"Bob Adkins" <bob.adkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:49:37 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <esp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>
>>If you drive a high priced luxury car or s****ts car and want to take up
>>two
>>parking spaces in the back of the lot at the supermarket, be my guest.
>>Try
>>to do that up close, you can be sure I'll park an inch from you with my
>>old
>>car.
>
> I call the high dollar cars "back 40 cars".
>
> I was at a big store early one day, and the parking lot was almost
> empty. Well, there was a sleek BMW 6 series at the far end, about 300
> feet from the nearest car, 400 feet from the store. We laughed, but I
> know how he feels. I don't even like new dings on my old beater Toyota
> truck.
>
> That store has very wide parking slots. That only made things worse,
> because there is now room for a double row of shopping carts between
> the cars.<<
I don't know if it's just a UK thing but, given a virtually empty car
park,
someone is almost certain to take a quick look at the two hundred empty
spaces - and then come and park right next to you!
I daresay psychologists could explain it - something to do with the
fundamental need for human beings to feel part of a group, or something
like
that.
As I drive cars no more than 2 years old, I'm happy to be as far away from
the rest of the paint-chipping herd as possible ;)
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