what was your worst mall parking lot experience
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Re: what was your worst mall parking lot experience
my worst was when i came back to my car and all my valve stems were cut.
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Haha! I'm going to necro-bump a thread!
I just saw this in my suggestions, having posted about the death of the mall.
I worked in the local mall for about 10 years, when the boys were ~12 and on down in age. They thought it was really cool, since I usually had one of them with me, and just turned him loose in there while I was at work.
We had many fiascoes at the mall.
My first year, Christmas came. My boss warned me to arrive an hour early. I ended up parking in the grass across the road, and hiking a good five minutes into work. I left a sign on the dash that read: Mall Employee, Please call (number) if I need to move and don't tow!
One year, we had heat. It was really hot. The first summer I recall that heat indexes were over 100F for a while. Not to mention that we were parked in a heat island on that lot. Cars got so hot that windows blew out. Literally.
Then came the invasion of the crows. This is while I was in Terre Haute, IN, for a while. The Wabash River runs by the mall site, about a half mile over. Birds of all sorts live there. What seemed like a Hitchcock movie ensued one summer, with crows taking over. They shit all over everything, including cars. The car was in front of the place loved it. The birds also scratched up paint by hopping on cars, and even attacking their reflection in mirrors. Crows tore off antennas and wiper blades, too.
As for crazy parking, we didn't have that, other than at Christmas. I never had an issue with anyone else.
I just saw this in my suggestions, having posted about the death of the mall.
I worked in the local mall for about 10 years, when the boys were ~12 and on down in age. They thought it was really cool, since I usually had one of them with me, and just turned him loose in there while I was at work.
We had many fiascoes at the mall.
My first year, Christmas came. My boss warned me to arrive an hour early. I ended up parking in the grass across the road, and hiking a good five minutes into work. I left a sign on the dash that read: Mall Employee, Please call (number) if I need to move and don't tow!
One year, we had heat. It was really hot. The first summer I recall that heat indexes were over 100F for a while. Not to mention that we were parked in a heat island on that lot. Cars got so hot that windows blew out. Literally.
Then came the invasion of the crows. This is while I was in Terre Haute, IN, for a while. The Wabash River runs by the mall site, about a half mile over. Birds of all sorts live there. What seemed like a Hitchcock movie ensued one summer, with crows taking over. They shit all over everything, including cars. The car was in front of the place loved it. The birds also scratched up paint by hopping on cars, and even attacking their reflection in mirrors. Crows tore off antennas and wiper blades, too.
As for crazy parking, we didn't have that, other than at Christmas. I never had an issue with anyone else.
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About a month ago I stopped in at a mall to pick a couple things up at Target. Quite a crowd of vehicles in the parking lot and in enough of a hurry that I didn't pay a lot of attention to where I left my little yellow ride. To be sure, in this modern era we live there's not much for originality in vehicle shape, color or design. And this old Ford (2001) has those ignition keys with a chip so no other key will start the car. Well, frustration at not finding the products I stopped for perhaps didn't give me a real good outlook as I was looking out to find the car I couldn't remember where I had left. Alas! That little yellow Ford sitting and waiting to get going. Stuck my key in the door, unlocked her and climbed right in. Stuck the key in the ignition and turned it but nothing. Sure, it turned and even snapped the radio into play with the most horrific sound I've ever heard. NO, I don't listen to rap crap and it was screaming out the radio as if I was in some foot ball stadium. Trying the key a few more times did nothing as the door opened and a giant hand grabbed my shoulder as a deep heavily accented Southern accent shouts "what are you doing in my car." Don't you just know how much that scared the heebbee jeebeees out of me. All ended well once I showed my key open the door and he drove me around the parking lot finding my car. But jeeze, what an experience!
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A group of teenagers were taking "Daddy's" motor boat out to the lake for a day of water skiing and they stopped at the local supermarket for munchies and soda...
As they drove away with a screech. the motor boat ripped off the trailer because they hadn't used enough bungee cords to tie it down.
Curiously, they were going to get onto the interstate and drive with the boat in that condition. I wonder what 65/70 miles per hour would have done to the boat?
As they drove away with a screech. the motor boat ripped off the trailer because they hadn't used enough bungee cords to tie it down.
Curiously, they were going to get onto the interstate and drive with the boat in that condition. I wonder what 65/70 miles per hour would have done to the boat?