| Snuggle Parking and GMCs [message #211071] |
Fri, 14 June 2013 16:31  |
George Beckman
Messages: 1085
Registered: October 2008
Location: Colfax, CA
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We had to learn a few things about parking when we got a GMC. With a Honda you can pull in just about anywhere and park. With a motor home you have to plan ahead; often parking away from cars and other obstructions that might cause navigating difficulties. I understand these things.
What I don't understand is why, when I have carefully parked away from other cars, so I am not hogging up good parking and can maneuver easily, do others in small Honda like vehicles find it attractive to snuggle their car up to the motor home.
Last Christmas we were in the Los Angeles area, visiting son and daughter-in-law. We were to pick up a rental car in Ontario and when we arrived I parked far far out in the distant parking lot. I knew we might have to wait a bit and did not want to take up two parking places in the busy, last minute, Christmas shopping frenzy. Ruth went to visit a store and I stayed with the coach until the hour the rental car would ready.
A fellow in a small compact car came up on the door side of our coach. He slipped in very close. There were at least 50-75 open parking spaces on all sides of us, front and back. I watched with great interest as he then backed up, slowly and carefully, maneuvering closer. I went to the door, which I didn't think I could open enough to get out and watched the man squeeze out of his car. I will give him credit; he did not bump the side of the coach. Then he proceeded to try to squeeze in the back door of his car to cover a bicycle in the back seat. I decided, he didn't want anyone to see the bike or the car.
After the man left, I decided that I could not easily get out and so I moved the coach ahead into the next row of empty car slots.
Tuesday, we were parked beside the ocean on the Oregon coast. It was a large turn out and we had enough room to swing the coach in a U-turn in the area, so our dinette window was toward the combers. Soon a couple with little fuffy dogs parked behind the coach, about 15 feet away. I was not too surprised, even though there was about 120 yards of parking. We watched as the couple got their fuffy critters out and promptly proceeded to lead them down a path of burrs and scrub brush. No sooner had they gone down the trail than another car came into the area. They parked between the back of the coach and the first car! 120 yards of bare lot and they squeezed in between us and the dog folk's car.
Snuggle parking just makes me nuts.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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