The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
Discussion
yellowjack said:
A common lawyer said:
Europa1 said:
Sir, I doff my cap to you for your handling of the situation. I have to mark you down one point, however, for choosing popcorn chicken over a ZingerTowerBurger.
In fairness, he didn't say that was ALL he was having. Zinger tower meal plus a big popcorn chicken, please.IvanSTi said:
yellowjack said:
No picture, but I arrived home tonight to find a '63' reg BMW 1 Series parked across mine and my next door neighbour's driveways.
Cue some tooting of the horn, and the teenaged rear seat passenger whipping out his phone. Several minutes later, just as I'm about to nose my car right up to his driver's door and dump it there while I eat my takeaway (to see how this t
twaffle likes it), and some speccy young Asian lad, who looks all of 12 years old, saunters up to the car.
So I get out, and after I get over the shock of discovering that he is the driver, and not the driver's son, I ask him why he thinks parking over my drive is appropriate behaviour...
- "Well there's no-where else to park"
"Erm, look around you, fella. I can see three clear spaces that wouldn't block anyone's drive without turning my head. I passed at least another three on the short drive up our cul-de-sac. As though to prove my point, a neighbour arrives and parks a Grand Cherokee neatly beside the kerb."
- "I didn't see them spaces"
"Probably because you didn't look for them. Is it just that you are lazy, and can't be bothered to walk to the house you are visiting?"
- "No.... erm.... I just, um....."
"That'll be a yes then. Are you going to move the car or not?"
- "Well how long have you been waiting?"
"What's that got to do with the price of fish? It's not your drive, so you don't get to park on it, so get in, get lost, and quit being ignorant!"
Seriously? He's parked across my drive, and he thinks that if I haven't been waiting too long, then it's OK? Bless. I haven't wanted to hit someone so much for such a long time, but his failure to understand why his knobbish parking was a problem, combined with the gormless look on his face made it such a tempting prospect. Only the presence of my wife in the car, and the prospect of being marched off in cuffs before I could eat my Popcorn Chicken stopped me. Amazingly, I didn't even stoop to swearing or personal abuse.
There's absolutely no way "Useless Cue some tooting of the horn, and the teenaged rear seat passenger whipping out his phone. Several minutes later, just as I'm about to nose my car right up to his driver's door and dump it there while I eat my takeaway (to see how this t
twaffle likes it), and some speccy young Asian lad, who looks all of 12 years old, saunters up to the car. So I get out, and after I get over the shock of discovering that he is the driver, and not the driver's son, I ask him why he thinks parking over my drive is appropriate behaviour...
- "Well there's no-where else to park"
"Erm, look around you, fella. I can see three clear spaces that wouldn't block anyone's drive without turning my head. I passed at least another three on the short drive up our cul-de-sac. As though to prove my point, a neighbour arrives and parks a Grand Cherokee neatly beside the kerb."
- "I didn't see them spaces"
"Probably because you didn't look for them. Is it just that you are lazy, and can't be bothered to walk to the house you are visiting?"
- "No.... erm.... I just, um....."
"That'll be a yes then. Are you going to move the car or not?"
- "Well how long have you been waiting?"
"What's that got to do with the price of fish? It's not your drive, so you don't get to park on it, so get in, get lost, and quit being ignorant!"
Seriously? He's parked across my drive, and he thinks that if I haven't been waiting too long, then it's OK? Bless. I haven't wanted to hit someone so much for such a long time, but his failure to understand why his knobbish parking was a problem, combined with the gormless look on his face made it such a tempting prospect. Only the presence of my wife in the car, and the prospect of being marched off in cuffs before I could eat my Popcorn Chicken stopped me. Amazingly, I didn't even stoop to swearing or personal abuse.
" wouldn't have crossed my lips at some point. So well done.Irrespective of who actually 'caused' the situation, in the first place.
Hol said:
IvanSTi said:
yellowjack said:
No picture, but I arrived home tonight to find a '63' reg BMW 1 Series parked across mine and my next door neighbour's driveways.
Cue some tooting of the horn, and the teenaged rear seat passenger whipping out his phone. Several minutes later, just as I'm about to nose my car right up to his driver's door and dump it there while I eat my takeaway (to see how this ttwaffle likes it), and some speccy young Asian lad, who looks all of 12 years old, saunters up to the car.
So I get out, and after I get over the shock of discovering that he is the driver, and not the driver's son, I ask him why he thinks parking over my drive is appropriate behaviour...
- "Well there's no-where else to park"
"Erm, look around you, fella. I can see three clear spaces that wouldn't block anyone's drive without turning my head. I passed at least another three on the short drive up our cul-de-sac. As though to prove my point, a neighbour arrives and parks a Grand Cherokee neatly beside the kerb."
- "I didn't see them spaces"
"Probably because you didn't look for them. Is it just that you are lazy, and can't be bothered to walk to the house you are visiting?"
- "No.... erm.... I just, um....."
"That'll be a yes then. Are you going to move the car or not?"
- "Well how long have you been waiting?"
"What's that got to do with the price of fish? It's not your drive, so you don't get to park on it, so get in, get lost, and quit being ignorant!"
Seriously? He's parked across my drive, and he thinks that if I haven't been waiting too long, then it's OK? Bless. I haven't wanted to hit someone so much for such a long time, but his failure to understand why his knobbish parking was a problem, combined with the gormless look on his face made it such a tempting prospect. Only the presence of my wife in the car, and the prospect of being marched off in cuffs before I could eat my Popcorn Chicken stopped me. Amazingly, I didn't even stoop to swearing or personal abuse.
There's absolutely no way "Useless Cue some tooting of the horn, and the teenaged rear seat passenger whipping out his phone. Several minutes later, just as I'm about to nose my car right up to his driver's door and dump it there while I eat my takeaway (to see how this t
twaffle likes it), and some speccy young Asian lad, who looks all of 12 years old, saunters up to the car. So I get out, and after I get over the shock of discovering that he is the driver, and not the driver's son, I ask him why he thinks parking over my drive is appropriate behaviour...
- "Well there's no-where else to park"
"Erm, look around you, fella. I can see three clear spaces that wouldn't block anyone's drive without turning my head. I passed at least another three on the short drive up our cul-de-sac. As though to prove my point, a neighbour arrives and parks a Grand Cherokee neatly beside the kerb."
- "I didn't see them spaces"
"Probably because you didn't look for them. Is it just that you are lazy, and can't be bothered to walk to the house you are visiting?"
- "No.... erm.... I just, um....."
"That'll be a yes then. Are you going to move the car or not?"
- "Well how long have you been waiting?"
"What's that got to do with the price of fish? It's not your drive, so you don't get to park on it, so get in, get lost, and quit being ignorant!"
Seriously? He's parked across my drive, and he thinks that if I haven't been waiting too long, then it's OK? Bless. I haven't wanted to hit someone so much for such a long time, but his failure to understand why his knobbish parking was a problem, combined with the gormless look on his face made it such a tempting prospect. Only the presence of my wife in the car, and the prospect of being marched off in cuffs before I could eat my Popcorn Chicken stopped me. Amazingly, I didn't even stoop to swearing or personal abuse.
" wouldn't have crossed my lips at some point. So well done.Irrespective of who actually 'caused' the situation, in the first place.
" could only be seen as sexist at best? 
yellowjack said:
A common lawyer said:
Europa1 said:
Sir, I doff my cap to you for your handling of the situation. I have to mark you down one point, however, for choosing popcorn chicken over a ZingerTowerBurger.
In fairness, he didn't say that was ALL he was having. Zinger tower meal plus a big popcorn chicken, please.How can be people be so selfish/unaware/self absorbed/lazy/let's call a spade a spade:f
king stupid?!rant over; glass of wine poured; rage receding...
kowalski655 said:
There is nothing new under the sun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-frwi6y3kA
Abandoned for at least half an hour in the small Chiswick Metro Bank car park this afternoon. Causing all sorts of trouble to other users of the small car park (there's a row of 5 or 6 cars just off screen, it's tight to get in the spaces as it is because of the angle you come in off the road.
kowalski655 said:
Don't know the road but looks like just enough room for both cars if the Fiesta wasn't in the middle of the road.Didn't check whether there was a blue badge but even if there was, Merc driver parked like a true w**ker
And proof two wrongs don't make a right. RR diver pulled in badly, then a few minutes later the Corsa driver lined up with him to compound the bad parking
Just after I took this pic a car passed behind me (going the wrong way) and - driving nose first into a space - he used the kerb of the pedestrian walkway to judge when to stop. hit it with quite a bang.
And proof two wrongs don't make a right. RR diver pulled in badly, then a few minutes later the Corsa driver lined up with him to compound the bad parking
Just after I took this pic a car passed behind me (going the wrong way) and - driving nose first into a space - he used the kerb of the pedestrian walkway to judge when to stop. hit it with quite a bang.
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