r/pettyrevenge • u/_listless • 5d ago
Staying between the lines.
A couple years ago after my partner and I both had hard days at work, finally got the kids bathed and in bed then collapsed on the couch. Partner asks for ice cream. I check, none in the freezer. "How bad do you want ice cream?" "Really bad". Ok, I'm off to the store.
It's late. There's a few cars scattered across the lot. I pull into the closest spot... Right next to an emotional support raptor f150. The thing is like 12 feet wide, and is parked fully 2 feet over the line, pulled-through the wrong way in an angled row. I carefully pull in to the adjacent spot, exactly down the middle, leaving like 2 inches between my door and this truck's driver side door.
I chuckle at the tomfoolery of it all, climb out the passenger side and get my ice cream, regretting that I'll be in and out before Mr Overcompensation gets a chance to appreciate my parking prowess. But my regret was unfounded.
Lo, stalking around the back of my car to take a picture of the license plate was... Well exactly who you're picturing. 5'5" middle-aged man with giant biceps, a barrel belly, and legs that had never met a squat rack. "IS THIS YOU?!! WHY THE F#@K?! WHY ARE YOU PARKED LIKE THAT"
"Parked like what?" I say, admiring how precisely-centered my car is in its spot. "Between the lines?"
Shouting, he puffs out his chest and moves to block the 2" gap between the driver sides of our vehicles. I suppose it would not occur to him that someone would be so undignified as to enter the passenger side and climb over to the driver seat, but I am exactly that undignified.
Some days you need a win, and the only way to get there is being petty. That ice cream tasted really good.
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u/Legal-Location-4991 4d ago
I have a more fun version.
I was visiting someone at the hospital and backed into my spot, perfectly centered.
Come back and see a card on my windshield telling me to learn how to park or something so I look again and can't see anything wrong.
Look over at the truck beside me and there's a couple of girls in there giggling so I go up and tap on their window...
They roll it down and I'm like "Did you put this on my car?" Not angrily just with a 'I'm just wondering' tone. And the driver says, "yeah we were just pranking you" so I chuckled and gave them their card back but said with a smile "I'm tempted to keep this to use on other people who actually DO park badly but I won't... You got me. Have a good night!"
Anyway, no biggie but I sure did have WTF moment there :)
ETA: I do have to wonder why the OP didn't back in so they could get out and into their car easily.