I hate parking lots

but I think the new car smell is finally gone out of the old NSU.



Titus - Why bring something like this up? I just got used to getting a flu shot and now I find I may have to get a flatulence shot!
 
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I spent yesterday cleaning, polishing and sealing my Nelly (love my Flex and BFWD). This morning I put on a coat of Midnight Sun - Nelly looked great! :Dancing Dot:

So my wife says "I HATE shopping at our China Mart but I really need a few things." So we stopped. Took a little too long because the cashier scanned one item twice and she couldn't fix it at her checkout - had to spend ten minutes in line at Customer Service for a $1.75 refund.

I could understand a double scanning error if we had a cart full of stuff but we had FOUR ITEMS. :out:

Parked some distance from the China Mart entrance - should be safe, right?

WRONG. Get back to the car to find a dent the size of a quarter and a slight crease 4" long - and a 3/16x3/16 spot of bare metal. Yup, took the pearl white paint down through the primer to the metal - not something I can repair. ~X( :cursing:

I swear I'm never going back to that store again. :banghead:

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Regards,
GEWB
 
Sorry to hear what happen to Nelly, gewb. It has happen to alot of us( myself also) and I still don't understand why people do this. Hopefully a PDR tech. can help you out on the dent part.
 
gewb said:
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Parked some distance from the China Mart entrance - should be safe, right?

WRONG. Get back to the car to find a dent the size of a quarter and a slight crease 4" long - and a 3/16x3/16 spot of bare metal. Yup, took the pearl white paint down through the primer to the metal - not something I can repair. ~X( :cursing:

I swear I'm never going back to that store again. :banghead:

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Although parking lot calamities can happen anywhere, certain types of stores have predominately certain types of clientele. Take a look at http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ for some hair raising pictures of customers caught in the wild. You wouldn't want any of these folks parking next to you! I park waaaaay out in the boondocks all by myself if I have to go to Wally World and it seems some cretin always feels the need to take a trip to the far side of the lot to park beside me. Hard to believe when the lumbering herd is driving in endless circles waiting for the closest Handicapped spot to open up so they can use the HC mirror hanger the doctor gave 'em 3 years ago for a hangnail so they don't have as far to waddle.

I feel your pain. Sometimes it makes me want to pick up a 3/4 ton beater with a 2x8 for a front bumper just for parking lot duty and returning favors. :biggrin:

TL
 
Sorry that happen to you Gewb. Though, different continents, it still happens to us here. Matter of fact, someone hit my car last week and made a 3" dent plus broke off a plastic part on my hilux and worse, it was a hit and run case. Got the plates though from fellow onlookers.
 
TLMitchell said:
Although parking lot calamities can happen anywhere, certain types of stores have predominately certain types of clientele. Take a look at http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ for some hair raising pictures of customers caught in the wild. You wouldn't want any of these folks parking next to you! I park waaaaay out in the boondocks all by myself if I have to go to Wally World and it seems some cretin always feels the need to take a trip to the far side of the lot to park beside me. Hard to believe when the lumbering herd is driving in endless circles waiting for the closest Handicapped spot to open up so they can use the HC mirror hanger the doctor gave 'em 3 years ago for a hangnail so they don't have as far to waddle.

I feel your pain. Sometimes it makes me want to pick up a 3/4 ton beater with a 2x8 for a front bumper just for parking lot duty and returning favors. :biggrin:

TL
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Yup, that's our local China Mart all right!

Regards,
GEWB
 
I got a fresh one on my LR quarter panel. Now I have about 8 dings. I always get more depressed then angry in these situations. Sorry to here this has happened to you Gary :(

BTW I hate Chinese Food. I'm always starving an hour after I eat it :out:
 
Flash Gordon said:
I got a fresh one on my LR quarter panel. Now I have about 8 dings. I always get more depressed then angry in these situations. Sorry to here this has happened to you Gary :(

BTW I hate Chinese Food. I'm always starving an hour after I eat it :out:
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I actually like Chinese food, but you're right about being hungry an hour later!

(For those outside of the USA, "China Mart" is a not so affectionate term for Wal Mart as it seems everything there was made in China - IIRC, Wal Mart is China's biggest buyer of consumer goods.)

Regards,
GEWB
 
I avoid all parking lots like the plague. Sometimes it's (obviously) unavoidable. I have 4 vehicles... all pretty nice. So, if I am forced to go to any store with shopping carts, cars, people.... I will take the oldest and least desirable of all the vehicles.

I'm with you... I hate 'em too.
 
TLMitchell said:
Although parking lot calamities can happen anywhere, certain types of stores have predominately certain types of clientele. Take a look at http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ for some hair raising pictures of customers caught in the wild. You wouldn't want any of these folks parking next to you! I park waaaaay out in the boondocks all by myself if I have to go to Wally World and it seems some cretin always feels the need to take a trip to the far side of the lot to park beside me. Hard to believe when the lumbering herd is driving in endless circles waiting for the closest Handicapped spot to open up so they can use the HC mirror hanger the doctor gave 'em 3 years ago for a hangnail so they don't have as far to waddle.


I feel your pain. Sometimes it makes me want to pick up a 3/4 ton beater with a 2x8 for a front bumper just for parking lot duty and returning favors. :biggrin:

TL
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So here's my rant...since when did being a fat fu(k get you a disabled permit?!? Being disabled doesn't mean you can't get your fork up to your fat face fast enough!!

gewb said:
I actually like Chinese food, but you're right about being hungry an hour later!

(For those outside of the USA, "China Mart" is a not so affectionate term for Wal Mart as it seems everything there was made in China - IIRC, Wal Mart is China's biggest buyer of consumer goods.)

Regards,
GEWB
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China Mart...I love it!!! The people of Walmart power points are some of the funniest emails I get. The comments are what truly make it priceless!!
 
richy said:
So here's my rant...since when did being a fat fu(k get you a disabled permit?!? Being disabled doesn't mean you can't get your fork up to your fat face fast enough!!
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Your preaching to the choir. I occasionally drive a wheelchair accessible van. There's rarely any close parking to unload the passenger as the big, waddling tubs of goo have the close, handicapped spots occupied. They're also the ones that park so close you can't get the ramp down to reload. I've been known to be less than nice in suggesting an exercise for those with less than steamlined physiques when they return to their vehicle while I'm struggling to load up a wheelchair and passenger... it's called "push back from the table!" I've also suggested that gravy is not a diet drink!

Another angle on the same situation... when did aging become a "handicap"? Yeah, it's gonna happen to all of us and it won't be as easy to get around as it used to be. IMO, "handicapped" means you're missing a limb or are in a wheelchair or on crutches. It isn't getting old or fat. So howzcum all the aged and fat turds are the ones with the handicapped danglers hanging from their mirrors?

TL
 
Well, there are other places besides Walmart to do your shopping.

Personally, I get tired of reading all of the "people of Walmart" comments.

There are plenty of good folks that shop at Walmart.

Your kind of asking for it too by parking out all the way in the middle of nowhere as well.

Just gets old IMO.
 
I feel your pain. a few years ago i had a brand new car (less than 2 weeks old) and i went to a kmart. parked at very end of lot with no other cars even near by. however, the parking lot sloped down towards my end of the lot and as i am walking down main aisle to my car i see an unattended cart rolling towards my car and yep you guessed it, gashed it. fortunately no paint damage and i had a good dentmaster pull out the dent. it was like slo motion. i knew what was happening but could do nothing to stop it ( unless i could run a 40 yard dash in 2 seconds). If i could find the moron who let that cart go i'd........
 
I used to have a black Pontiac Grand Prix. The thing was gorgeous! Chrome wheels, lowered, 50 coats of Zaino!

My wife made the mistake of taking it to Walmart one day and parking it at the very BACK of the lot, away from all other vehicles. The closest car was 50 yards away.

She came out and there was the NASTIEST 1970's Ford Rust-Bucket Pickup, she had ever seen, parked with inches of the GP.

In the center of the hood, was a sun-dried brown crunchy loogie that this guy had snagged with a mouthful of chewing tobacco!!!!:mad:

By the time she got home the sun had baked Skoal into the paint... ETCHED!

Pissed.

I finally got over it when I traded the car.
 
Sorry to hear about you car Gweb. :(


I think we have all had this happen to us. I actually had the chance to return the favor once. The girl and I came out to see a white car car real close to her brand new car (didn't even have plates on it yet) and we were parked way out in back with no other cars around. Sure enough, I walked up to the side of our car and there was a nice sized ding with white paint transfer which lined right up with the car next to us. My girl was upset and in tears but she felt a little better after I laid a nice "hockey hip check" into the side of their car which surprisingly caved in the door.

Eye for an eye right? ;)
 
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