That is just crazy. Dawn of the "shopping carts". Outnumbered.

 

It reminds me of one time I was picking up a pizza from a shop this is in a fairly "non-affluent" shopping center with a grocery store. (Great pizza, though) Anyway, I parked well away from the crowds and was happy to make the walk. The guy at the pizza shop noticed and warned me about being so far away. Why? Because the parking lot has a downhill slope and he's seen shopping carts get up a pretty good head of steam before slamming into cars towards the bottom. I now look for a space a couple of slots down from a F-150.

 

I once owned a '77 Mercury Capri II Ghia hatchback coupe. A great little car with a V6 and 4 speed. It was a windy day and I was conducting some business in a camera shop and looked out the window just in time to see a wind propelled shopping cart doing about 10 MPH slam into the rear quarter panel of my car. I went and talked to the manager of the grocery store in the strip center and he told me too bad, their were signs in the parking lot that they weren't responsible for damage from their carts. It cost me several hundred bucks for the insurance deductible and a week in the shop and the paint on that section was never the same. I should have pitched a brick through the window of that grocery store.

 

You should have pitched a shopping cart through the window!

 

About 2 weeks ago I was parked waiting for my wife in a shopping center parking lot—-far away from the masses—when all of a sudden I hear a minor “bump” into my front bumper and it was some lazy a$$ women who let her shopping cart roll into the front of my car. I calmly said, out of my window, “did you just hit my car with your shopping cart?” and she just as calmly said, “yes, sorry. But it was just a little tap; no damage”. She then moves the cart away from my car and proceeds to walk away, leaving the damn cart *****-nilly in the parking lot. I said, “why don’t you put that cart where it belongs instead of just leaving it where it is?” I think she let that sink in for a few seconds before doing just that.

This is, mind you, in a very upscale neighborhood….but then there is NO accounting for taste and consideration practically anywhere.

 

I know what you mean about the shopping cart scofflaws. Often they are driving a big SUV that is too large for the compact sized parking spaces and don't care if they give your car a door ding. And are wearing a $150 pair of Gucci sweatpants and sweatshirt and are on the way to the gym but too lazy to walk 25 yards to return the cart to the rack so they just leave it where it presents a hazard to other customers.

Yes, I know that sounds like stereotyping but I have seen it so many times that it is a common situation. This guy on YouTube who calls himself the Parking Lot Narc is pretty funny. He goes around filming people who leave their carts in the middle of the lots and shames them:

 

I had my 2017 S British Edition for about a month now and had several reactions.

The last was a group of 3-4 older gentlemen arguing with each other from a distance weather my car was a Aston Martin or ferrari..,.LOL. i was sitting behind them in a coffee shop. We ended up talking and they were surprised it was a Jag and just kept saying " beautiful beautiful"

last week had a group of middle school kids pulling out their phones taking pics of the car


=)

 

I believe the Parking Lot Narc needs a good *** kickin and a real job!

 

Yeah,. too beautiful to be an Aston, and er, too beautiful to be a Ferrari!

 

Ian says, "Hi."

 

He got better after the DB7.

 

I was watching an older guy in the rear view mirror craning his neck to get a better look at the car, and could see him slowly mouth out 'F - TYPE' as he read the badge. Gave it a little gas when I took off from the red light, haha.

 

A neighbor of mine, probably close to 80, said to me yesterday, "Nice Cougar!"

 

"No, that's your wife."

 

US Mail lady drove by while filming the car via phone. Lol

 

Started the whip up yesterday and pulled out to the driveway to let it warm up. Neighbor across the street just leaned against her car in the garage and stared at the Jag the entire time for like 10 minutes while I messed with the CarPlay settings lol

2015 R

 

First day with mine, went to local golf course. Worker stops what he's doing to tell me "beautiful car", when I'm leaving, a guy on 9 yells "that's my dream car"

 

Excuse me for farting in church for being the exception, but nope, around SoCal at least, it seems like everyone in their cars are either on their phone, texting, or lost in their own world. That said, while there are tons of Porsches, BMWs, and Lexus...s, I can count the number of F-Types I've seen on one hand, but regardless, I've yet to get a reaction from anyone. Well, I'm ignoring the one guy in a Hellcat sort of car on the freeway who wanted to "race" in heavy traffic. I gestured at the cars 30 feet ahead of us with, "where are you going to go?" In my mind, that doesn't count as a "nice car" comment.

 

uggg move.

 

spoken like a lazy cart dumper.