Rant #3

One of my pet peeves is the fact that a lot of people are unable to drive and/or park their cars. Why is this, I ask myself.

Are you brain dead? Surely not, or else someone would be harvesting your organs right about now.

Are you doing something you should not be doing while driving? Possibly, I have actually heard some outrageous stories about people making whoopie while driving. How? Um...seriously, I have no idea.

Are you texting while driving? Well, since people generally have no respect for the law or police officers, this is also probable.

Are you just an idiot and don't care about anything/anyone around you save yourself? DINGDINGDING, I believe we have a winner!

Now, while I have many stories to enlighten you with concerning terrible drivers, I've decided to go with terrible parkers. At the moment, I live in a house where there are four other people who drive. Now we (ie. me and my friend) figured out a system wherein no one has to move another car in order to get out. This system was brought up twice by me, but it took someone else to say it for them to agree and say it was a great idea:

Me: You know, if we park like *explains layout* we wouldn't be blocking anyone.
Person 1: Yea...
Me: later I was just telling Person 1 that if we park like *explains layout* we wouldn't be blocking anyone.
Person 2: Yea...ok
Person 3: Later You know, if we park like *explains layout* we wouldn't be blocking anyone.
Person 2: Wow, yea! That's a great idea! You set that up!
Me: Seriously?

A few weeks go by and the system seems to work. I consistently park at the very rear because one person gets 1 in (no exaggeration) away from my bumper and I'm pretty sure he's actually nicked it. Also, I seem to be the only person who KNOWS how to park close to the end of the driveway.

This week, however, I find myself near the house, rather than the road. I seem to have done a decent job parking and I expect if anyone were to disagree they would actually ask me if I could move. At one point, one person is in an extremely dicey location near my car. Then, tonight I DISCOVER PAINT TRANSFER AND A COUPLE NICKS ON THE SIDE OF MY CAR!!! BAHHHHHHHHH!!! I HAD A LEGALLY BLIND GEOMETRY TEACHER AND SHE COULD PARK BETTER THAN YOU CAN!!!! Ugh! I love my car to a great degree and I hate how it is always the stupid people who don't care about anything that mess your things up. If you could see this person's car, you would know what I'm talking about.

So now I'm trying to come up with a good way to bring it up to this person so as not to sound confrontation but still let them know that they need to be careful. It's the beginning of the school year and I have to continue living her for 8 months so I am also scared that it's going to create a schism. But, I don't really socialize with these people anyway and I really do care what you do to my car!

In anger,
~S