St. Louis Park-ing
Posted on November 10th, 2006 – 6:10 AMBy Roadguy
In the past few weeks, Roadguy has made a few visits to the fair city of St. Louis Park, both to run some errands and to check out the new lanes on Hwy. 100. I also continued my ongoing study of the Moron parking epidemic and encountered numerous vehicles that illustrate the varying stages of the disease.
Stage One:
A fairly mild case — this is a rear passenger-side wheel, which is basically impossible to see from the driver’s seat of a van. Plus, the van was positioned in such a way that a small car could still park in the next space. More worrisome: the low tire pressure. Get thee to an air compressor.
Stage Two:
This photo illustrates the highly communicable nature of the disease: the car at the right is parked on the line, prompting the car in the center to creep past its own driver’s-side line. The drivers, who clearly had to walk past their errors once they stepped out of their vehicles, either didn’t notice or didn’t care, but at least they didn’t render the adjoining spaces totally useless.
Stage Four Thousand:
This eye-opening sight propelled Roadguy into another imaginary conversation with a questionable driver (an earlier one is here).
Um, about your parking job…
“Gosh, did I really take up two full spaces? I didn’t notice.”
You didn’t notice? Are you sure you should be driving at night?
“Well, actually, I’m not blind, but I’m colorblind –- I can’t see bright yellow lines.”
But your car is bright yellow — or is that invisible as well?
“Well … OK, I just had it painted, and I wanted to give it some room to dry.”
In the Target parking lot?
“OK, listen, the truth is I just don’t like other people getting anywhere near my car, and I deserve as many spaces as I want.”
Ah, there we go — an answer I can believe.
Help Roadguy continue his important research on Moron parkers in St. Louis Park and elsewhere — keep submitting those photos and comments.
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