i would have to put my kids in the car and take them back out about 7 times a day if i couldn't leave them there to get shit i forgot.
seriously people. i get it if you're in a high crime area, but if you're not, chill the fuck out. lock your doors if you're that paranoid.
OMFG.
Are there really high crime areas where people steal kids? I'm in a somewhat high crime area, but they want your flat screen tv, phone, iPod - not your kid. And it's a lot easier to steal cars from the train station, where they're going to be parked all day, than from the gas station at the gas pump. Though it would probably gain you some major street cred for having huge cajones!
Does anyone here park their car diagonally in 2 spots to that their doors won't get dinged? If you do, please let me know so that I can come over and key it. Thanks.
LOLOL. Oh! I have a friend who works in a shopping center. There are two parking spots in the employee parking area that are shaded. Two. In Texas. In the summer. Anyway, the new security guard parked his new Dodge Charger diagonally in those two parking spaces. The two parking spaces are bordered on either side by a curb, so if you take up those two spaces, you really take up the only shade in the parking lot.
My friend drives a Mini Cooper, so she parked her car right up against his car and JUST fit in the parking spot. Lol. The security guard then came and hunted her down at work and yelled at her and threatened to give her a parking ticket. And demanded that she move her car right away, because he couldn't open his door enough to get into his car. And he claimed that she dinged his car.
When she told me this, I wanted to go find that security guard and say, "Hey, asshole! YOU'RE in the wrong! Taking up two parking spaces is always douchey. Taking up the only two parking spaces with shade when it's 110* outside makes you the biggest asshole in the world!"
I would have called to have him towed or harrassment. Or left an asshole note
Does anyone here park their car diagonally in 2 spots to that their doors won't get dinged? If you do, please let me know so that I can come over and key it. Thanks.
This is by far the most flameful thing in the entire 9 pages.
I get it if it's an occasional thing, because you have a screaming baby in the car or something. But to just leave your cart there because, eh someone else will get it for me?
I'm a job creator!
I'm surprised this got such a reaction, i never get a reaction to flamefuls but i guess thats the point eh? I'll try to remember since it makes people stabby.
But I do always secure it up on the median, I never let the cart just play in traffic. If my store didn't have the grassy area I'd probably bring it back more often.
I will stand in the flames with you I put the cart with the front wheels on the planter or otherwise seat it so it can't roll. It only blocks a space if there are others already there blocking, otherwise it's between spaces. Everyone here does this. I only put it back in the corral if it's closer than a planter.
I'm surprised this got such a reaction, i never get a reaction to flamefuls but i guess thats the point eh? I'll try to remember since it makes people stabby.
But I do always secure it up on the median, I never let the cart just play in traffic. If my store didn't have the grassy area I'd probably bring it back more often.
I will stand in the flames with you I put the cart with the front wheels on the planter or otherwise seat it so it can't roll. It only blocks a space if there are others already there blocking, otherwise it's between spaces. Everyone here does this. I only put it back in the corral if it's closer than a planter.
Clutches!
They can roll off in a strong breeze. And everyone else does it??
Does anyone here park their car diagonally in 2 spots to that their doors won't get dinged? If you do, please let me know so that I can come over and key it. Thanks.
I do this at my apartment but let me explain myself before you key it (which at this point could probably only raise its value. My car sucks). The spaces at my apartment complex are extremely close together for some unknown reason. Probably because the are so greedy here they wanted to cram as many spaces into the parking lot as possible so they could sell more spaces. Anyway. When someone parks in a space next to me, it's so crowded that I literally cannot open the door wide enough to put babycakes in his carseat. So I've started parking in a way to keep people from parking next to me. It saves my sanity, and everyone else's paint jobs.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
I will stand in the flames with you I put the cart with the front wheels on the planter or otherwise seat it so it can't roll. It only blocks a space if there are others already there blocking, otherwise it's between spaces. Everyone here does this. I only put it back in the corral if it's closer than a planter.
Clutches!
They can roll off in a strong breeze. And everyone else does it??
I'm surprised this got such a reaction, i never get a reaction to flamefuls but i guess thats the point eh? I'll try to remember since it makes people stabby.
But I do always secure it up on the median, I never let the cart just play in traffic. If my store didn't have the grassy area I'd probably bring it back more often.
I will stand in the flames with you I put the cart with the front wheels on the planter or otherwise seat it so it can't roll. It only blocks a space if there are others already there blocking, otherwise it's between spaces. Everyone here does this. I only put it back in the corral if it's closer than a planter.
i would have to put my kids in the car and take them back out about 7 times a day if i couldn't leave them there to get shit i forgot.
seriously people. i get it if you're in a high crime area, but if you're not, chill the fuck out. lock your doors if you're that paranoid.
OMFG.
Are there really high crime areas where people steal kids? I'm in a somewhat high crime area, but they want your flat screen tv, phone, iPod - not your kid. And it's a lot easier to steal cars from the train station, where they're going to be parked all day, than from the gas station at the gas pump. Though it would probably gain you some major street cred for having huge cajones!
there have been multiple cases around here of cars stolen at the pump while mom pumping and baby in car. Thieves dont look first.
Does anyone here park their car diagonally in 2 spots to that their doors won't get dinged? If you do, please let me know so that I can come over and key it. Thanks.
I do this at my apartment but let me explain myself before you key it (which at this point could probably only raise its value. My car sucks). The spaces at my apartment complex are extremely close together for some unknown reason. Probably because the are so greedy here they wanted to cram as many spaces into the parking lot as possible so they could sell more spaces. Anyway. When someone parks in a space next to me, it's so crowded that I literally cannot open the door wide enough to put babycakes in his carseat. So I've started parking in a way to keep people from parking next to me. It saves my sanity, and everyone else's paint jobs.
OK. There are exceptions to every rule. I can remember when I was 8 mos pg and went to an OB appt and came out and a car was parked so close to me I had to crawl in, in an SUV, t hrough the passenger side. My OBs office is an an all ob/gyn office. I left a super nasty note on the windshield and always parked over the line after that (as long as I was pg). That's different than doing it to protect your car from door dings, which is why 99% of people park totally diagonally.
Um, no. I carry them both in from the detached garage and into the house (well, I used to - now they are bigger and can walk), but if the option were to leave my kids in the car or run inside the gas station really quick or something, then yes, I would use the stroller. Ours unfolds very easily and it's not a huge deal to put them into it.
I just don't get this. You pull out your double stroller (from the trunk, I assume), unload both kids from their car seats, and buckle them into the stroller just to walk 10 feet and pay for gas?
I pull into the pump closest to the door, look through the glass storefront to make sure there's no line, lock the door and run in. I can see my car at all times. I could be in and out and done pumping before you even get the stroller set up.
I pay at the pump, so it's not an issue for me. Plus, I usually get gas or run my errands when I am at work, so the kids aren't with me.
there have been multiple cases around here of cars stolen at the pump while mom pumping and baby in car. Thieves dont look first.
Wait what? You mean someone was actively putting gas in the car and someone stole it? So are you supposed to hold your baby while you pump gas? This is craziness.
They drove off with the pump still in the car?? Holy crap!
I cannot imagine being afraid to leave a kid in the car while I run a quick errand. I think I am old. From a totally different generation. I started driving at 15 (rural area) and would drive my brother (then, 3). I left him in the car at the post office, the coffee shop, the mini mart . . . I left him and his friends in the movie theater when they were maybe 6? Was I just a super irresponsible babysitter? I feel like my parents used to leave me alone in the car when I was young. Like, when I was 3 or 4, at flea markets and garage sales (my parents were antique dealers). I didn't realize this was a "thing" before this post. Good thing I read it! I might have run off and left my future kids all sorts of places.
Are there really high crime areas where people steal kids? I'm in a somewhat high crime area, but they want your flat screen tv, phone, iPod - not your kid. And it's a lot easier to steal cars from the train station, where they're going to be parked all day, than from the gas station at the gas pump. Though it would probably gain you some major street cred for having huge cajones!
there have been multiple cases around here of cars stolen at the pump while mom pumping and baby in car. Thieves dont look first.
You're telling me a thief opens the door and hot wires the car, all while the mother is still pumping gas into the car?
Or did the mother leave the car running while pumping gas (illegal and dangerous) or the keys in the ignition while her baby was in the car?
So, basically, you're saying don't ever let your baby off your hip ....
there have been multiple cases around here of cars stolen at the pump while mom pumping and baby in car. Thieves dont look first.
You're telling me a thief opens the door and hot wires the car, all while the mother is still pumping gas into the car?
Or did the mother leave the car running while pumping gas (illegal and dangerous) or the keys in the ignition while her baby was in the car?
So, basically, you're saying don't ever let your baby off your hip ....
Yeah, you have to walk right by the pump in order to get around the car and get the kid out (mine sits on the passenger side). So am I supposed to climb over the seat to get him?
Post by statlerwaldorf on Sept 30, 2012 1:30:36 GMT -5
I've heard news stories of cars being stolen from gas stations with children in them, but every time they were left unlocked and running while the driver went inside.
Yeah, you have to walk right by the pump in order to get around the car and get the kid out (mine sits on the passenger side). So am I supposed to climb over the seat to get him?[/quote]
Oh, this reminds me that I wanted to see if anyone here had an explanation for this: Why do car manufacturers put gas tanks on different sides of cars? Do they like seeing a clustefuck at the pumps?
I don't get it. I used to think it was a domestic vs foreign car thing. Then I thought it varied by maker. Mine is on the passenger side, and most of my cars have been this way, but it makes it impossible to pull up into the right hand lanes of the pumps, as most people tend to do.
That's not my flameful confession of the day, it's my vent of the day. Thread jack.
Post by bluestreet on Sept 30, 2012 8:15:50 GMT -5
1. I could give a rat's ass if people leave carts in the parking lot; I park near them so I can dump my younger 2 in.
2. I am from Louisiana (NO), and the carjacking while pumping phenomenon is unfamiliar to me.
3. My flameful opinion is that people who buy obnoxiously big, gas-guzzling SUVs just because they have a couple of kids annoy the piss out of me. I can fit all 3 kids in the back of my sedan, and so can you. Get an SUV if you want, but don't act like you have no choice because you have kids.
Btw My gas pump solution is I don't pump gas. H does. He started to do it when I was pregnant with dd. now it's just become something he does. I thought it was over stop at first but now I'm spoiled. If I forget to tell him I'm low and then have to pump myself, I'm annoyed lol.
My flameful is related to this "returning the cart" thing you people do. I don't do that, ever. That's why they pay people to go into the parking lot to get them right? Is that flameful? I just leave it between the cars.
Well I certainly hope that you're lucky enough to never have your car rammed by an errant cart that some lazy ass decided not to put into the cart corral.
Signed, someone who had over $600 worth of damage to their car thanks to some someone like you.
Good Lord. Thea paranoia on this thread from stories of "one time x happened" are crazy. Do you know what kind of odds there are of these things happening again? You'd be better off buying a lottery ticket.
3. My flameful opinion is that people who buy obnoxiously big, gas-guzzling SUVs just because they have a couple of kids annoy the piss out of me. I can fit all 3 kids in the back of my sedan, and so can you. Get an SUV if you want, but don't act like you have no choice because you have kids.
This is how I feel about minivans. While I know there are a lot of conveniences to them, just because you're... say... pregnant with twins doesn't mean a minivan is your only option. Like you said, you want one for all it's other bells and whistles, fine, but just because you have 2 kids doesn't mean you have to have one. Own it.
I have an SUV, a pretty big one. Mostly for hauling stuff. I have spent the last year practicing hauling less stuff and can't wait to downgrade to a smaller SUV or crossover.
3. My flameful opinion is that people who buy obnoxiously big, gas-guzzling SUVs just because they have a couple of kids annoy the piss out of me. I can fit all 3 kids in the back of my sedan, and so can you. Get an SUV if you want, but don't act like you have no choice because you have kids.
I agree to an extent. We're expecting #3 this winter and needed a second car anyway (DH needed the beetle for commuting now, plus the beetle only seats 4). We were originally looking at the smallest sedan we could until we realized that three kids and a sedan left us without the ability to carpool (our town doesn't have buses because nobody lives the requisite 2 miles to qualify, so since we're 1.5 miles we need to drive). I decided that being able to carpool justified a Pilot, which is a big SUV, but not suburban sized or anything. Julia's best friend's mom and I are already carpooling so I figure that having the car with slightly worse gas mileage (I'm averaging 18-19 versus 25 in the beetle in-town) but being able to drive half as often works out.
3. My flameful opinion is that people who buy obnoxiously big, gas-guzzling SUVs just because they have a couple of kids annoy the piss out of me. I can fit all 3 kids in the back of my sedan, and so can you. Get an SUV if you want, but don't act like you have no choice because you have kids.
This is how I feel about minivans. While I know there are a lot of conveniences to them, just because you're... say... pregnant with twins doesn't mean a minivan is your only option. Like you said, you want one for all it's other bells and whistles, fine, but just because you have 2 kids doesn't mean you have to have one. Own it.
I have an SUV, a pretty big one. Mostly for hauling stuff. I have spent the last year practicing hauling less stuff and can't wait to downgrade to a smaller SUV or crossover.
3. My flameful opinion is that people who buy obnoxiously big, gas-guzzling SUVs just because they have a couple of kids annoy the piss out of me. I can fit all 3 kids in the back of my sedan, and so can you. Get an SUV if you want, but don't act like you have no choice because you have kids.
I'll put on my flameproof suit and join you on #3.
I think it's why America is so fat. You know how fish will get bigger in a bigger fish tank? Yeah, right. Look at the size of our houses compared to what the used to be - and even kids have double or queen beds. And when not in their big houses, they get drive around in their big mini vans or SUVs.