Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

So when I came back out to my car after lunch, some douchebag driving a shiny new BMW SUV had parked at an angle in the spot next to mine and left about 7 inches between my car and his at my driver's side door. Deciding I really didn't want to crawl through the passenger side I opened my door and squeezed my way in. I didn't throw the door open, nor was I extra gentle either. So I left a little ding in the side of his door. Does that make me an asshole?

NO!

I am currently picturing Jaymc as the internet version Jake Gyllenhal's character in Zodiac.

^^^ Definitely identified with this.

jvc describes one of the exact reasons I have a POS car

I am currently picturing Jaymc as the internet version Jake Gyllenhal's character in Zodiac.

so OTM

It didn't occur to me until just now that they could be high school buddies. There's a P3t3r B3rg that lives in the same Florida town that Fred used to live in.

Except wait, they're all CPAs.

i am slow today. i am learning how to be a 'quant' at an investment firm in another tab.

xpost-- maybe they made a CPA blood pact when they were growing up?

piece of snake car

lol @ CPA blood pact :)

fuck the douchenozzle SUV driver. doesn't seem like a big deal that you left a ding, though of course the BMW guy will think differently.

xp OTM about jaymc :)

I have to go soon to mentor a dude for a few hours, but I'll check back later for updates on my new ski bros.

1. jenny, i'm on a constant search for 'cute comfortable' shoes, but also think i may try to learn to wear slightly less comfy shoes so i can wear things i love but currently only can use as sculpture.

I have accepted my lot in life and pretty much just wear Dansko clogs, but I'm old and ornery.

2. Sorry Evan. I am all for other people engaging in winter sports, though!

3. Does that make me an asshole?

A little bit?

4. CPA blood pact = LOL

This could be Peter, although he's not a CPA and didn't go to school with Howard. (Which might then reinforce my hypothesis that they went to high school together instead.) He's a business broker.

http://bizbrokerusa.com/images/WPBlrg.jpg

Oh wait, that is almost assuredly Peter:

PERSONAL

* Married 15 years
* 2 boys, ages 11 and 12
* Ski bum, golf hack, South Florida native

Right. So the general consensus is that this douchebag was in the right to park so I couldn't get in my car. Fuck rich people.

No one said that jvc

Another nice Jewish boy.

That's a nice blur around the edges of that photo.

Actually, Jon, the consensus seems to be that you were in the right to ding his car. I was the only one who suggested that it would have been less assholeish to, if possible, not put a dent in the rich jerks door.

It was defnitely a ding, I don't think it could be classified as a "dent". Hell, I didn't look close, it could have been something you could have rubbed away.

Okay.

jvc describes one of the exact reasons I have a POS car

Plane on Sex?

i probably would have left a note expressing remorse for dinging the door, but also letting the guy know that he's a dick and that, you know, wasn't the whole point of parking diagonally to REDUCE the chance of getting dinged?? Now look where it got you, asshole! Park like a normal guy!

Yeah, next time I'll just sit patiently and wait from him to come out and move his car. Christ. I can't believe the shit I'm getting from fiancee for this.

jvc pretty succinctly describes the parking anarchy (or "parkarchy" as I like to call it) that invades the teeny tiny little lot we get here. It is also the commuter student's lot and the parking area for a number of U shuttle buses. So it gets pretty crowded. People are constantly taking up 1.5 spots and subjecting each other to door dings. This is why, when I do end up driving to work, I always park the part of my car where the previous owner was sideswiped up against where the driver of the assholishly-parked car will be opening their door. Plus my car is tiny so I can sneak into most of the smallest spots around. I kind of love it because I don't care about my car's appearance at all as long as parts aren't hanging off.

xp: Piece Of Shit

maybe we should all plan a ski trip and book the condo next to those dudes. but can we do that using their credit cards?

I'd like to see Howard consolidate that debt.

If I don't have any more e-mails from them by 4:30 I'm going to ask where my ticket is and who I'm bunking with.

xxpost ugh, no. I don't want to end up mistaken for pussy.

so that's why people become accountants, eh? this is the payoff?

I want to know who they're confusing you for.

jordan10 AT gmail runs an Italian Star Wars fan club.

That might make you a little bit of an asshole, but I've done it too, so we're at least in a class together. Not that that should make you feel better.

Who doesn't run an Italian Star Wars fan culb?

wait did you guys not know what POS car meant??? or is this just a question I shouldn't bother asking

I'd never heard that, but I figured it out pretty quickly. I only said "Plane on Sex" to call back to the posts earlier about what "SOP" meant.

oh right, i missed that

I hate people who double park. HATE.

Something good:
I convinced my boss to donate a ton of old computers thanks to a link provided by.. colette I think?

Something weird:
My coworker coming up to my desk, bouncing her boobs up and down with her hands, asking if I'd noticed how huge they are today.

It's a point of sale car! har har i've worked in retail.

Yeah, I knew what Dan meant by POS car because I have one.

My stomach is a bottomless pit today. Maybe I should bounce it in front of Sarah's desk.

You should have said, "Actually I was thinking you looked a little flatter than usual".

is she like pregnant or something?

I hope you said yes.

"OMG! You have the BEST BOOBS! I STARE AT THEM ALL THE TIME! Of COURSE I noticed!"

Sunday after Cozycornering, Nick and I were walking back to the car, and when I first saw it, I thought it wasn't our car. It's in such bad shape. :-( It IS 12 years old, and we have lugged a ton of crap in it over the years...

You know, she totally could be preggers. She went off the pill a couple months ago.

Any car that lasts 12 years in this day and age is a good fucking car.

Other cars that have double parked near Jon:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/23965909_0156ba3e38.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/23965912_d4623cf234.jpg

(just kidding Jon don't be mad at me plz k?)

Oh great, first my Myspace gets hacked now my Flickr.

T0y0ta Corolla, bitches

^^^^represent, what

Those are actually cars that have double parked near Jesse. And Jesse doesn't even HAVE a car!!!

Haha, that's too funny to be mad at.

This link is mostly for Nick but it is an interesting discussion about the gear used to record the latest National album:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/124697-new-national-album-boxer.html