When its time to park your beloved ford vehicle what goes through your mind? Do you just find the closest spot and whip it in without a care in the world?

I know when i pull in a lot i search for the best spot for my truck hoping to avoid any type of door dings or similar accidents. I usually try and find a curb and back up to it (that way theres not someone behind me), and if im lucky have a curb on either side so i dont have to worry about anyone parking on the side.

Its always cool to find a nice car/truck that you can tell is taken care of and park next to it, hopefully avoiding accidents.

For most people their vehicle is the most expensive and important thing they own (besides house/appartment). It drives me crazy that people cant do somthing as simple as avoiding careless doordings.

Is anyone else this way about parking their vehicle or am i just dumb like that? Hmmm...sure do come up with weird topics at 3:30 eh.

 

Doordings!?!? on a truck? Real trucks are made to be scratched! and throw stuff in the bed and crack the rear window, and 4x up the logging roads, and carry the mutt in the supercab, and get mud on the floor, the door, and your ear(sorry, thinking Johnny Cash), bend the bumpers when driving by feel at night with busted headlights from the rockcrawling your friend had to show you earlier.........

I couldn't resist, I figured I'd be the first to get my pseudo-rant in...

I park where I park, and other people park far,far away , nahh, my truck don't look that bad, but it is 30 years old and a beater in looks, but a champ in drivability

I don't care where I park my truck, but if I have Moms car or Dads car, then I just try to park on the passenger side of a vehicle where possible, less chance of the pass door opening than the driver door, but thats not always possible when people park crooked in their spots, so I keep looking for another space.

I usually try to park as far from the entrance as I can or close to the cart pick-up thingy. Figure I need to get exercise somehow, and walking is good for you, as well as parking vehicle in an empty section of the lot, no doordings too!

If I can't find a drive-thru spot, I usually back in, as I like to see who is barreling toward me at 40MPH in the freakin' PARKING LOT! SLOW DOWN PEOPLE! There are little kids running around for Goodness sakes!!!

I'm calm now, enjoy your parking adventures, shop early for Christmas holidays now and avoid the rush later

 

Your absolutely right!! Who cares where you park, just speed into the parking lot as fast as you can, braking is for whimps. Dash over curbs and sidewalks as you cut off everyone you see, spend 15 minutes driving around in circles until somebody gets out of the good parking spots. Then rush in at blazing speeds squeeling all tires until you land at a jerk stop sandwiched between 2 cars in a diagnol orientation in a compact spot. Try has hard as you might swinging your doors at full force only to hear crunching metal and glass as your pulverize the car next to you. When all doors have been exhausted and broken grab your maglight from under the seat and smash in the rear window making yourself a convinient rear door. Make your way out of the bed of the truck and headbutt the tailgate for good measure since everything else has been either destroyed and dented.

and so ends another sage to the weekly trip to the video store.

 

people seem to move out of my way like i'm the president in my 75 ford or maybe its all the redneck stickers and the flames out the headers.

 

I just try to find two spaces together so I can swing my massive turning radius manual steering truck into one of them in one hitch.

 

I useualy park about 15 car rows back when there are a few open spots, and I'll useualy back in to the spot.. Its kinda hard to fit in a standard spot when the lines are painted for micro cars.

 

It is easy to spot my truck. It's the one at the back of the lot by itself. I have no problem with walking an extra 50 yards.
Dono

 

Like dono, I'm a back forty parker.

Call it ****-retentiveness, call it vanity, call it what you want. At $45,000.00, I'll walk.

 

I back in. Always. I try to find a curb because it's easier to back into a spot with a curb because it don't matter how far back I go.

Heck, sometimes I just pull right over the curb and I don't have to worry about backing in.

 

I try to park under a well lit spot, if it's nighttime.

It also depends on what I'm buying, that I'll park as close as posible to the store.

Otherwise I don't care where I park.

Hey! I got to watch out for my massive investment; $6500.00 for the truck (new) and $99.00 for the cd player.

Can't stop door dings though.

What I don't like is when I'm sitting in my truck and the car next to me opens their door and "BOOM".

No apologies, no nothing. Funny how sometimes my lightweight door gains another 260 L-bees when I open it.

 

Good to hear im not the only "****" one on here lol.

 

If you can't park blue's brothers style, you can't park at all

 

...Or Ace ventura style... "Like A Glove!!!"

Seriously, though, my wife thinks I'm silly for backing in. She thinks it's a man thing.

 

My mom hates when I back in because she always think's I'm somehow going to hit the vehicles behind me. What really gets me is when she watches my driver's mirror while I'm backing in if there's a vehicle on my side. I've asked her countless times to stop watching the side that I watch the most and watch the passenger side, which I don't watch as much. But I still usually make it in with one swing and only a few broken tail lights.

I try not to drive my mom much anymore, she makes me mad because she wishes she could drive like me.

 

I'll cruise around looking for the 'safest' spot. Usually that's in the back of the lot, or on the end. I'll park 'nose-in', cause if somebody is gonna back into me while thier trying to get out, they're gonna tangle with my hitch first.

MR