Maybe next time you’ll use only one parking place with your big ol’ pickup truck. — NOAA photo.
Is it irrational that I get irritated when I see a large pickup truck parked in more than one parking place? I guess you’d have to ask my therapist that. But in fact, I do tend to get ticked off especially when a large dual-cab pickup is parked in two parking places in which one space could have been more than sufficient to park my little Tacoma pickup.
I suppose it is anal for it to bother me. But parking in a marked parking space is not that difficult. Hundreds of thousands do it every day and most without hitting some other object. Oh, I guess it says something about a person who doesn’t park within the boundaries. They like to color outside the lines. They’re individuals. Or maybe, just maybe, they’re assholes.
Certainly laziness has to play a part in a great many incidences of poor parking behavior. But I have to ask, what kind of energy does one expend parking their car or truck within a specific area?
When I worked as a fireman I had to park some very large trucks in some very confined space and people, meaning the fire brass, the city council, the taxpayers, all wouldn’t take very kindly to someone dinging up their trucks worth sometimes a half-million dollars or upwards. So I parked those trucks just like they should have been parked. It didn’t wear me out — physically or mentally — from what I remember.
So if you would like to make a statement, perhaps you might express yourself in a way in which someone other than yourself will not be affected. But, of course, I know you are too self-involved to consider that, jerkass.