Parking - How to find a spot

classicman · 03-15-2012, 04:08 PM

Whats your strategy?

jimhelm · 03-15-2012, 04:10 PM

I love it when people circle the lot at the Gym trying to get a close parking spot.... so they don't have to walk so far to the treadmill. bonc.

Blueflare · 03-15-2012, 05:29 PM

Or you just can walk there and go straight in.

#1 solution for people who can't afford cars, like myself. Yay.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2012, 06:24 PM

Don't wait where the employees park.

ZenGum · 03-15-2012, 06:32 PM

"How to hover - step two" is a misuse of statistics.

As Werner Von Braun said, crash programs are based on the principle that if you get nine women pregnant, you get a baby a month for nine months.

Suppose the mall opens at 8am. You're there at ten past eight, watching 25 spaces. Everyone there has only just gone in and won't be back for at least an hour.

Don't hover. Park further away and walk, ya lazy slugs. It'll do you good. Unless you have some medical issue like knee problems or something. And the rest of us should park in the outer bays so the mobility-limited (but not actually disabled) can use the mid-range bays.

regular.joe · 03-15-2012, 06:33 PM

I always park in the no. 2 area on the map. Always parking, never a hassle.

Lamplighter · 03-15-2012, 07:15 PM

Went to the post office today, and there was a hearse parked in the handicapped space.
I figured it was OK, after all the guy's handicap was that he was dead.

ZenGum · 03-15-2012, 07:18 PM

And of course, as the Texan dwellars will confirm, the best parking spot is not always the one nearest the doors. Shade, baby, shade.

Clodfobble · 03-15-2012, 07:36 PM

Amen to that! You can often see a little cluster of cars parked under the one tree in the lot, 40 feet away from the entrance.

Griff · 03-16-2012, 05:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by regular.joe

I always park in the no. 2 area on the map. Always parking, never a hassle.

This.

ZenGum · 03-16-2012, 06:09 AM

It is an interesting approach to the puzzle, though.

footfootfoot · 03-16-2012, 07:51 AM

Can we go back to the getting women pregnant part?

infinite monkey · 03-16-2012, 07:55 AM

The people who can't park more than five feet away are the same people who are laying across their shopping cart like they have no energy to walk upright, or using the scooters.

Not talking about the physically challenged, talking about the lazy morons.

Was that mean?

ZenGum · 03-16-2012, 08:16 AM

Footfootfoot, I don't think you should get nine women pregnant. You'd only have four inches for each of them.

footfootfoot · 03-16-2012, 08:18 AM

:barking laff:

03-15-2012, 04:10 PM	#2
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	I love it when people circle the lot at the Gym trying to get a close parking spot.... so they don't have to walk so far to the treadmill. bonc. __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

03-15-2012, 05:29 PM	#3
Blueflare Hand-of-Kindness Extender Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 130	Or you just can walk there and go straight in. #1 solution for people who can't afford cars, like myself. Yay. __________________ "Never trust quotes you find on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

03-15-2012, 06:24 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Don't wait where the employees park. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-15-2012, 06:32 PM	#5
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	"How to hover - step two" is a misuse of statistics. As Werner Von Braun said, crash programs are based on the principle that if you get nine women pregnant, you get a baby a month for nine months. Suppose the mall opens at 8am. You're there at ten past eight, watching 25 spaces. Everyone there has only just gone in and won't be back for at least an hour. Don't hover. Park further away and walk, ya lazy slugs. It'll do you good. Unless you have some medical issue like knee problems or something. And the rest of us should park in the outer bays so the mobility-limited (but not actually disabled) can use the mid-range bays. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-15-2012, 06:33 PM	#6
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	I always park in the no. 2 area on the map. Always parking, never a hassle. __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

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classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Parking - How to find a spot Whats your strategy? Attached Images __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-15-2012, 07:15 PM	#7
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Went to the post office today, and there was a hearse parked in the handicapped space. I figured it was OK, after all the guy's handicap was that he was dead.

03-15-2012, 07:18 PM	#8
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	And of course, as the Texan dwellars will confirm, the best parking spot is not always the one nearest the doors. Shade, baby, shade. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-15-2012, 07:36 PM	#9
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Amen to that! You can often see a little cluster of cars parked under the one tree in the lot, 40 feet away from the entrance. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

03-16-2012, 06:09 AM	#11
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	It is an interesting approach to the puzzle, though. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-16-2012, 07:51 AM	#12
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Can we go back to the getting women pregnant part? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-16-2012, 07:55 AM	#13
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	The people who can't park more than five feet away are the same people who are laying across their shopping cart like they have no energy to walk upright, or using the scooters. Not talking about the physically challenged, talking about the lazy morons. Was that mean?

03-16-2012, 08:16 AM	#14
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Footfootfoot, I don't think you should get nine women pregnant. You'd only have four inches for each of them. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-16-2012, 08:18 AM	#15
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	:barking laff: __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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