Sunday, October 22, 2023

The Sunday Five: Parking 75


I bought my first car a few months after I finished High School, with the exception of a year in an apartment in Orlando before I built my first house, my car had always been parked in a garage, until I moved to the condo.  A question about parking. 

1: Do you have a garage? 

2: If so, can you get your car in it? 

3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? 

4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? 

5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? 

My answers: 

1: Do you have a garage? One garage space, and two outdoor spaces. 

2: If so, can you get your car in it? Yes, in fact at the condo that is all we can use the garage space for. 

3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? Inside is nice, they stay cleaner, dryer, last longer. 

4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? Underground garages. 

5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? It is sacrilege. It is a million-dollar neighborhood, the owner probably feels fortunate to have off street parking.  I'd pay to park in a garage a couple of blocks away.  For a long time there was a Bentley in a public garage a couple of blocks from here.  

Please share your answer in the comments.  

19 comments:

  1. Do you have a garage? Enclosed carport.

    If so, can you get your car in it? Yes. But I will never understand why people have a garage, then cram it full of shit and then can't park their car in it. More than half the house here, the owners park in the driveway because of this reason. Pack rats I say.

    Should cars be parked inside, or outside? Doesn't matter to me which way.

    Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? No.

    Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? If it was the only place I had then yes.

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    1. You would look fabulous in a Porsche!

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  2. 1: Do you have a garage? No. Outdoor parking.
    2: If so, can you get your car in it? The few garages owned in the building were made for 1970s cars here in Spain. Most cars that people now like barely fit.
    3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? Inside, especially here on the sea (proven by the condition of our car with its low, low mileage and awful exterior).
    4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? Yes.
    5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? I don't see why not.

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    1. You have a nice supermarket an easy walk away, I like that,

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  3. 1: Do you have a garage?
    No. We converted it to extra living space.
    2: If so, can you get your car in it?
    n/a
    3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside?
    Both
    4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store?
    At one of them yes - the Sainsbury's store on Archer Road
    5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above?
    No. I would have have reversed into that parking space and the all-weather cover would have been less dowdy.

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  4. 1. Yes.
    2. Two. Barely.
    3. I prefer inside.
    4. There is not.
    5. If it were my only parking option.

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    1. Maybe you should get a Porsche the next time.

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  5. 1: Do you have a garage? We have what is called a two-and-a-half car garage; where one gets half a car I don't know.

    2: If so, can you get your car in it? We can and do park the car in the garage, and even parked both cars inside when Carlos was driving.

    3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? I prefer inside; this way it keeps the yellow pollen off the car in Spring, and I don't need to walk in the rain to get inside the house.

    4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? Ha! We had that at the Publix we used in Miami, but here in Camden there is no such thing!

    5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? i guess, yeah.

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    1. Publix has not made it this far north. As part of a merger agreement, Kroger has agreed to sell 10 Harris Teeter stores (a Kroger brand) in the DC metro area, to Piggly Wiggly.

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    2. We have a Publix in Columbia but it's a half-hour drive from Camden so we stick locally.

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  6. 1: Do you have a garage? Yes.
    2: If so, can you get your car in it? Yes, both cars
    3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? Either.
    4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? No.
    5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? Yes. It looks like a designated parking spot for the resident and he/she probably has a security camera for that spot.

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    1. I always feel bad about good cars being parking outside.

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  7. 1. We have a three-car garage (riiiight)
    2. No. We have too much shit crammed into it. Maddie wouldn't understand us.
    3. Park 'em wherever. Whatever blows your skirt up.
    4. No. I find indoor parking to be kind of depressing.
    5. N/A . I wouldn't own a Porsche even if I could afford one. Too squishy.

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    1. I have never sat in a Porsche, I suspect I would find it hard to get into, and even harder to get out of. A friend of mine had two expensive cars, and S class and SLK, and described it this way, he had $200,000 in new cars parked on the driveway, under the oak tree, while garage was filled with junk that he couldn't sell for $200 at the last neighborhood garage sale.

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  8. 1: Do you have a garage? No
    2: If so, can you get your car in it? N/A
    3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? Inside is better.
    4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? No
    5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? No

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    1. More places in the Valley of the Sun should have indoor parking.

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  9. 1: Do you have a garage? yes I live in Arizona.

    2: If so, can you get your car in it? yes it's big enough for three cars.

    3: Should cars be parked inside, or outside? Inside

    4: Is there indoor parking at your neighborhood grocery store? no

    5: Would you park a Porsche at the end of the alley like the one above? I would not drive a Porsche.

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  10. 1. Yes, with two tandem spaces.
    2. Yes.
    3. Inside to protect the car and for it not to get boiling hot in summer and freezing cold in winter.
    4. Yes but mainly because of very high land values. Areas further from the city are more inclined to have outdoor parking.
    5. I'm sure if the Porsche owner could park indoors, they would. We often don't have a choice about parking.

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