I'VE HAD IT WITH PEOPLE AT CAR CRUISES
 

Today I took my Nova down to a nice little cruise inn that is about 10 minutes from my house on a nice country road to get there. The weather was beautiful and the car was running great. Two of my buddies were coming to the cruise also.

The cruise officially starts at 5:00 PM. and has been getting bigger in it's second year. There are what we call prime parking spaces along the backside of the parking lot near shade trees. My buddy and I have noticed that over the summer other cruisers have been getting there rather early, parking and saving spots for friends.

So I got there exactly at 3:25 PM today and when I pulled in I noticed that almost all of these spots were taken or saved. The owner of the restaurant where this cruise takes place had stated that he did not mind if people save spots but asked that people stop saving the spots at 5:00 PM when the cruise officially starts. This is ok and not unreasonable to ask.

So I found three parking spots on the very end of this back row, parked my Nova and placed two small cones in the adjacent two parking spaces next to my car for my buddies. I grabbed my folding chair and sat down behind my car in the shade. My buddies were due to arrive no later than 4:00 PM and we were "playing by the rules" of not saving the spots past 5:00 PM.

As I was sitting in my chair two guys pull up one in a Model A Ford and the other in a early 80s Corvette. They stop in front of my car and this guy who was seated about 7-8 cars down from me walks up, obviously knows these guys because of they they were talking, and this guy proceeds to tell the guys in their cars to park in the two spots I had saved. This guy starts to move my cones and both vehicles proceed to back into the spots. I then hear this guy tell his two buddies, "I don't know whose cones these are but just park here and I will move them". He then proceeds to say "whoever saved these spots will probably get mad but I don't give a $hit, who cares".

I watch this go on and my blood pressure soared! I was so mad [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] I picked up my cones from where this guy moved them to, put them back in my trunk along with my chair and started getting ready to leave. I called my buddies and told them I was leaving and what happened. BUT BEFORE I LEFT I HAD TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS!! I went over to where this guy sat back down and confronted him. I asked him if he had a car there. He said yes and pointed to this ugly Mustang in front of where he was seated. I noticed a cone in the parking spot adjacent to his car.

I then asked this guy if he was saving that spot and he stated he was for a friend. I then asked him if he knew who owned the two cones he had just moved. He stated no and I told him that I did. He then lied and stated &quot;oh the two guys in those cars wanted to park there and told me to move the cones, so I did and I don't know them&quot;.

I told him this was all B.S. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img] and heard what he actually said. I then went on a tirade. I basically asked him who the hell he thought he was to do what he did and move other peoples property when the owner of the restaurant clearly stated it was ok to save spots til 5. I then told him that maybe I should move his cone and let whoever park in his saved spot. He didn't have anything to say at this point.

This guy eventually said &quot;I'm sorry&quot; after my tirade. I then got in my Nova and left. I didn't even want to stay there any longer because I was still so mad [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] !! The nerve of some people!!

So I think that's it with me this year. No more cruising... I am just fed up with idiots like this. I like to go and unwind after work, relax with my friends and our cars, we mind our own business and not bother anyone only to have to deal with this crap!! I am just sick of it.

OK I am off my soap box now....

Rich

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That is BS.

Rich, we have such a fun hobby/passion, and very rarely such dinks get in the mix.

Chin up!!

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Glad I passed on going....Some days the sand box just ain't big enough!


BIG

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It does suck running into jerks like that. I think you needed to call the guy out - so good for you! Don't end on a low note though. Sometimes I head out to the Philly Street Races just to hang with a different type of guys after running into a guy like you did.

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The only mistake you made was that you should have confronted him as soon as he touched your cones. Asked him if he wanted his hands broke. I feel you as people down here try that same shit untill your in their face. Shame you had to leave. People have no courtesy anymore.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: GTO_DON</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The only mistake you made was that you should have confronted him as soon as he touched your cones. Asked him if he wanted his hands broke. I feel you as people down here try that same shit untill your in their face. Shame you had to leave. People have no courtesy anymore. </div></div>

Ditto! I totally agree. You are not alone. The idiots and wannabe's are everywhere. We have people show up to &quot;classic&quot; car shows with everything under the Sun. Including crap that looks like kids in their Moms car.
The sadder part is some are controlled access events, and they let them in. It's not enough that we are always overloaded with the new Challengers, Camaros, and Mustangs... that are nothing more than new cars, maybe with some stupid LED lights. No mods. Just stock new cars, and they think they belong.

We share your frustration. But i would have been all over their ass at the beginning and held those spots. It's a fine line between being nice and sociable with fellow car enthusiasts, and dealing with assholes. It's always a call you have to make. Don't let them get to you. Go back again, and stand around the front of your car bowed up, daring anyone to challenge your spots. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img]

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Maybe I'm one of those &quot;dinks&quot; but, I get annoyed at people who save multiple spots for their friends. I brought my ratty old 1969 Corvette to a show one year and saw an open spot; started to back in when some guy tells me he's saving that spot for his buddy.
I was like WTF? So I moved to another spot. I am new to the whole cruise / car show scene but, in my opinion if your buddies want to park all together then arrive at the same friggin' time.

I would not move anyone's stuff but, if a spot is open then it should be fair game.

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What bothers me the most about cruise ins is Parents that do not teach there kids not to touch the cars.
How many times I have encountered this problem is unbelievable, one parent even told me if I don't like people touching my car why not leave the show? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img] After that I got nasty and right in his face and I was going to lace him but I did not but I called him every name in the book, I let him have it real hard. He ended up walking out of the show and the other car guys were clapping. I went back for weeks to the same show as I am a regular there and never saw his family again.

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The whole saving spots for people at car shows is wrong to begin with. If I'm in line for a roller coaster should my friends be allowed to bypass people who had been waiting in line behind me because I &quot;saved them a spot&quot;?

I get it, those are the &quot;rules&quot; put on by place hosting the event. But it pisses me off that I can't park where I want when I'm there before other people at car shows. This happens routinely at Car Craft and Back to the 50's at the Minnesota State Fair grounds. If the event is not important enough that you can't or won't take work off for it to get there early, than too bad.

Sorry if I've insulted anyone but the saving spots thing is a detriment to the hobby IMO.

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My biggest pet peeve are dinks that take 2 parking spots that think there car is so much better than the other cars, very disrespectful to the other cars IMO