"Alhambra" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "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]
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>> wrote:
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>>
>>>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 ;)
Not a UK thing.... It's alive and well here in the USA. I can park as
possible with, as you say, 200 empty spaces between me and the next car
and,
upon my return, someone will have parked not only in the stall next to me,
but so close I can barely get into the car. And it's usually someone who
has a "Kid's First" or "Peace" or some such decal on their car.
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