Park it

There’s a Reddit sub titled Bad Parking. It has for me (as—I suppose—for many others) a horrid fascination, watching how people just park their vehicles wherever they like, without regard to law or civil society.

So far, I have not contributed, but last week I got two entries.

The first was in the Trader Joe’s parking lot:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any TJ parking lot in any state in the Union has a crappy, insufficient parking lot, and spaces are at a premium. Back in the last century, I lived within walking distance of the first Trader Joe’s, on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena. At any time between early November and the week after New Year, fistfights were likely to break out when some Beamer pinched the space some Lexus was waiting to be vacated. I was glad I was on foot.

So this guy, effectively taking up two spaces, no doubt because “I’m in a hurry, okay?” was quite the prince.

(The "Baby on Board" sign is a tell. It always means "Baby Behind Wheel".)

Then there was this one, at the 10-space parking lot for the W&OD Trail by the old Reston Distillery:

I mean—no wonder his car is held together with duct tape.

 

 

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