Inconsiderate Drivers (share your stories, etc.)

Replying to: andre1969 (Jul 09, 2009 7:13 am)

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Replying to: fintail (Jul 09, 2009 7:50 am)

And some people dandy up their cars - perhaps Zainophiles?
 
Most inconsiderate of them when their shiny paint blinds you in the sun.
 
With the way everyone slots everyone else into these little niche categories based on scant evidence, I'm beginning to think y'all are all in the advertising business.

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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 09, 2009 9:30 am)

Where's there's smoke there's often fire...and as the old saying goes, you are what you drive
 
One can also try to categorize a driver by observing a given vehicle or given vehicle type, and the way it is driven. It's not an inexact science, and "scant" can be subjective. Chances are, that pristine 15 year old Buick going 20 under in the left lane isn't an 18 year old kid, and the tarted old Civic with a fart can screaming around in a gear too low isn't grandpa.

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Replying to: fintail (Jul 09, 2009 9:49 am)

And eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. And you know what they say about assumptions. And no falling back on "the exception proves the rule" nonsense either.
 
Got any more stories?

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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 09, 2009 9:30 am)

With the way everyone slots everyone else into these little niche categories based on scant evidence, I'm beginning to think y'all are all in the advertising business.
 
Well, let me tell you about what the little twink in the next office does out in the parking lot! There is only one spot in that whole lot, that has a grass median on two sides, so at most you only have one car parking beside you. Well, he parks there, and then puts up road cones along the exposed side of his car! Not inconsiderate, but a bit prissy.
 
I was feeling a bit inconsiderate myself, and got into work early today, so I put my '85 Silverado in that spot.

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Replying to: andre1969 (Jul 09, 2009 9:58 am)

I am not sure it is prissy, but around here, you'd be trolling for a "key" job.
 
But in any case, it would be interesting to hear what the going rate is for a ubiquitious "DOOR DING" I am swagging they are not cheap anywhere.

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Replying to: ruking1 (Jul 09, 2009 10:03 am)

Yeah, I wouldn't put anything up around my car like that simply because I'd be afraid it would attract undue attention. And it did...heck, it attracted my attention! I wouldn't have even noticed it, had it not been for the road cones.
 
At first I didn't think he was putting them out, but that maybe someone had just left them there, from an old construction job, or cordoning off the parking lot or something. But then one day I stacked them up after he left and memorized exactly where they were. And sure enough, the next morning, they were moved out again, alongside his car.
 
Yeah, yeah, I know...I need to find myself a hobby or something.

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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 09, 2009 9:50 am)

My testimony is as reliable as the best Camcord.
 
Now that we are on the parking subject, I can complain about the girl in the bronze Aveo who parks next to me in the parking garage of my building. She has a cement pillar on one side, and she's hit it once (but I wouldn't want to make an age/gender relationship there... )...so now she is paranoid and tends to park close to my car - not in the middle of the space. As the days go on, she gets closer and closer, until I have to file a complaint. Then she parks decently enough, but will inch over as time goes on, and the cycle repeats. I rarely see her, but the last time I did she actually apologized for parking carelessly. Wouldn't it be easier just to learn how to park properly? I do so in a larger car, with a pillar on one side, too. She's really the airhead type, so I am paranoid about a door ding from her - but nothing has happened yet, so maybe she's more careful than she seems.

Replying to: andre1969 (Jul 09, 2009 9:58 am)

Next time the cones appear, place a note on the W/S apologizing for the deep scratch in his ride, but advise you don't have insurance.
 
Then take a movie of him circling his car looking for the damage.