On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Timothy J. Lee wrote:

> >A Nice New car is parked almost a foot over the left-side line into the
> >next parking space. There's enough room for me to park entirely within
> >the lines of the (remaining) space. There's at least an inch of
> >clearance between my right-side mirror and his left-side mirror. My car
> >is in decent shape; it's about 3 years old.

> Someone that sloppy in parking is likely to be sloppy in opening his/her
> door. If you park close to that car, expect a door ding to be left on
> your car.

Dale Earnhart once said "Drive close to the wall, that way you won't have
time to accelerate on your way into it." The same principle applies here.
It's very difficult to leave a door ding when one cannot open one's door.