On Jul 14, 8:23 pm, "mookie" <z...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Alhambra" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Bob Adkins" <bob.adk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:49:37 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <e...@[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.
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> >> I call the high dollar cars "back 40 cars".
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> >> 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.<<
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> > 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!
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> > 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.
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> > 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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> 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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>
I take most offense at people who purposely ding cars! A couple of
weeks ago I had parked my Sonata pretty far from the entrance to a
local walmart and was walking to the store when I see this group of
4/5 guys in their late teens push an empty shopping cart with all
their might in the direction of a parked swanky Lexus.... I did manage
to stop the cart before it would have made much more than a ding in
the car, however a security guard who was standing nearby just stood
there like a bystander....
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