Car parkers

I can't believe the amount of people who park selfishly here in Prospect Heights. I park my car (and live) on Prospect Place between Carlton and Vanderbilt. Pretty much every week someone does something so selfish and so annoying with their car. Examples:

There's a private garage on the Tuesday/Friday side of the street on Prospect up on the edge of Carlton. There should be three spaces for cars after the opening for the garage. But many times the first car doesn't pull all the way up to the white stop block. I don't know why they don't. So then the second car is pushed back far enough to put the third spot out of play unless you have a Mini Cooper. Also, as is the case right now, the first car did a decent job pulling up but the second car, some Wagonner or other SUV, didn't pull all the way up to the bumper of the first car, so the third spot, again, is out of play. Finally, there's the guy in the white SUVish/mini-vanish vehicle who actually owns a space in the garage. And he parks in front of the garage a lot --- no harm to anyone, it's his garage space --- and goes into his house across the way. Sunday, however, he parked half in the third space and half in front of the garage therefore not allowing another car to park in that third space.

If you're one of these people, you're a jackass.

More examples of parking jerks to come...

Another wrong thing to do:

There's an open space on the street. You don't want to park there but need to double park to do some transferring of groceries, pick up people, etc. No. That's dickish. Roll back/roll forward and truly double park and leave the space open for someone else who actually wants to park.

I also live on that block. What's with the pile of dirt that Con Ed left? Are they going to take that away?

And why can't people who park behind it snuggle up a little closer to it. It's not going to muss up their car....

This kind of stuff used to annoy me until I realized that unless I'm outside watching people park, things happen, like cars of different sizes come and go. That's how you get big gaps in between cars. Most people pull up reasonably close to the car in front, and give "bumper room." However as time passes, one car leaves, a smaller car pulls in, or a large oldsmobile pulls out leaving a weird large space that the next car can't fill, etc. and you get gaps.

There's no way to control this unless every person who parks comes out every time someone leaves and adjusts their car accordingly.

doublediamond wrote: This kind of stuff used to annoy me until I realized that unless I'm outside watching people park, things happen, like cars of different sizes come and go. That's how you get big gaps in between cars. Most people pull up reasonably close to the car in front, and give "bumper room." However as time passes, one car leaves, a smaller car pulls in, or a large oldsmobile pulls out leaving a weird large space that the next car can't fill, etc. and you get gaps.

There's no way to control this unless every person who parks comes out every time someone leaves and adjusts their car accordingly.

agreed!

DD --- agreed that happens, different sized cars. But in all the instances I'm talking about, that's not the case.

Subject: Re: Car parkers

You need to unerstand that as cars come and go, spaces of various sizes occur. This is most true when a motorcycle parks at the top or bottom of a block, then pulls away -leaving half a spot.

Innocent X wrote: I can't believe the amount of people who park selfishly here in Prospect Heights. I park my car (and live) on Prospect Place between Carlton and Vanderbilt. Pretty much every week someone does something so selfish and so annoying with their car. Examples:

There's a private garage on the Tuesday/Friday side of the street on Prospect up on the edge of Carlton. There should be three spaces for cars after the opening for the garage. But many times the first car doesn't pull all the way up to the white stop block. I don't know why they don't. So then the second car is pushed back far enough to put the third spot out of play unless you have a Mini Cooper. Also, as is the case right now, the first car did a decent job pulling up but the second car, some Wagonner or other SUV, didn't pull all the way up to the bumper of the first car, so the third spot, again, is out of play. Finally, there's the guy in the white SUVish/mini-vanish vehicle who actually owns a space in the garage. And he parks in front of the garage a lot --- no harm to anyone, it's his garage space --- and goes into his house across the way. Sunday, however, he parked half in the third space and half in front of the garage therefore not allowing another car to park in that third space.

If you're one of these people, you're a jackass.

More examples of parking jerks to come...

Subject: Re: Car parkers

Sometimes private garages take up the free spots near them as to discourage free parking. They have been known to even pull cars out from inside and to park them so that the free spots are occupied. That helps increase business for them.
I'm not saying that this particular garage is doing it, but I'm not saying that its not doing it either.

Mr. Tips wrote: [quote=doublediamond]This kind of stuff used to annoy me until I realized that unless I'm outside watching people park, things happen, like cars of different sizes come and go. That's how you get big gaps in between cars. Most people pull up reasonably close to the car in front, and give "bumper room." However as time passes, one car leaves, a smaller car pulls in, or a large oldsmobile pulls out leaving a weird large space that the next car can't fill, etc. and you get gaps.

There's no way to control this unless every person who parks comes out every time someone leaves and adjusts their car accordingly.

agreed!

thirded

rhodamine wrote: [quote=Mr. Tips][quote=doublediamond]This kind of stuff used to annoy me until I realized that unless I'm outside watching people park, things happen, like cars of different sizes come and go. That's how you get big gaps in between cars. Most people pull up reasonably close to the car in front, and give "bumper room." However as time passes, one car leaves, a smaller car pulls in, or a large oldsmobile pulls out leaving a weird large space that the next car can't fill, etc. and you get gaps.

There's no way to control this unless every person who parks comes out every time someone leaves and adjusts their car accordingly.

agreed!

thirded

I understand, but I haven't seen any motorcycles parked right up next to this pile of dirt (which appeared 2 weeks ago after a dig on Flatbush). I think the cars are just parking about 5 feet from it by choice. I wish they'd just get closer to it (which harm could a pile of dirt do to their car?)

P.S. I mis-read the 1st post. I don't live on the ame block as Innocent X (I'm between Carlton and Flatbush).

This is NYC, why complain about parking? This city wasn't made for cars! Jesus, there is amazing mass transportation here. If you have a car and can't stand the bullshit that goes along with it, sell it and don't post on a board!

when i used to park a car & my roommate had a car, we would attempt to save spots for each other by placing one car in the center of two spots. usually it would work...

LeeHo wrote: This is NYC, why complain about parking? This city wasn't made for cars! Jesus, there is amazing mass transportation here. If you have a car and can't stand the bullshit that goes along with it, sell it and don't post on a board!

Don't complain on a message board? Durr. If not for bitching, complaining and arguing, message boards would disappear from the Earth. Moron.

If I see you doing that, Vanilla, you'll see my jack-arm coming through your windshield.