The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
Discussion
Birdster said:
Dr Z said:
Rich kids park badly (in halfords no less). Check out the number plate position on the otherwise lovely Gallardo Superleggera.
Vipers said:
Don't you just love people who park like this, FFS PARK ON THE LINE and leave room for someone else park behind you.
Watched them park in total oblivion to what was behind or in front of them.
Parked up on a similar street in Portsmouth - but got distracted by a passing bus snaking too close for comfort. We all got out and I noticed I was parked 2 feet from the end of the bay. So much to Mrs V.'s mutterings I jumped back in and moved the car 2 feet forward.Watched them park in total oblivion to what was behind or in front of them.
Vipers said:
Don't you just love people who park like this, FFS PARK ON THE LINE and leave room for someone else park behind you.
Watched them park in total oblivion to what was behind or in front of them.
Just the same when trying to park a wagon in a lay bye & some knob has parked a car slap bang in the fWatched them park in total oblivion to what was behind or in front of them.
king center.
TwyRob said:
Smiler. said:
I've no idea as to the complexity of it all but chap with the bag was unaccompanied & seemed in no hurry whilst shopping inside the store.
As you say, the car park is often busy so easier to park at the drop off point.
Dr Z said:
Birdster said:
Dr Z said:
Rich kids park badly (in halfords no less). Check out the number plate position on the otherwise lovely Gallardo Superleggera.
Vipers said:
Cliftonite said:
LV60 DDA
Double yellow lines, on the pavement, opposite parked vehicles . . .
2 litre diesel Audi reinforcing the stereotype.
I have a theory that car drivers do "think" to a very limited degree - ie, can other car drivers get through on the road?
I have the misfortune to live close to Cambridge station on a road without parking restrictions, and we see it all - the commuters park in all sorts of places, but forget about people who aren't car drivers: pedestrians, people with pushchairs/prams, mobility scooters...and on the road itself, anything other than a car - bin lorries, delivery lorries, b trivial things like ambulances...absolute unthinking, selfish so-and-sos to a man and woman.
Smiler. said:
Indeed, as the sign says.
I've no idea as to the complexity of it all but chap with the bag was unaccompanied & seemed in no hurry whilst shopping inside the store.
As you say, the car park is often busy so easier to park at the drop off point.
Ah, I did not realise that fella was the owner. In that case, it looks like he was just a lazy git being inconsiderate. I have often thought though, of you are popping in to collect loads of glasses that you are "hiring" for a party (this can be done free iirc) or similar would that count or is the consensus on here that pick up/drop off requires the driver to stay in the car? The signage is ambiguous, something about a 20minute limit I think.I've no idea as to the complexity of it all but chap with the bag was unaccompanied & seemed in no hurry whilst shopping inside the store.
As you say, the car park is often busy so easier to park at the drop off point.
TwyRob said:
Ah, I did not realise that fella was the owner. In that case, it looks like he was just a lazy git being inconsiderate. I have often thought though, of you are popping in to collect loads of glasses that you are "hiring" for a party (this can be done free iirc) or similar would that count or is the consensus on here that pick up/drop off requires the driver to stay in the car? The signage is ambiguous, something about a 20minute limit I think.
I don't think the glasses would be loose would they? I expect they'd be in a box so you would put them in a trolley like any other shopper and take them to your properly parked car.herewego said:
TwyRob said:
Ah, I did not realise that fella was the owner. In that case, it looks like he was just a lazy git being inconsiderate. I have often thought though, of you are popping in to collect loads of glasses that you are "hiring" for a party (this can be done free iirc) or similar would that count or is the consensus on here that pick up/drop off requires the driver to stay in the car? The signage is ambiguous, something about a 20minute limit I think.
I don't think the glasses would be loose would they? I expect they'd be in a box so you would put them in a trolley like any other shopper and take them to your properly parked car.The premise of a drop-off/pick-up point is that once your passenger is in/out of the vehicle, you move on. Parking in such a zone whilst you go in to the store is exactly that, parking.
If ones passenger is in need of assistance inside the store, then the use of a disabled space or other arrangement with the store is best.
This is why whilst I am relying on crutches for walking, my wife parks the car in a space as normal having dropped me off at the said zone. Collection can take a while as the zone is just after the entrance to the car pack so she has to go around again. Of course, it would be "easier" to just park in the zone, but neither of us are educationally challenged.
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