A buddy of mine used to call this “Parking Like a Ballplayer.” The only problem was that most of the cars we saw parked this way weren’t owned by ball players and weren’t worth the effort of taking up two spaces when they could have easily taken just one.
It’s an especially funny idea considering the one time I actually saw a real ball player parking his car. Pete Rose visited a shopping mall in Columbus for an autograph after the 1975 World Series, and I watched him pull is bright red Rolls Royce into a single parking space and walk inside towards the mall’s book store. If a jackass like Pete Rose can manage to park in a single space…
http://www.thegspod.com/ John R. Carman
Obviously I was drunk.
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Crappy and Burgh Baby, my dad used to carry these little white business cards that he’d place on the windshield of people who did this. It had a drawing of Mickey Mouse giving the finger and saying “Nice parking job, asshole!”.
Carman, I figured that was your car when I saw the “I heart ijustine” embroidered seats.
sunshine
Hey i wil be the first to admit dad and i do this too say when we go to walmart or something… but please take a second look at the cars that we have between four of us down here well over 200,000 in cars??? let alone when the whole car club would go out beside’s just dads buddy and mine with us your looking at almost half to three quater of a million… sorry bro to expensive to take the chance of someone scratching it or some snot nosed little kid hitting it with a door…
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Sunshine, if that’s the case then:
1) don’t park it in a public lot
2) don’t park it in the front row
3) if you do have to drive and park like this, go to the back of the lot
The guy who did this pulled into the front row. If you’re car is that precious and you do this, don’t be offended when my key goes across it Same thing goes for those jagoffs in SUV’s that are so big they try to fit them in a compact parking spot.
cheers bro!
sunshine
haha!! sorry forgot to mention we normally do park as far away as we can when we do this.. haha.. sorry to get your temper going bro.. just thought i would clear that up a little.. other than that i agree with you about being as far away.. and the jackoffs that do this in the front row kinda ****** me off too..
lata bro
Joe Polk
Dougie: Go to this web site, print out a few and award them as necessary!
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hahaha Joe that’s a great idea.
sunshine, talk to your sister about what happened when we went to lunch the other day. She almost had the front end ripped off her car by a minivan