{"id":1454,"date":"2007-01-16T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:05:00","slug":"you-park-like-an-asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/01\/16\/you-park-like-an-asshole\/","title":{"rendered":"You park like an asshole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/gallery\/slides\/bad%20park.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I occasionally drive, borrowing my mom&#8217;s car once a month to pick up large items out in the &#8216;burbs. This means I also get to experience the road rage that was so common during my college\/university years. Its amazing, but its almost like a switch and I start calling anyone who gets within 5 feet of the car horrible, horrible names. Luckily for me, we now find ourselves in the midst of winter and the windows cannot be rolled down, but in better weather I&#8217;ve seen a person or two swivel their head towards me while I&#8217;m waiting at a stoplight, cursing at the old person in front of me who has watched the green light for three seconds but still has their foot on the brake.<\/p>\n<p>I remember one instance when I was at Fairview Mall in North York (probably in 1992, around Christmas time) pointing and yelling at some guy who cut into a parking space I&#8217;d been waiting to get into (I&#8217;d car stalked people coming out of the mall on the way to their car). Not only had he &#8220;stolen&#8221; my spot, he parked diagonally and was blocking part of the reserved disability space (like the photo above). If that had happened today, I could take pic of his stellar parking job with my camera-phone and submit it to the very entertaining web site <a title=\"You Park Like An Asshole\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/\"><strong>You Park Like An Asshole<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The site has a great gallery of the worst parking offences, and a section that allows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/give.html\">you to download tickets<\/a> (in PDF) so you can give out your own violations. The tickets come in two versions: one cites your offence, the other is just the web site address <a href=\"http:\/\/youparklikeanasshole.com\">youparklikeanasshole.com<\/a>. They even have a section for those who&#8217;ve been &#8220;ticketed&#8221;, with diagrams that help folks identify <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/got.html\">what kind of parking asshole they are<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/gallery\/slides\/parklikeassback.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally drive, borrowing my mom&#8217;s car once a month to pick up large items out in the &#8216;burbs. This means I also get to experience the road rage that was so common during my college\/university years. Its amazing, but its almost like a switch and I start calling anyone who gets within 5 feet<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/01\/16\/you-park-like-an-asshole\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;You park like an asshole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21758,9],"tags":[28,1158,1662,416,496,4325],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-traffic","tag-behaviour","tag-christmas","tag-fairview-mall","tag-pdf","tag-york","tag-youparklikeanasshole-com"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You park like an asshole - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/01\/16\/you-park-like-an-asshole\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You park like an asshole - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I occasionally drive, borrowing my mom&#8217;s car once a month to pick up large items out in the &#8216;burbs. 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