Jerks Who Swipe Eco Parking Spots at Whole Foods
As a Prius driver, I love the “eco-friendly only” spots at the Lakewood Whole Foods. But I’ve noticed that many of my fellow citizens can’t read the signs (the one in this pic is tough to make out, but trust me). Here’s a picture of the SUV that right now make me angry.
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Warning: Prius-driver seeks eco-vigilantism against driver of a bloody VOLVO? Hey, before there was such a thing as eco-chic, there was Volvo. Be respectful of your forebearers!
What if (s)he’s eco-friendly because (s)he owns a few dozen thousand acres planted in bio-engineered no-till corn, and (s)he’s done more to reduce carbon emissions and soil erosion, and to preserve wilderness and support human life, while (s)he was on vacation, than you’ll ever do if you live to be one hundred years old, his/her decision not to drive a nickel-gobbling sulfur-spewing landfill nightmare notwithstanding? I mean, I don’t know exactly how the eco-friendly parking signs are worded, but what if that happened?
How about jerks who think they’re better than the rest of us because they drive little electric cars?
@ Paul: I don’t think I’m better than you because I drive a hybrid car. I think I’m better than you because I know that obeying signs and following certain customs makes for a better society in which to live. I don’t park in handicap parking spots. I don’t drive in the HOV lane without a passenger. I don’t litter. Etc, etc.
It’s not the car; it’s the considerateness.
(The foregoing is offered even though, you’ll notice, my post in no way implied that I was better than the Volvo driver.)
This is the farce that is the green movement and the thought that your carbon footprint effects anything except GE’s bottom line.
But is this the new trend? Boutique parking places? New mommy, expecting mommy, eco-friendly, employee of the month? Really the only enforcable spots are handicap and maybe police parking. Do we really want to encourge a trend of specialized parking areas just because someone makes a finacially trendy decision and not due to a health condition? I have to say, I haven’t seen those spaces, but now I really want to get an old ‘85 Suburban and dock it right in that spot just for the reaction.
You need to carry a sharpie, with which you can scribble a note on the offending vehicles window….
Tim – this pisses me off two and I don’t own an eco-friendly car. I would have keyed it somehow.
Run the tag? Or did you learn your lesson last time, Mr. Funny Guy?
Maybe they need separate parking spaces for Ego-friendly cars
Speaking of Mr. Funny Guy, it has not gone unnoticed that your editorial notes have been MIA in the print mag and you’ve been relegated to Mr. Funny Guy status.
“Why is Josh Hixson here?
“He’s a comer, and that’s what comers do. You can handle it.”
Tim-
Hate to cast stones here, but after spending years at the card table with you where you think that both unmitigated farting and uninvited pantry raiding are acceptable, where in the hell do you get off judging what is considerate and what is not?
@JB: The ‘85 Suburban is a good idea. That’s not being inconsiderate; that’s making a statement. I like your moxie.
@Shane: You’re confusing me with Eric when it comes to pantry raiding. As for the fouling of the air at the card table, you have just guaranteed that the next time we play, my nether zephyr will shuffle your deck. Good day, sir!
Eco-friendly parking should be all the way in the back anyway…you wouldn’t want some suburban-driving soccer mom to pollute the air while she tries to find a spot in the back 40, would you? Save the planet, park your prius far away!
Tim: Could it be inconsiderate to the rest of us for the retailer to cordon off prime spots for the chosen? However, no offense intended to you. Enjoy your puny electric car and the special status it gives you at Whole Foods.
Prius’ are the new handicapped?
I applaud the Volvo SUV driver – doesn’t look like it in the picture, but I hope it was a V8 engined XC90.
These are the kind of fakeydoo parking restrictions that we need to ignore. It’s not a handicapped spot – there’s no law that lets them ticket you or boot you for parking in their made up “eco friendly only” spot.
It’s too vague a designation even if some busybody wanted to make it a law – I’ve got a car that can get 14 mpg in town, but the dash and most interior materials were specially made for ease of recycling. Does it count?
What I really want to park in one of these spots is a 427 Cobra with open pipes. It’s a hybrid you know – English car with an American drivetrain.
Considering how polluted Dallas air is, encouraging use of hybrid cars just happens to help everyone.
BTW: It’s not the 70s anymore. It’s not cool to brag about how much your car pollutes.
All the bad things that go on in the world and you have the audacity to whine about not being able to use an “eco-friendly” parking space? God help us all!
I’d argue that a dangerously high level of ozone which contributes to asthma, poor health and global warming constitutes as a “bad thing.”
Real Facts – Do you need a gold star every time you do something that you think is good?
Tim,
Though loathe to quote him, Jay Leno said (on Top Gear) that it is important to Americans that every know and compensate them for their anonymous and selfless acts. So it is only fitting that you are indignant when your selflessness goes unrewarded.
“I don’t think I’m better than you because I drive a hybrid car. I think I’m better than you because I know that obeying signs and following certain customs makes for a better society in which to live. I don’t park in handicap parking spots. I don’t drive in the HOV lane without a passenger. I don’t litter.”
Tim, those (handicap, hov lanes) are created and enforced by statutes and codes and are enforceable. They are not arbitrary self- important/self-satisfied/self-affirming and uneforceable designations. Your comparison is as weak as your position.
I am sure, though, that you canl look forward to the day that Ed Begley’s dream of a car that runs on smugness comes true. And that it too will have a special parking place. And maybe a ribbon for the driver.
Real facts……what a joke. We can’t debate global warming because your leaders state the debate is over. Nice tolerance.
Some people need definitive human boundaries in context to the end of the world. Right now its global warming, recently it was nukular war, and at one time, I guess it was falling off the earth if you sailed too far. Damnit people! If you just accept Jesus in your heart none of these things will happen!! You econazi’s are all just a bunch of hippie, commie, budddah, muslimites!!!
I now fully agree with Wick’s stance on comments.
meh
I hope the CEO of Whole Foods creates parking spaces for people against socialized health care next.
Well now that you have all affirmed how cool and anti conformist you all are, can you point me towards some do gooders I can make fun of? Or some nerds to stuff in lockers?
Screen captures of Tim maliciously using his employer’s blog to libel a vehicle owner identifiable from his deliberately photographed plates without offering any proof of the defamatory allegations published can be had at the Monk through the usual channels. B & T, copies are on the way.
I think my Honda Pilot (16/21) is better for the environment than a Prius since the Toyota battery is a major threat to our planet. So, from now on, I am going to park my Pilot in those spots while I am inside buying red meat.
THANK YOU for posting this- one of my huge pet peeves too (i’m a RX400h). Especially when I’m trying to get in/out of WF with my infant daughter before she starts screaming (another subject altogether)
it get so irritated by little things like this… do they make a pill for this condition??
FIRST!!
I drive the HOV solo — faithfully, consistently and without remorse.
Eco-friendly is such a vague term. My compact sports sedan certainly is more eco-friendly than a Suburban or Hummer, but its no Prius. I do think having my bike on the back of my car makes it even more eco-friendly.
Tim why aren’t you WALKING to Lakewood Whole Foods?
Trey, I think you’re starting to believe your libertarian schtick. Aren’t they the Yippies of the aughts? Duck! Here come the black helicopters!