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[steuard]

Before he retired, my father was a frequent practical joker at his office. One story (I won't swear to the specifics) began when he found a sign advertising a maid service lying in the road. It was a magnetic sign that had clearly fallen off of a car door. So he took it back to the office and attached it to the passenger door of a co-worker's car (where the victim might not notice it for a while). For the next week or so, Ted drove around the city proudly declaring himself one of the "Mighty Maids". The beauty of it was that no permanent damage was done, and it was trivial for the victim to reverse the prank once he noticed it.

That story came to mind recently when I saw that one of our neighbors had gotten a new truck:


In my book, a truck that unreasonably big (and that rudely parked) is just begging for mockery. Although I'm not generally comfortable with pranking individuals you don't know, that doesn't stop me from thinking about it. So it strikes me that there could be substantial demand for harmless but embarrassing magnetic signs for this sort of situation.

The question is, what should they say? It's tempting to go with the obvious:

BIG TRUCK
SMALL PENIS
But there must be better options. Suggestions?

There's also one more annoying thing about that truck's parking job. If you look behind the truck into the parking stalls, you'll see that there's an instruction there:


Yes, in addition to having a truck so large that it doesn't fit in his parking spot, this guy also can't read. Now, to be fair, the truck wouldn't have fit at all going in forward, but it's not as if backing in solved that problem.

Incidentally, what's the incentive for people to back into parking spots to begin with? Is it the James Bond "I may need to escape in a hurry" thing? Because the way I see it, backing up is always a bit trickier than driving forward, and squeezing into a tight space is always harder than pulling out of one. So why put the two hard tasks together? Plenty of people do this, so someone out there must know.

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Re: question

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

Well i can't really speak for steuard, but that looks like it's probably the parking lot for his apartment complex, so i suspect he knows if it's someone who lives there or a one-off visitor.

Furthermore the truck looks suspiciously clean for something theoretically being used in a work situation. More importantly the truck bed is very small, making the "needing to transport stuff for work" possibility even more unlikely. I think i could fold down the rear seats in my Rav4 and have just as much cargo space as that truck has. I've seen a lot of work trucks out on the freeways and such with trees and all other kinds of things in the back. The vast majority of them aren't meticulously clean, have much larger beds, and aren't built so high that they couldn't fit in a roofed over parking space. I'm also pretty sure that most of them didn't have extended cabs.

And speaking of the small bed, it's pretty clear that it wouldn't be sticking out significantly more parked forward rather than backwards so it's not being done that way as a convenience to others. They're also not at a mall (and i've never had significant trouble backing out of a parking space even at a busy mall.) And whatever dubious personal benefit the person is getting out of parking backwards it's in clear violation of the signs put up by the owners of the complex.