The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
Discussion
Hackney said:
zedx19 said:
Vipers said:
Hackney said:
Just went down to my car to find this
Action!But the way, why can't we see any sign of a white line alongside your car
My favourite space is the single space between to pillars as no-one was ever brave enough to go for those, until someone started parallel parking over two spaces (length-wise).
As there are plenty of spaces available I tend to go for two wide so no-one parkes next to me.
The sanctimony is strong with this one...
Have you considered the (very real) possibility that the Honda driver did it deliberately, to make a point about YOUR selfish, crappy parking? After all, YOU parked 'other than in a marked space' first. All he/she has done is follow YOUR poor example...
I'll bet you live in a glass house, and are, at this very minute, stockpiling more stones to (very publicly) throw...
A small moral victory was achieved this morning at my local COOP.
Two raving halfwits parked so as to obstruct the exit to the car park...
...now, the F**KING MASSIVE!!! yellow hatchings and 'No Parking' script are recent. When the car park was first marked, there was a long, undivided parking box painted on the left of the picture, and the no parking zone, on the right, was not marked as such, it just required a modicum of intelligence to work out that parking both sides was not going to work. However. Few customers seemed to have the intelligence required to operate that system successfully, frequently parking on both sides, and blocking the exit while they nipped into the shop for essentials like fags and scratchcards. So a fortnight ago, or thereabouts, three parking spaces were re-marked, closer to the shop, where all the fat lazy morons liked to park anyway, and the hatchings and writing were painted for the avoidance of any doubt as to the proper procedure for leaving one's car unattended. So far so good. Two weeks (ish) into the new marking scheme, and I hadn't seen anyone acting the twunt outside the shop. "Hooray! It's worked!" thinks I.
Well. As you can see above, some idiots are still parking like t
ts. As I went into the shop, some halfwit in a minibus was blocking both the parking spaces, and the hatched area, while on his mobile telephone. A flash of the high beams (I tried not to use the horn, really I did) brought no response, so a gentle "toot" it was. He managed to roll forward sufficient that I could park, and as I walked into the shop, he drove off, around a complex roundabout, with his phone still glued to his ear, and the slogan "fighting crime together" still visible on the rear quarter of the ex-Police van. So I'm not in a terribly good mood, and it wasn't improved by the shop not having Warburton's Toasty bread in stock. I had to stoop to bloody Kingsmill, FFS! But it got worse when I returned to my car, to find the halfwits pictured above. A young chap in the white Transit was trying (in vain) to get out of the car park, but with no space to swing it around, and a very tight gap between my (properly parked) car and the dimwit's Civic too small to squeeze the Transit through, he was having no joy. He shrugged at me. I shrugged back, and gestured to the "No Parking" notice painted large upon the ground. We were in accord. Lesser van drivers would simply have turned around, and gone out the 'No Exit' route, back the way he came, but no, this honourable tradesman deserved better. So I slung my loaf into the car, and walked back to the door of the shop...
...as I stood in the doorway, I loudly asked, to the whole shop: "Is there any chance that either of the halfwits who are blocking the exit to the car park might move them, so that some of us can get on with the rest of our day?" Well, I didn't actually expect a response, other than maybe some abuse, or casual threats of violence, but, as I sat in my car, waiting to get out, a miracle happened. The white haired 'geezer' in the red Ford (B-Max?) came out and moved his car. He didn't look very happy about it, and glared at me as he unlocked it, to the extent that I feared a 'mouthful of sovs, ya caaaaaant', but no violence ensued. I managed to squeeze my car out between the Civic and the Toyota in front of me, which gave the Transit driver the space to follow me through. I've no idea whether the Civic driver felt sufficient shame to shift it right away, or if they just bought their stash of sarnies, crisps, Red Bull and the Daily Mail before leaving, but I hope it made a small point to the pair of them, and made them think before parking like that again.
Two raving halfwits parked so as to obstruct the exit to the car park...
...now, the F**KING MASSIVE!!! yellow hatchings and 'No Parking' script are recent. When the car park was first marked, there was a long, undivided parking box painted on the left of the picture, and the no parking zone, on the right, was not marked as such, it just required a modicum of intelligence to work out that parking both sides was not going to work. However. Few customers seemed to have the intelligence required to operate that system successfully, frequently parking on both sides, and blocking the exit while they nipped into the shop for essentials like fags and scratchcards. So a fortnight ago, or thereabouts, three parking spaces were re-marked, closer to the shop, where all the fat lazy morons liked to park anyway, and the hatchings and writing were painted for the avoidance of any doubt as to the proper procedure for leaving one's car unattended. So far so good. Two weeks (ish) into the new marking scheme, and I hadn't seen anyone acting the twunt outside the shop. "Hooray! It's worked!" thinks I.
Well. As you can see above, some idiots are still parking like t
ts. As I went into the shop, some halfwit in a minibus was blocking both the parking spaces, and the hatched area, while on his mobile telephone. A flash of the high beams (I tried not to use the horn, really I did) brought no response, so a gentle "toot" it was. He managed to roll forward sufficient that I could park, and as I walked into the shop, he drove off, around a complex roundabout, with his phone still glued to his ear, and the slogan "fighting crime together" still visible on the rear quarter of the ex-Police van. So I'm not in a terribly good mood, and it wasn't improved by the shop not having Warburton's Toasty bread in stock. I had to stoop to bloody Kingsmill, FFS! But it got worse when I returned to my car, to find the halfwits pictured above. A young chap in the white Transit was trying (in vain) to get out of the car park, but with no space to swing it around, and a very tight gap between my (properly parked) car and the dimwit's Civic too small to squeeze the Transit through, he was having no joy. He shrugged at me. I shrugged back, and gestured to the "No Parking" notice painted large upon the ground. We were in accord. Lesser van drivers would simply have turned around, and gone out the 'No Exit' route, back the way he came, but no, this honourable tradesman deserved better. So I slung my loaf into the car, and walked back to the door of the shop......as I stood in the doorway, I loudly asked, to the whole shop: "Is there any chance that either of the halfwits who are blocking the exit to the car park might move them, so that some of us can get on with the rest of our day?" Well, I didn't actually expect a response, other than maybe some abuse, or casual threats of violence, but, as I sat in my car, waiting to get out, a miracle happened. The white haired 'geezer' in the red Ford (B-Max?) came out and moved his car. He didn't look very happy about it, and glared at me as he unlocked it, to the extent that I feared a 'mouthful of sovs, ya caaaaaant', but no violence ensued. I managed to squeeze my car out between the Civic and the Toyota in front of me, which gave the Transit driver the space to follow me through. I've no idea whether the Civic driver felt sufficient shame to shift it right away, or if they just bought their stash of sarnies, crisps, Red Bull and the Daily Mail before leaving, but I hope it made a small point to the pair of them, and made them think before parking like that again.
Hackney said:
I am. Principally because of the number of people who can't park. Most of the car park is made up of 2 spaces between 2 concrete pillars.
My favourite space is the single space between to pillars as no-one was ever brave enough to go for those, until someone started parallel parking over two spaces (length-wise).
As there are plenty of spaces available I tend to go for two wide so no-one parkes next to me.
If you're parked like a tMy favourite space is the single space between to pillars as no-one was ever brave enough to go for those, until someone started parallel parking over two spaces (length-wise).
As there are plenty of spaces available I tend to go for two wide so no-one parkes next to me.
t then I don't have any sympathy for you.The person who decided to bump park into you likely only did it because they saw a white BMW parked like a tool and thought they would teach you a lesson.
I avoid parking like a t
t mainly because it's selfish but secondly because if you park like that you will likely end up drawing more attention to yourself. Which either means you will get keyed by some low-life or someone with a st-box will park right next to your drivers door.
When Duthie park had a make over, they put white lines down, I assume to maximum parking spaces, but it's obviously difficult for some drivers to even try to park in the lines.
When I parked, (Volvo on the right) I do what I always do, get out and check back and front of my car to make sure I am parked correctly.
When I returned the 4 x 4 which had been neatly parked behind me gone, and this goon had parked in his space.
These aren't isolated incidents in this park, with limited car spaces, these two were just of a number of numpties today.
When I parked, (Volvo on the right) I do what I always do, get out and check back and front of my car to make sure I am parked correctly.
When I returned the 4 x 4 which had been neatly parked behind me gone, and this goon had parked in his space.
These aren't isolated incidents in this park, with limited car spaces, these two were just of a number of numpties today.
Popped in to Tesco at The Meadows this afternoon and a few minutes later a member of staff was on the PA system making an announcement asking the owner of a blue Vectra to return to their car immediately and remove it from the 2 x disabled spaces that they had dumped the car over, as it was preventing a legitimately disabled person from parking their car
AlexRS2782 said:
Popped in to Tesco at The Meadows this afternoon and a few minutes later a member of staff was on the PA system making an announcement asking the owner of a blue Vectra to return to their car immediately and remove it from the 2 x disabled spaces that they had dumped the car over, as it was preventing a legitimately disabled person from parking their car
In some respects, being a tard is disabled Hackney said:
grayme said:
Nice tin hat...
Err...thanks. Taking two spaces in a car park with plenty of spaces spare requires a tin hat? When did that law come in?
m8rky said:
yellowjack said:
and it wasn't improved by the shop not having Warburton's Toasty bread in stock. I had to stoop to bloody Kingsmill, FFS! violence ensued.
Is it not just me then that regards Kingsmil as, well, a bit chavvy? ...and thanks for the 'imaginative' quoting
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