"Some guy just honked at me to leave my parking space faster, so now I’ll just have to sit here until both of us are dead” is a jocular saying about parking. The speaker is being comically stubborn.
“Someone just honked to get me to get out of my parking spot faster, so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead” was posted on Twitter by Stephanie Leonard on December 4, 2015. The original credited source is no longer available.
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Stephanie Leonard
@Stephx29
@Erin_Kraus
RT @theyearofelan: Someone just honked to get me to get out of my parking spot faster so now I ... http://tmi.me/1faSC5
10:39 PM · Dec 4, 2015·Echofon
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Daniel Ada
@DanielAda1960
Someone just honked to get me to get out of my parking spot faster so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead..
2:32 AM · Dec 5, 2015·Facebook
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Michael F. Carrico 👣🦍👣
@MFCarrico
Someone just honked to get me to get out of my parking spot faster so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead.
6:29 AM · Dec 5, 2015·UberSocial© PRO
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Jdub
@jdub174
Someone just honked to get me to get out of my parking spot faster so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead
12:36 PM · Dec 5, 2015·Facebook
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Alex
@YourYakiri
Some guy just honked at me to leave my parking space faster, so now I’ll just have to sit here until both of us are dead.
8:56 AM · Nov 17, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
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@YourYakiri
Some guy just honked at me to leave my parking space faster, so now I’ll just have to sit here until both of us are dead.
8:56 AM - Nov 17, 2016
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TheModernMom
@_themodernmom_
Someone just honked to get me out of my parking spot faster… so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead.
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2:55 PM · Sep 4, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
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Peter Owen DVSA ADI ORDIT
@PeterOwenADI
Someone just honked to get me out of my parking spot faster, so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead! 🤷😂
5:06 PM · Dec 4, 2019·Twitter for Android
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mumblance
@mcjools
Someone just beeped to get me out of my parking space quicker, and so now I have to sit here until both of us are dead.
5:11 AM · Feb 15, 2020 from Al Seeb, Oman·Twitter for iPhone
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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