Where do you park your car at night?
By Amber
@AmbiePam (92708)
United States
August 22, 2007 12:03pm CST
So I've seen some sites that give quotes, ask where I park my car at night. I know what they are saying. Where do I truly live. And I live in an apartment complex. Usually, I can get a spot close to my side of the complex. On occasion I have to park farther away. I don't mind that unless it is raining. : )
So where do you park your car at night? Driveway? Street? Your yard?
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35 responses
@AmberNormandin (883)
• United States
22 Aug 07
i know what you mean about cutting the grass! we used to live on a corner lot and the yard was HUGE. now my grandma does and i mow for her, her yard is HUGE also!
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@Flight84 (3048)
• United States
22 Aug 07
My husband and I park our car in front of our townhouse complex. Each person has their own space. It's kinda crappy when it rains, but it's not far from our porch to the car. We're building a house and we'll be able to park beside our house, but we still won't have anything covered to go under. My husband wants one of those covered metal parking thingys you can buy.
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@Flight84 (3048)
• United States
23 Aug 07
*sigh* My husband and I have been waiting on our house for almost three years! It has been on hold off and on over those years. My husband and his dad's crew are building it, and they have had to take other jobs and we've been waiting on all kinds of other various aggravating things. It will be so beautiful when it's done. It will hopefully be finished within the next few months. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I hope there will be a baby on the way to live there too.:P
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@sweetgirl_k1 (3972)
• United States
22 Aug 07
We park our cars in our driveway at night. If our neighbor is out of town we will park one of our vehicles in her driveway because she wants people to think that someone is there. I wish we had a garage that I could park in so I wouldn't get wet while taking the baby out of his carseat when it rains. Maybe we'll get it on our next house.
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@craftcatcher (3699)
• United States
22 Aug 07
We have a driveway in the back of our house where we park the cars. We actually have a two car garage but it's go so much stuff.. ie: junk in it that we can't use it for the cars! Not completely our fault. I inherited this house from my grandparents and they were total packrats. Grandpa had the garage completely full of stuff and before I could get it all cleaned out my hubby moved in. All of his extra stuff that we didn't put in the house and all his music equipment had to go into the garage. So both sides of the garage are packed full. One of these days I'm going to rent a dumpster and just start pitching stuff, maybe we'll be able to use at least one side one of these days! LOL
@AmbiePam (92708)
• United States
22 Aug 07
You might have a hard time throwing stuff away since it is your grandparents. Or maybe you're not overly attached to things like that. I'm not a packrat, but it's hard for me to part with things from my family. Although it sounds like maybe all those things are stuff that really does belong in the dumpster. You'll probably get a work out when you clean the garage again. : )
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@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
22 Aug 07
I hated living in an apartment building because we could never find a spot close to our apartment to park. We live in a house now so we have our own driveway.
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@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
22 Aug 07
Hi AmbiePam,
Even though I have a small house but I'm still lucky because my car parked at the porch area. So raining does not matter to me.
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
23 Aug 07
at the moment, i park my car in the car port that is allocated for me as i am the resident of the apartment... but i will be moving to my new house this saturday and i will have my own garage... i thank God for that as that means i don't have to worry about where to put my car at night...
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@Azita888 (315)
• United States
22 Aug 07
I have a parking spot in the alley, but I always tell the insurance that it's a carport, I think it just sounds better than a parking spot in the alley, I don't park on the street anymore, other people just don't know how to parallel park and are so careless and they never leave a note when they ding your car... meanies.
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@estherlou (5015)
• United States
23 Aug 07
We live in a single-family home with a two-car garage. Both of our cars sleep in the garage at night!LOL. No scraping ice during the winter for us!
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@lightningMD (5931)
• United States
22 Aug 07
We park in our driveway at night. We live in a residential area where everyone either uses their garages or driveways. There is no parking allowed along the road.
@pinnibabu (135)
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23 Aug 07
I dont own a car. But I have a bike which i park in the open space below my apartment. There are lots of people fighting in our apartment for the sake of parking. Big mess.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
23 Aug 07
I have a nice big driveway for my cars. I park where I can ge out quickly in the mornings. I am the last home at night and the first to leave in the morning. I park near my back door.It is convenient to go straight into the kitchen.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
22 Aug 07
We actually have a garage on our home, but believe it or not, it is too full of other things to park a car in it! We park our vehicles in our driveway. The garage has exercise equipment, bicycles, workbench, lawnmowers and scads of other items in it! We have never had a problem with vandalism of our vehicles, I sure hope we don't start having trouble!
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
23 Aug 07
My husband and I park our truck under our carport, though sometimes we park it in our driveway. When we lived in an apartment complex together we had an assigned space. In a way it was nice to have an assigned space as no one else could park there, but at the same time it sucked as we could only have one space per unit. :P
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@princessmom1011 (719)
• United States
23 Aug 07
we have 10 acres of land and a 2 car garage so parking isnt ever an issue for me it all depends on what time i get home if its late or i have groceries that need unloading i park at my front door for easy access other than that its in the garage!
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@KarenO52 (2950)
• United States
23 Aug 07
I live out in the country, and I have a garage attached to my house. I would hate to have to park in the street at night. When I lived in Chicago, I had to park in the street, and there were times I couldn't find a spot close to the house. My car, and my neighbors cars were always getting broken into.
@sandwedge (1339)
• Malaysia
23 Aug 07
i parked my favorite car in the driveway and the rest in the car porch. the remote to open the car porch is spoil and i hate to open it manually everytime i need to go out. dang it. i need to get that remote working again.
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