Big, fat, car doors
July 04, 2012 Filed in: Rants
Originally published April 16, 2010
At Lowe's the other day I parked my van far from other cars. I do this because my front van doors are big and they open wide. After shopping, I returned to my van where there was another big van parked right next to mine with a young woman in the driver's seat talking on her cell phone. I'm glad she was parked and not driving, but she was oblivious to the fact that she was parked so close to my van that I couldn't open my driver's side door beyond a few inches. She was driving a van the exact size as my own, so why wouldn't she realize the doors on mine would be like hers?
Oh, because she was on the phone and phone talkers are rarely aware of what's going on around them. I motioned to her to move forward or back, and finally got her attention and she backed up to give me room to open the door.
At Lowe's the other day I parked my van far from other cars. I do this because my front van doors are big and they open wide. After shopping, I returned to my van where there was another big van parked right next to mine with a young woman in the driver's seat talking on her cell phone. I'm glad she was parked and not driving, but she was oblivious to the fact that she was parked so close to my van that I couldn't open my driver's side door beyond a few inches. She was driving a van the exact size as my own, so why wouldn't she realize the doors on mine would be like hers?
Oh, because she was on the phone and phone talkers are rarely aware of what's going on around them. I motioned to her to move forward or back, and finally got her attention and she backed up to give me room to open the door.
Very soon after, I was parked at the post office and when I came out a car was parked close to mine, again. Because it was a windy day, there is no way I could hold my door half-way open so the wind wouldn't smash it against his car while hoisting myself up into the driver's seat. (Because the seat is so high, it takes both hands to get up onto the step and position myself onto the seat.) Thankfully, the driver realized that he needed to back up for me, and did. But I wish other drivers would realize that big vehicle doors on vehicles like pickup trucks and cargo vans open wide, and would stop crowding big vehicles.