• modifier@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I never personally understood the amount of focus people put on a good parking space. Unless it’s so bad that I have to park in an entirely different lot, I just can’t be bothered to care, and I see people getting so worked up over what is usually a minute or two max of walk time difference.

    Obviously, some folks don’t walk so good and I’m not talking about that. It seems like the default behavior for even able-bodied drivers and it leads to fucking road rage incidents.

    • NOFF@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It’s a couple factors where I live:

      1. if you aren’t used to walking places because you live in a car dependent city and thus drive everywhere, walking feels bad, so people try to minimize it.

      2. parking lots usually lack shade so the asphalt bakes under the hot sun, making the walk feels extra bad after the nice cool car AC.

      3. parking lots and surrounding areas here typically have the bare minimum pedestrian accommodations, so walking is extra unpleasant.

      3b) gotta watch out for cars that might hit you, or are belching out smelly exhaust, or radiating heat when you’re already sweating. Tolerable at best, and generally not at its best.

      Basically, parking lots just suck to be in, so getting the least-sucky spot feels like a celebratory achievement.

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I park as far away from the venue as possible bc I know someone will park right beside me, and I’m making them exercise.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 months ago

    2 years ago I parked next to the exact same model vehicle as mine and with the same aftermarket tire model. I still remember.

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I do the same but that’s because I hate backing out of high traffic areas or having people sit there and wait for me to back out. Back of the lot is the stress free lifestyle

      • deus@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Amen. I don’t mind walking but I do mind driving in busy and chaotic spaces. If I have the option I’ll usually park as far away from other cars as physically possible.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    People who can’t find a spot close enough to the front of the building don’t try hard enough. I mean, have you tried just parking directly on the sidewalk in front of the doors? Nobody is ever there! It’s always an open spot!

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I be surprised if she didn’t drive. My wife has no conception of how difficult even just picking up someone can be, and demonstrate it time and again, standing on the other side of the road, or at a corner where I’ll block all trafic if I stop.

    Finding a sweet spot right in front of the place we wanna go would be like “well, yeah, you don’t expect me to walk, do you?” for her, while I’d probably be as ecstatic as that poor guy.

    • Evotech@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      “I’ll be out in 5 minutes”

      Girl there’s nowhere to stop here, come right now or im leaving

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I have a friend like that …

    We’ll both be looking at something amazing, like fireworks, a magician, a street performer, a house fire, an air plane crash, a ufo has landed, or a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion … and even though he knows full well that the thing we’re looking at is so interesting that you can’t look away or ignore it, he will still tell me and others around us …

    LOOK AT THAT!, JUST LOOK AT THAT, SEE???, LOOK AT IT!! … while nudging, holding, turning people at the shoulder and pointing manically … LOOK AT IT, LOOK, YOU SEE THAT?, LOOK!!! … even after you acknowledge him and tell him you’re looking at it … LOOK AT IT!, YOU SEE THAT! LOOK!!!

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    He’s either really positive or having a very bad time at the aquarium and is trying to force himself to be happy about something lol

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Last year, me and my mom was out driving, I we were hungry and fund a restaurant to have lunch at, someone must just have left because the parking spot closest to the entrance was free and I parked there.

    Felt like a movie when the protagonist allways finds a parking spot by the entrance in a full parking lot.