Confrontation because of your Ferrari

Jealous. Miserable. Looking for trouble. I had a similar thing happen before.

I try to ignore idiots but sometimes it's hard....

 

The first rule of Jiu Jitsu is to avoid the fight.

 

If there were still an abundance of open spots, I don't see what Mr. Raptor's issue could have been. You confronted him, he left - think that tells you all you need to know…T

 

I would never park on a line or take up more than one space, unless I am parked well away from anyone else.

If you take up multiple spots too close to others, then it is considered rude.

Regardless, I would not confront anyone on it, unless it prevents me from parking within a reasonable distance. And I have seen people take multiple space right in front of a busy establishment. Not good.

 

Well clearly you deserve to have the wrath of mankind wrought upon you because you used a bit more than one space. That gives other people an excuse to vent their jealousy out at you. And for that matter any frustration they have had in the last week.

Clearly. Isn't it obvious?

He'll feel justified about it when he tells all his friends about the ******* that parked in two or three spots when all the spots were full. Then he'll read the multiple articles on Jalopnik FURTHER justifying his anger.

That's why I park diagonal in the handicap spaces. If you're going to be bad. Go all the way! (*jk*)

 

Yup.

 

This too.


If I am driving one of the Ferrari's and want a safe spot I drive way the hell to the other end where no one else is. If someone is to be inconvenienced it should be me, not them.

 

I had a homeless guy spit on my 612 on a freeway offramp. I figured cleaning the car was less disgusting than confronting him.

 

There you go. I was a bit confused though. It sounded like you said the lot was full and parked over a boundary line on one end so as too make room for you? If here were plenty of spaces available, I would park as far away as possible but then park as perfectly as possible within those two lines.

 

I've never had an issue, but I have to say that people that park in multiple spaces really bother me. I don't care whether it's a pinto or a lambo, park it the right way or you're inviting trouble. I'd never say anything, but at the same time I'd never park my F-car in multiple spots as I don't like the practice nor would I want to attract the negative attention.

 

Had a guy try to spit in the window of my 360 once. I was parked out front of a convenience store, not taking more than my allotted spaces, but had left the window cracked open.

fortunately, he had bad aim, and it was nothing a little Windex didn't fix.

 

I come out of a place to the crowded parking lot to see someone has blocked me because she couldn't be bothered to make the 3-minute walk from the auxiliary lot. She left a note on her windshield with a cell number. So, I call and tell her I need to leave. Then I wait; eventually she casually comes out to the lot, mostly engaged on her cell phone. I ask her to hurry up because I need to leave. She gets pissed and says that I'm lucky she left a note. "I'm lucky???". Then she sees my car (I guess she didn't notice when she parked me in)...

She immediately degenerates from her previous arrogant/entitled attitude to what I can barely describe, and launches into a tirade you would not believe. You'd think I was the one who blocked her car.

 

Don't park across multiple spaces. It is actually the single most dangerous thing you can do in a nice car. PARTICULARLY if the lot is empty or near empty, there is no upside.

It would only attract negative attention. If you park perfectly, you run a very small chance of someone dinging you... if you park across lines, then (even if not justified... which I agree it would not be in the case of a lot with many spaces) you are just asking for someone with an issue to lash out.

No upside, lots of downside.

I park my car away from the crowds and YES I do see others somehow still park beside me. I have never had an issue with someone parking beside me AND denting me, however, and it appears more that they like to park next to a fancy car, maybe want to look at the car themselves, or realize that their car won't get dinged

In terms of confrontation, I don't have a Ferrari but have some similar cars, and would pretty much never bother to fight someone. Simple reason is that most people willing to fight over trivial things have less to lose in life and it's just not worth it for the ego alone. It's never come to this for me, thankfully.

 

World revolves around some people in their own mind. There is a reason that so many of these "look at me" apps (facebook, instagram etc) are worth billions and people spend hours on them.

She probably just felt particularly insecure about her own importance in the world... that's the worst thing for those sorts of people.

 

keep calm and carry on.....and take comfort in the fact that you drove off in a piece of art with tremendous audibles, instead of a monster truck that any knuckle dragger could buy.

 

Parking obnoxiously is certainly a lesser evil than picking a fight with a stranger over it, but it's still obnoxious.

 

Confronting a boorish stranger over something as minor as a parking spot is an invitation to get punched or worse. Better to drive away

 

I wonder if this kind of thing happened back in the day with, say, a 275GTB? Did owners worry about door dings, parking some distance away and walking, etc. I think it may have something to do with income inequality now relative to then and the cost of new Ferraris being more out of reach for most people than ever, even though there are far more produced. Plus a lot more anger now, exacerbated by social media, etc. Something for the sociologists to ponder I guess.

 

I have dealt with obvious jealous needling from my condo neighbor. It's kinda pathetic actually. He bought 3 cars in the last year or so after I got my 348. He is a bit of a climate flunky too. He was trying to get better gas mileage out of his old Focus wagon by messing with a K&N filter and then his shocks and emergency brake went bad. Got sick of it and sold it for a 4 cylinder Explorer. Dragged me along on the buy and had to jump in and prevent the salesmen from talking to me about cars Hated the SUV nature of it after a while and sold it. Bought a Kia minivan and then got burned for the station wagon or truck tax or something. Got pissed and sold it for a Kia Soul. Had that for a long while and but scratched it up somehow, used a bunch of my paint and stuff to try and fix it, and then dumped it for a Chevy Sonic. Freaked out and put a bunch of molding strips on it.

We were going to have the garage repoured at the start of the summer and I had plans to do my brakes before Concorso Ferrari and Friends in CT. He booked a contractor without consulting the other 2 owners for that week before. I had to clean out my side of the garage. I told him while I was leaving one night for kung fu, that I wanted to do the brakes and he replied "oh well" in his usual sarcastic tone. I resented that and told him he couldn't expect to have his way all the time and that it was arrogant to ignore other peoples time commitments. He blew up, while working on the back porch light (on my electrical , like the garage and all his power tool use) yelled a me while I was backing out the drive way in the Miata, said I was sick and needed a psychiatrist and challenged me to fight saying he'd kick my ass. I'm a yellow belt in Shaolin kung fu and was on my way to practice. We just learned a wrist lock take down at chi na the week before. I could break his wrist if I Wanted. But yeah first rule is avoid the fight. So I backed off "apologized" and he cooled off. He tells me later that he is on meds for anger management. His girlfriend kicked him out months ago, he's making her move but shes still there. and he commutes from RI to his rental properties. He's really a mean guy and was a d@ck to the neighbors from day one. He's full of himself and had relented somewhat but still is projecting. I have no clue why because he's supposed to be a real estate guy and I'm a geek librarian. (With two masters degrees and a stock portfolio- hint hint) Guy just needs to grow up and live and let live. He's got a dog to deal with too but the neighbors Yorkshire terrier is worse. Haha. I bought him a six pack of rolling rock and we talked it out but he's made his own bed to lie in. He just can't get his head around laying off controversy and being sociable and friendly. If he wasn't his own boss he'd have his ass kicked by now.

 

Agree with above.

Why on earth did you confront the guy instead of driving away?

When you walk up on someone like that you had better be prepared for the outcome, because the next guy might not drive away.

 

Parking on or over the parking space line in an exotic is just asking for a negative reaction. Park like everyone else and you won't have an issue.



Mark

 

The right move was to park in the penultimate full sized spot

 

Completely agree.