There is NO Place to Park!

Parking spaces for “compact cars only” do not belong in Texas.  A compact car in Dallas means a Jeep Cherokee.  North Texans live for our trucks and massive SUVs.  Which brings me to the question, why do shopping centers and parking garages insist on marking tiny spaces for “compact cars only?”

These are spots at the Lincoln Park shopping plaza across from North Park on Central (above).  I don’t even think my buddy Joe Redmond’s Smart Car could fit into these spaces.  Definitely not next to that Caddy (which is not a compact car, by the way.)  The only thing the developer does by making spaces this small is insure that we all get door dings on our own cars and make a few on the cars next to us.

Make no mistake, non-compact car drivers feel like they (we) own the road anyway, you know they (I) will have no problem parking here, WE will just take up three spaces in doing it.  I have a plea to future developers, please just make parking spaces big enough to handle an average Texas vehicle.  (That means a Hummer H2)