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04-09-2015 11:21 AM |
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Originally Posted by sallgoodman123
(Post 2204989)
Even when you park at the furthest ends of the Wal-mart parking lot, there's always going to be some beat up car with messed up paint and a cracked windshield parked right next to you when you return.
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Absolutely! There could be 250 other parking spaces available and you could be in the space that is absolutely the furthest from the door to the store and there will always be some fool who has to park right beside you, often a much older car not in that good a shape. I have decided that these drivers want a good look at the car, so they park next to me.
I have developed a strategy for reducing the odds of getting a dent -- I always park in the last space on the right of a row, preferably with a concrete or curb/grass "island" there, parking as far to the right in the space as I can. That way, there is no possibility of a car on my right to dent my passenger door, and since more than half the drivers out there are driving solo, the passenger door on their car is less likely to be opened. This has worked for me so far, after 8 months.
Also, don't park anywhere near a mini-van as it will almost certainly have passengers and they will have an average age of 8. :paddle:
Having said that, the only big dent I've ever gotten in the Wal-Mart parking lot (in my nearly new 2000 Taurus) was clearly due to a shopping cart or several carts. It was so deep that I suspect the culprit was an employee of Wally World pushing a long line of carts back to the store. They probably got away and hit my car, again judging from the size of the dent left (in the shape of the corner of a shopping cart.) What I should have done is gone in and asked to see the security video. That way the store could have been dinged for fixing my car's ding.
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