Assholes in Red Pickups Volume 2

Our daughter called early this morning.  She is ill and needed help with the house and the baby.  Sheila and I decided to eat breakfast at the Freeway Diner on the way over.

When we came out THIS is what we saw.  I would really like to ask the driver of that pickup just exactly how he expected the driver of the car next to him to open their door and get into their car.  Unlike unthinking rednecks who often drive drive big red Ford pickups, some of us try real hard not to open our doors into other people's cars.  And, we try not drag our clothes alongside your car or ours and drive away looking like we had been rolling around in the parking lot.  And, we try real hard not to let our keys or whatever else metal we be holding in our hands drag down the side of your car.  We also remember that the other driver may be older or even physically challenged and may need all of the room that normal people would give when they bother to park their vehicles IN THE CENTER OF THE PARKING SPOT.

Notice that THIS PERSON left their front wheels right on the yellow line and only left about six inches from their rear wheels.

THIS is the space that this driver gave himself on other side.  There is a good three feet between the TWO RED FORD PICKUPS BOTH OF WHICH PARKED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO GIVE THEMSELVES MAXIMUM ROOM TO EXIT.

I really don't know what to say to people like this. You may have grown up in Bug Tussle where everybody parks in the middle of the street and its no big deal how you park.  BUT, half a million of us or so live in Tulsa and the surrounding communities.  If we don't think about the other guy as a matter of course, life can get real miserable real quick.   Here's a message for you Oklahoma license number shown above.  If you ever park like that around a handicapped spot, I will take pictures again and personally deliver them to the traffic division of the TPD who will see to it that was the most expensive parking spot you ever parked in.

And one more thing.  If you are going to drive a truck, any truck, even a pickup, learn how to drive the damned thing without taking up more space than is allotted to you.  A professional driver would never have parked liked that.