I went to Target tonight to return some stuff. As I drove through the parking lot in the rain, all of the spots were taken. I turned up the next isle and saw the first spot was vacant, but as I drove closer I saw it was actually one car across two spots. Some jerk did not want his precious 300ZX to be touched. I parked my 4Runner in the larger of the two spots leaving 1/2 inch between his car and mine. When I came out it was pouring down and some guy was trying to get his car out while his girlfriend was standing out there in the pouring rain. HA HA!!!!!! That's what you get when you take up two spots farm tag!!!

We saw a caddy drive in and park like that just a couple days ago at a furniture store. What really bugs me is that it was parked in the closest spots. If they're that concerned about their precious GM, couldn't they at least fight their laziness and park further away? I saw them get out of the car and walk; none had any detectible disability.

There are many inconsiderate people in the world. Another parking lot thing that bugs me is when people just leave their carts in the middle of the lot and do not return them to the cart corrals. They may not even have to push them another 20 feet but they are too F****** lazy and inconsiderate to push them the extra distance. Have they never considered the damage a cart crashing into the side of a car can do?

Had a real dumb a** that parked his POS about 1' from the side of my Porsche. I was parked dead center in my parking space so there was plenty of room to park next to me and many many other open spaces. When this a** whipe opened his door he must have forced it open as hard as he could to do that kind of damage. My door had a rather good size crease and my paint was on his door. I think I pretty much crushed in his door to the point he would have to get it replaced.

I'm not a violent person but the damage was done on purpose. The guy was lucky he wasn't around because I'd probably be in jail some 10 years later.

A parking lot is sort of like a standing wave. That is, a pattern that persists after the original cause is no longer present. For example, lets say at 10:00 AM a nincompoop occupies two parking spots at Walmart. The neighbors who subsequently park on either side will likely inadvertently encroach on adjacent parking spots. The adjacent drivers will adust their parking less, and so forth.

Then the original nincompoop leaves. Folks who try to park where the nincompoop parked will think that that the adjacent drivers caused the original problem, when actually they simply adjusted to the noncompoop.

And so forth.

Another instance of standing waves is in traffic accidents. In this case, often long after an accident is cleared, a traffic jam persists. If you watch the phenomenon closely you'll notice that a wave of congestion propagates away from the origin in each avenue affected by the accident. I suspect that the wave propagates in proprtion to the density and velocity of the of cars.

Anybody know for sure?

B

...dude, yer one of them college-boy thinkin types. I don't like thinkers.

Heavy traffic on the way to work yesterday, semi truck on the two lane road doing a consistant 45mph in the 55 zone. I was a couple miles behind him and had to stop completely a couple of times do to 'accordian effect'. I read a Civil War history that described the same thing in large columns of marching infantry, having to wait for guys in front to get going then having to double time just to keep up, only to come to a stop for no apparent reason a few minutes later. The fault could have been as minor as having to step over a fallen tree limb.

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Yep, however, in my case, there were over 1000 parking spots open before I got there and when I left. The jerk had many other unoccupied spots to choose but he chose the one 1' away from my door. Have you ever seen that commercial where the nice car was waaay out in the parking lot with no one else around and some POS car parks 1' away and slams open the door hitting the nice car? I think that commercial was made after my incident. That's exactly what happened to my car.

I park in the back of the parking lot, whether its rain sleet snow empty parking lot....whatever.

Heres the perks:

No dings
No moms beating their children while you watch
You can test drive your cart on the way in and sort it out.
Read the sale flyer.
Easily load your car without fear of being runeth over


One bad side young kids think thats the local road coarse especially if they see a Ferrari and showing of their skills might earn them some wheel time.

Just wanted you to know, "You speak my language" because it all boils down to cause and effect...

Like: ...for want of a lowly fan belt, the war tank was sacrificed, for want of a war tank, the battle was lost, for want of winning the battle, the war was lost, for want of winning the war, the election was lost, for want of winning the election a mans pride was diminished forever...

all for the "cause and effect" from losing a lowly engine belt...

LOL I like that! Five monkeys in a cage with a stepstool in the middle?

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http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

This guy has done quite a bit of thinking on the matter... even made some pretty pictures and animations to go along.

John
'79 300SD

That is waaay too cool. I book-marked it for leisure reading. Thanks!

Bot

They act like jerks, so you should, too! Show them how to be a one up jerk! yeah baby

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