New truck?

When people get a new vehicle, they go to great lengths to protect that vehicle, and I don't blame them. I guess I have a realist attitude, my thought is, it's probably going to get scratched at some point. I'm not parking in a field in Illinois so I can be sure that when I go into the store, that nobody will scratch my paint. For those that do, more power to you. If there is a space at the back of the lot and you want to hike it to the mall with your backpack and tent, be my guess. My question is, at what point do you decide to NOT do that anymore? There has to be a time when you say, screw it, I'm not catching a cab from the mall parking lot to the door anymore. When does that occur? After the first scratch? After the first year? After it's paid off? Somebody please help me here. There are some people that decide they are just going to go ahead and park sideways and take up several spots, so you won't be able to park near them, and they won't have to hike it in from the back forty. Here is an example.

Normally, this pisses me off to no end. If your vehicle is so damn precious, then leave it at home and walk. I can't tell you how badly I want to squeeze into that spot on the right so he, and I KNOW it's a guy, can't get out. Now, I would be doing this just to piss him off, so not a good idea, but would he have the right to be mad? I mean, he isn't parking between the lines, so why should he be mad at me if I did the same? I'm guessing he wouldn't see it that way. There were plenty of spots and he wasn't right up front, so this particular incident didn't really bother me, but it was a good example of what pushes me to want to do something that will only end up in me getting my ass kicked. So instead, I just write about the person here. But someday, someone is going to push me so far that I, I, well, I don't know, but I'm guessing I will say something that isn't very nice to them, under my breath when they are nowhere near me.

I'll do what I damn well please.

While we have been at the hospital, I've had the opportunity to watch people driving around in the parking lot. I watched a lady drive over the sidewalk and bang off the curb. I'm not sure why she decided to go the way she did, but I was entertained. I took this picture of the parking lot. If you look right in the middle, you'll see where a lady parked in her non-spot. Her SUV is just to the right of the light pole, which you can tell isn't a spot.

The funny thing was, there were plenty of spaces to the left of there, which you can't see in the picture. Another example of a person who didn't get what she wanted, a spot close to the hospital, so she made her own spot. The sad thing was it was one of the nicest days of the month, so she had no excuse to not park in an actual space.

And another

Nice try!

Todays winner

You can see that they are pretty much in their space, but the angle worried me that they would hit my car when they were backing out. I think the only way this could be worse, was if they were completly sideways, which they were oh so close to being.

Here is today's winner. The lady driving this looked back at her masterpiece and smiled, she was so proud.

New picture

A quick post before Marcy sees me. I made it home from Atlanta with little other excitement. I did have a Nathans hot dog at the airport and ordered it with "slaw." If you read my posts from El Paso, you know I fell in love with a chili slaw dog there, so I thought this would be a twist on that, no chili. Well let me tell you that "Nathan" has no idea what slaw is. The slaw at Nathan's is kraut, which I love as well, but not slaw. Oh well, it was not bad for airport food. They had a seafood restaurant, but I wasn't sure airport fresh seafood would be good, took a pass. The reason I don't want Marcy to see me, is she is the latest entry into the parkers hall of fame. This isn't horrible, but still.

You may notice that she is on her way out of the car and I'll tell you it wasn't to give me a hug. I was beaten severely shortly after this picture was taken. The worst part of this picture, that's my matchbox car that she is door dinging on the left. Luckily, there were no noticeable chips in the paint or I would have had to, well, not do anything, but I'd have been plenty mad inside. I give her a hard time, but she is actually a good driver considering she is probably on the phone and drinking a drum of coffee while she is driving. To her defense, you can see that the driver on her right is on the line, causing her to have to move over. Yes, lets go with that.

Parking

So I showed you a picture of a guy who couldn't park and ranted on how it bothers me. My friend Chad posted that bad parkers bother him as well, so I'll challenge all of you to take pictures of bad parkers so we can share. Can't think that would be illegal, seeing as how we aren't doing anything with them other than having a laugh at their expense, but I might caution you on trying to snap a picture of a car with a license plate that says "KLLR1" or "NOSENSEOFHUMOR."(I'm not sure that will fit on a standard US license plate, but you get the picture)

Todays winner comes from the great state of California:

Thanks CA, glad you could come to Iowa and fit in so well. I watched him back in and was surprised that after several minutes, this was the best he could do.

My friend Chad also just got back from a trip to the great state of California and has a funny post about some customer service (hotel maid) that made me laugh. Customer service, or the lack of it actuall, has been a subject of many a post here. Take a look at his post and see if you agree, his tops all of mine, for now.

http://chadholtz.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentNews.newsDetails&newsID=58452&from=list