Learn How to Drive/Passenge/Pedest

[frinkprof]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

I almost got hit by a car today, was close enough to touch it.

I live in Edmonton and was crossing 83rd ave and 109st intersection going towards Safeway. The 9 (hugeass bus) frequently goes down 109th and is usually on the right side right before 83rd ave to pick people up. It stopped right at the crosswalk because I was crossing, but it was so close to me that it blocked my view of on coming traffic and vice versa. I walk out and holy FFF a car was going about 70 km/hr came out and my jacket brushed his dirty ass car. Thank you dumbass bus and thank you dumbass speeder.

So if I'm reading this correctly, you blindly walked out into traffic?

[wooohooo]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

So if I'm reading this correctly, you blindly walked out into traffic?

Well no, I walked to where the bus was bus and a little more because it was so long. I forgot to mention I think the car was turning from 82nd to 109th and was trying to pass the bus.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

Well no, I walked to where the bus was bus and a little more because it was so long. I forgot to mention I think the car was turning from 82nd to 109th and was trying to pass the bus.

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Originally Posted by frinkprof

So if I'm reading this correctly, you blindly walked out into traffic?

[stuck_in_chuk]

I went to the Safeway by Brentwood station today, and have a special hatred for people who feel the need to take up 2 or 4 parking spots with their vehicle. I counted 3 people who were parked at about a 30 degree angle (taking up 2 spots), and one pickup that had parked over the centre of 4 spots so that no one else could park next to him/her. A-holes, the bunch of them.

A few years ago at Christmas, I drove around a mall parking lot for about 20 minutes looking for a parking spot when I gave up and parked on the street about a 10 minute walk away. I was walking through the mall parking lot and saw 2 spots next to each other had opened up. While I was walking, a pickup drove up and parked at 45 degrees taking both the spots. I yelled across the parking lot at him, but he just went into the mall. Some people are just rude.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by stuck_in_chuk

I went to the Safeway by Brentwood station today, and have a special hatred for people who feel the need to take up 2 or 4 parking spots with their vehicle. I counted 3 people who were parked at about a 30 degree angle (taking up 2 spots), and one pickup that had parked over the centre of 4 spots so that no one else could park next to him/her. A-holes, the bunch of them.

A few years ago at Christmas, I drove around a mall parking lot for about 20 minutes looking for a parking spot when I gave up and parked on the street about a 10 minute walk away. I was walking through the mall parking lot and saw 2 spots next to each other had opened up. While I was walking, a pickup drove up and parked at 45 degrees taking both the spots. I yelled across the parking lot at him, but he just went into the mall. Some people are just rude.

I'm one of these people, in parking lots where the lanes are too close together or stalls to narrow for the turning radius of my truck. Believe me all it takes is trying to squeeze into a stall once and scraping the side of another vehicle and you'll be on the bandwagon too.

Chinook is horrible for their tiny stalls/lanes and their parkade is too short for my truck to get into so if i go their i either end up taking 2 stalls or parking across the street at the home depot.

If me not being willing to risk another 1500$ to fix a scratch on someones car because some mall feels they need to try to squeeze in more spots then actually would fit into a area makes me rude and chaffs your ass then so be it. If everyone made decent sized parking stalls say like costco then no one would have this issue.

Of course i usually park at the back of the lot where there isn't anyone else so the point is rather moot. Too me your parking stall entitlement is rather entertaining.

[burn_this_city]

I drive a 2500 GMC and I dont really have trouble. Unless you're driving a long box crew cab you should be able to fit in most stalls. Sometimes if the conditions arent right I'll skip the spot and try elsewhere. Only once have a been boxed in because the lanes in the parking lot were too narrow to back out. Two other trucks parked really close and there was one behind.

[wooohooo]

I get very, very, very tempted to take out my keys whenever I see any vehicles doing the 2+ park job. You are entitled to your 1 spot, not 2 or 3. If you can't park properly, park somewhere else. To convenience yourself, you inconvenience 2, 3, or 4 other people who could have parked there. #######.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Dan02

I'm one of these people, in parking lots where the lanes are too close together or stalls to narrow for the turning radius of my truck. Believe me all it takes is trying to squeeze into a stall once and scraping the side of another vehicle and you'll be on the bandwagon too.

Chinook is horrible for their tiny stalls/lanes and their parkade is too short for my truck to get into so if i go their i either end up taking 2 stalls or parking across the street at the home depot.

If me not being willing to risk another 1500$ to fix a scratch on someones car because some mall feels they need to try to squeeze in more spots then actually would fit into a area makes me rude and chaffs your ass then so be it. If everyone made decent sized parking stalls say like costco then no one would have this issue.

Of course i usually park at the back of the lot where there isn't anyone else so the point is rather moot. Too me your parking stall entitlement is rather entertaining.

cmon, trucks today are behemoths. be reasonable.

[Mad Mel]

While I understand that some people need a big truck for work, for most truck owners it is a vehicle choice that they've made. IMO, if you choose to drive an overgrown Tonka toy, it was your choice to struggle to find parking spots that can accommodate it, so it's your problem to deal with it, not other people's.

[ricosuave]

[ricosuave]

[ricosuave]

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Unless you're driving a long box crew cab you should be able to fit in most stalls. .

exactly and yes for those asking it is for work, before i started using one for work i thought i'd never buy a truck. Most people who don't use their truck for work tend to have short boxes anyways and it's not really a issue.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

I get very, very, very tempted to take out my keys whenever I see any vehicles doing the 2+ park job. You are entitled to your 1 spot, not 2 or 3. If you can't park properly, park somewhere else. To convenience yourself, you inconvenience 2, 3, or 4 other people who could have parked there. #######.

says who?? you?? you've got some serious anger issues if a car occupying more then 1 spot makes you wanna commit a crime and risk getting your ass beat.

haha just stumbled on this note again a couple days ago that reminds me of you. Took my crew out for lunch but the parking lot is so impossibly small it's obvious it wasn't gonna work. So we go down the side street on which there are exactly 0 cars parked and went for lunch.

Get back from lunch and there is now another car parked in front of us. They backed up to literally within 6 inches of my front bumber. So we were all getting a good chuckle out of this. Get in the car and notice there is note under the windshield wiper. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was in some serious redneck english and was something about parking half infront of one house and half infront of another. Man alive how much must your life suck that you get your undies all bunched because you had to park 5 feet further forward today then you usually do when you got off your shift as trailer park security guard.

[Antithesis]

Parking issues like these remind me of why I avoid malls at all costs this time of year. I can't think of many things more infuriating that trying to find a parking spot at a mall during December.

[bc-chris]

A parking story for you…

Years ago I was a forklift operator for a local construction company. We had some sweet lifts – skytrack 10054’s… 54’ boom – sweeeeeet!!

Anyways – the one job we were at in kelowna the foreman from (I think) the drywallers would always park in the only access I had to the site – clearly marked “NO PARKING”. There were tons of other spots to go park but he insisted on parking there. I had asked him a number of times to not park there and he never listened/respected the request. This dude had major ‘little man’ syndrome! So the one day he took his usual parking spot and went into the site. I was having a crappy day and was not in the mood for this guy – so I went and got 2 lifts of plywood and blocked him in with plywood on either side of his truck and the forklift behind him. His only ‘out’ was straight ahead – which was a plywood fence surrounding the site. I took the keys to the fork lift and headed into the building, told my foreman what I did – we both laughed and I headed to the top floor to do back-framing. The guy comes out and tries to leave and is absolutely snapping!! Totally losses it. He checked the forklift and there were no keys so he comes storming into the building looking for me. By this time, my entire crew knew what I did so they kept radioing me where he was so I could get to a different floor/other end of the building – ha! ha! Eventually he gives up and goes to his truck - puts it in gear and destroys the fence (and his paint job) and leaves.

The next day he shows up and doesn’t block the entrance to the site – I drive by, wave, and thank him for not blocking my only access to the site…. I don’t think he was impressed!!

[Red Potato Standing By]

people would probably start parking properly if other people would have more respect to others property.I used to use up two spaces all the time but seeming i see how upset some people get over it i have been trying to park in only one parking spot.yeah good idea...i now have a brand new truck with a good size door ding.so if that is what happens when you park properly i'm going back to using two stalls in the back of the parking lot again.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

Well no, I walked to where the bus was bus and a little more because it was so long. I forgot to mention I think the car was turning from 82nd to 109th and was trying to pass the bus.

so the bus spontaneously grew?

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Hesla

^ I remember driving in Waterloo and som asshat pedestrian decided he would walk across the street when I had a green light. I honked and he threw his 1/4 eaten sandwich at my windshield. I have never in my life been mad enough to throw a good sandwich at someone, let alone when i am in the wrong.

Maybe the bread was dry. Nothing ruins a good sammich like dry bread.

[WhiteTiger]

I saw a good one today coming home from work. Driving west on Memorial, I go to turn onto Ed. Tr. The car in front of me slides over into the turn lane (no signal) until he's almost on Ed. Tr. THEN, he puts his signal on, for the wrong way as he cuts across 3 lanes of traffic.

He continues in that lane until he goes through the first set of lights. Then he puts his signal on (the right one, this time) and zips back across 3 lanes of traffic to get into the Mac's just after the light. I could only shake my head.