On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:24:25 +0200, wrote:

>
>Hi All,
>
> When I'm trying to find a parking spot and one of these cars (not
>always an SUV) are parked like this, I take GREAT pleasure in squeezing my
>rusty, dented 1981 Honda Civic next door - passenger side otherwise I
>can't get out. I give a 'few' inches space. It's even better if I can get
>my passenger door next to the other driver door! I live in France, so am
>not particularly worried about getting shot by some gun nut.

Yeah - an armed society is a polite society - and why you wouldn't do this in
the USA, and why the straddle-line parker might _also_ think twice about doing
_that_!

>On one
>occasion I explained (ahem, in French) to the irate Suisse Madame (who
>parked one of those Cayenne idiot-mobiles across two spots) that it was
>not my bad parking causing the problem and that I won't be back to my car
>for at least half an hour... On a similar theme, while walking past a
>supermarket car park in West London (England) I observed a very angry
>couple gaining entry to their Mercedes M-class via the rear boot. The Merc
>wasn't badly parked, the cars on either side were parked just fine, but it
>was FAR too big for the parking spot. I shoulda taken a pic, but they
>really weren't happy about all the people smirking at them.
>
>Cheers, John.