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  #21  
Old December 18th 05, 01:46 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
>>
>>How?

>
> By backing the pickup truck up until the bumper was poking through the
> side wall of the assholes' truck.


Photo is not definitive, but it appears the p/u truck bumper may well be
below the box wall of the truck. In that case, all you'd accomplish would
be to do some serious body damage to your own truck bed and possibly dent
the side of the box van, [although that's unlikely, since you'd be impacting
right at the reinforced floor level.] which probably wouldn't impede his
business use of the vehicle at all, while you'd have a hefty repair bill to
deal with, assuming you forego insurance fraud. And we still have not
addressed how you would get your truck out of the parking spot after
wreaking all this havoc. Similarly destroy the car parked opposite you, and
drive out over the smoldering wreckage? That would fall pretty much in line
with your attitudes displayed here -- the ultimate MFFY.


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Old December 18th 05, 08:01 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> http://tinypic.com/invclh.jpg
>
> This furniture delivery truck was parked along the curb behind an
> entire row of legally parked cars while the scumbag delivery crew went
> into the food court for lunch. The driver of the pickup truck on the
> left side of the picture as well as the driver of a (not visible in
> this shot) Dodge sedan were boxed in by this truck and unable to
> leave.
>
> If that had been my pickup truck, those muscle-heads would have
> returned to find a huge hole in the side of their delivery truck,
> directly across from the empty parking spot where my pickup truck used
> to be parked.


I was under the assumption fire would solve any problem.

Dave

  #23  
Old December 18th 05, 07:22 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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gpsman wrote:
> necromancer wrote:
>
>>gpsman, > was motivated to say this in
>>rec.autos.driving on 16 Dec 2005 15:42:00 -0800:
>>
>>>OR ELSE... a person so incensed might think to phone the "800" number
>>>plastered in big numerals on the side of the truck and ask to speak to
>>>the Safety department. That seems more pro-active than taking a snap
>>>and whining about it here or childishly bragging "if"... ..."that's
>>>what I woulda done".

>>
>>That presumes that (1) they have a safety department (I'm not familiar
>>with this company, so I don't know if they have such a department) and
>>(2) that the safety department and/or the company care.

>
> -----
> You call any company that has their own fleet and ask to speak to the
> Safety Dept. and you'll have any but the most moronic employee's
> attention. Bad driving and parking is a financial consideration to
> these companies, both in dollars and goodwill.


I was very close to doing that a few days ago when I caught up to a van
weaving all over the place. At first I thought he was taking notes while
talking on the phone or whatever, but the driver kept doing it the
entire time I was behind him. The name and number of the company was
printed on the rear doors, so I was tempted, but didn't bother.

>
> I didn't call Scott on knowing the driver's motivation but they could
> be making a delivery. It might surprise you how few businesses ever
> planned for material to get *into* the store. Most of it is carried
> out by individuals and that's when the money comes in. When the
> material comes in, the money is going out.
>
> Take a look around most parking lots. Many are designed to prohibit
> even that small straight truck reasonable access. See them little
> "tree islands" in the shot? Sometimes a truck driver has to pick
> between a few less than optimal places to park. Often he has to choose
> a parking spot not on how sensible it seems but on how he might not be
> able to exit the lot from a particular point.
>
> There's more to driving even that little straight truck than might meet
> the less informed eye.


Yes, but if you can get in you can get out. Although that might include
backing up...

> -----
>
> - gpsman


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  #24  
Old December 18th 05, 10:13 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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On 17 Dec 2005 15:25:31 -0800, "Dave" > wrote:

>> I was not impacted by the asinine parking job, so who would I have
>> called? The picture was a lot more useful to me as a talking point for
>> this newsgroup (and to add to my MFFY page).

>
>Agreed that it's a good topic starter, but I'd call just to state that
>it impacts my opinion of the company.


Which has more impact on the company: one guy calling in a complaint,
or thousands of people seeing the company's truck parked illegally and
knowing that the company hires thoughtless, inconsiderate boors?

>How many other people saw it
>too? How many of them thought, "those ****ing pricks" but did nothing?


I suspect the entire food court saw them, but did not feel it was
their place to get involved.

>I've been blocked in by trucks before, but never when they were
>unattended. One recently I thought was, but the driver came running
>out when he saw me approaching my car.


That's acceptable when there is literally no other choice, such as a
moving van who needs to load up a housefull of family possessions in a
residential neighborhood. They have no choice but to block a few
driveways, but the crew is always nearby and can move the van as
needed.

These guys were just plain MFFY - they ignored a large, empty parking
lot with plenty of space BEHIND the building and chose instead to
parkillegally in front - I guess saving a few steps for themselves is
worth inconveniencing everyone else.

>This case sounds like they did something that was MFFY compared with
>those times. Being delayed by 20 seconds isn't a big deal, but if I
>had to wait for someone to be finished with lunch I'd be ****ing
>****ed.


These guys were away from their truck for at least 20 minutes, boxing
in at least two drivers and preventing untold others from making use
of the blocked parking spaces.

Anyone who got ****ed was fully justified.

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Old December 18th 05, 10:26 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:46:13 -0500, "John Gaquin"
> wrote:

>
>"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>How?

>>
>> By backing the pickup truck up until the bumper was poking through the
>> side wall of the assholes' truck.

>
>Photo is not definitive, but it appears the p/u truck bumper may well be
>below the box wall of the truck.


You could very well be right. Consider my statement amended
accoredingly.

>And we still have not
>addressed how you would get your truck out of the parking spot after
>wreaking all this havoc.


Hopefully bashing in the side of his van would give me just enough
clearance to escape. Of course, I would make a careful assessment of
the situation beforehand; if, as you suiggest, the bumper of my truck
was too low, or I needed more than a few inches of clearance to
escape, I would not have made the attempt.

But this is all moot to begin with, as I would never drive any of my
vehicles to this particular parking lot. I walk to this food court
from my office almost every day, and I see this kind of stuff
happening every single time I go there. The place is very poorly
designed; not only are there too few spaces in front, but there are
two fast food joints with drive-through lanes that one enters from the
same parking lot. You can imagine the chaos.

Bottom line, if I had to drive somewhere to have lunch, it would NOT
be this food court.

>Similarly destroy the car parked opposite you, and
>drive out over the smoldering wreckage?


Absolutely not - I would never cause damage to innocent drivers'
vehicles. That would be unconscionable.

>That would fall pretty much in line
>with your attitudes displayed here -- the ultimate MFFY.


Huh? You think *I* am a MFFY? How can you possibly justify such a
statement?

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Old December 18th 05, 11:59 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On 17 Dec 2005 15:25:31 -0800, "Dave" > wrote:
>
> >> I was not impacted by the asinine parking job, so who would I have
> >> called? The picture was a lot more useful to me as a talking point for
> >> this newsgroup (and to add to my MFFY page).

> >
> >Agreed that it's a good topic starter, but I'd call just to state that
> >it impacts my opinion of the company.

>
> Which has more impact on the company: one guy calling in a complaint,
> or thousands of people seeing the company's truck parked illegally and
> knowing that the company hires thoughtless, inconsiderate boors?


It'd help prevent the problem if they knew about it. Not a guarantee
they'll do anything, but if they don't even know about the issue what
does it achieve?

> >How many other people saw it
> >too? How many of them thought, "those ****ing pricks" but did nothing?

>
> I suspect the entire food court saw them, but did not feel it was
> their place to get involved.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese

Kitty was stabbed to death in front of at least 38 witnesses, and none
did anything of significance until about a half hour too late. They
all assumed someone else would do something about it. Why not just do
something instead of following the herd?

> >I've been blocked in by trucks before, but never when they were
> >unattended. One recently I thought was, but the driver came running
> >out when he saw me approaching my car.

>
> That's acceptable when there is literally no other choice, such as a
> moving van who needs to load up a housefull of family possessions in a
> residential neighborhood. They have no choice but to block a few
> driveways, but the crew is always nearby and can move the van as
> needed.


That's usually been the situation, or at my office the neighbors have
blocked me in a few times. Once was a delivery truck that was
illegally parked, and he gave me a huge apology about running late and
just neededing to get the **** unloaded, but still it was under 60
seconds I had to wait before he was out of my way.

> These guys were just plain MFFY - they ignored a large, empty parking
> lot with plenty of space BEHIND the building and chose instead to
> parkillegally in front - I guess saving a few steps for themselves is
> worth inconveniencing everyone else.


I agree completely. I was just stating that this wasn't in my opinion
normal behavior, which is why I'd have been the asshole to call the 800
number at the time. Just witnessing a picture, and not the entire
situation makes it more difficult to guage what I'd be complaining
about though.

> >This case sounds like they did something that was MFFY compared with
> >those times. Being delayed by 20 seconds isn't a big deal, but if I
> >had to wait for someone to be finished with lunch I'd be ****ing
> >****ed.

>
> These guys were away from their truck for at least 20 minutes, boxing
> in at least two drivers and preventing untold others from making use
> of the blocked parking spaces.
>
> Anyone who got ****ed was fully justified.


Oh, hell yeah. As I said, I have plenty of cell phone minutes to use,
so I wouldn't have hesitated to be the one who called their bosses
about it first.

Dave

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Old December 19th 05, 01:36 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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> Huh? You think *I* am a MFFY? How can you possibly justify such a
> statement?


Because most of your posts, iirc, seem to involve complaints about other
drivers who actually or potentially cause you inconvenience or delay.


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Old December 19th 05, 05:48 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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On 18 Dec 2005 14:59:16 -0800, "Dave" > wrote:

>> >> I was not impacted by the asinine parking job, so who would I have
>> >> called? The picture was a lot more useful to me as a talking point for
>> >> this newsgroup (and to add to my MFFY page).
>> >
>> >Agreed that it's a good topic starter, but I'd call just to state that
>> >it impacts my opinion of the company.

>>
>> Which has more impact on the company: one guy calling in a complaint,
>> or thousands of people seeing the company's truck parked illegally and
>> knowing that the company hires thoughtless, inconsiderate boors?

>
>It'd help prevent the problem if they knew about it.


Easy enough to print out the photo and a copy of this thread and snail
it to the CEO of the company.

>> >How many other people saw it
>> >too? How many of them thought, "those ****ing pricks" but did nothing?

>>
>> I suspect the entire food court saw them, but did not feel it was
>> their place to get involved.

>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese
>
>Kitty was stabbed to death in front of at least 38 witnesses


Are you seriously attempting to equate poor parking with murder?

>That's usually been the situation, or at my office the neighbors have
>blocked me in a few times. Once was a delivery truck that was
>illegally parked, and he gave me a huge apology about running late and
>just neededing to get the **** unloaded, but still it was under 60
>seconds I had to wait before he was out of my way.


I don't consider those IBJAM situations to be "necessary."

Double-parking because there are no "close" spaces and you're "in a
hurry" and "I'll be just a minute" does not justify blocking someone
in. Like the bimbo at the Blockbuster Video who ignored several vaild
parking spaces and instead parallel-parked behind my car and two
others while she ran up to the night drop to return her videotapes. I
happened to be walking out of the store at the time and saw her pull
up and exit her vehicle; I said "would you mind moving your car? I
need to get out." Her response was to raise her hand which held her
tapes and shake it, as if to say "I'll be just a minute while I drop
off these tapes" - as if that were some sort of excuse. The angry
expression on her face, as well as the strip of rubber she laid down
as she pulled away, suggested to me that she felt that *I* was somehow
infringing on her rights.

>> These guys were just plain MFFY - they ignored a large, empty parking
>> lot with plenty of space BEHIND the building and chose instead to
>> parkillegally in front - I guess saving a few steps for themselves is
>> worth inconveniencing everyone else.

>
>I agree completely. I was just stating that this wasn't in my opinion
>normal behavior, which is why I'd have been the asshole to call the 800
>number at the time.


I figued the guys in the truck and the guy in the Dodge sedan were
already burning up the phone lines to that company.

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Old December 19th 05, 05:51 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:36:56 -0500, "John Gaquin"
> wrote:

>> Huh? You think *I* am a MFFY? How can you possibly justify such a
>> statement?

>
>Because most of your posts, iirc, seem to involve complaints about other
>drivers who actually or potentially cause you inconvenience or delay.


It sounds like you're a little unclear on the concept.

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Old December 19th 05, 05:53 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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Scott en Aztlán wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:36:56 -0500, "John Gaquin"
> > wrote:


>>>Huh? You think *I* am a MFFY? How can you possibly justify such a
>>>statement?


>>Because most of your posts, iirc, seem to involve complaints about other
>>drivers who actually or potentially cause you inconvenience or delay.


> It sounds like you're a little unclear on the concept.


I've noticed that most MFFYs are unclear on the concept. It's the
people who aren't MFFYs who understand what you're referring to.
 




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