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I've joined the wanker club.

  • 05-02-2017 02:37PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,787 ✭✭✭✭


    And I'm not even ashamed. My car is old as hell, it's nothing fancy even. But it's my pride and joy, it gets washed twice a week and polished once every 3 or 4. It's as immaculate as I can make a 13 year old car look.

    Over the last three months however I've picked up THREE separate "dings" from trolleys and/or careless drivers when it's parked in normal spaces. I'm absolutely anal about it so they get repaired and the money comes out of my pocket. Have a new one today about the size of a two euro coin, looks like the corner of something whacked it. Lovely little dent with some paint scraping in the middle of the dent for extra bonus points.

    I'm now one of those **** who takes up two spaces. I honestly don't care anymore. Judge me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,896 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Best thing to do is park in the very far corner of a car park.
    What annoys the **** of me with that solution is you will then find gob****es parking next to you even though you are a 5km walk from the entrance!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,787 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    bear1 wrote: »
    Best thing to do is park in the very far corner of a car park.
    What annoys the **** of me with that solution is you will then find gob****es parking next to you even though you are a 5km walk from the entrance!

    Lonely car syndrome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,896 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Expect someone to try and squeeze in and do some serious scraping. This time you'll deserve it though

    If someone tries to squeeze into a space which has half of the space taken by another car then that person is an utter eejit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,393 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I have to admit... I thought ya bought a BMW when I read the thread title :p

    But yea I hate marks/scratches/dings on my car so I sympathise completely. It's not always easy to avoid taking up 2 spaces though... there's a particular shopping centre I frequent with the litte fella at the weekends, and the spaces are barely wide enough as is but when you need to leave a bit more room to get the back door open as well, it's very easy to be on/over the line on the other side.

    Many car parks haven't kept up with the general bulging of cars in the last decade. Even "small" cars are a fair bit bigger than their predecessors but the car parks are still laid out like they were in the 80s/90s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,233 ✭✭✭flatty


    I bought a nice car a while back. Parked it very early one morning in a huge shopping centre car park, and was pretty much the only car there (there were maybe thirty or forty cars in well over a thousand spots at 6am on a Saturday). I nonetheless parked it right over in a corner, as far from the buildings as possible, and nowhere near any other entrance. Still, when I came out , there were only a very few cars, and about 95% of the spaces were empty, but someone had parked right beside mine, so I couldn't open the door fully. There was no damage, but people are strange.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,393 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    flatty wrote: »
    I bought a nice car a while back. Parked it very early one morning in a huge shopping centre car park, and was pretty much the only car there (there were maybe thirty or forty cars in well over a thousand spots at 6am on a Saturday). I nonetheless parked it right over in a corner, as far from the buildings as possible, and nowhere near any other entrance. Still, when I came out , there were only a very few cars, and about 95% of the spaces were empty, but someone had parked right beside mine, so I couldn't open the door fully. There was no damage, but people are strange.

    I call that Lemming Syndrome. "Uhhh that looks like a good idea to not get the car damaged.. I'll park right next to him!"

    Simple answer though.. park at a 45 degree angle! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    And I'm not even ashamed. My car is old as hell, it's nothing fancy even. But it's my pride and joy, it gets washed twice a week and polished once every 3 or 4. It's as immaculate as I can make a 13 year old car look.

    Over the last three months however I've picked up THREE separate "dings" from trolleys and/or careless drivers when it's parked in normal spaces. I'm absolutely anal about it so they get repaired and the money comes out of my pocket. Have a new one today about the size of a two euro coin, looks like the corner of something whacked it. Lovely little dent with some paint scraping in the middle of the dent for extra bonus points.

    I'm now one of those **** who takes up two spaces. I honestly don't care anymore. Judge me.

    Im curious to know what model car you have as mine is also 13 years old. It gets washed once or twice... a year and polished every 3-4!

    I love having an old car that at this stage I cant care less if it gets yet more dings and trolly scrapes...

    Edit - I can still remember the first ding on it. It was new to me / 3 years old. Nearly broke my heart. I got worn down over time...people are so ignorant in car parks. I've been sitting in it while gotten hit by car doors twice... they could even see me sitting in it before doing it... some people are unreal...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Horde mentality :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Good man, i'll see you down the back some day in our four spaces. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,233 ✭✭✭flatty


    I like having an old "throwaway" car.
    At present I have one nice car and one beautiful classic. I still pay for parking at work, but on the odd occasions I don't cycle, I take my chances parking a mile away at the roadside and walking in, as the work car park spaces are so small that even with care, you'd get a ding every month or two. I'm pathologically averse to it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,787 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    I don't think the make or model has anything to do with it. My point being how dare anyone slam into my car and then walk off... The absolute cheek. I wouldn't think of doing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    I don't think the make or model has anything to do with it. My point being how dare anyone slam into my car and then walk off... The absolute cheek. I wouldn't think of doing it.

    I fully agree, was just curious... I wasnt questioning your efforts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,642 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I have to admit... I thought ya bought a BMW when I read the thread title :p

    Aren't all those BMW **** driving Audis these days? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    lads , it's a car , not a piece of gold or kryptonite or whatever , law of probability and time and all that , it' going to degenerate whatever you do , get over it or get therapy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭bidiots


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Aren't all those BMW **** driving Audis these days? :p

    Nope, gone back to the mercs by the look of it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,787 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Oops69 wrote: »
    lads , it's a car , not a piece of gold or kryptonite or whatever , law of probability and time and all that , it' going to degenerate whatever you do , get over it or get therapy.

    Sounds like your the type to ram a trolley into a car and f off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,642 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Oops69 wrote: »
    lads , it's a car , not a piece of gold or kryptonite or whatever , law of probability and time and all that , it' going to degenerate whatever you do , get over it or get therapy.

    Damaging and disrespect for other people's property through sheer carelessness should not have to be tolerated or seen as obsessive. Maybe we should wonder up to one of these careless people's homes and take a chunk out of the front of their house with a sledge hammer. Sure it's only property.

    But you wandered into the motors forum to stir a bit of $it anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    Aaaagggghhhhh funny how this came up today.

    This morning I go with my 2 year old to supermarket and there's a good few spaces available around front of car park so I do my usual , park a good bit away , (2year old loves the walk anyway)

    Come back and there's a car parked next to me ..... Like in middle of know where!!!!! Not only that parked so close I had to put boy in though other side of car and climb in.

    Op....... Your dead right !!!! F@ck em . pricks .


    Anger management course form filled in and ready to send ....;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    OP I feel you pain, my resprayed car has three nice marks from the same. I wouldn't mind but its a KEI car its about as small as a can get :mad:

    Sligo car?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    I've never had a car park dent and I've never administered one either, just luck I suppose.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,896 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Oops69 wrote: »
    lads , it's a car , not a piece of gold or kryptonite or whatever , law of probability and time and all that , it' going to degenerate whatever you do , get over it or get therapy.

    For you maybe.
    People work long and hard just to keep a car on the road, let alone buy a new one, and it's a ****ing disgrace when someone carelessly smacks into the car and then pisses off.
    It happens to me a few times.
    With the Passat within a week of buying it someone nudged my front bumper with their bumper to the point where it cleared the paint off of it.
    I had only just spent 6k on it and had that as a lovely reminder of what pricks people can be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I've often driven around a car park a couple of times to see where's the best place to park. If I have to park in a space where another car is beside me I always get out first and hold the doors of my car open so the children don't bang our door off the car beside us. Some people just don't care and will pull up beside you fling their door open and hit your car and then walk off. Can't understand that mentality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    If An unexpected gust of wind slams you're door into another car in a car park , its hardly you're fault is it , it's an act of god .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,635 ✭✭✭flexcon


    Oops69 wrote: »
    If An unexpected gust of wind slams you're door into another car in a car park , its hardly you're fault is it , it's an act of god .

    Try telling that fact to my Landlord charging myself for the main door hinge getting loose and needing replacing as the wind took the door wide open one evening....:(:(

    sorry back on topic! Your point is valid though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,690 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Oops69 wrote: »
    If An unexpected gust of wind slams you're door into another car in a car park , its hardly you're fault is it , it's an act of god .

    Total rubbish. 100 percent your fault. No question.

    How could you think otherwise


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    Since when is a thirteen year old car, "old"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,882 ✭✭✭pa990


    OP

    WELCOME to the Club

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Total rubbish. 100 percent your fault. No question.

    How could you think otherwise
    And it's this widespread attitude and the scaled up consequences of this attitude that has lead directly to the unaffordable insurance premiums in this country .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    As with anything it's all in the details. In a quiet car park, a bit of a walk from the shops or what have you, fair enough.

    Busy car park or near the entrance, expect people like me to take great delight in parking so close to you you won't be able to get in the driver side door. More than one wanker club :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,393 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Since when is a thirteen year old car, "old"?

    Since insurers decided that anything 10 years+ is a "death trap" and loaded premiums accordingly :(

    Not to mention the often punitive tax rates!


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