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Adam-b
Original Poster
58 posts
49 months
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Doesnt work.
I look after my cars, their appearance and condition are important to me as I buy cars in very good condition and like to keep them that way as it pays dividends when I come to sell them.
So I park out of the way of the scruffy people carriers, rusty transit vans etc.... Usually at the far end of the car park, and the extra walk to the entrance wont do me any harm.
So why is it that I always come back to my car and find a car parked right next to mine, usually so close I cant get into my car properly? Its never something that looks like the owner cares for it, covred in dents and key marks etc.... And I look around to see 30+ empty spaces ?????
This afternoon i parked in a retail park, no other cars around me and then an old Saxo parks to my passenger side, then the driver (woman) tries to get out. She has parked so close that door wont open more than 3" so does she try and park it properly? Go to pne of the 40+ other empty spaces? No she climbs out of her passenger side.
You may see pics of my car appearing in the bad parking thread soon, parked over 2 bays. I now see the logic these people use.
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Frances The Mute
964 posts
110 months
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Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
From what I can gather, some people need to use other cars as a guide due to their complete lack of spatial awareness with regards to the location of the white lines used to create the parking space.
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cpas
1,475 posts
109 months
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I think it's the 'he must know something I didn't know' logic. The same logic which was used last time I went to the beach with the family and found a nice clear spot, only to have some scruffy family wander up and set up camp literally 10 yards away from us on a completely empty section of beach, then stand yelling to other members of their family as they where they were!!!
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Davie
843 posts
84 months
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I sometimes wonder if people do it out of spite...
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Killer2005
15,389 posts
97 months
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From discussing this at work, other people do it as they see someone who takes care of their car and is the least likely to cause damage to their car.
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jenpot
428 posts
56 months
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I'm going to become one of those people who park at the far end soon, collect my new toy on saturday and I'm terrified of damaging it. If anyone even breathes on it for the first few days....
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carguy88
264 posts
80 months
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we are all born with brains, but I believe not all of us use them...
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Mr-B
493 posts
63 months
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I remember years ago turning up early for an exam I was the first to arrive in a completely empty car park, sat in the car doing some final cramming before going into the exam hall. As I sat there another car pulls into the car park (female driver) and she has the choice of parking anywhere so she parks right next to mine. Takes about 4 goes to get it until she is happy with it  Why? She didn't know me or anything so she didn't have reason to then start chatting to me, in fact she gets out straight away and heads into the exam room. Another time more recently, I was parked up on sainsburys car park in the evening so it was fairly quiet anyway but I had parked in an area with spaces all around me. I was sat in the car finishing a phone call. A woman with a couple of teenage kids in the car pulls up in the opposite line of spaces, hoorah, I was expecting my car to act as some kind of immense magnet and pull hers towards me. Then she restarts her car and moves it right next to mine, close enough for the kids to have trouble getting out of, and me aswell  Ferfuxsake!! I could have moved mine to make it easier to get out of but that's not the effing point!! AAArrgghh! No wonder women have been given the 'mental' tag.
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Kieranv
232 posts
53 months
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Killer2005 said: From discussing this at work, other people do it as they see someone who takes care of their car and is the least likely to cause damage to their car. Also this, I often park at the quiet end of the often busy retail park i work in. All my colleagues were taking the mick, until I explained it, and some customers come in and tell me how if they see someone intentionally park further away in an empty area, they will park next to them.
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XDA
1,830 posts
54 months
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I only ever park in the furthest possible space as like to keep my car scratch and dent free.
Yet everytime I return to my car, someone will be parked right next to it.
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Birdster
496 posts
12 months
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Kieranv said: Also this, I often park at the quiet end of the often busy retail park i work in. All my colleagues were taking the mick, until I explained it, and some customers come in and tell me how if they see someone intentionally park further away in an empty area, they will park next to them. Seen this. Some people just like to wind others up. So will park next to these peopleeven if it means they have to walk further themselves.
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vrsmxtb
1,207 posts
25 months
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Always park on the end bay / next to a kerb - at least then you can squeeze right up close and have a big buffer zone of empty space next to you.
My car is parked 5 days a week in a supermarket and if you find the right strategic space, you're fine. Honest!
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Fantuzzi
1,429 posts
15 months
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Hate this. Dont see why parking in two bays is considered 'bad' if its intened and not meerly a mistake! Rather end up in the bad parking thread than have to start a 'SOME F  ING F ER HAS HIT MY CAR' thread!
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crocodile tears
755 posts
15 months
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If you haven't parked away from the crowds and look like you're in a position under threat from people carriers/idiots... Whilst the s tbox I park next to you might look like I don't care - I may actually be trying to save you 
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Adam_W
910 posts
69 months
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herd mentality perhaps...
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don'tbesilly
365 posts
32 months
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vrsmxtb said: Always park on the end bay / next to a kerb - at least then you can squeeze right up close and have a big buffer zone of empty space next to you.
My car is parked 5 days a week in a supermarket and if you find the right strategic space, you're fine. Honest! Oh so your the one who always parks where I want & need to park. Please desist and park elsewhere,there's a good chap 
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John D.
9,554 posts
78 months
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Frances The Mute said: Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
From what I can gather, some people need to use other cars as a guide due to their complete lack of spatial awareness with regards to the location of the white lines used to create the parking space. Its this most of the time I reckon. That's why they end up too close also.
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bennyboysvuk
2,002 posts
117 months
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Killer2005 said: From discussing this at work, other people do it as they see someone who takes care of their car and is the least likely to cause damage to their car. I found if you park perfectly it does attract the likes of the above. To try to dissuade this I tend to park at the far end of the car park, diagonally, just within the lines. This makes people think I've parked there because I can't park and I find that people don't park near me.
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