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Last year, me and my mom was out driving, I we were hungry and fund a restaurant to have lunch at, someone must just have left because the parking spot closest to the entrance was free and I parked there.
Felt like a movie when the protagonist allways finds a parking spot by the entrance in a full parking lot.
And it was so amazing that you remember it a year later!
Believe it or not, I know the feeling. Took a vacation to Scotland like 10 years ago with the wife-to-be. Didn’t know anything shout the Fringe festival in Edinburgh and ended up there right in the middle of it with our rented car. Got used to driving on the opposite side of the road and car pretty quickly, but I was still remarkably proud of parallel parking in backwards-driving-world surrounded by street performers and tourists and doing it all on the first try. It was beautiful. We were perfectly equidistant from the surrounding cars, exactly 6 inches from the curb, in a manual transmission Jeep Renegade rental we picked up in Glasgow. To this day, it is my greatest parking achievement, without question. Still brings a tear to my eye reminiscing.
Thank you for sharing, this is the story I needed right now.
Jeep Renegade
All the other traffic probably gave you plenty space because they assumed you were a hairdresser 😂
Yeah, because he remembers when you made his ass circle for 30 minutes waiting for that close parking spot, when you both could have been in the venue 25 minutes earlier if you'd just not been a princess, and walked 100 yards.
Lol you okay there, bud?
Just speaking from experience, bro. I don't have to tolerate that, anymore.
Wife bad 😤
Mine was. But she was a princess. Just ask her.
I am by far not a fuck cars guy but that screams car brain so fucking much. It's like looking into a dystopia.
Also I would be ecstatic about finding a really nice parking space so what do I know
I think you are a fuck cars guy, if this is your opinion.
Cars have their uses, but just as you rightly point out, they're way overused because of lack of better infrastructure.
Fuck cars people are often city lovers who don't understand that not everyone wants neighbors.
I think not having neighbours is only really possible for a small number of people, mostly in agricultural work. If the majority of people didn't want neighbours, we could not sustain the populations that exist, end of story.
Spreading people out is part of the reason why so many counties in the US are going broke, because infrastructure per person gets so much more expensive when compared to property taxes.
Cars are certainly needed in rural areas, but emphasis on the rural. Even modest towns could and can afford small public transport networks if they plan correctly.
Eh, I'm a suburbanite who is annoyed at our already relatively low density neighborhood (thinking of moving to the country), and I absolutely hate driving. I want to get to everything with a bicycle or a train.
You don't have to love cities to hate cars.
I parked legally in front of the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan once.
Parking is like $40/hour in that area in a garage. Damn straight I'm still talking about the good parking spot.
$40?!
That's ~~highway~~ street-side robbery!
Dude had a piece of good luck and now he's working it for all the serotonin it's worth.
This is not pleasure, this is pain of not having public transport
I never personally understood the amount of focus people put on a good parking space. Unless it's so bad that I have to park in an entirely different lot, I just can't be bothered to care, and I see people getting so worked up over what is usually a minute or two max of walk time difference.
Obviously, some folks don't walk so good and I'm not talking about that. It seems like the default behavior for even able-bodied drivers and it leads to fucking road rage incidents.
I honestly intentionally park far away because I'm less likely to get someone parking way too close. It really annoys my wife, so I'll take an especially close spot if it's available, but I spend so little of my time in the parking lot vs whatever place I'm at that where it is doesn't matter too much.
It's a couple factors where I live:
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if you aren't used to walking places because you live in a car dependent city and thus drive everywhere, walking feels bad, so people try to minimize it.
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parking lots usually lack shade so the asphalt bakes under the hot sun, making the walk feels extra bad after the nice cool car AC.
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parking lots and surrounding areas here typically have the bare minimum pedestrian accommodations, so walking is extra unpleasant.
3b) gotta watch out for cars that might hit you, or are belching out smelly exhaust, or radiating heat when you're already sweating. Tolerable at best, and generally not at its best.
Basically, parking lots just suck to be in, so getting the least-sucky spot feels like a celebratory achievement.
Even when I was a fat bastard I never cared about having to walk for an extra ten seconds. Now a massive public building like a stadium or even possibly this aquarium, maybe, but these dudes fighting for front spaces in front of a grocery store are just weird.
I’m the primary driver in our household and I don’t have good parking spot luck. Meanwhile, my husband has excellent parking luck. It’s gotten kind of funny actually. Before we really recognized it, he wondered why I didn’t like going to a particular grocery store. It’s because the parking lot is terrible. “You mean you don’t just park up front?” Uh, what? How would I do that exactly when none of those spots are ever free? But on the off chance that he’s driving, there is always, always a spot close to the door. It’s gotten to the point where if we’re going somewhere where the parking is going to be difficult, he drives.
What is he George Costanza?
George has only become more relatable over the years.
We called those spots TV parking. Because in TV shows, they always get that perfect parking spot
He's either really positive or having a very bad time at the aquarium and is trying to force himself to be happy about something lol
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