Well he could have mowed the other way where the clippings would have gone AWAY from the cars instead of ON them.

 

Most people just don't care. I live on a corner with a stop sign. When I'm weed whacking along the curb, I stop when cars are going by and/or stopped. People look at me like I'm out of my mind.

 

The thing is we were all sitting 10 ft from the guy. All he had to do was say he was going to cut the lawn and ask if we wanted to move out cars or cut like jimp said blowing the grass the other direction.

 

There are hazards out there everywhere: Golf *****, shopping cars, lawn mowers, weed eaters, blowers, winos, etc. Life comes at you fast! Just 2 days ago, I had to drive underneath an errant corn field sprinkler (about a 50-yd spray) and over the wet road it created. As long as we are going to take our Mustangs out into the paved world, we WILL encounters these hazards, yet not taking our cars into this environment would be denying what they were made for. So I just want to offer a light-hearted "Lighten up, Francis!" to everyone since there's no avoiding it. Just take your best precautions

Usually when this kind of crap happen it's only a temporary blemish anyway. Sorry about that shopping cart though, that really sucks.

 

my car is like a child to me.. no creepy dudes should be touching it.. no one should be parking to close to it..

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I have to agree. Just part of life, even if we don't like it!

 

I swear my county has tabs on me, everytime I get a new car it oftens seems they tear up a random road and start paving it. Any other time of year the cops could be parked inside one of the potholes and they would go unfixed. But this time gets the cake, the day after I brought the stang home. they litteratlly tore up the main road I live off of, in both directions for about a total stretch of 5 miles mother f2#@#@

 

That is a ****ty day though I love that you flipped and chucked the cart

lol, I do the same.

My same thoughts. The guy was just doing his job, albeit at a time inconvenient to those parked there. I specifically park in one of the middle spots at my work parking lot because of this very issue. I came out one day and saw them cutting the grass next to my Stang and decided to always stay away from spots near grass at all costs. at all of you lawn service workers.

 

All you had to do was move your car, he has a job to do, its not his fault you parked your car there.

 

MY daughter's Kona Blue GT got hit twice in the saem week by inconsiderate buttheads. The first wa sin the left rear quarter. The ___ ___ ___ jole left a note on the glass that said "Sorry", nothing else just Sorry!
3 days later, she comes out of work and someone hit the fender below the GT emblem with the door and then must of used the door to lift their lazy butt up, because it wasn't bad enough to hit it, but then they dragged the door across the character line to scrape the paint off for about an inch and a half.

There is a joke in my family about me being picky about where I park and looking for "Mustang Approved Parking" but it is your only defence to protect the dlicat flanks of your Pony form a world of inconsiderate morons.

 

Love the MM sign.

 

When I saw the title of this thread I figured it was going to be about shopping carts. When my wife and I go for a walk we will often put away shopping carts in the supermarket parking lot as we walk through. I can't stand it when I see a wind-blown shopping cart heading for a car.

Here's the craziest part. I guess I can see how some loser in a piece of crap car would leave his/her shopping cart free to roam. They're car is a rust-bucket and maybe it doesn't occur to them that other people in nice cars don't want them scratched up. But often I will see some lazy bastard in a brand new car abandon their cart. You can't take thirty seconds to put the **** cart away? Even as a pedestrian it's possible for me to experience road rage!

 

Haha, I wondered if I was the only one. I do it for my and other peoples cars' benefit.

I Always think people are looking at me going "What does he think that he is the cart boy?"

I picked up one the other day and rolled it all the way through the lot into the store to use :P

 

Sir

I think you are a sniveler. a child-man who thinks that because you are there in a public parking lot, at a public event with your NEW car, a public employee doing his job is the bad guy??????

What a sense of entitlement you must have.

If you want to keep your car PERFECT, leave it in the garage. Otherwise, life happens. There are risks in everything we do.

If this type of thing throws you for a loop, I suggest counseling. Ask the therapist about ego centric behavior. Most 5 year olds think the world revolves them too.

Copper Man

 

I hate those people who let their carts just smash into other peoples cars. The weed wacking and all that doesn't bother me as much, but then again, my truck has a lot more ground clearance than a Mustang. That being said, I still park out in the boonies, and I flip a **** when anything happens to my baby, so I know how you guys feel

 

On a similar note, about 2 weeks after my wife and I had picked up our 335i, we parked away from everyone in the parking lot at a Whole Foods. Not too terribly far away but not close to anyone. Anyway, went in, came out after about an hour and sure as s*** we has a nice concave dent in the back bumper. Luckily was low enough not to get the tail lights. About the size of a cantaloupe, no note, nothing. My wife was irate!

Icing on the cake, as we were talking to the police officer that walks around the parking lot, not security a police officer, some lady was trying to leave, in the space next to us, no big deal, any person who can drive a compact car should have easily been able to guide themselves out. Nope she sat there, didn't make a peep. So some couple parks next to that car, gets out and then proceeds to attempt to lecture, myself, my wife and the police officer that the girl in the car wanted to leave. Holy ****, Captain Obvious!

Things that come out of my mouth are not nice sometimes, but since we were there trying to be civilized with the police officer I just canned.

 

In one of my old offices there was a guy who used to day after day park just over the line to take up two spots. One day the lot was pretty full so I parked my Corolla nice and tight in that little spot. After that sometimes I would just do it for fun. Eventually he started taking up two spots further away.

 

That's freaking awesome!!!

 

Luckily the parking lot at my work is never full, there are empty floors in this office building. It offers plenty of distant parking where no one ever parks. I currently consider parking next to one of those concrete curb dividers where they put trees between parking spots, with it on the passenger side, and curb and grass in front of it. I'll probably be taking two spots, but only because the closest spot is stupidly small. This would, in theory, prevent any driver from parking and being able to open their door in the direction of my vehicle, or within 20 feet of it. Only one parking spot is alongside, with good clearance, and the only threat would be if the guy had a passenger. Or if he backed into the parking spot, but who seriously does that? It's on a slope too so not exactly a cake walk. My car quite easily drifts back if I let the brake off. That's my only concern.

Well, that and mowers. Grass I can wash off, but they better not hit it.

The spot further offers some shade against the afternoon sun, which should help preservation, and, of more immediate concern, keep the sun off the metal shift **** so if I have to leave early or something it doesn't burn my freaking hand.

It will be a cold day in the underworld when I introduce my car to a downtown parking garage.

 

hahah oh man, the "far away parking" I can so relate to it. I just want to know why people need to park next to our cars when we've clearly gone out of our way to avoid being next to other cars. It's almost comical. Even other Mustang owners do it! they don't leave 2 spaces, nope, gotta be RIGHT next to yours. I remember coming out of a grocery store to see a great looking Vista Blue mustang parked next to my black one... and the other 3 cars that apparently decided to park next to us.

I'm actually interested in the psychology of it all. Do they want a good look at the car that walking past doesn't give them? Does parking next to our cars somehow make them think their car is safer because "they'll steal that first"? Are they touched in the head? I'd love to hear some actual reasons.

Love the Mickey sign, but I'd like a preventative one. Something like: "Warning! Biohazard Waste On Board. Stay Back without proper safety gear."