Is it just me??

[RandallNeighbour]

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.