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Originally Posted by CrnCnn
if i could keep your hands off me...which wouldnt be possible good sir...
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Originally Posted by CrnCnn
if i could keep your hands off me...which wouldnt be possible good sir...
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Originally Posted by Ldub
You guys kill me. I dont get it, I am a big mellow goofball. Just dont ask Ascinder about our snow shoe experienceQuote:
Originally Posted by pbkid
im a mellow guy too..takes A LOT to get me going...
full contact trained people are a lot different than a person with training in technique like me...
I would have had to walk up and start making faces at you through the window. I do a lot of things that cause me to reflect later that they were not good ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrnCnn
Faces I can deal with, it probly wouldve made the situation better because we both wouldve realized how silly it really was. The thing that made me so mad was that she was mad that I was mad that she hit and dented our vehicle and parked too close....Quote:
Originally Posted by circmand
Another thing is when someone almost side swipes you while heading down the road on their cell. I have been in other situations that were similiar because someone got mad that I told them to hang up their phone, or stop texting and driving.
Sorry, I am protective over my stuff. Especially the VX and especially when my wife is in it. When you almost hit me because your stupid, I am gonna have something to say.
funny you mention that.. on my way to school today im on a 2 lane each direction road and see a car passing me on the left except she's 1/4 into my lane.. after veering into the shoulder to avoid getting hit i laid on the horn.. she flipped me off... sighQuote:
Originally Posted by CrnCnn
Its amazing isnt it?Quote:
Originally Posted by etlsport
lol funny story, same thing happened to me today...going through a 2 lane left turn and this guy next to me just starts coming into my lane...so i move onto the shoulder and lay on the horn...funny thing is, i pull up to the next signal with my window down and scream "get outta my lane you jack@$$", i finally turn and look....its one of my buddies that just bought a new car and wasnt paying attention...
i was like man, you really pissed me off lol
I swear, pulling into a parking spot should be one of the basic skills you have to demonstrate when taking your driver's test. If you can not control your car in a parking lot, God help us when you are on the open road. I mean, they even paint lines for you to park between. Is it really that hard for some people?:rollo:
You would think that, but these DMV Driving Tests (in my opinion from what I've seen here in Vegas) is a total joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by PittVXr
And get this, the parking structure that I had parked in is double line parking. See below picture. Every parking spot is painted like this. HOW THE HELL is it that this idiot still parked over BOTH lines into my spot? Bleh!!! annoyed... :_brickwal
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...um/parking.jpg
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Originally Posted by CrnCnn
I hears ya Bro...:yes:
Every time I go into a wal-mt, the first place I wanna go is the sporting goods aisle...
So I can put a baseball bat in my cart for prodding "sheeple" out of my way...:laughgray
They just STAND there, cart blocking one side of the aisle, them blocking the other side...with a vacant, zombie like stare...
Must have p-r-o-d-u-c-t...mooooooooooo...I mean...baaaaaaaaaaa
The place that amazes me is the high school parking lot. I know, you are thinking: kids, what did you expect. But it's not just one ... or a few ... it's all of them. They're only a year or 2 out of drivers ed. Some of what they learned should have stuck.
These kids drive down the middle of the lane (even when there is oncoming traffic). They turn right in front of you to pull into a parking space (Hey, I'm leaving - I'm not gonna steal that space, even though there are 234 others within spitting distance). They back out of spaces & almost T-bone you (and they aren't leaving - just administrative maneuvering because they can't park straight, they know that you're there but don't care).
The odd part is that they are decent drivers on the road. Their brains just turn to mush as soon as they hit the school parking lot.
1. Why should tax payers have to pay for parking on top of sports teams on top of their educations. Walk or take the bus you spoiled little brats
2. Big temptation to skip classes and they are already the least intelligent generation we have ever put out at a highest per pupil cots.
3. Arent they suppose to have an adult driver with them? What does that adult walk home and back so they can drive
4. Increased traffic and smog. Sure the teens are all eco friendly and such when somneone else is paying for it lets see how they feel when savingthe enviroment has a negative affect on them.
God have mercy but if i were there that camry will get key marked I know that's evil,but common...there is where many idiots like this push you toQuote:
Originally Posted by Knigh7s
Don't you think a little perspective is called for at times? You're saying that someone who doesn't park correctly between the designated lines would be enough to piss you off to the point of keying that persons' car? I have to say that if I were a third party witness to something like that, it sure wouldn't be the person with the deficient parking skills that I would be reporting to security...or the police.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
Just remember, as you are being ever watchful for opportunities to point out other people's mistakes, there's a good chance that someone is watching you too.
You know what I REALLY hate....
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The fact that ALL grocery stores allow them to be used as fanny packs now. Take them anywhere you want. I stopped off at Starbucks after work yesterday to meet up with a friend and there is a Safeway grocery store right next door. I was there for maybe 45 mins and when I left, there was a shopping cart using my week old car as a kickstand in the middle of the parking lot. Now, parking all up on top of me is one thing, but when some !@#$-tard doesn't have the common courtesy to push their !@#$ing emptied cart into the cart booth just a few spaces away, that gives me the full blown right to pick the cart up and throw it through your windshield.
That !@#hole who used that cart should be grateful for 3 things....
1 - I had no damage.
2 - I didn't witness it.
3 - I had no damage and didn't witness it.
Mistakes ? you call that mistakes ? there's no such of what you call mistakes,i personally makes SURE before i got outter the horse to park where i should do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Y33TREKker
Did the camry driver had any PERSPECTIVE ? please tell me where is it because i don't see any
People just hate each other so much & thinks only about ME & only ME that any thing you do to drain that feelings is just perfect.
I bet you 1 cent that the camry driver KNEW pretty well how he/she was parking,but he/she doesn't care,you find your way out though.
But i know for sure you'll stand behind your words .................................................' till it happens to you ;)
so your saying that its more important to have sports than to have people the ability to get back and forth to work and school...i know that as soon as i turned 16 i HAD to have a job...how am i supposed to get to work?? mind you that i lived 35 miles away from my school.....45 minute drive EACH way (daily) plus going to work...Quote:
Originally Posted by circmand
ya, i wanna ride the bus and organize all of that.
easy to take away others priviledges when it doesnt affect you...
I was with my dad in his car one day when some brainless twit unloaded his groceries & simply pushed the cart away from his parking spot (next to my Dad's space) and into the side of my dad's cavalier. My Dad about threw the cart through that guys windsheld but stopped short.....rats!Quote:
Originally Posted by WormGod
Yes, I'd call the Camry incident a mistake. You are assuming that the person did it on purpose when there's no way you could know that. Purposefully and obliviously are two different things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
I'm fairly certain that we aren't using the word perspective in the same ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
But by keying another persons' car just because they parked too close to you, YOU are taking the ME, ME, Me mentality even farther than you think the Camry driver did, so are there ANY winners in that situation? In my opinion, if you would have been there and keyed that car, both you AND the Camry driver would have essentially made the rest of US losers at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
Again, see first comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
It has happened to me many times in the past, and as a matter of fact happened last week. Someone parked within inches of my passenger side with plenty of other spaces nearby they could have chosen. But, after looking over my passenger side to look for any damage and finding none, I grumbled under my breath for a few moments calling the other driver a few choice names, then considered myself lucky that no damage had occured. So aside from a little irritation, I called no harm no foul and drove off, and without keying the other guys' vehicle if you can believe that. Yeah, I know, even I marvel at my own levels of self control in the face of inconsiderate obliviousness sometimes. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
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Incidentally, there was one time in the past when someone did open their door into my passenger fender at work. When I got to my car to leave that day, I saw how close the other car was and thought to look for possible damage. When I saw that the other driver had hit my fender causing paint damage, I left things how they were and called company security to make out an incident report. With security there, the owner was contacted and asked to come out to the parking lot. He initially denied causing the damage, but when the security officer made him open his door, it was obvious from where the contact point occured that it was his door that had caused the damage. With the security guard as a witness, the other driver had no choice but to give me his insurance info and the damage was taken care of from there.
Now maybe that guy was a little more vigilant/considerate about his parking from then on and maybe not, but resorting to vandalism sure wouldn't have gotten my own car repaired at no cost to me that time. So, it HAS happened to me, and I STILL think keying another persons' car in a situation like that is just allowing yourself to escalate the matter way too far.
A big +1 there. I played soccer and worked a 20+ hour a week job on top of school and other extracurricular activities. No way that works without a car.Quote:
Originally Posted by pbkid
That's a pretty sweeping and insulting generalization don't you think? We used to skip school by walking down the street to the local strip mall - we actually found that driving your car there increased your chances of being seen leaving (our spaces were numbered so it was easy to see if you weren't there).Quote:
Originally Posted by circmand
And how do you substantiate the "least intelligent" remark? Are you basing that on drop-out rates or something? I can tell you for a fact that more people attend college than ever, and our high schools teach much more advanced math, science, and liberal arts classes than when our parents were in school. For example, my parents studied geometry and algebra in their senior years, while I was in the AP versions of calculus, biology, chemistry, and world history.
So hopefully you meant that remark with respect to only driving, but even in that case it's pretty difficult to substantiate. I would think that the main contributors to the problem discussed in this thread are the fact that there are more 16-18 year old drivers (and drivers overall) on the road than in previous generations, as well as the fact that we have exceptionally deficient driver education and testing requirements in this country (especially with comparison to European nations). The point was well-made earlier in this thread that driver's education should also encompass parking, which would probably diminish the number of these kinds of incidents. And I think that another good indicator of driving "intelligence" over time is that insurance companies have always identified the 16-18 demographic as highest-risk, and many even issue discounts for driver's education courses. Given that insurance companies are all about the statistics and probabilities, those actions would seem to indicate that they view the problem as not due to some fundamental intelligence defect specific to this generation, but rather as a common problem of young drivers of any generation due to their inexperience and lack of education.
You see the problem here is that you assumed the camry driver didn't purposely parked like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Y33TREKker
But in the real world the evidence suggest that the camry driver parked the way he/she did because the driver wanted to have enough space to get in/outter the car with no problem & at the same time expressing his careless concern about how the driver parked next to him should get in/out.
The camry driver had the white divider line right front of his/her face yet still didn't look back & check to see how bad the camry was positioned.
If you park your car way close enough to the point that me or either my family can't get in without performing a circus show jumpimg from here to there to gain access I MEAN you'll get key because you proved me you care a S... about others so don't expect reciprocity;then next time you park like that you'll remember to fix that "mistake" by positioning your car the right way & keep that in perspective
I do get your point about it & is accepted,but as how i say before: this is where idiots like that push you to edge sometimes
PS:You can only understand how right the world is by looking at it the opposite way
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Originally Posted by pbkid
I just do not htink tax payers should have to pay for student parking lots to be built. If you read more closely I also do not think they should pay for sports teams or any extra curricular activities. Tax payers should pay for schools, school teachers, and school books. Why do we pay millions for stadiums for HS sports but eliminate gym from the curriculum? Why de we need to pay more money per student now and still have falling down buildings old books and illiterate graduates.
You can have your car drive it all you want why should I pay for your parking?Quote:
Originally Posted by vt_maverick
Nothing you can do about walk aways but drive aways could just say I did not drive that day it gives an extra way to do it. Someone who drives away could always walk as well but if you did not drive you cannot drive away.Quote:
Originally Posted by vt_maverick
I may have generalized too much here. I did not mean that all students were less intelligent. We are graduating students now that can do stuff that I never dreamed of in HS and I actually did quite well in advanced classes and College. What I meant was that there is a huge percentage of kids in High school now that are stuck in bad schools with bad teachers and the School teachers unions keep them stuck their with the bad teachers. I think our school taxes should go to better schools, better teachers (Nota all teachers are bad I do not want to go that road again) and not just the same bad teachers getting better pay.Quote:
Originally Posted by vt_maverick
Do you realize when the teachers say they only get paid so much a year that they never say they are only working 9 months a year? If they call it a years pay they should work all year like everyone else or be upfront about the fact they get 3 months paid vacation every summer. Also we have bad teachers. We have all had one and if the union gets their way we keep the bad teachers and pay them more for being bad. Or they are saying we are not doing our best but pay us more and we will do better? Is this the person you want teaching the kids?
Actually, I didn't assume anything. Just because I said that you had assumed one thing doesn't automatically mean that I assumed the opposite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
I agree that is one possible explanation (*), but regardless of whether it's accurate or not, it was still a mistake (purposeful or not), and not one that would warrant you keying the persons' car. But that's just my opinion. You're free to do what you want of course, as long as you are willing to accept the possible consequences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gussie2000
(*) PS: Here's another possible explanation. The Camry driver got a call that a family member who worked near that parking garage had been involved in an accident/emergency, etc. and the Camry driver was rushing to the scene to be with that family member. Granted that's an extreme possibilty, but if it were you in that case rushing to the saide of one of your family members, would you be paying close attention to the lines on a parking spot in that situation? And say that were the case, on top of your family members' trouble, you then come back to your car to go home and find that someone has keyed your car because you parked too close to them? Perspective.
Don't wanna get in the middle of this arguement (even tho I kinda started it).
But ...
"You can have your car drive it all you want why should I pay for your parking?"
Student parking passes cost $100 several years ago - don't know what they're going for now.
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Originally Posted by Knigh7s
Theres tonnes of room ! Even i could get in there and im a chubby fooker !!! :D
drexel is $372 per term (11 weeks) to park on a campus lotQuote:
Originally Posted by tom4bren
Betwenn land permits and parking an average sized parking lot hold 100 cars can cost in the millions to build and then you have upkeep. In NYC a reserved parking space in a garage costs over $50,000Quote:
Originally Posted by etlsport
In NYC a reserved parking space in a garage costs over $50,000[/QUOTE]
PS: Plus taxes my friend
"Student parking passes cost $100 several years ago - don't know what they're going for now."
Clarification: I'm talking High School - in Stafford, VA (so real estate is not primo).
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Originally Posted by circmand
:_confused and a ferrari costs $350,000, but the chevy i drove in high school was $500... and i bet you wont find a public school in NYC with student parking
im not arguing either way.. i had to drive to high school.. i lived 10 miles from the school, and did work study outside of school for two periods of the day. i had to drive to work in the morning, then had to drive to school from work... but i know a guy who saw the bus drive past his house and knew it was time to drive himself to school.... i was just giving tom a reference to what parking school parking costs
Hmmm, students driving to school within 10 miles??? I say get a damn bicycle and just leave a bit earlier from home in order to make the commute. I rode a bicycle to Elementary; then Junior High; then Senior High; and then to a 4-year University and each way was well over 10 miles. Kid's today are fat-n-lazy from their computer games; they need to excercise more, and get a bicycle which are much easier to park than a car and get way better gas mileage!!! In regards to school parking fees in NYC-- let me look at the school parking rate chart for a "Bicycle"............................oh, yeah; here it is........................it says "FREE"!!!
yep biking 15-25 miles a day plus either running or swimming in addition to working 30-40 hr weeks and going to 14 hours worth of class a week.. im a lazy bum alrightQuote:
Originally Posted by Riff Raff
Come on, get it together Eric. Lazy :gring:Quote:
Originally Posted by etlsport
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Originally Posted by etlsport
But when I was in HS I went to class 6-7 hours a day 5 days a week and worked after school and on weekends at my parents nursery. In college I worked 40 hours a week and took 15-18 hours each semester while taking the bus.
sorry didn't read the entire thread, but I deal with this too... price of having a unique stand out vehicle. No matter where you park, people want to be next to you... and unfortunately they don't pay attention to how close they park.
This is why I make sure I carry my offroad air down supplies. Just unscrew the core to their schrader valves. :D
Wow! With threads like this, who needs Jerry Springer! (Arg-arg-arg-arg-arg - per Mr. Krabs.)
Well i guess i should post my story about this....I got home one day after work and these kids ( 6-8 years old) were playing with their Razor scooters on the curb right next to my jeep. I politely told them to be careful that they didnt hit my car. I walked into my apartment and straight to the window that overlooked the parking lot and right as i looked out the window one of the little jerks slammed the handlebar right into the side of the jeep! I was pissed off so instead of yelling at them like i wanted to do I hit the "panic" button on my remote and let me tell you...i have never seen a kid run so fast!!! I went down shortly after and realized they put 3 dings(even took off paint) . They are so lucky that i didnt run after them so i could have the parents pay for the damage!!!!!:mad:
And you SHOULD make their parents pay for the damage, then maybe, just maybe they will assume some parental responsibilities for their 'little ones'. Sorry, but that is just part of the problem with this country and it is spreading acrossed the worldQuote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. CRNCNN