Supermarket car park, absolutely petrified

[Fonzo]

MGirl said:

The 595, 997, i8 or M4 however attract people parking right next to them even when you’re miles away.

If there are no spaces available with free space either side, I will intentionally park next to the nicest car possible, I trust that they probably care as much about their car as I do about mine.

[ddom]

SidewaysSi said:

Sounds ok but you are missing out big time my man..

It’s largely bks, I’ve spent most my life in different countries and the negative way it’s all being painted hasn’t been my experience at all. Any capital is going to be a place to pick up dents, but that’s largely solved by parking away from the cheap side streets.

It’s always the same. If you don’t own a shed you’re somehow not enlightened? Thing is, I did that for a few years then got bored, and life’s too short for both sheds, and patronising individuals

One wonders why they remain on a motoring forum, but each to their own.

[MGirl]

Fonzo said:

MGirl said:

The 595, 997, i8 or M4 however attract people parking right next to them even when you’re miles away.

If there are no spaces available with free space either side, I will intentionally park next to the nicest car possible, I trust that they probably care as much about their car as I do about mine.

I totally get that mentality and mostly you find that people who take the time to park with consideration and haven’t just abandoned it will generally be fine. Stopped at Weatherby services on the way back with the i8, parked where there was loads of space and came back to find a octavia estate in not there best condition parked close but the guy was very cautious when he got out and back in so all good.

My mate still goes on about the fact we’ve driven into town to go to the cinema and the only space available was between a jazz and a Zafira with ‘princess on board’ so I refused to park and drove us home! At the time I had a brand new FN2 while his daily driver was an old metro. Should have taken that!

[hungry_hog]

sean ie3 said:

It's surprising the amusement onlookers find from seeing an minor event happening, even a small one and also how much of a tit you feel having been observed. This happened pulling into a space outside a coffee shop in Le Man slightly scuffing my front bumper on a bollard, annoying but there you go.

Tall poppy syndrome
The nicer car you have the more people will laugh I guess

[JPW231]

Chrishum said:

I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.

Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.

That's fine with their own property, bit not other people's. Whybitbosnt criminal damage I don't know.

A friend parked his Mustang at a supermarket and a guy reversed and manoeuvred to park next to the Mustang driver's door to ensure he wouldn't be able to get in. Witnessed by the owner. When confronted the guys said "well you shouldn't be such a posh bd with a nice car!". He was told that it's his choice owning his own business and working 70hrs a week. The guy just gave him the finger.

Same happened with a woman in another car park.

Pure jealousy and imho it's completely unacceptable.

[InitialDave]

JPW231 said:

That's fine with their own property, bit not other people's. Why it isn't iminal damage I don't know.

Well, an accident is still an accident, its not deliberate.

I think most people accept that mistakes happen, it's when people do it and then don't care or apologise that's the real wind up.

[Dermot O'Logical]

I want something like the Toyota pickup that Top Gear tried to destroy just for those few occasions when I absolutely have to park among the great unwashed. Since when was damaging somebody else's car acceptable?

I have my shopping delivered nowadays.

[irc]

There are strange people walking among us. Parked in Morrison's carpark for a snack while working. Parked well away from the door with no other cars for 3 or 4 spaces any direction.

The next two cars parked either side of me. Not my car so I don't care that much but why?
.

[nonsequitur]

irc said:

There are strange people walking among us. Parked in Morrison's carpark for a snack while working. Parked well away from the door with no other cars for 3 or 4 spaces any direction.

The next two cars parked either side of me. Not my car so I don't care that much but why?
.

On that subject's own thread, one suggestion was another car is used for correct alignment into a space. Or something.

[wazztie16]

I don't need to worry about supermarket dings on my new (to me) car I got yesterday evening.

I just get the missus to smash the door into a wall in the street earlier today

[swisstoni]

nonsequitur said:

irc said:

There are strange people walking among us. Parked in Morrison's carpark for a snack while working. Parked well away from the door with no other cars for 3 or 4 spaces any direction.

The next two cars parked either side of me. Not my car so I don't care that much but why?
.

On that subject's own thread, one suggestion was another car is used for correct alignment into a space. Or something.

I think there are those who look at a car like they would a plate in a dishwasher or a book on an empty shelf.
They like to keep things neat!
So a plate goes next to the other one in the dishwasher.
The book goes next to the other one on the shelf.
And cars should park neatly next to each other.

That’s my cod theory for this fkwittery.

[Ron240]

MGirl said:

At the time I had a brand new FN2 while his daily driver was an old metro

Yeah I remember when I had my brand new SR-71 and I did exactly the same as you.

[Jaguar99]

Chrishum said:

I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.

As others have said, it’s not the damage per se that is the issue; it’s the mentality that it is ok to damage someone else property plus the cost and hassle of getting it repaired

nonsequitur said:

On that subject's own thread, one suggestion was another car is used for correct alignment into a space. Or something.

This is defo a thing. I have more than once parked in an end space or larger than average space which should mean the next car is far away if parked square in the next space only for the next car to park a standard gap away from my car with no attention paid to the space markings

[ambuletz]

swisstoni said:

nonsequitur said:

irc said:

There are strange people walking among us. Parked in Morrison's carpark for a snack while working. Parked well away from the door with no other cars for 3 or 4 spaces any direction.

The next two cars parked either side of me. Not my car so I don't care that much but why?
.

On that subject's own thread, one suggestion was another car is used for correct alignment into a space. Or something.

I think there are those who look at a car like they would a plate in a dishwasher or a book on an empty shelf.
They like to keep things neat!
So a plate goes next to the other one in the dishwasher.
The book goes next to the other one on the shelf.
And cars should park neatly next to each other.

That’s my cod theory for this fkwittery.

it's a mystery who these people are. where are they? surely there must be a handful of people somewhere on PH who park next to cars that are in the middle of nowhere. if not.. then where are these people? how do you find them to speak to them and see whats going on in their head at the time?

[M4cruiser]

swisstoni said:

nonsequitur said:

irc said:

There are strange people walking among us. Parked in Morrison's carpark for a snack while working. Parked well away from the door with no other cars for 3 or 4 spaces any direction.

The next two cars parked either side of me. Not my car so I don't care that much but why?
.

On that subject's own thread, one suggestion was another car is used for correct alignment into a space. Or something.

I think there are those who look at a car like they would a plate in a dishwasher or a book on an empty shelf.
They like to keep things neat!
So a plate goes next to the other one in the dishwasher.
The book goes next to the other one on the shelf.
And cars should park neatly next to each other.

That’s my cod theory for this fkwittery.

Even worse example coming up:-
A close friend sent me this picture of her Matiz a while back, she'd parked a long way from anything else in Fleet Services, and came back to find this (W523PAE) parked right next to hers:-

[Ron240]

M4cruiser said:

Even worse example coming up:-
A close friend sent me this picture of her Matiz a while back, she'd parked a long way from anything else in Fleet Services, and came back to find this (W523PAE) parked right next to hers:-

That is perfectly understandable.
I had a similar thing one morning while visiting my local B&Q. I came out to find this car parked immediately behind me.

[Cold]

There's a whole (million page long) thread about that.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[10126 Torino]

I rarely drive to the supermarket but did last week as it was near closing time , parked up , someone in car next space looked over . .

I slammed the door on the old banger and didn't stop to lock it .

It was still there when I came out .

[Ron240]

Cold said:

There's a whole (million page long) thread about that.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Slight exaggeration there...its only 51 pages.
Which in PH tradition is really not very much.

Edited by Ron240 on Tuesday 1st June 00:18

[Triumph Man]

I’m quite pleased with myself that I’ve bought a Discovery with side steps - if any mouth breather opens their door onto it they will just tt it into the side steps