'And that's the point everyone is trying to make, I guess. If you're merely anal about your car when you park it, you become a rude asshole an hour later when the lot fills up.'
REPLY: A person wouldnt need to qualify as such, if others would have respect for ones expensive and meaningful possesion.
'Unless he decides to pimp you, which I suspect is what was being suggested. He just straddles the line of one of the two parking spaces you're hogging and leaves you about six inches in which to open your card door against his 1986 Ford F-150 with all the dents and rust on it.'
REIPLY: If youre parked on an angle taking up two spaces., he cant hit your car door if he pulls straight in a space between the lines now can he ?
'Bottom line is that people (and I KNOW you will never take up two parking spaces so you can stop repeating that mantra) that take up two parking spaces attract vandals who are somehow incensed by people who feel that they are "more entitled" to real estate covered with asphalt because they drive a nice car than the rest of the working stiffs who don't.'
REPLY: That may be the bottom line to the Disrespectors of others personal property...however to the owner of a New Vette who has to live in a world of undesirables (people who could care less), the bottom line is protecting his/her investment. And it is : 1. Not to look kew-wull
- Not to rub it in 3. Not be a smarty-pants and 4. Not to invite trouble. In this country of ever increasing degradation, there are many steps in which people protect their material investments : Own guns , put up fences , put triple locks on doors, buy the wife a huge ring so others are less inclined to hit on her, car alarms, outdoor cameras, flootlights galore, et al.. ; the world is filled with LawLess individuals . One must take measures to protect themselves as well as what they own.
'I try to park my 'Vette in an out of the way place or parallel park, but the next time I take up two spaces with ANY car will be the first time.'
REPLY: This is what i now try to do. So again , as i concur with you : I hereby do not park double in a parking lot any longer and I am only discussing this topic with hypothetical scenarios for the edification of the NG. And Dad, i still hereby apologize to you and the Kin folk.