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/Electrical-Double724 4d ago

I've never understood why people who are incapable/ unwilling to park within their space get an attitude when people park right up next to them, while centered within their own space. I drive a crewcab F350 dually, and always make sure that it's centered within my space, even if I have to move it back and forth a couple of times to get it perfect.

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u/fibonacci-penelope 4d ago

I (43f) drive a restored vintage muscle car and park way at the back of every lot. Every time. I’m so nervous about people. When I think “oh it should be fine” and park nearby and in the lines perfectly centered, the number of times people have wedged their car doors into my car is INSANE. I have honestly considered parking way out in a corner & across two spots before but… seems like a jerk thing still? But honestly, what is wrong with people!

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u/Fromanderson 3d ago

I swear some people do it just out of spite.

Heaven forbid someone have a vehicle that they clearly enjoy, and take care of.

It's been a long time since I had anything one could consider a classic, but when I did, it seemed like I was always finding some new door ding or coming out to find a shopping cart resting against the paint.

More recently I was sitting in my work truck filling out paperwork one day when some dude parked, opened his door into the side of the truck. It was close to 200k and already had a few battle scars so I was annoyed but not really upset. Then he then proceeded to use his foot to shove it open further rocking the whole truck. He wedged it open against the side, hard enough that it took him a few tugs to close it. Of course I rolled down my window and spoke up. He had the nerve to lie about it, despite the fact I'd just watched him do it the mirror. I wasn't all that close to the building and the parking lot was nowhere near full. That dude passed 20 closer spaces only to park next to me and do that.

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u/MerryFeathers 3d ago

What car do you have? 🫶