Carpark 'Ding' - Am I over reacting?
Discussion
That is a classic 
Purity14 said:
I arrived at Tesco and pulled into a space with a (new at the time) BMW X5 on my right.
I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
StottyEvo said:
I can point that that dents and scrapes are very cheap to fix. So if you stop worrying and park wherever you want, after 2months you might have to spend £50 getting it perfect again 
That should be a strong enough argument to stop you worrying!
The last two occasions someone damaged my car - one was a gouge in the rear wing and bumper and one was a scrape on the doorskin running through to the rear wing. None of these were £50 PDR jobbies! I am tempted to get a tatty old classic as an about-town motor, probably better value.That should be a strong enough argument to stop you worrying!
Purity14 said:
I arrived at Tesco and pulled into a space with a (new at the time) BMW X5 on my right.
I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
Wasn't that an episode of 'Malcolm in the Middle'??I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
anonymous said:
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Not necessarily paranoid. I once parked my woeful old heap next to a middle aged saddo in a 'nice' car. It was a shiny saloon - possibly German. Almost certainly German. Anyhow my social better started his mighty engine and drove to a different parking space. As I was in no hurry, and the car park was reasonably empty, I followed suit and chose the slot next to his new one.
He repeated the performance, with me on his tail. Then he left!!! He did give me a funny look, but was probably suffering such internal conflict - like he couldn't actually bring himself to explain he didn't wish to have an older vehicle parked next to his. Social suicide or what? I completed my shopping trip.
MagneticMeerkat said:
anonymous said:
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Not necessarily paranoid. I once parked my woeful old heap next to a middle aged saddo in a 'nice' car. It was a shiny saloon - possibly German. Almost certainly German. Anyhow my social better started his mighty engine and drove to a different parking space. As I was in no hurry, and the car park was reasonably empty, I followed suit and chose the slot next to his new one.
He repeated the performance, with me on his tail. Then he left!!! He did give me a funny look, but was probably suffering such internal conflict - like he couldn't actually bring himself to explain he didn't wish to have an older vehicle parked next to his. Social suicide or what? I completed my shopping trip.
SMcP114 said:
You sound like a huge weirdo with a lot of time on your hands.
If someone started being a knob, following me around the car park etc., I'd wait until they went off to do their shopping and pull a practical joke on them for when they return (something to teach them a lesson but without doing damage).
The whole reason some are so fussy when they park is that an unbelievable amount of people can't be trusted to behave themselves.
valiant said:
Purity14 said:
I arrived at Tesco and pulled into a space with a (new at the time) BMW X5 on my right.
I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
Wasn't that an episode of 'Malcolm in the Middle'??I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
Purity14 said:
I arrived at Tesco and pulled into a space with a (new at the time) BMW X5 on my right.
I was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
Sounds a bit bullsI was sending a text message before I went into the store and the X5 owner returned and dinged my door.
His X5 looked nice and new, and I was in my crappy car that I use for moving engine bits and nipping to the tip, only worth about £800 tops.
He accidentally dinged my door, so I let it go and thought nothing of it.
But he did it again, harder than before.
"Excuse me mate, could you try not slamming your car door into mine so hard?" I asked.
"Why would you care?" he replied.
"Because its respect, you wouldn't like it if I dinged your door" I said.
"That's because my car is expensive, and your car isn't!"
So I dinged his door with him sat in it.
He then dinged my door back.
I dinged his door harder.
He dinged mine harder still.
I turned around in my seat and kicked my door into the side of his car as hard as I could.
He then repeatedly banged his door into my door all red faced and then drove forward did it do my rear door, and then again at my rear quarter.
Massive opening door smashing fest, it was mental.
Both our cars were wrecked, and he sped off.
The problem for him was that I was on the way to the scrapyard.
The Head Gasket had gone on the car about 2 months ago, and I'd been limping around waiting to find a replacement workhorse.
It was the final journey and I was getting £200 for it regardless.
Ive always wanted to meet again.
tty to meI always park away from others, even if it's pissing it down, if limited parking however, I try to avoid parking next to three door cars, as these tend to be big doors that open wide, also look out for child seats in rear of car, as these doors will rub on your paint while the child is put in the seat, that's if the pram doesn't scrape along it first.
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