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When I take the wife to the store or put for dinner, I get the nice wide blue striped spaces!

Get a lot of dirty looks, since her handicap is exposure to sunlight, but it is a legitimate concern to people with lupis. When its me alone or with my kids, I just head of the back of the lot. Standard parking spaces are made for small cars, not full size trucks.

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VMaxtastic Enthusiast

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I park as far away as possible lol

So do I... Like wayyyyy at the back where there are no cars. Then some moron always parks right beside me anyway.

 

Glad you had it fixed, a really nice job too!

Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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So do I... Like wayyyyy at the back where there are no cars. Then some moron always parks right beside me anyway.

 

Glad you had it fixed, a really nice job too!

 

Last year, I went to my doctor's new building. The parking lot is huge. Lots of old folks go to this facility. So, with 130,000 miles and lots of brush scratches, I still parked out away from all others. I came out to find that someone had raked their car against the front bumper just ahead of the fender opening. No car there or anywhere around me when I parked and none when I came back. 3 months later, same story, other side.

KARNUT Senior Enthusiast

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If Im going some where Im worried about I take the wifes car, its a nice car but unless its hit on the drivers side door handle she wouldn't notice. I wish I was as laid back as she is.

austingta Enthusiast

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If Im going some where Im worried about I take the wifes car, its a nice car but unless its hit on the drivers side door handle she wouldn't notice. I wish I was as laid back as she is.

My bro-in-law (and my brother too, now that I think about it) is just like that. He never knows if his stickers are expired, or he loses a wheel cover, nothing.

 

He drives a Prius.

Ezekiel2517 Enthusiast

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I always park as far away from the rest of the heard as humanly possible. Somehow they still hit me. It is my GMC curse. When I bought my last GMC 20 years ago, someone ran into it in a parking lot before I even made my first payment.

 

I have had six PDRs since I bought mine in OCT 2013. All have been fixed great. I have gotten to where I wait for a couple of them so that I can get a package deal!

 

I have actually started parking in the back of the lots and straddling two spaces to keep folks away.

frenchsquared Enthusiast

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I'm scared to take up two spots. I figure some dip sh!t will key me.

 

I park all my cars in the back corner and walk. Have done it for 20 years so it is pretty natural at this point.

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