I need more coffee; I read this first as "American Cats" and was so confused

I noticed this 15 years ago, when we were still taking our Scion to Texas to visit my wife's parents. Park it between two giant pick-ups and it disappears. Yet these are being driven to malls by single white guys who never get closer to a ranch than the meat aisle at HEB.

It's like when you can't fit in your pants any more and you blame the pants.

YES. This is one of my bigger pet peeves in day-to-day life. As long as the vehicles are going to keep getting bigger, I think they should keep parking spaces small close to the doors of businesses. Then have bigger parking spots out further away. If you are able enough to drive a giant vehicle, you are able enough to walk further.

The parking garage at my work building has columns that are too close together - lines and numbers are painted declaring that the area between columns is two parking spaces.

*NOBODY* parks two cars between columns - 1 car takes 2. My old BMW i3 (a compact "city car" by modern standards) barely fit "in the lines" without rubbing against one of the columns.

(The first time I parked there was early pandemic, almost nobody else, I thought I was actually supposed to take only one spot.)

Perhaps more importantly than parking spaces is the climate emergency we're now just at the beginning of. Parking spaces are the least of our worries.

Sadly it would seem though that the American mind and culture isn't yet grasping that full size vehicles as we've come to know them are not a part of a survivable future. Even electric cars. We have to end them in favor of much smaller vehicles: micromobility, cycling, public transit.

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice

My Fiat isn’t much bigger! 😄