"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in
.umich.edu:

> 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.
>
>

And SO appropriate!

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Jim Yanik
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