They'll have to accept a Shadow, whenever I eventually get it back.
Those are sub-compacts.
Its how we handle these times of distress that describes who we are as a person. Mental and emotional resiliency to annoyances in life make for a happier human.
So in other words just forget any expectation of common courtesy so I won't be disappointed?
I believe a note left on the Lexus windshield would have been appropriate. "I parked here for XXX reasons, and it was inconsiderate of you to park next to me. Please be more courteous to others."
It's also wider than a Chevy Malibu. But if the OP was really so concerned about door dings, shouldn't he seek out the largest parking spots, instead of the smallest?
If there's a spot larger than these in this parking lot, I'm not aware of it. They're all the same size, but they mark these for compact cars so nobody will park an F-150 long bed crew cab in them and block the isle.
Lexus driver would respond that they were courteous by parking within the lines and not allowing their door to ding the precious Mustang.
I've never seen a parking lot with wider spots, they all are uniform in my 3+ decades of driving experience. The only variance is longer spots, generally found at highway rest stops or cargo areas for semi trucks. I don't recall ever in my life seeing non-uniformly wider spots. If so, I would agree and I would seek those out as well. I doubt it applies here.
Eh, maybe. It's debateable. The EPA disagrees, but it's moot. Is length the issue here? NO.
BINGO. I interpret the "compact" request to be telling drivers of clearly full sized vehicles, including obnoxious monster SUVs and Trucks, or clearly full size sedans, station wagons, etc. to park elsewhere.
Lol...I'm going to say if you plot parking distance between vehicles on the x-axis vs % chance of door contact on the y-axis, as the distance between parked cars decreases, the % chance of door contact increases exponentially following an exponential decay function. The question is what is the decay constant (which would have to be experimentally determined to factor in different vehicles plus human behavior - super messy) as that will greatly affect the "minimum safe distance" to park where the chance of door contact isn't necessarily zero (that'd be a distance greater than the swing of the door), but low enough to tolerate some risk of door contact vs available parking space.
Not sure how to say this any more clearly.
Yet, apparently some folks need to be told this is impolite behavior.
The "compact" thing is a red herring here; like the OP said the garage was built in the early 80s and nothing has been changed since. We have no reason to believe the management company of that building has remained current with the legal designations of what is and what isn't a compact over all these years since then. Most likely not. If those spots are indeed shorter than some of the others, they might have more likely labelled them as being for subcompacts not compacts.
