By Tarlachia - 15/08/2015 17:42 - United States - Apopka
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OP here. A little backstory... The vehicle I was driving is my work vehicle- a professional carpet cleaning van. I had driven the van to a job, realized there were no available parking spots to back it into and was thus forced to park it in the street and blocking two vehicles. I pulled the cleaning hoses and supplies to clean the apartment, finished the job, wrapped up and got back into the van. Only then when I shifted to 'drive' did the problem make itself known. Yes, it is an automatic. Not sure as to what was happening mechanically, I called our company's mechanic and it took him over an hour to get to me with the necessary part- a tiny little pin that pulls the shifter between gears and only takes a few minutes to replace without having to take it to a dealership or repair shop. So, in that hour long wait, an old lady came out to drive her vehicle to a store. As luck would have it, her vehicle was one of two that my van was blocking. She asked me to move the van, to which I replied that I couldn't as it was stuck in park. I explained I couldn't even shift it to neutral to push the vehicle out of the way. I explained I was waiting on someone to come help me. That made her day, and she started screaming at me for several minutes. Logic has failed to defuse the situation and since I am not a Vulcan and cannot sleep hold a bitch, I, treasuring the security of this job to provide for my family, chose to then get back into my van, roll up the window, and said "**** it. Time to FML." She left to go back inside after a few minutes. About 20 minutes later, the mechanic showed up, fixed my van, and I was back up and running to finish the day's work.
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i have an idea. instead of dealing with the situation lets post on fml about it.
OP here. A little backstory... The vehicle I was driving is my work vehicle- a professional carpet cleaning van. I had driven the van to a job, realized there were no available parking spots to back it into and was thus forced to park it in the street and blocking two vehicles. I pulled the cleaning hoses and supplies to clean the apartment, finished the job, wrapped up and got back into the van. Only then when I shifted to 'drive' did the problem make itself known. Yes, it is an automatic. Not sure as to what was happening mechanically, I called our company's mechanic and it took him over an hour to get to me with the necessary part- a tiny little pin that pulls the shifter between gears and only takes a few minutes to replace without having to take it to a dealership or repair shop. So, in that hour long wait, an old lady came out to drive her vehicle to a store. As luck would have it, her vehicle was one of two that my van was blocking. She asked me to move the van, to which I replied that I couldn't as it was stuck in park. I explained I couldn't even shift it to neutral to push the vehicle out of the way. I explained I was waiting on someone to come help me. That made her day, and she started screaming at me for several minutes. Logic has failed to defuse the situation and since I am not a Vulcan and cannot sleep hold a bitch, I, treasuring the security of this job to provide for my family, chose to then get back into my van, roll up the window, and said "**** it. Time to FML." She left to go back inside after a few minutes. About 20 minutes later, the mechanic showed up, fixed my van, and I was back up and running to finish the day's work.
KeannaLove
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Some people are just assholes OP. You did the right thing by removing yourself from the situation. Also, loved the Vulcan reference! Definitely made my day.
I feel for you OP
Mcstud1y
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At least you care op
RA91
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Lmao, this has to be one of the best follow ups I've ever read!
I'd be pissed too if someone illegally parked me in and then broke down.
Had to park on the street: Yes. Had to block two cars: No. Could have parked farther away. You rolled the dice.
Uhh no, she's not the asshole here you are by FAR. You can't block other people's cars and then get angry that they got angry. She has every right to get mad that you blocked her car in the first place!
This is great! Lol. Some people are so uneasy going that they get too mad and caught up in the moment to see the humor and that accidents can happen. An hour isn't too bad anyways! Glad to hear it got fixed quickly.
cars like yours stop un my street all the time, the job needs to get done and theres no orher options. screaming at you wouldn't have helped solve the problem so it was pointless.
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Show it anywayIt takes roughly 37 seconds for someone with mechanical aptitude to find yadda yadda yadda. Not everyone has that. I know I sure wouldn't know where to start. Well, other than Google or ufixit or wikihow or something.
lyndz_20
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It was wrong to park other people in, period. People have places to go, an hour might seem little to some but you don't know where the other person is headed. I would have been as mad as that woman as well if I was headed somewhere important and I couldn't afford to be late
If a person has a hospital appointment or doctors, dentist, they may have waited months for it, get charged for missing it, in the UK some places give you strikes if you miss any without 24 hours notice. Even picking a kid up from school, last I checked you can't just go "Oh sorry, I'll get there an hour late or so." I think even the delay in finding which house you're into would be annoying. So basically, you're an asshole.
I couldn't sleep hold the bitch??
Tell me how am I supposed to get into an apartment at the back end of a building with a 300' set of hoses from a parking spot 500' away from the door of the apartment?
Does the hose necessarily have to be connected to the van?
Yes. It's a truck mounted carpet cleaning machine.
yes the reference made me smile. good for you op!
yellowzinnias
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No, he couldn't. The cleaning hoses are only so long, idiot.
yellowzinnias
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You and #61 clearly don't live in cities. In situations like this, there is no choice but to park the way he did, do the job as quickly as possible and get out. And all of the "Well, where I live we do it a, b and c" is moot. This isn't where YOU live (which is probably Podunk, USA), so shut it, mmk? Mmk.
Cool story, bro. Best FML follow-up, EVER. I would ne pissed too if you blocked my car, but hey stuff like that happens. .
Yes, you can block someone's car and get upset that they won't act rational. The OP clearly understands why the woman got angry. Her confined behavior even after learning what he was doing to fix the problem is crap.
After this fiasco it would be a good idea to get it repaired...
Can you read?
That's awesome!
koganti
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It happens man
There should be a button or shifter lever to where you can shift it freely
Good thing they install those in every vehicle!
You mean, the PRNDL?
Reattach the shifter cable?
shifter cable came loose
Just wait until you go down a hill!
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I'd be pissed too if someone illegally parked me in and then broke down.
If this has just started happening, as in whilst in the car then that's just really bad luck, but if you've been driving around with it like this for some time then you deserve it because it sounds like the car shouldn't be on the road.