Now this is how you park at the mall!!!
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And that will only last until the second vehicle arrives and parks right next to it, in my experience they usually crowd the line too! 
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I totally understand.
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The unfortunate reality of this is someone may go out of their way to damage that car just for the spite of it. In 2004 and the day after I bought the 350Z, I went to HD. Bright blue sky day. I parked well away from any other cars. I mean hundreds of feet away. When I got back to my car I found a shopping cart parked against the drivers door. Three little dings presented themselves. Next day the car was at the ding doctor with no signs of the damage after I left. The only scars that remained were on my psyche and my thoughts about human nature.
Not to be too Pollyannaish about this, but all those curvy tire tracks makes it look like that little car had a heck of good time just getting to its parking place.
Within 6 months of buying my brand new GTI, I dropped by a dive bar one night for drinks with a friend. Parked in a dirt parking lot. Came back to find the driver's door, driver side rear panel, and hatch were keyed.
Some say that jerkwad is still envious and unhappy to this day, failing to find meaning in the destruction of others' property.
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@Graustark Wow that is just bad and sad. Done by someone you know? Not sure how someone can get any sense of a good feeling from that kind of action. Like you said, they have very little meaning in their own life.
Nope! I had never been to that bar before, and haven't been back, lol.
I knew a person once who said he either wanted to, or would, or had (don't recall) key cars who parked blatantly across parking lines. Truly impressive mindset. Maybe someone had to park in an emergency? Maybe they're some octogenarian who simply is not great with geometry? The automatic judgement from this bozo was amazing.
Not that I recommend this to anyone, but if you can't help yourself, maybe just let the air out of someone's tires? No permanent damage. Or they can flip me the bird. I'd rather have that.
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Second this!! Except I also try to find a single or corner lot (and park way to the side). My companion thinks I’m weird but who cares ?
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Hi reiver. If that question was meant for me, didn't know the doors on a 350Z are alloy, but the dings were gone with no sign of them after the fix. Car is sill in my garage and looks just as it did on the day of the fix, 15 years ago
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The dive bar aspect is probably relevant. Alcohol just makes morons even less inhibited. I'd drive the old pickup truck if I were heading to a dive.
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Hi reiver. If that question was meant for me, didn't know the doors on a 350Z are alloy, but the dings were gone with no sign of them after the fix. Car is sill in my garage and looks just as it did on the day of the fix, 15 years ago
My bad...thought you were referencing your 718
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When we do have sun the underground or shaded spots are like people magnets, I too go up top, bring a sun shade for the glass tough out the heat.
Definitely agree. I will be keeping my VW GTI as my daily when I get the Cayman. That will be the rain / bad traffic / valet required / bad parking / don't judge me / et cetera car. If and when that dies I may replace with some Subaru SUV for a boxer engine buddy.
I like your "boxer engine buddy" discription of the Subby engine. My other "black hole" hobby is astronomy and I use my "boxer engine buddy" 2014 Outback to haul telescopes and related paraphernalia out into the field with that. Plenty of ground clearance (8.7") and AWD and lots of cargo area make it ideal.
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