I'm sure there's a rant to be had in here... oh, here it is, I found it!
Macdaddy wrote:Just because you take up two spaces or park badly doesnt give anyone the right to damage your car
Agreed. It would make them no different to the <beep> parking like a <beep>.
Macdaddy wrote:It also doesnt make it ok to think some dick will damage it, nor does it serve you right!
Errrm, yes it does! You've parked like a <beep>, you've brought it on yourself. That's why there are two lines to park in between, that's why the car park states one car per parking space. If you do not comply with these rules and make up your own rules, pay the consequences and have a big bowl of STFU.
How about I apply your useless parking logic to the act of drink driving? You have a few drinks, you're 'mostly' over the limit BUT because it's quiet and the roads aren't busy, you decide to drive home because you don't want to leave your P&J alone and unprotected. During your drive home, a fat kid, who is forced to walk from the far end of a parking lot because a lone <beep> in his P&J took up a parent/child parking space. However, the fat kid is also lazy AND stupid (a lethal combination), a light bulb pops above his thick skull so now he's using a shopping trolley to free-wheel his fat, stupid and lazy ass down a hill onto the highstreet. When doing so, he flies out in front of your car and you mow him flat with the accompaniment of lovely V8 soundtrack. Now because he's fat, his whale of an ass destroys your car. Also, his fatness causes medical complications and he buys the fat farm. So, now all of the fat fingers are pointing at you, you're over the limit, DUI, you're done. You do not pass GO! You do not collect insurance. You go straight to jail. You do not retain your ass virginity. You now have AIDS.
Now, you can blame whomever you want and you can make all of the justifications you need to. You can blame the parents of the fat kid for letting him get lazy, fat and stupid. You can blame society because you don't trust them enough to leave your P&J too far from home, unattended. Can you see the similarities? Can you see the principle? It may be to an extreme end but you've only got yourself to blame and you should fully expect to be taken down a peg and even to be mocked for the stupidity. It's no different when CHOOSING to park across two parking spaces.
Macdaddy wrote:However you park people still damage cars, Ive sat in my works car more than enough times (parked correctly) when usually old people or mothers with kids smash their car doors into the side of your car! And then look at you like you've asked to crap in their mouths because you dare to question their behavior!
Yes it's disgusting. Yes the general public are a foul, horrible and immoral group. Yes, most people park their car, scoop one half of their brain out and stow it in the glovebox. They then proceed to use less than 1% of the half remaining brain to exit their vehicle as haphazardly as possible only to roam the streets and shopping centres buying useless <beep> they don't need.
Welcome to the human condition, please do not join them, please do not make it worse, have some pride, stiff upper lip and all that.
Macdaddy wrote:I doubt any of you guys would find it acceptable or say serves you right if the same damage happened parked correctly or on your driveway as tbh theres no difference....... Damage is damage!
^ Seriously, what point are you making there? How does this relate to double space parking, you've just explained malicious damage. Irrelevant.
Macdaddy wrote:Yes taking two spaces when busy is selfish, i always park miles out the way on an end space....
Taking two spaces is selfish fullstop. If you can't park between the lines, then how about you just park on the street and walk or just don't take your car into a car park? It's obvious you're better than the rest of us or maybe your ego is too big, or maybe your car is so amazing and it’s just too good? Then leave it at home. If your car is big, then park carefully, it's obvious when an effort is made. Don't make yourself a target. If you're in a hurry, park slowly get it right and then walk quickly. I just can't see how there's an excuse for <beep> parking... excepted maybe childbirth and bankrobbery.
Macdaddy wrote:…or will take two spaces when not busy...
Your definition of busy could look like match day in Calcutter, India! Why not just be a consistent ar*ehole and park like that every time? I know why, because you know there will be a backlash, you know it will draw attention to your car and you secretly know how self-important it makes you look. Ergo, you don't have the balls, it's easier to get away with when it's quiet, people will be less inclined to make comments, pass judgement and point fingers. But most of all, you know it's wrong and your internal justifications are too weak for you to make it a habit.
If you can park in a single space when it’s busy, you can park in a single space when it’s quiet. If EVERYONE starts parking by your rules, it’d be like a virus, it would halve the capacity of all car parks when quiet and it's just a matter of time until every dickhead starts to push the meaning of quiet. We don't need this <beep>, it's a moronic 'solution'.
Macdaddy wrote:Hell i'll even use parent and child as lets face it kids are fat these days and need the exercise and should walk further!!!!
^ This. Is amazing.
So, the fat kid again… You take a parent child parking space and then a bint with a Eurobox full of snotty noses and sticky hands is forced to park in a standard space where all of the doors are flung open into the surrounding cars. You’re a special type of ar*ehole. It seems you don’t mind actually causing indirect damage to other people’s cars when you force stupid families into other parts of the car park. Thanks for making the buttrape experience of public parking just that little bit less lubricated and more painful. What are you going to do next, park in the handicap spaces?
Macdaddy wrote:Ive spent £100's on having dents/scuffs removed from my car's over the years all because someone causes damage when its parked up.
So your logic is “I’m special, I’ve paid money to remove other people’s parking indiscretions so I deserve an extra car space”. Man up, it’s bad luck, stop crying about it and don’t make the parking warzone worse.
Macdaddy wrote:We've all seen badly parked cars.........cars double parked so no one can pass, cars parked so close to yours you cant get into it etc etc, so why not just damage those aswell?
Because that would be stooping down to their level, retain some integrity. Vent if you have to, bitch and moan, express your anger but is making up your own rules or breaking the law really helping?
No matter where you go, there you are.