on them... what can I say I hate you Kendra and your snotty crappy badly dancing daughter too!

[Anakah]

If someone did that to my truck, I would have gotten their insurance information and called while I was there to make sure it was real. I worked hard to save money to get my car and I would not let someone get away with something like that.

[blas]

Back in high school, someone backed into my Tempo. I walked out of school that day to find one of my tailight casings in 1,000 pieces and some nice dents on my back bumper. I called the school cop over, he said he'd watch the surveillance videos, but couldn't make a guarantee and it'd be hard to find who did it. Yeah, just brush it off and MAYBE we'll find out who did it, but it's gonna be hard.....

I also hate it when people park like jackasses. Most of the time it's when two huge SUVs sandwich my Neon. I park like a normal person with a fully functional brain between the painted lines, and the two SUVs always park right on the edge of the lines and I have to suck in and take a deep breath. Sometimes I just have a huge urge to fling open my door and whack the door of the offending vehicle when they park like that. But I don't want my car to look any worse than it already does, and I'm sure an alarm would go off.

Some people really need to learn the hard way not to park like an asshole.

[Gerrinson]

I saw a complete jackass the other night at the grocery plaza. He was driving one of those extended cab pickups that doesn't fit too well in a regular spot. I couldn't get out of my parking spot until he had cleared the drive, so I had a great view of the proceedings.

First, he parked in the handicapped only spot which happens to be directly in front of the hardware store. Then, realizing he wasn't quite going to fit he backs up a bit, swings to the left and parks perpendicular across all three handicapped spaces.

I put my car in park, turned it off, got out and was going to give him a piece of my mind, even though he was jogging over to the hardware store through traffic. Obviously, he was in dire straits and needed that handicapped spot.

I changed my plans, though, when I saw a cop pull into an empty space nearby. I walked over and pointed out the truck to him. He pulled out his ticket book and promised me he'd take care of it. Apparently three spots = three violations.

Cop stopped writing long enough to give me a wave as I left. I guess I helped his month end out with that one.

[ferebee]

Given that I've seen dump trucks, 18 wheelers with 53' trailers, and tanker trucks park properly ( wheels right on the lines, but still within them - width wise anyway ) I figure there's no excuse for not managing to fit your little car or suv between the lines. It's not hard. Really, it's not.

If you can't get your car between the lines you're:
a: lazy
b: a bad driver
c: stupid
d: all of the above

It's d! D wins!

I'd love to print that out on little cards to put on windshields.

[Meganjo23]

Ha, I remember not that long ago, my mom was telling me that this couple either backed into or rammed into her car when she was heading to where it was parked. The guy was driving, and kept telling her that it was cool, they didn't need to call the cops, it's just a dent. (They crushed the bumper pretty good, nothing major was damaged, but it was not just a teensy scratch.) Mom, being made of win and awesome, was like, "Yes, we do," and called them. Interestingly enough, when the cops came, it was the girl who was sitting in the drivers seat. Methinks the guy had a warrent out or already had two strikes on his lisense or something. Mom made sure to tell the cops that he was driving anyways.

Also, when I was in college, I saw some of the most creative parking ever. People making up their own spots, taking up two spots to stop their precious from being dinged, etc, etc, etc. I am a pretty bad parker, so I'd have to circle around ten million times to find a spot I could fit in because people couldn't stay inside the lines (it's like coloring, people, you learned it when you were three). A lot of people seemed to overetimate thier parking skills, though, and park so that I couldn't get in my car through the drivers side door. Grrr.

[Becks]

IApparently three spots = three violations.

You didn't know that?

I've known that for a long time (and no, not from experience!!!).

[Gawdzillers]

I once had a parking mishap that was part my fault, part dumbass with a ratty old van's fault.

Leaving Best Buy, I had parked next to a very old, very rusted, very very crappy van. The van was parked, had nobody in it, and HAD THE SLIDING BACK DOOR WIDE OPEN.

I backed out as carefully as I could, but alas, there came a grinding sound and a jerk. My front blinker light was caught on this turd's door, and had been ripped straight from the front of my car, hanging by the wires (still functional too ).

I panicked, cursed at the owner who was not there, and got out of there. I figured it was such a hoopty already that he wouldn't notice any damage.

Sometimes I just have a huge urge to fling open my door and whack the door of the offending vehicle when they park like that.

Did that once, too. Yes, on purpose.


Ain't I an asshole?

[Jbball]

I was in the line at a Wendy's next to my work a few years back and was front and center for:

Minivan backing out of a parking spot on the side of the building. There was about 15 feet between the parking spots and the drive-thru line (he/she must've been scared of hitting us in line). Not even halfway out of the spot, they start turning into the next spot, which had a car it it, and scrapped practially the whole right side of it. They noticed they actually made contact finally, pulled back into the spot and corrected themselves.

They then pulled out again, hitting them again, and took off.

Such freaking losers.

[Nyx]

Well since everyone is sharing amusing parking lot stories I'll share one.

I was pulling out of my parking space in reverse, I looked to the right, then the left, all clear, then I looked right again and saw this car flying out in reverse towards me. So I lay on the horn and he keeps coming, so I throw it in drive to pull back in and *boom*, idiot hits me. However I was in luck, he was driving a little sedan and I was driving a large van with a hitch on the back. No damage to me but a large circular dent in the back of his car. *sigh* Poor dumb kid looked about maybe 16, he had to learn the hard way.

[AlmightyALT]

My turn! We were volunteering at the East Texas Dulcimer Festival and one group of out of towners decided to head for food. So they go out, ask the BBQ guys, who were closing shop because it was the end of the day, where they can get food. They hop into their SUV and proceed to back into my fathers truck, cracking a tail light, making a small dent, and scratching the paint (to be fair he has a four door cab truck, but he had parked it properly and she had plenty of space in the parking lot in which to back out and miss him). The lady driver gets out, looks, gets back in and leaves.

My father comes out to go get something from his truck and finds the damage. He goes over and asks the BBQ guys if they saw it. Now earlier that day my dad and some friends managed to save the BBQ guys stand from going up into flames, so the BBQ guys were more than happy to tell him what they saw. And... added where the lady had gone because they had told her where she could go for a good meal in town!

My father comes back in, tells my mom and then goes to the restaurant. Finds the SUV and sure enough there his blue pain on the back. He's got his camera with him so he takes pictures of the damage to the SUV and the damage to his truck. Then he goes into the restaurant, finds the lady and goes up to her.

"Excuse me ma'am? I think you hit my car back at the museum parking lot and left without telling anyone."

He said she went paler than her mashed potatoes.