Bisecting... If I'd had an axe in the rental, I'd have been tempted to split the car into two halves, one for each space.
But that would be so ghetto.
Anyway, Kushibo resents the way the most egregious of Korean driving behaviors are seeping on to American pavement. I see it a lot in Hawaii and more and more in California. Lately I've nearly been run down several times in Kyushu, the Japanese main island closest to the
Land of Motoring Calamity™.
Sure, these errant drivers may not be Korean, may have never visited Korea, and may not have ever consumed any product of the Korean Wave. Nevertheless, I'm sure there's a connection. I just have to figure it out.
And in the midst of all that's going on in Korea and all that Ling & Lee nonsense, this is all I can come up with, because this stupid iPhone doesn't do cut and paste of PBS links.
Awwww, your fan is back.
ReplyDeleteAs for Koreanization, she is right. Hummers and large pickups have been taking up two spaces for countless years in the states. They don't call it an F150 for nuttin' in Texas; however, real cowdudes drive f250s/350s and now 450s/550s.
A common tactic for dealing with such jerks back in my high school days was a tactic known as "keying." I never did it myself, but I knew of many who waited for darkness to perform the deed. Nowadays, security cameras might be putting a halt to some of that.
ReplyDeleteJohn from Taejŏn wrote:
ReplyDeleteAwwww, your fan is back.
My fan is like the ghosts on Poltergeist. They may be there, and some can occasionally catch glimpses, but we keep them contained in a little space where they can't bother most people. And when John says, "They're baaaaaack!" it's only he who has caught a glimpse, and a fleeting glimpse at that.
As for Koreanization, she is right. Hummers and large pickups have been taking up two spaces for countless years in the states. They don't call it an F150 for nuttin' in Texas; however, real cowdudes drive f250s/350s and now 450s/550s.
True, that. But this car was a small sedan, not a Hillbilly Hummer.
As for the "Koreanization" comment, I thought it was fairly clear I was being ironic. emily didn't quite get that.
She has a thing for you.
ReplyDeleteAs for parking spaces, land availability has something to do with their sizes. You can almost park an aircraft carrier (well...dock) in the spaces in Texas, while those in Califas and South Korea are made for the likes of the Daewoo Tico.
John from Taejŏn wrote:
ReplyDeleteA common tactic for dealing with such jerks back in my high school days was a tactic known as "keying." I never did it myself, but I knew of many who waited for darkness to perform the deed.
Keying is nasty stuff; I usually saw it in cases where it was random vandalism, not retribution.
In my old Seoul neighborhood, where parking was scarce, most people respected the unwritten rules of where to park and what was acceptable, but there was this blow-an-artery hothead who moved into the neighborhood who decided he was going to claim a spot near his home and bully everyone else into following along.
When I had parked there, he called my cell and barked at me to move my car. The thing was that my cousin parked the car and I had no idea where it was, so I asked him "Where? Where is this?" He didn't answer but just kept barking for me to move it, but I didn't know where it was.
The next day when when we got the car, the motorized side view mirrors (90,000 won each) had been ripped from their mountings. The thing is that I had his number in my caller ID, but when I went to retrieve it on my new phone, I accidentally cleared all of them.
Only he and another neighbor, who resented the people who parked flush next to the wall on our narrow lane, which forced him to go slowly through our windy hillside lane, ever gave me any trouble. He was ringing my doorbell crazily one morning at 6:30 telling me to stop parking in front of my house, barking like a crazy man. He had the upper hand in any parking version of MAD because his car was always parked inside their property. That sucked. All my neighbors hated that guy. I think his wife hated him, too, judging from her facial expression when he'd blow a gasket at the neighbors.
Nowadays, security cameras might be putting a halt to some of that.
That's what masks are for.
When I lived in L.A., most of my female friends weren't very fond of my car, but I knew that it wouldn't attract attention of that sort. Also, I go to great lengths not to park where things like that might happen, even if it means walking a bit farther.
ReplyDelete"That's what masks are for."
I think the police could match the clown in the clown mask back to the idiot who walked back into the Wal-mart SuperCenter and purchased it minutes before the incident.
They caught that low-life who prank called McDonald's and had the manager strip search a teenage female employee and the manager's boyfriend rape her thanks to Wal-mart being able to track down the calling card used to make the call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam