Is it just me?? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

steve00s · 06-01-2007, 07:42 AM

In addition to looking for end spots, I also look for openings next to the handicapped slots. Around here it seems like a third of the spaces in the lot are for handicapped and you are lucky to see one in ten used. Usually you see five rows of three or four designated slots so the odds of someone using the outer one next to you is nil. This has worked well for me.

RandallNeighbour · 06-01-2007, 07:57 AM

Steve, in Houston, it's "cool" to take your elderly relative's handicap hangar and use it when they are not with you, so every single handicapped spot is taken around here. This really pisses me off and the city won't do anything about it. But I digress.

Because of the potential for vandalism, theft, carelessness on the part of others and just plain vindictive behavior often seen in Houston, I do not park my car in public places. In fact, I have stopped driving my car to church where I thought I could safely parallel park it in one particular area that is safe... the soccer moms in mini vans have rubbed my driver's side back bumper a couple of times and never once confessed to doing it. And everyone at my church knows who owns the black boxster smack dab in front of the church's front doors. Grrrr.

I've said it before here and I'll say it again... I wish I lived in Germany or that their respect for other people's property (especially their cars) would infect our country. They must park so close to one another that their side mirrors are always closed and it would seem that they get out of their cars through the back hatch or the window and then roll it up with the key. And even though they park like packed sardines in a can, they rarely, if ever, ding a door.

If you ask me, it's all an issue of rampant narcissim or selfishness. As a country, we just don't give a crap about anyone else or anyone else's property any longer. Sorry for the long post, but this issue of door dings and not being able to drive my car and park it in public places really pisses me off.

2000SoCalBoxsterS · 06-01-2007, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

If you ask me, it's all an issue of rampant narcissim or selfishness. As a country, we just don't give a crap about anyone else or anyone else's property any longer. Sorry for the long post, but this issue of door dings and not being able to drive my car and park it in public places really pisses me off.

I agree with you 100%. It's like that everywhere these days. This country is akin to the Roman Empire ripe for decline because we have become fat, dumb, and lazy.

funster · 06-01-2007, 03:32 PM

Maybe the mini van contained a dad and some kids that wanted to check out your kool car. I get that all the time. I take my car everywhere when the weather is nice. I park it at the store with the top down. I've been minimaly keyed once but that is it. I'm going to enjoy my car, that's why I bought it. Driving the car is what's fun, if I had a door ding I wouldn't be able to see it from the driver's seat while I'm pushing on the gas pedal!