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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
Same here. Unless I find a pull through spot, I back my truck in. It makes it much safer when leaving.

Yep, I have been backing into parking spots for decades, it is not a "new" thing . My wife and I back into the garage, and I back my third vehicle onto the driveway. If people have a problem with this, they are wound way too tightly.

That's a terrific way to greatly increase Carbon Monoxide levels in your house. Especially when you start the car and let it warm up for several seconds and the engine is cold, before leaving.

Really , with garage door open?

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
That's a terrific way to greatly increase Carbon Monoxide levels in your house. Especially when you start the car and let it warm up for several seconds and the engine is cold, before leaving.

Nope, doesn't happen in my garage. I haven't "warmed up" a car in decades. My carbon monoxide detectors do not detect any discernible levels whatsoever in the house. The only time I warm up a car is when it is freezing cold, I pull out of the garage and let it warm up to heat up the cabin further down the driveway.

It would be dandy if parents would teach their learner’s permit kids to park in the parking lot instead of jamming up the pickup and drop off line doing Chinese fire drills. Seriously, once they get their license, those kids are never going through the line again and parking is actually on the road test.

Sometimes you just have to play the hand you’ve been dealt:



I’m in the middle in what was the last open spot at the boat ramp. Of course besides the truck to my left, there were four other vehicles without trailers taking up the trailer only spots. The trailer to my right is angled such that if my trailer were straight, he wouldn’t have been able to leave.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Sometimes you just have to play the hand you’ve been dealt:



I’m in the middle in what was the last open spot at the boat ramp. Of course besides the truck to my left, there were four other vehicles without trailers taking up the trailer only spots. The trailer to my right is angled such that if my trailer were straight, he wouldn’t have been able to leave.

Boat ramps could be its own thread. I would have put my trailer straight in and fuck that turd. He can find a few people to help him pick up and straighten out his trailer so he could get out. It makes you wonder how many tries it took him to get the boat down to the water.

I just put my boat on my dad’s lift at his house and was gone before the guys next to me.

Boat ramps really could be their own thread. Later, I helped my brother put his boat on his lift. The ramp has two slots one slot had a guy with a cargo trailer unloading kayaks. He was there when I left with my trailer earlier and still there 45 minutes later when I returned with my brother’s boat. I’m next in line to use the remaining slot waiting patiently for the guy pulling his boat out to clear and another guy comes up on my left and proceeds to cut in front of me like he’s going next. Now I’m knocking on the guy’s window, ask him if he’s going to wait his turn, and he says “Well, I didn’t know what you were doing.”

I normally don’t go on Saturdays, but the tide was right to get the boats on their lifts.

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I remember that commercial, That's hilarious. Why can't they make funny commercials anymore?

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Sometimes you just have to play the hand you’ve been dealt:



I’m in the middle in what was the last open spot at the boat ramp. Of course besides the truck to my left, there were four other vehicles without trailers taking up the trailer only spots. The trailer to my right is angled such that if my trailer were straight, he wouldn’t have been able to leave.

during the Cootie Times, I was off one day and decided to go fishing,

loaded up the Gheenoe, pulled it (I have a trailer) down to the local state park that has a couple of lakes,

only to remember, with Cooties in full swing, everyone was outside,
and that state park, entrance maybe 3 miles from the house, had shitty parking at the boat ramp

as in very little room to turn a trailer around, and practically no parking, unless you drove back up the hill to the pool parking area,

so, what on a normal day, even weekend, would take maybe 15 minutes, tood 40, just to get the boat in the water,

pulled out a few hours later,
ever try to fish a narrow lake with canoeist , water boarders, and such everywhere? cast a line to have someone pull thru it, or get in the way,?? sucked,

and another 45 minutes to get to the ramp to get out

had to pull in a spot, pick the back of the trailer up , thank god it was not too heavy, to swing it around, to load

no way to do a U turn or pull in straight and back up,

Norman ,
May I e-mail you a photo I have for you to post here ?

Carry some metal zip ties or flex cuffs. They come in handy in situations like this. They are in such a hurry and park like shit, this gives them time to think about it.

I have a box of those cable gun locks that you get with every new gun . I had one that I wrote " Handicapped Violator " on it with a Sharpie . I hung it on some idiot's door .Some people would call me an Asshole . My wife is handicapped so it's personal to me .

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Originally posted by SpinZone:

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Sometimes you just have to play the hand you’ve been dealt:



I’m in the middle in what was the last open spot at the boat ramp. Of course besides the truck to my left, there were four other vehicles without trailers taking up the trailer only spots. The trailer to my right is angled such that if my trailer were straight, he wouldn’t have been able to leave.

Boat ramps could be its own thread. I would have put my trailer straight in and fuck that turd. He can find a few people to help him pick up and straighten out his trailer so he could get out. It makes you wonder how many tries it took him to get the boat down to the water.

You can scoot an aluminum single axle boat trailer over in a spot by yourself by pulling on it sideways, it's a lot easier than you'd think. I had to do it to get out one day.

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people backing their vehicles in at the front of brick and mortars.

I do this more and more now

Me too. When backing into a space, it's highly unlikely that you're gonna hit cross traffic, and when leaving, it's so much easier to see cross traffic in front of you, than it is if you're backing out.

Same here. Unless I find a pull through spot, I back my truck in. It makes it much safer when leaving.

Plus it's a helluva lot easier to back into a tight spot than to pull into a tight spot. (Crew cab F250 with an 8' box here.). Backing in is like driving a forklift. Quick and easy in and out.

(Sorry for the nested quote)

Just have to add, those advocating the flattening of tires? Just no. That's a good way to get yourself into some legal trouble or knocked out colder than a mackerel. Suck it up. People are assholes. That doesn't give you the right to damage their property. I'm kind of surprised at some of the responses here.

Costco, could barely open the back door enough to get my 5 yr old in. Tighter than it looks in the photo
Kicker is, there were tons of open spots...

People won't make the effort to push the turn signal lever with their finger... they're definitely not going to take the time to straighten out their crap parking job.

If they don’t drive between the lines, then how can they be expected to park between the lines? On the round trip dropping my son off at school this morning, four vehicles crossed the center line on the STRAIGHT sections of the roads.

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If they don’t drive between the lines, then how can they be expected to park between the lines? On the round trip dropping my son off at school this morning, four vehicles crossed the center line on the STRAIGHT sections of the roads.

How else is that Instagram going to get updated, man? C'mon now!

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Originally posted by jgerge222:
Really , with garage door open?

Yeah, exhaust comes out the back of your car, which is now in the front of the garage and so is the door to your house which isn't totally sealed. Start the car, highest Carbon Monoxide levels due to the engine being cold, you let it warm up a bit, you drive out and put the door down, all that smell and carbon monoxide sits in there. If the car is head in, most is exhausted right out of the garage due to the speed/force of the exhaust coming out of the tail pipe. For any room to really ventilate you need openings to outside on opposite sides of the room.