Monthly Archives: May 2009

All kinds of issues

Hartford, CT

Alexa says, “I’m lucky I drive a small car because the Inifini was taking up a good chunk of my space. I still had to park right on the line, so I guess I count as a bad parking job too. I included the car on the left because, even though you can’t really see it well, it’s actually parked at an angle in a space that is straight on. And you can barely see another car parked on the stripes next to it. The rest of the lot was a disaster.”

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Curse of the big truck

Maumee, OH

Jason adds to the Big Trucks Can’t Park pool. He says, “Don’t get a big truck if you don’t know how to park it.”

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Straight up

 

Alexandria, VA

Char says, “Here a few different shots of the worst parking job I personally have ever seen. The parking lot is obviously a diagonal parking lot, but this genius pulled in straight…blocking off two parking spots in a limited parking lot. I was floored.”

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Failure to inspect

Los Angeles, CA

Craig says, “The person is not looking at the bad backing job, and did did not change to fit in-between the lines. She is retrieving stuff from the back seat.”

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Privileged

Los Angeles, CA

Craig says, “This part of town and this mall are notorious for entitled attitudes which is not limited to drivers and parkers. This is a perfect photo to prove it. When I came back to my car this driver was was chatting by the huge space left by her driver’s door.”

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A lesson learned

Austin, TX

Andrew says, “This was my awesome response to a consistently awful parking job by one of the managers where I used to work. She had this huge fancy SUV, which was usually parked in the compact car area across 2 spaces. This was at a time when the company was paying a parking service to double-park cars to fit more cars into the lot. Since I think I am one of the best backer-inners, I squeezed into this spot literally inches away. You can see I am within my line and it’s passenger door-to-passenger door, so she could still get into her car… (I’m not a COMPLETE jerk!)

One of my coworkers found this so amusing, he took a picture and passed it around over e-mail. The owner of the car got a copy, at which point she e-mailed everybody stating that she had asked for MY CAR to be towed! After she found out it was me, she said that there would be a good chance she’d take off my mirror getting out of her space! At that point, since she was a manager, I had my fun for the day, and there were now other open spots in the lot, I moved my car… that was the last day I ever saw her park across 2 spaces ever again.”

Nice work Andrew!

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Seen from McDonald’s

Location Unknown

Mike says, “This was at the opposite end of Mc Donalds drive thru.”

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Crosswalk Cop

Arlington, VA

Jeff took this picture taken outside the Arlington County Courthouse and calls it “Cop Parking in a Crosswalk.”

Maybe the white lines were confusing…

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Overlap

New Haven, CT

Lynn too this ina parking garage near the Metro North Station. She says, “My car is the black one on the right. I parked for a weekend trip to New York City, and there was no one in the space next to me. Somehow this person parked INCHES from my car, so close that if you look carefully their right side rear-view mirror is overlapping in front of mine: not sure how this was accomplished without scratching my car, but somehow they pulled it off. I had to climb in on the passenger side to get out.”

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Student parking

Coon Rapids, MN

Jessica took this at Anoka-Ramsey Community College.  She says, “Parking in this lot is near impossible most of the time, since there are too many students and not enough spaces.  As you can see, my car (the red one) is one of the few in this section of the row that’s actually in the space.”

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