Car Park Psychology.

[XitUp]

Needa308GT4 said:

Park in the or Parent and baby spaces and if anyone questions it politely tell them you're collecting your elderly mother/grandmother (adapt to fit) or meeting your wife and kids in there.

You're a fking idiot.

Harding91 said:

I work for Waitrose and there's a in a black ferrari with a PH Sticker on it that comes in every saturday and parks in a disabled spot, he is not disabled nor does he have a disabled parking permit, He also wears a leather ferrari jacket, even in the summer.

If you're reading this, you may be rich/own a nice car, but park in the proper fking spots you .

What have you done about it?

[angusc43]

andrewws said:

At our local Savacentre (Calcot) there seems to be a mentality that drives people to park their cars/4x4's in the waiting area by the door and to leave them there. Even though 5 yards away there are perfectly good marked parking spaces, but then I suppose the waiting area was built specially for them!! It does mean they are 5 yards closer to the shop.

They've also got special parking spots right in front of my local schools. Best recent example was the lady in the black Disco III parking right opposite the school gates on the zig zags 6 feet back from the zebra crossing. She didn't actually have any kids, was just trying to park near her house(!)

I had polite word (pointing out all the children streaming over the crossing into the school and the hordes of cars arriving at the same time) but she effectively told me to f*** off.

Gob smackingly-selfish.

[SLacKer]

tyranical said:

gtidriver said:

Tescos last Saturday, I'd parked the wife's car in the the child bay. When we came out, I saw the trolley that some fking lazy piece of fking st hadn't put back into the trolley bay resting against the side of my car. One small dent and two scrapes. I was fking steaming. Why would you just leave a trolley to bounce off cars,the carpark isnt flat and it was blowing a gale. Tescos answer was you park at your own risk and tuff.

It is funny you should say this,

I parked up at tescos last night and this idiot comes trotting across from the row of parking bays behind me and puts his trolley up on the path a couple of cars down from mine, another 10 metres of walking would have got him to a trolley collection point and my girlfriend watched me looking at him and told me not to say anything because she knows what i'm like... naturally I ignored her.

I pointed out to him that another few seconds of walking and he could have put it in a trolley collection point where it wasn't going to get blown into other peoples cars etc and he hurled a load of abuse at me and got back in his car.

I then got his trolley and parked it behind him so he couldn't reverse, I put the brake on so it wasn't going to blow away and I made sure he saw me do it so he didn't reverse into it without knowing it was there, he then got out and hurled some more abuse at me and took it to the trolley collection point.

Lesson learnt I'd say.

The Tesco in Redditch it is epidemic. The knuckle dragger's even leave the trolley right next to the trolley park. I always move the abandoned trolleys around where I park and put them in the trolley park.

I have also parked well away from the entrance only to find when I return someone parked right next to me even though there are loads of spaces. I can only conclude that they use another car for purposes of alignment as they are clearly unable to comprehend the purpose of the white lines.

[Nedzilla]

I dont blame people with expensive cars for parking in parent and child spaces or even disabled bays to try to give their car a bit more protection because most people in supermarket carparks simply dont give a flying fk!
Most people dont care if their car gets hit by another cars opening door or dinged by a trolley and therefore dont care about anyone elses.
What do you think a guy with a £150k ferrari would rather be going home with? A dent in his car or some abuse from a disabled person for parking in a disabled bay??

I have been a victim of careless s in carparks several times in the past now and will quite happily use P+C or disabled spaces to avoid costly damage to my car,and I will quite happily tollerate any abuse or even a £60 fine for the privilige!!

[williredale]

Why do people park next to you when you've parked as far away from the shop as possible to try and stop them?


If there's lots of room either a space away from the entrance or a space at the end next to a kerb / hedge.
Or if it's full then one next to a car that looks like it's taken care of.

My other half doesn't like my parking habits!!

[MattGTA]

Needa308GT4 said:

Park in the or Parent and baby spaces

The only impressive thing about this post is how much you managed to tell us about yourself in just 9 words. Well done.

[J4CKO]

Needa308GT4 said:

my car park psychology.

If they look female or old, steer clear.

If it's a Honda Jazz/Vaux Agila/Daewoo Matiz, find a different parking area.

Park in the or Parent and baby spaces and if anyone questions it politely tell them you're collecting your elderly mother/grandmother (adapt to fit) or meeting your wife and kids in there.

I've also found the stty parking only happens in Tescos or Morrisons. If you go to Waitrose you find a better class of people that actually respect other people's possessions.

, really ?

You do know there are disabled petrol heads on PH, and I am sure they are big enough to ignore stuff like that and it is the least of their worries but I would perhaps edit that out, it isn't 1980 and we aren't all ten mocking poor old Joey Deacon.

[MattGTA]

Nedzilla said:

I dont blame people with expensive cars for parking in parent and child spaces or even disabled bays to try to give their car a bit more protection because most people in supermarket carparks simply dont give a flying fk!
Most people dont care if their car gets hit by another cars opening door or dinged by a trolley and therefore dont care about anyone elses.
What do you think a guy with a £150k ferrari would rather be going home with? A dent in his car or some abuse from a disabled person for parking in a disabled bay??

I have been a victim of careless s in carparks several times in the past now and will quite happily use P+C or disabled spaces to avoid costly damage to my car,and I will quite happily tollerate any abuse or even a £60 fine for the privilige!!

Seriously?

I sympathise with the car park dings - we've all had them. But if you chose to drive into the supermarket in your Ferrari 250 GTO, you can't be surprised when you need to park in line with other people who may not be as careful as you would like them to be. (This in itself is also wrong, but it is what it is)

You can't think it's right to select the rules which apply to you, can you? As others have said - park in the far corner, buy a shopping shed or do something else to mitigate the risk without impacting others.

It's a ball ache to get small people out of baby seats with no space - and I'm both agile and fairly strong.

Thankfully, I've no experience of needing accessible spaces for any other reason but I imaging it's infinitely harder / impossible to use the regular spaces if you need wheelchair or other such access.

So, with all respect, if you don't like it, why don't you use home delivery services such as OCADO?

[thinfourth2]

Don't like parking your car in a supermarket carpark

Simple answer


Don't park your car in a supermarket carpark


Its not fking hard or complicated

[MattGTA]

thinfourth2 said:

Don't like parking your car in a supermarket carpark

Simple answer


Don't park your car in a supermarket carpark


Its not fking hard or complicated

[sturobturbo]

Nedzilla said:

I dont blame people with expensive cars for parking in parent and child spaces or even disabled bays to try to give their car a bit more protection because most people in supermarket carparks simply dont give a flying fk!
Most people dont care if their car gets hit by another cars opening door or dinged by a trolley and therefore dont care about anyone elses.
What do you think a guy with a £150k ferrari would rather be going home with? A dent in his car or some abuse from a disabled person for parking in a disabled bay??

I have been a victim of careless s in carparks several times in the past now and will quite happily use P+C or disabled spaces to avoid costly damage to my car,and I will quite happily tollerate any abuse or even a £60 fine for the privilige!!

Hear hear.
Plus, there is always st loads of extra disabled spaces and parent and child. I can't remember the last time I parked in a disabled spot, if ever, but when I worked in morrisons I used to park in p and c all the time. I spent about 500 hours and a decent chunk of cash getting, and keeping, my car immaculate. Why should I care if I park in p and c to keep morons doors away from mine.
Point in case being when I came back to my car after work and someone had just let go of a trolly and it had hit my tail light. This was after parking in a normal space at the request of the HR Manager. Anyone ever tried getting a replacement tail light for a Mini Clubman!?
fk them, if they don't care about my property (and it's usually a woman with kids being the culprit) why should I feel guilty for taking a p and c space.

Edited by sturobturbo on Saturday 23 June 09:38

[anonymous-user]

Nedzilla said:

I dont blame people with expensive cars for parking in parent and child spaces or even disabled bays to try to give their car a bit more protection because most people in supermarket carparks simply dont give a flying fk!
Most people dont care if their car gets hit by another cars opening door or dinged by a trolley and therefore dont care about anyone elses.
What do you think a guy with a £150k ferrari would rather be going home with? A dent in his car or some abuse from a disabled person for parking in a disabled bay??

I have been a victim of careless s in carparks several times in the past now and will quite happily use P+C or disabled spaces to avoid costly damage to my car,and I will quite happily tollerate any abuse or even a £60 fine for the privilige!!

A prime example of the self-obsessed society of today. 'I don't give a fk about anyone else, it's all me, me, me!' or 'Rules and social guidelines don't apply to me, no, I'm far more important than that!, and actually, whilst I think about it, far more important than anyone else'.

You sound like an utter jerk.

[thinfourth2]

sturobturbo said:

Hear hear.
Plus, there is always st loads of extra disabled spaces and parent and child. I can remember the last time I parked in a disabled spot, if ever, but when I worked in morrisons I used to park in p and c all the time. I spent about 500 hours and a decent chunk of cash getting, and keeping, my car immaculate. Why should I care if I park in p and c to keep morons doors away from mine.
Point in case being when I came back to my car after work and someone had just let go of a trolly and it had hit my tail light. This was after parking in a normal space at the request of the HR Manager. Anyone ever tried getting a replacement tail light for a Mini Clubman!?
fk them, if they don't care about my property (and it's usually a woman with kids being the culprit) why should I feel guilty for taking a p and c space.

So because someone else doesn't give a fk about your property you believe it is your divine right to use a parent and child space

Therefore denying someone with kids the use of the parent and child space

So if you don't give a fk about someone else why should anyone else give a fk about your property?

[Nedzilla]

sturobturbo said:

fk them, if they don't care about my property (and it's usually a woman with kids being the culprit) why should I feel guilty for taking a p and c space.

Exactly the point I was making Stuart!

[anonymous-user]

sturobturbo said:

Hear hear.
Plus, there is always st loads of extra disabled spaces and parent and child. I can remember the last time I parked in a disabled spot, if ever, but when I worked in morrisons I used to park in p and c all the time. I spent about 500 hours and a decent chunk of cash getting, and keeping, my car immaculate. Why should I care if I park in p and c to keep morons doors away from mine.
Point in case being when I came back to my car after work and someone had just let go of a trolly and it had hit my tail light. This was after parking in a normal space at the request of the HR Manager. Anyone ever tried getting a replacement tail light for a Mini Clubman!?
fk them, if they don't care about my property (and it's usually a woman with kids being the culprit) why should I feel guilty for taking a p and c space.

Jesus. There's more of them than I thought. How utterly depressing.

[wormburner]

Needa308GT4 said:

I can get away with the Parent and child spaces as I have the kids car seats in the back, and in fairness I'd probably not normally park in disabled bays as they're quite often terrible at parking their own Motability wagons.

This 'better class of people' who's company you enjoy - how do you find they react to meeting you?

[crazy about cars]

thinfourth2 said:

So because someone else doesn't give a fk about your property you believe it is your divine right to use a parent and child space

Therefore denying someone with kids the use of the parent and child space

So if you don't give a fk about someone else why should anyone else give a fk about your property?

Well spoken! As a parent myself I find it frustrating when someone who obviously doesn't have young kids (2 seater Merc convertible - no child seat in car) just uses the space as they please. This forces me to unload missus and kids first before parking car and same procedure when leaving. I could just don't care less and leave possible dings on other people's car but I am not that type. Do unto others and all that.

Sadly, in most cases there is nothing much you can do about people parking in P&C spaces legally although I have seen some places trying to enforce it.

Parking in Disabled spaces without a valid disabled permit though.......

[XitUp]

I knew there were a lot of wkers on pistonheads, but it's good that they are doing their best to let us know in this thread.

[sturobturbo]

thinfourth2 said:

So because someone else doesn't give a fk about your property you believe it is your divine right to use a parent and child space

Therefore denying someone with kids the use of the parent and child space

So if you don't give a fk about someone else why should anyone else give a fk about your property?

My point exactly thanks for your understanding.

[Buster73]

I live in an estate that has a scout hut near , you want to see the parking issues caused by parents waiting to pick up their little darlings , it's unbelievable .

Despite complaints to the scoutmaster ,they still insist on parking blocking drives and on a regular occurrence block the whole estate , the main road is only 100 yards away.

I've even seen the senior scouts sit in their cars for 5 minutes waiting to move into a space 20 yards closer.

A neighbour was blocked from getting on his drive one night , so took a few photos to use as evidence to the police , they knocked on his door before he complained accusing him of taking photos of the cubs / scouts.

Selfish bds.