Yuppies & Gearheads ?

[LLokhaiser]

:-{} Does anyone else encounter this? Ever since I got my CTD,It seems like every Gearheaded snot rag wearin highschool kid wants to race me in moms furd festiva or dads chebby cavalier. That, and everyone with a loud muffler practically redlines it at every redlight. I get a kick out of em. I just look at them and laugh, and mouth the words I`m Stock. then slowly pull away. The wife on the other hand tends to race a few. She ain`t been beat yet. Including a Stroker on our way to my grandma`s funeral. Next Why do Yuppies park their beemers and such right up next to our tailpipe,Way out in no mans land in parking lots? Do ya think they get high from smelling diesel fumes for the next couple of days? Cause I make sure I warm er up for a while before I pull away. Sorry for the long post , But the curiosity is killin me.

 

[TowPro]

If you think about it, when you see a really nice looking car/truck, sitting all by its self way out in a parking lot, you know the driver cares about it. SO if you park real close to it, you know the driver ain't going to open the door into YOUR car/truck. Plus this protects one side of your car/truck. If you were parked out there all alone you would be exposed on all sides. I would recomend doing this, but park on the downhill side of the other car/truck that is way out there, this way if a shopping cart rolls down the hill it will hit his car/truck first. I always park away from everybody else, when I come out of the store and see somebody else parked next to me, I know its somebody else that cares about there stuff and would not do any damage to mine.



This has backfired on me too, one time at a motorcycle club meeting, I had parked way out in the parking lot, under a big sign, on the end of the row, man my truck looked good sitting there, it was all clean and fresh waxed, and some A$$hole kid took a key to the complete Pasanger side!

Originally posted by LLokhaiser

:-{} Next Why do Yuppies park their beemers and such right up next to our tailpipe,Way out in no mans land in parking lots? Do ya think they get high from smelling diesel fumes for the next couple of days? Cause I make sure I warm er up for a while before I pull away. Sorry for the long post , But the curiosity is killin me.

 

[15w40]

I guess I am a yuppie

TowPro got it right. I always park my BMW out of the way and look for a nicely kept car or truck in the back of the parking lot. If there is a Ram with a Cummins, all the better, the owner probably is careful about his/her truck.



By the way, Beamers are motorcycles and Bimmers are cars.

 

[dresslered]

I'm guilty too and do it for the same exact reason as 15w40. I always park my bimmer (or Ram for that matter) in the back of the parking lot. Maybe that's why at 20-years old and 262,000-miles people still think it is brand new.

 

[tgbol]

Another question- You have a race car on an open trailer, pulling through some podunk little town. Stop at the only stop sign in town and three street racers are lining up to race your truck, trailer and race car. Why? What does it prove that thier '68 Camero with a 350 is faster than your CTD at 18,000 lbs?:-laf

 

[rrausch]

I used to work in a place where I had underground parking with my assigned spot. It was the biggest spot, with a block wall on one side and a little tiny compact place on the other side. One weekend, when I usually wouldn't have been there, I drove in to park, only to see that a brand new BMW had taken my assigned spot!



I didn't want to steal someone else's place, so I got out my floor jack (which is on casters) and jacked the rear end of the Bimmer up and moved the rear over about 6 inches, then jacked the front up and moved the front over about 6 inches... I kept going until I have moved the new Bimmer over 1 complete parking space!



I would have loved to have seen his face when he came back to his car!!!

 

[Lsfarm]

Better yet

rrausch; You missed a real opportunity! If you were willing to do all that work with the jack, you could have turned that car sideways facing the wall! Now THAT look on the drivers face would have been priceless!!



About 30 years ago, [I qualify as an old fart now] three buddies and I went to a mall to check out the wildlife The parking lot was very full, and a guy with one of those Fiat X1/9 mid engine POS cars was very proud of it, he had parked right in the middle of four parking spots, right over where the lines form a cross. The parking spot was only six or eight spots from the front entrance. The car looked like the driver wanted it on display, so we helped:



Well my buddies and myself, being young, strong and full of P**s got out, picked up one end of that Fiat at a time and turned it 90* from where it had been parked. Still over the center of four spots, but with the bumpers next to the cars on either side. We did no harm to the car, it was very light.



We had the priceless opportunity to come back and see the punk [just like us] driver walking around his car doing this Oo. Oo.



Never missing the chance to be a smart **s, I said to the guy as we walked past to our truck [parked way out in the lot] 'Hey guy that is a pretty unique way to park your car! I bet you never get door dings! Though it's pretty inconvienent for other people trying to park. '



I think he got the point.



Greg L

 

[BCFAST]

As a dent guy for 10 years, I have tried to figure out how nice cars owned by loving parents get door dings. And I think I have the answer: Latent Bovine Tendencies!! Ever watch cows out in a pasture? They are all grazing in a group until one cow decides the grass looks better over there... so she goes, then 3, then 7... and soon ALL the cows are eating over there. So, you go to the mall or store... and all the cows are parked around the front door. So, you park your pride and joy out in the toolies to avoid damage, go in for 30 minutes and come out to find all the "cows" parked around your vehicle! The public really are cattle, arent they?

Brian

 

[illflem]

Greg L, when I was kid we took it a step further and carried the car, a bug, up four steps and placed in-between two pillars at the entrance to a building. Don't know how they ever got it out, would have taken either a gang of guys or a forklift...

 

[rrausch]

Lsfarm. I really thought about that. But I was leaving my truck there for a week to go out of town, and I didn't want to P the guy off, whoever he was, just make a point. I was afraid if I got him too mad, he might take it out on my truck during the week it was parked there. You never know how strangers will react, he might have been a wuss or he might have been a psycho.

 

[Lsfarm]

Fully Agree!

I understand completely, I have to park and leave my truck at the airport every week, and cringe when I have to fit into a tight spot, wondering if the truck will be molested/vandalized.



Too bad you weren't going to be there for only a few hours!



Greg L

 

[rrausch]

That was a strange night.



I lived about 6 blocks away from the place I parked, and by the time I got Mr. Bimmer moved over and started walking home it was about midnight. So I got about half-way home, I was standing at a corner waiting for an oncoming car to pass so I could cross the street... its midnight... streets are deserted except for this oncoming car... and as the car goes by me several things happen at once: I notice the 4 young guys in the car are singing, yelling, etc. apparently drunk... A beer bottle comes flying out of the car and breaks on the curb about 5 feet away from me... the car continues on down the street about 1/2 block and then for reasons unknown pulls over at the curb, and they all get out of the car and start arguing/singing/yelling.



I was thinking, "Where are the police when you want one!" And at that EXACT MOMENT a cop on a bicycle pulls up from behind me at the stop sign.

I say, "OFFICER!" And I showed him the broken beer bottle and quickly tell him what had happened. He set his jaw and took off down the street on his bicycle! Probably the only cop in history to catch a car while riding a bicycle. I'm watching all this happen. The guys down the street are oblivious to anything around them. They're still yelling, singing, etc. They don't see the cop pedaling hard toward them until he pulls right up and starts yelling at them. He got them all sitting down on the sidewalk and dressed them out. Things were real quiet for a few minutes and then he let them go and got back on his bike and pedaled back up my way. He was laughing really hard when he got to me. He said, "They were so scared they told me the truth!"

The driver was sober, so he let them off with a good tongue lashing!



That was one weird night!