Although I don't do it, I don't blame people who do. Single spaces aren't large enough to keep people from banging their doors into yours causing dents in your door. With the prices of vehicle these days and how long and how much work it takes to pay for one, I can't blame someone from trying to protect their property. Until spaces are wide enough to not cause issues from door dings, it doesn't bother me if some random person double parks out away from everyone. I HAD to do it one time at my old insurance office! The spaces where so small that even as a skinny person I couldn't get out of my truck without touching the car next to me so I said fuck it and took two spaces because even though I care and try not to bang vehicles and do damage and knew that parking in spaces so small that even I couldn't avoid it and I knew the person who was going to potentially get the last space next to me would tear my vehicle up trying to get out of the cramped space especially if they where overweight and had a larger vehicle there would be no way around it so I didn't give a rats ass if it pissed someone off that I double parked that one time!
Although I don't do it, I don't blame people who do. Single spaces aren't large enough to keep people from banging their doors into yours causing dents in your door. With the prices of vehicle these days and how long and how much work it takes to pay for one, I can't blame someone from trying to protect their property. Until spaces are wide enough to not cause issues from door dings, it doesn't bother me if some random person double parks out away from everyone. I HAD to do it one time at my old insurance office! The spaces where so small that even as a skinny person I couldn't get out of my truck without touching the car next to me so I said fuck it and took two spaces because even though I care and try not to bang vehicles and do damage and knew that parking in spaces so small that even I couldn't avoid it and I knew the person who was going to potentially get the last space next to me would tear my vehicle up trying to get out of the cramped space especially if they where overweight and had a larger vehicle there would be no way around it so I didn't give a rats ass if it pissed someone off that I double parked that one time!
Strangely I have no problems fitting my Suzuki Swift into parking spaces...
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Although I don't do it, I don't blame people who do. Single spaces aren't large enough to keep people from banging their doors into yours causing dents in your door. With the prices of vehicle these days and how long and how much work it takes to pay for one, I can't blame someone from trying to protect their property. Until spaces are wide enough to not cause issues from door dings, it doesn't bother me if some random person double parks out away from everyone. I HAD to do it one time at my old insurance office! The spaces where so small that even as a skinny person I couldn't get out of my truck without touching the car next to me so I said fuck it and took two spaces because even though I care and try not to bang vehicles and do damage and knew that parking in spaces so small that even I couldn't avoid it and I knew the person who was going to potentially get the last space next to me would tear my vehicle up trying to get out of the cramped space especially if they where overweight and had a larger vehicle there would be no way around it so I didn't give a rats ass if it pissed someone off that I double parked that one time!
Strangely I have no problems fitting my Suzuki Swift into parking spaces...
People have dinged the shit out of my Acrua RSX (a small car).
I don't think vehicle size or person size are always the factors. Sure, that can increase the chances. But oftentimes ppl will just ding your car regardless, perhaps due to general apathy and "nobody gives a shit" attitudes here in America.
In a parking lot yesterday, I witnessed a young, thin Muslim woman in a small car open her door and ding the one next her. She was checking her door edge for dings and not showing much concern for the other person's car.
It's a bit like the Homer Simpson gif posted above. Homer is the personification (albeit, a parody & slight exaggeration) of an (all too common) moronic American, always seeking instant gratification while having complete & total apathy for the world around him.
The person I witnessed do the ding yesterday wore a head veil and was definitely Muslim. But would she have done the same in an Arab country? Probably not. American culture brings apathy, carelessness, and even a sense of entitlement. My ex-gf was from Vietnam and I noticed her shifting attitudes & beliefs the longer she was attending college. Hate to say it, but I fear the colleges here might actually be ruining women & young adults with false sense of entitlement... which is why we see all these snowflakes doing whatever they want like inventing new genders & gender pronouns while being offended by what anybody else does or says, if it's not in 100% congruence with their own recently indoctrinated beliefs.
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I pointed out she's thin & Muslim to show that she didn't fit the profile of overweight ppl being the ones who ding cars, which I think was implied in the post I replied to. Suggesting maybe it's more our culture w/ apathy, rather than the person's weight, nationality, or anything else specific about a person. Also, I'm saying that ppl readily adapt to the culture around them. Immigrants become Americanized (in the cultural sense) if they've lived here long enough and gradually take on our traits. It's not an attack on her for being Muslim. As I said, I noticed it even more (in detail) with the Vietnamese woman who I dated for over a year.
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Trump could be racist, idk. However, I'm not buying that he's racist for wanting increased border security. Undeniably, there is increased crime along the border due to the drug trade, which has nothing to do with race (if it were Vikings or little green Martians across the border... the same shit would be happening). Every other country in the world has border security (including Mexico), but there's no outcry of that being racist.
The main complaint I'd bring against Trump is the excessive welfare for the rich and the fact that he's doing nothing about the corruption (particularly with most campaign financing $'s coming from large corporations). Never mind the fact that these were problems long before he took office. But he's doing nothing to reverse it, just like all the politicians before him. imo, we need to elect a 3rd party candidate or possibly Bernie Sanders.
Wee little people stereotyping. With the price that gold's trading at (over $1300 per ounce), anybody could be on their knees and scrambling to pick up those coins.
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