We’ve all been there. Perhaps it was a crowded parking lot or maybe it was just an average, every day situation and then you see it. A person has done something with their car that makes them one of a couples things. An idiot, incompetent, a talentless hack of a driver, a jerk, or just plain out to lunch. Inevitably you see what their level of stupidity or incompetence is when you can least afford it. You’d love to slip into that parking space and just get on with your life but this jerk has parked his Hummer H2 with half of it’s big dumb ass in the spot next to it and the nose is protruding over the line in the other direction. This person clearly thought that this was OK and good enough.
That’s the moment you make a decision. Now we’re guessing many of you have left notes or other stuff with someone’s car who has done this. In fact, Sean Clarke sent us the image below which he saw in a customer car that was being checked out at the shop. Either this guy keeps these things at the ready or he had been recognized for a quality parking job himself. There’s no way of knowing.
So here’s the question of the day! Have you ever left something on someone’s car out of annoyance or anger? We want to know what and why!
The image below tells the tale! Have You Ever Left Something On Someone’s Car?
I have often taken corrective action when confronted by the incompetent and inconsiderate automotive parkers of the world. From a kind reminder (please dont block my driveway) to putting grease on a door handle. I disconnected a wiper from the wiper arm once and used my knee to re-contour a door skin. I have done a number of things that helped me feel good because I might have helped a person not be a total douche next time they tried to park their car or truck. My favorite non destructive form of automotive vengeance committed by me personally? A somewhat judgmental, self righteous, know it all engineer thought his opinion on all things were superior to all the other folks in the world, from tire choices to house location, nutrition to politics, this guy sucked ass. (he swore that Audi was the best value in the Automotive world) He parked his beloved Audi across 2 spaces every day at work and I knew I had to find a way to get back at him. I think succeeded. I added about a half gallon of gas to his Audi nearly every day for nearly a month. My coworkers got in on it too. After about 3 weeks of this I overheard him say he was getting nearly 70 mpg..Life is good..
I haven’t actually left a note on a car – but I have run across somebody in a Cadillac who wanted to take up two parking spaces, and wedged a beater econobox in the half-space next to the driver’s side, about an inch or two clear of the rear view mirror.
When I was attending UTI in Phoenix in 1982 one of the new students who drove a really nice ’71 Z-28 decided to park his baby across two spaces so it wouldn’t get dinged. Parking sucked anyway, if you didn’t get ther a half hour early you had to park 3 blocks away. My buddy always had a floor jack in the bed of his truck so we jacked up the rear under the diff and swung it into one space. We put a note on the windsheild saying “Don’t do that again!” He didn’t.
Blaze orang, paper stickers that read, “Thank you for taking up two spaces, you stupid, inconsiderate bastard. I had to help my grandfather across the entire parking lot, thanks to you.” My friends usually put them on the driver’s side window. Mine found their way onto the windshield.
On the military installations I typically live and work on you can and should be pretty blunt with notes. Usually I just write: “This is not a parking spot, un-fuck yourself.”
usually leave a note soaked in cabbage oil under the wipers so the odor primates the the hvac duct. usually reserved for teenagers parking in handicap spots with out a tag and those parking in the fire lane so they can just make a quick purchase.