Car owners worst nightmare

[Syndrome]

No matter how hard one tries to avoid this, sooner or later we will need to leave our car parked in a public place, unattended and at the mercy of other motorists:

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/rea...6d46ce8e71b921

[.:4:.]

Well the sign on the place on the left says bingo so maybe 2 bottles of red may not have hit the spot so drunk logic makes dumb decisions like driving to the pub is faster. The next day hindsight will probably kick in when they have a driving ban and insurance won't cover the damage.

[FairmontGS]

No biggie - it's just what you expect when living in a city. Annual visit to the local PDR guy fixes all

[98TLS]

I simply dont leave my GTP in similar car parking suituation,yep call me anal the Mrs does but case in point away on Holiday yesterday we went to a mall so no avoiding parking but as all i wanted was a pair of jeans i got the Mrs to wait in the car whilst i did so then went back and off she went shopping whilst i waited at car sad but true.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

No matter how hard one tries to avoid this, sooner or later we will need to leave our car parked in a public place, unattended and at the mercy of other motorists:

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/rea...6d46ce8e71b921

God help us all...

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by Beastie

God help us all...

From what?

Wow, I can't believe someone can drive/park that badly.

Then I read the comments and had a double wow.. that's one corker of a comment.

And they expect to get equal pay and conditions. And they're noisy about it. And they take three days off work every month. And they cry at the least little thing. And they want to run the country??? Gotta be joking

How someone can use a ****ty driver as means to say "they" shouldn't expect equal pay, conditions and a shot at running the country beats me. If that were the case I know a whole bunch of men who should also be denied all those things!

[superfly]

Originally Posted by 98TLS

I simply dont leave my GTP in similar car parking suituation,yep call me anal the Mrs does but case in point away on Holiday yesterday we went to a mall so no avoiding parking but as all i wanted was a pair of jeans i got the Mrs to wait in the car whilst i did so then went back and off she went shopping whilst i waited at car sad but true.

I'm not quite that anal but I always look for the "best" park which drives my missus nuts as it's usually the furthest away from the shops.

[GO FURTHER]

Originally Posted by leesa

Wow, I can't believe someone can drive/park that badly.

It's partly the fault of driving instructors and the licencing system.

Don't know if its changed, but when I learnt to drive and went for my licence (in Victoria), the instructors concentrated on reverse parallel parking between two cars (poles) against a kerb.

Very little time was spent learning to manoeuvre between cars in angle parking spots.

Then when you went to get your licence, the parking test you needed to pass was only parallel parking between two poles, and to pass your wheels needed to be within a certain number of inches from the kerb.

They assumed if you could parallel park okay, then angle parking would be a breeze.

[TICKFORD220]

Parking a nice fg gt or xr8 in the garage and waking up to find a vn commodore with a fart resonator,mang mang exhaust and neons in its place,now that's a real life nightmare...

[lucas2]

This is another hilarious one.

[roKWiz]

Country motel I've been staying at while I'm working here has 17 rooms with one way traffic, nose to kerb parking outside each room but each afternoon when I come back I can not believe that there is usually 5 or 6 rooms where they have parked long ways, 90deg or back in facing the wrong way.
Poor owner has given up explaining to clients how to park their cars without stuffing up everyone else's departure in the morning.
Luckily I can park my truck behind the room away from these travelling clowns.

Funny how the ACT drivers seem to be the worst.

[Rallye Sport]

Originally Posted by TICKFORD220

Parking a nice fg gt or xr8 in the garage and waking up to find a vn commodore with a fart resonator,mang mang exhaust and neons in its place,now that's a real life nightmare...

Ahh now you've done it, I'm gonna have to sleep with the night light on tonight

[Tassie f100]

[QUOTE=roKWiz;6057901]Country motel I've been staying at while I'm working here has 17 rooms with one way traffic, nose to kerb parking outside each room but each afternoon when I come back I can not believe that there is usually 5 or 6 rooms where they have parked long ways, 90deg or back in facing the wrong way.


Funny how the ACT drivers seem to be the worst.[/Quote .
Most ACT drivers don,t need brains,they work in Govt depts where intelligence is not part of the job description

[mik]

You would have to make the assumption ......... that woman has no licence , because she clearly has zero parking skills .

[TICKFORD220]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

Ahh now you've done it, I'm gonna have to sleep with the night light on tonight

Lol

Originally Posted by GO FURTHER

Then when you went to get your licence, the parking test you needed to pass was only parallel parking between two poles, and to pass your wheels needed to be within a certain number of inches from the kerb.

They assumed if you could parallel park okay, then angle parking would be a breeze.

My driving test I had to parallel park up a hill, between two cars, in reverse, in a manual car.

Presumably they don't bother about angle parking because it should be bloody obvious.

[MITCHAY]

I have a pretty good view from my office looking down to the carparks below and I reckon I could make a DVD of all the stupid **** I have seen.

I have seen people who can't put a small car in a space that trucks do easily.

The funniest ones are those that take 5 minutes to try to reverse park into a spot when there is only one car in front and nothing behind

Some ******** reversed into my car so hard it pushed it a foot or two off the mark and it ended up being in the shop for two weeks to fix it