Lude Generation

Here s mine

You can guarantee that even there some Brian Cant will still park next you, needing a tin opener to get in your door.

In the company mud pit during winter or the dust bowl during summer. Known as the car park all year round though.

I have my own space! Not because I'm important, but because if I park my Isuzu anywhere else it blocks access though the car park and so my boss marked off an area for me to park so I'm out the way The best part is it's a space all by itself, with a wall on one side and and a keep clear zone on the other to provide access to a warehouse that rarely gets used.

Shiny wrote:You can guarantee that even there some Brian Cant will still park next you, needing a tin opener to get in your door.

True that

I see your intentions, but you could still have one of the cars opposite reverse out into it. Not that I want to worry you anymore!

Your wheels certainly look massive!

I park in the court yard outside my work. One person parks to my left, but she's generally there before me and leaves after me, and no-one's allowed to park on my side as it's hatched out. So not a bad spot really

To be fair, my recent job is a train journey away, so my car gets left in a free 'car park' all day, which is basically a muddy pot-holed cesspit. Makes for good fun walking back in the winter when its pitch black and stepping in a puddle which seems to eat my foot and shoe entirely! Clutch, 'Squelch', shift all the way home!

So car doors should be the worst of your worries.

In a car park which is supposedly monitored but isn't, so is shared with morons.

Glad you brought this up @Wayne2014 as I am so fed up of the way people park over here. Absolute morons with not a bloody care that seem to think any space, no matter how tight, is the perfect spot for them. I am sick of little scratches where idiots whack their door against mine (why? can't you see that big blue thing next to you?)
MPV and 4WD drivers seem to be the worst offenders for some reason.

Another interesting phenomenon designed to make my blood boil is the lady driver who after getting out of her car, three millimetres from mine, drags her bloody handbag down the flanks of my car and then, more bizarrely, bumps herself into the wing mirror. Why? Are you completely mad? Would you like me to drag my briefcase along the side of your car dearie?

I have a space directly outside my office flanked by 4 Disabled bays, another three disabled bays are on the opposite side of the road as well . Of course Disabled here in Malaysia means "lazy Bugger who parks where he/she damn well pleases". Using my accumulated knowledge of the mentality and sheer bloody mindedness of the majority of drivers here I have devised a perfect parking protection plan.

I have placed a manky old pallet that was round the back my building in one of the bays (see pic) which has made people park a distance away from my car. I knew it would work because knowing people here are just too lazy to move it, they just park further away from it and it has proved to be a magnificent deterrent.
I'm not blocking the bay as such, just making them shift over away from my car which was the exact purpose I had in mind.

Parking here is getting worse and it's obvious that spaces are not compatible with the size of modern cars, that being said however, I still cannot understand why people park so close. If I'm out shopping I always try to park miles away from the easiest point of entry to the mall or whatever. If the entrance is on Level 1, then I will drive down to level 4 where it's quieter and find a spot against a wall or similar thus attempting to avoid any unwanted scratches.

Mind you, there's always some dimwit that manages to park close by (why? the rest of the car park is empty you idiot, is my car magnetic or something?)

Anyway Wayne, I think this is a good topic and like I said, I think the local authorities should look at the issue of bay widths as they're just not wide enough nowadays. While we're on this subject, why do they keep on creating bays with a 90 degrees entry/exit shape? The herringbone method is much safer, easier for dumb drivers to negotiate into and safer for us all to reverse out from.
Rant over.
Here's my deterrent for those half-wits who can't see my car in broad daylight.

Lol

And NICE black Lude u got there, Si


I thought Malaysia was BIG, spacious and masses of spaces like america - so no probs parking or even walk with no one around (unlike teeny Hong Kong)? No?

U come back to UK - and u would think Malaysian are tame!

Since i came back in 1999 the amount of driver abuse, red mist, car banged dinged scratched is unbelieveable!
And its not just youths, but some of the worse offenders are matured folks!!!


Ok
This thread is gona be a rant thread now isnt it?