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Narrow parking lot lines guarantee constant door dings

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Commercial plazas are not mapped for your absolute comfort, they are violently optimized for sheer volume. Planners intentionally paint the dividing markers extremely tightly together to aggressively squeeze an extra row of cars onto the property. The inevitable consequence is a miserable, permanent warzone of chipped paint and violently traded door impacts.

Narrow parking lot lines guarantee constant door dings
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