Is it just me?

[Blue Star]

Whenever I go to the store I park at the end of the parking row so I have to only worry about one side of the spyder, and it seems every time some cage parks right on the line or on my side of the line (usually at an angle). What is it with people? Don't they know how to park, or is it because the spyder don't take up so much room?

Okay, I am done venting, and feel better, thank you.

 

[boborgera]

Whenever I go to the store I park at the end of the parking row so I have to only worry about one side of the spyder, and it seems every time some cage parks right on the line or on my side of the line (usually at an angle). What is it with people? Don't they know how to park, or is it because the spyder don't take up so much room?

Okay, I am done venting, and feel better, thank you.

When you give people extra room by parking all the way over in a spot, they'll take it.
And then some people just like to bust chops. :dontknow:

 

[BajaRon]

When you give people extra room by parking all the way over in a spot, they'll take it.
And then some people just like to bust chops. :dontknow:

True, but sometimes it's just a simple matter of;

* Stupid
* Incompetent
* Altered State
* Blindness
* or Haters!

 

[pro10is]

The exact same thing happens to me all the time. I park in the middle of nowhere and some idiot will park right next to me. Drives me mad.:banghead:

 

[DragonLorD]

Normal

I found out this in my early days and watched people from distance , funny enough all of them always parked their cars as close to my Spy as possible, reason? - they all wanted a pic of my Spy next to their car. Drove me demented so I started to park on a footpath but not in way to walkers, it is legal for bikes over here.
...we gotta deal with few Bees since we got a honeypot

 

[ornerydog7]

True, but sometimes it's just a simple matter of;

* Stupid
* Incompetent
* Altered State
* Blindness
* or Haters!

:thumbup::thumbup: ​I agree 100%

 

[Bob Denman]

:agree:x2! :gaah: I now try to find spots to hide the bike... In a section shielded by a large van or SUV so that miscreants who think that "Shopping Cart Bowling" is a valid sport don't get to use it as a target!

 

[Love2Ride]

I just take two parking spots.

 

[BajaRon]

I just take two parking spots.

Do what I did, park in a handicapped zone. No one bothers you there! A bit pricey though... :shocked:

 

[SpydherLuv]

I don't generally worry about where to park as much as I do HOW to park. My thinking on this is that I park in the first available spot, if there are cars parked on either sided, depending on how nice they look, I may back into the spot so that their car door opening aligns with the backend of the :spyder2:; which generally means the door shouldn't hit. Otherwise, I pull in, park, lock the bars, and head into the store. Also, backing into a spot makes the :spyder2: appear bigger and cars may be inclined to park within their own lines.
I have had so many nice vehicles throughout the years and have done plenty of worrying about whether they are going to get damaged in parking lots that I have finally resigned to the fact that there is nothing I can do to prevent others actions. A vehicle is outside, in the public eye and people are either gonna look, touch, or ignore and the only way to avoid that is by keeping it in the garage and that's not going to happen. Why can't someone just invent a force field?? Come on, how hard can it really be?

 

[Blue Star]

:agree:x2! :gaah: I now try to find spots to hide the bike... In a section shielded by a large van or SUV so that miscreants who think that "Shopping Cart Bowling" is a valid sport don't get to use it as a target!

I have to admit that I like to park between large vehicles (trucks or vans), and pull all the way up into the front of the space when parking spaces are limited. Then sit back and watch cages turn to pull into the space only realize half way in that the space is taken. One time some other guy and his girl friend realized it, and was laughing too :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[Bob Denman]

I would imagine that Ron has been hanging out too close to me... pps:
After all; everybody knows that I am seriously "serious-challenged"! :roflblack:
(But I DO have a handicapped parking permit...)

 

[Pennyrick]

Yeah! Give some folks an inch and they think they're a ruler.

We usually park up front of the lot at supermarkets and discount stores where the white lines signify where to return the shopping carts. We take care to leave the entrance to the cart return clear so no one endangers the Spyders but so far we have been okay.

Yesterday a patrol car stopped, the cops got out and I figured they were going to cite us but they just wanted to talk about the machines.

 

[retread]

I've never had a problem with people parking too close, instead, they seem to think they can crawl all over it and get angry when I offer to do the same with their cars.

john

 

[BajaRon]

Ron, I hope you are joking. I am a disabled veteran of the Korean and Viet Nam wars. I would hope that you would not disrespect yourself by parking in a handicapped slot.

No, I'm sorry to say I am not joking. The area where I parked was not clearly marked. The sign was facing away from me and I didn't go around to read it.

I discovered that there is a Wal-Mart employee authorized to issue parking citations. He was sitting not too far from me when I parked, watched me take all my gear off and put it in the Frunk, then watched as I passed right by him into the store. Then he went over to my Spyder and stuck a parking ticket between the front of the seat and the Tupperware.

Here are the other things I learned from this experence;

1- It is more important to write a ticket than to keep a Handicapped space open.
2- I need to pay more attention and walk around to the other side of the sign post to see what it says. It may be important!
3- I would have been better off parking in the 'Fire Lane' ($25.00) as opposed to the Handicap space ($35.00) and I would not have had to walk as far.

Being a fireman it did cause me to wonder how blocking a fire lane and potentially endangering everyone in Sam's Club (including handicapped people) is a lesser offence than potentially inconveniencing someone by parking in a handicap space.

I understand that I was wrong and that I earned the ticket. Still, it seems to me that something is out of adjustment here.

I have never intentionally parked in a handicapped space before or since.

 

[Questions]

Parking Lot

I always park at the very back of the space. My reasoning is two fold. When the doors are opened on the cars on either side of me, they will open and clear my :spyder: and not hit it, but open in front of it The second is a parking lot accident I witnessed once (just once, but I still remember) of a person pulling into a space they thought was empty but wasn't. There was a bike all the way up that wasn't visible completely until you started to make your turn. Now days with a cell phone glued to the ear of every other cager not a lot of attention is being paid to driving anymore. I am also afraid of the boogy man, but that's another post for another day. :yikes:

 

[boborgera]

No, I'm sorry to say I am not joking. The area where I parked was not clearly marked. The sign was facing away from me and I didn't go around to read it.
.

In Jersey the handicap sign must be facing the parking space, or no ticket can be given..

 

[3Willie]

What about lazy people who block entrances or gas pumps??

One of my pet peeves is people who pull up to a gas pump or the front of a convenience store just to get close to the entrance. I have found people sitting inside drinking something or scratching off lottery tickets while their vehicle blocks the gas pump close to the entrance. Of course, they are not buying gas, just getting a good parking place!! It seems that most of the time these people are not in a hurry, handicapped or in any way needing a close parking spot. Usually they are just lazy or feel they are entitled to a better deal than the rest of their fellow humans.

Thanks for letting me vent!!!!!

 

[BajaRon]

In Jersey the handicap sign must be facing the parking space, or no ticket can be given..

The sign was facing the parking space. The parking space was on the other side of the sign. Where I parked was not a parking space, it was an area blocked off in the vicinity of a handicapped parking space. There was no designated parking area on my side of the sign. The parking and loading area were all on the other side of the sign post.

I should have known better but there was no possible way that my Spyder was impeeding or in any other way affecting handicap access.

I am pretty sure I could have fought the ticket and won. But it's over an hour drive one way and I decided the $35 and the education were good enough.

 

[boborgera]

One of my pet peeves is people who pull up to a gas pump or the front of a convenience store just to get close to the entrance. I have found people sitting inside drinking something or scratching off lottery tickets while their vehicle blocks the gas pump close to the entrance. Of course, they are not buying gas, just getting a good parking place!! It seems that most of the time these people are not in a hurry, handicapped or in any way needing a close parking spot. Usually they are just lazy or feel they are entitled to a better deal than the rest of their fellow humans.

Thanks for letting me vent!!!!!

That's why i like that in Jersey there's NO self service for gas.
Plus Reg gas is about 30 to 50 cents a gal cheaper than the surrounding states.