It’s parallel to the street, and it touches it without a curb or anything, but it’s not actually the street proper, but rather kinda a gravelly patch between the road and the sidewalk that runs for most of the block, sooo… whatever you call that.
How cute. Doesn’t everyone use the garage for its proper purpose? To hoard shit that is almost assuredly going to be critically useful in the future, of course!
@MrMark Huh? Not with any similar 1950’s house I’ve ever seen. Lucky to have the 1st “stall”, much less our double! And to have the garage located within an easy walk.
Santa brought me a windstorm for Christmas that destroyed my tarp carport for the umpteenth time. So I hired a contractor to build a permanent one, and now I’m waiting to see if he actually does it or runs off with my deposit. Meanwhile my car is shivering and crying in the driveway in this strange wet weather and occasional hail that the edge of these winter storms is bringing us. It’s never been left out in the weather at night, I don’t know if it will ever forgive me.
In the garage normally; sometimes I have a project going on in there that displaces my car, so it is parked in the driveway. Mostly the garage, though. Easier to plug it in there.
On the street. Last night ~8 yards from my front door and usually 50-150 yards from my door. At night there is always* plenty of parking ~350 yards from my door by the train station, so worst case I park that far away but that is perhaps six or eight times a year tops.
*Once, while the street was torn up to replace gas mains, I had to park a bit farther, maybe a total of 450 yards.
For the last two nights two blocks away in the free hospital parking garage because hail. Not the best place to have been if the tornados that hit 90 miles south had come through here since parking garages can do weird stuff with wind, but fortunately they missed us. Last night I was vindicated. Hail. And not on my car. That is also where I will park if flooding or high winds as my parking spot is right next to a dumpster that only has a plastic top (and on the low lying end of the parking lot). I’d just as soon not end up with high velocity garbage bags on my car (or the entire dumpster).
@f00l Just hail around here and many idiots here think that though driving blinding rain means to speed up and tail gate to try to get you to drive faster in order to get home faster (they do that in the ice too).
@Thumperchick Boy I sure agree with that one. When I lived in northern ID, and in the snow belt, I didn’t have a garage in any house I lived in. PITA big time. Had a car port in OK which was nice in the hail storms and heat.
@Kidsandliz I’m getting my new carport tomorrow, yay! It was supposed to be today, which is a gorgeous 68 and sunny with a 11mph gentle breeze, but they called and delayed till tomorrow which will be 52 and cloudy with 30mph winds and intermittent gusts. Saturday was in the 40s and we had a bad windstorm that took off roofs and broke trees. The weather keeps cycling and that makes for wind.
I have 14 vehicles. They’re parked everywhere.
Garage at work.
Parking space at my apartment.
Parking space at my condo.
Parking space at my co-op.
It’s parallel to the street, and it touches it without a curb or anything, but it’s not actually the street proper, but rather kinda a gravelly patch between the road and the sidewalk that runs for most of the block, sooo… whatever you call that.
@nogoodwithnames That’s either the shoulder or road verge, but because it’s gravel I’d go with shoulder!
@conandlibrarian I love this gif so much!
How cute. Doesn’t everyone use the garage for its proper purpose? To hoard shit that is almost assuredly going to be critically useful in the future, of course!
@RedOak You mean stuff like Bluetooth speakers and other goodies from Meh?
@RedOak That’s what the 3rd stall is for.
@MrMark Huh? Not with any similar 1950’s house I’ve ever seen. Lucky to have the 1st “stall”, much less our double! And to have the garage located within an easy walk.
You left parking lot out of your survey. That’s where I park - apartment building parking lot
Santa brought me a windstorm for Christmas that destroyed my tarp carport for the umpteenth time. So I hired a contractor to build a permanent one, and now I’m waiting to see if he actually does it or runs off with my deposit. Meanwhile my car is shivering and crying in the driveway in this strange wet weather and occasional hail that the edge of these winter storms is bringing us. It’s never been left out in the weather at night, I don’t know if it will ever forgive me.
Why, is it missing again?
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In the garage normally; sometimes I have a project going on in there that displaces my car, so it is parked in the driveway. Mostly the garage, though. Easier to plug it in there.
I live with my daughter and she makes me park on the street so I can walk a mile each other way, she thinks I need the exercise.
I need to charge it, so inside my garage.
The garage which was a carport up until May, 2013.
During this recent winter storm in Portland, some of my neighbours parked their car on the parkway.
On the driveway, but behind the gate
On the street. Last night ~8 yards from my front door and usually 50-150 yards from my door. At night there is always* plenty of parking ~350 yards from my door by the train station, so worst case I park that far away but that is perhaps six or eight times a year tops.
*Once, while the street was torn up to replace gas mains, I had to park a bit farther, maybe a total of 450 yards.
My car on the driveway, his pickup in the garage. I have lousy depth perception so hate parking in the garage.
wouldn’t you like to know…
Wrapped around its favorite light pole.
For the last two nights two blocks away in the free hospital parking garage because hail. Not the best place to have been if the tornados that hit 90 miles south had come through here since parking garages can do weird stuff with wind, but fortunately they missed us. Last night I was vindicated. Hail. And not on my car. That is also where I will park if flooding or high winds as my parking spot is right next to a dumpster that only has a plastic top (and on the low lying end of the parking lot). I’d just as soon not end up with high velocity garbage bags on my car (or the entire dumpster).
@Kidsandliz
So you had a nice little Gulf Coast vicinity storm. Hope what’s yours is all ok.
@f00l Just hail around here and many idiots here think that though driving blinding rain means to speed up and tail gate to try to get you to drive faster in order to get home faster (they do that in the ice too).
In the garage, because I hate brushing snow off of it.
@Thumperchick Boy I sure agree with that one. When I lived in northern ID, and in the snow belt, I didn’t have a garage in any house I lived in. PITA big time. Had a car port in OK which was nice in the hail storms and heat.
@Kidsandliz I’m getting my new carport tomorrow, yay! It was supposed to be today, which is a gorgeous 68 and sunny with a 11mph gentle breeze, but they called and delayed till tomorrow which will be 52 and cloudy with 30mph winds and intermittent gusts. Saturday was in the 40s and we had a bad windstorm that took off roofs and broke trees. The weather keeps cycling and that makes for wind.
I don’t have a garage, but it is parked within the parameter of the walls and outside of the house