[Timco]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Yeah but now that I think on it the parking lot is not the issue. It's that inbound and outbound traffic on those roads is full of teen age drivers. Put it this way, I avoid those areas whenever possible. For instance on Friday nights there's one stretch of a road near me that's full of the Too Fast Too furious spikey haired types from the local highschools. These guys raise the probability of an accident with an innocent third party (me) by 10 fold at least. They commit ever flagrant violation of intelligent driving. They don't allow for enough braking room, swerve in and out lanes, run parallels boxing others in, texting while driving, stoned, etc., etc. I will purposely drive around that road, which will put me a good 5 miles in the other direction. Well worth it says Mr. Boxster.

What happened to you was not a once off but merely the numbers at work. You are driving an expensive car in an enviornment where the majority of drivers have not fully developed their frontal lobes. The instinct to sense danger, and immediately get off the throttle is not there yet. And won't be there for another 7-8 years. I think if you asked the average forum member here what they would think of parking their Porsche or driving it around a high school they would probably laugh. You've learned that now but maybe lightning doesn't strike twice in the same parking lot. Something to think on.

p.s.
When I was in HS my principal drove a vintage Jaguar. He parked in a lot that was right at the exit road and assigned one security guy to stand next to all day long. No one was allowed to park within like 10 parking spaces of it.
And on my first day of class in college my Professor announced to the class that the E-Type Jaguar parked in front of the lecture was his and if he saw anyone near it would be an automatic F or painful death.

High School? I won't even park at certain grocery stores! Wouldn't even think about setting foot in a Walmart.......for parking reasons and personal reasons.

Also will not use mall parking lots. It's all about avoiding potential vandalism or other drivers.