Entries from December 2007

December 31, 2007

Bad parking all around

Savannah, GA (all)
Eric and Alice encountered all of these examples of bad parking in the same lot of a hotel on the same day. And this is only a sampling of what they saw. As E&A said, “It just seemed that nobody could park correctly that day!”
(You may have to look closely for some [...]

December 28, 2007

All in a day’s shopping

Tim had quite the bad parking experience on his last minute holiday shopping trip. He calls these three instances ”fine examples of goodwill towards men and…oops, I mean of only thinking about yourself and being in too much of a hurry to turn around or look for a real space.” 

Escondido, CA (all)
First he took this shot of “two [...]

December 27, 2007

Room to spare

Meriden, CT
Says Jennie: “I was walking my dog and came across this poor parking job. I wish I had taken the picture at a different angle so that you could see how far out of the spot this [truck] was and that it had NOTHING to do with the snow behind the truck. Please don’t be fooled.”

December 26, 2007

Putting on the squeeze

San Diego, CA
Jeff says this is how you render one parking space unusable with bad parking. That’s exactly what I was going to say!

December 26, 2007

Misjudged

Grand Rapids, MI
Rob also found this car whose driver must have misjudged the line. I think.

December 21, 2007

Snow bank

Grand Rapids, MI
Rob found this guy parked in a snow bank. Trying to blend in?

December 20, 2007

Snow covered

Vermont
Caitlin said, “Where I work we have to park in a parking garage (bad thing number 1). When we end up with 3 feet of snow (bad thing number 2), the garage gets crazy because it’s what? FULL OF SNOW. So some greedy mofo decides to take their big truck and take 2 spaces. Really, [...]

December 19, 2007

Courtesy

Duluth, MN
Erik assures us that he, in the the black car, was there first. And he also wanted to point out that the side of the white car said “Arrowhead Auto Body Courtesy Car.” See:

Some courtesy…

December 18, 2007

Getting a permanent

Winston-Salem, NC
Sarah writes, “You can see that this car has completely blocked my grey Camry in. I was standing there, staring in disbelief when I came out to the parking lot, and a woman called out to me ’she went into the salon!’ So I entered, asked if anyone knew where the owner was, and someone said ’she’ll be out [...]

December 17, 2007

An emergency?

 
 Indianapolis, IN
Andrea says, “This truck was in the parking lot of my doctor’s office/hospital. Not only is it clearly over the line, but it is not even pulled completely into the spot! Must have been in a big hurry!”