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More First World Problems
Oct. 26th, 2012 08:04 amI find that I'm annoyed by car doors.
It seems that car doors were designed back in the 50s when cars were wild and free, and those damned poor people hadn't figured out how to drive yet, and thus the roads and streets were open. As a result, car doors are built so that they only stay open if you push them all the way open, anything less than fully open causes them to swing shut.
The problem is that nowadays a lot of us spend our time opening and closing doors in crowded parking lots, narrow curbside parking, and next to other cars in garages. In that case, the only way to open a door so it doesn't slam itself shut on you while you're trying to get out with your stuff in hand is to throw it open hard enough to embed itself in the side of the next car over, in the hopes that it will stick.
Either I need to start parking in rural Nevada, or I need to start armoring my car doors so they don't dent when I try to throw them through other people's cars. I'm thinking of a dragon motif.
It seems that car doors were designed back in the 50s when cars were wild and free, and those damned poor people hadn't figured out how to drive yet, and thus the roads and streets were open. As a result, car doors are built so that they only stay open if you push them all the way open, anything less than fully open causes them to swing shut.
The problem is that nowadays a lot of us spend our time opening and closing doors in crowded parking lots, narrow curbside parking, and next to other cars in garages. In that case, the only way to open a door so it doesn't slam itself shut on you while you're trying to get out with your stuff in hand is to throw it open hard enough to embed itself in the side of the next car over, in the hopes that it will stick.
Either I need to start parking in rural Nevada, or I need to start armoring my car doors so they don't dent when I try to throw them through other people's cars. I'm thinking of a dragon motif.
