May04
Put It In Park
I'm am impatient man, sometimes. I hate waiting on buses. My elevator and garage door almost slow me to death. And the thought of actually taking 20 minutes to cook a meal is asinine. So when I'm trying to find a parking space and some jerk has done such a crappy job parking their vehicle so that I can't park in an open space, it makes me want to club a donkey in the face (I rhymed!).
Several years ago Wendy and I joked about making these little cards that had Mickey Mouse flipping you off on them. The card would say something to the effect of "park better next time, bitch." I never made the time to make them, but have wanted to for so long.
With the recent re-discovering of the SHHH cards and my recent hooking up of my new printer, I decided it was finally time to make the cards.
For your viewing pleasure, the Please Park Better (PPB) Cards.
Let me know what I can do to make these better! I'll soon make a nice pdf for everyone to print to let the idiots know just what is up.
+ original post date: May 4, 2005 08:06 PM
+ categories: Park Better Cards
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My name is Seth Gunderson and I currently live in Kansas City, MO. I work as an art director at Sullivan Higdon & Sink (it should be noted that Sullivan Higdon & Sink neither seeks, nor exercises, any editorial control over this site) and spend my spare time practicing sarcasm, watching too much television and seeing truly awful movies.
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Incredible. They are perfect. I want some of my own. Post that hi-res PDF!
+ author: Crasymaker
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:39 AM
I could fOR SURE use these at lunch when all the oversized SUV's try and park in COMPACT spaces at the loft - i swear...
+ author: bev
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:40 AM
Perfect for sure...Cant wait to print these.
+ author: stevepanic
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:40 AM
These are amazing, I've been looking for something like this for ages. One thing though - I'm a city dweller who has to paralel park on city streets, what absolutely kills us is the guy who parks in the middle of two spots, any way to do a card that addresses that?
Great work!
+ author: Anonymous
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:41 AM
I could go through about a dozen decks of those a week over here at Delaware. It would also be cool to have a parallel parking version... with options to check such as someonee boxing you in, or someone leaving too big of a gap in front and behind so that only they can park where 2 cars could easily fit.
+ author: ScooterJ
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:41 AM
I thought that the middle car on these cards could serve that purpose... but I could definitely whip up a parallel parking version. Should it be about being blocked in? Or still about not being able to park at all?
+ author: Seth
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:46 AM
Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I'm so late commenting on this. I was so busy yesterday that I didn't even check the site. Seth...thank you for finally doing this. I almost did one myself a few months ago. They HAVE been a long time in the making. They look great. I like Scoot's idea, though, of adding some more bad-parking examples, especially the parrallel one. It should illustrate a car that hasn't squeazed in enough, so that there's only room for half a car between Idiot's car and the No Parking sign. Happens all the time in the plaza.
+ author: wendy
+ posted: June 25, 2005 08:46 AM
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