Parking rant
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Iminquarantine

Original Poster:

2,168 posts

73 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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I just dropped my daughter off for a class. The carpark is only about 15% full. There are whole blocks of spaces empty.

I was parked in a space, of the many empty spaces. Several empty spaces on one side and one empty space on the other. The carpark is so big and so empty you could turn an artic HGV around in it.

So some fkwit has just parked in the single empty space on the one side. Meaning they have a vehicle on both sides. Not only that, when they parked, I was standing in the empty space on my phone and had to move out of the way so they could get in. Then they had to get bags of bulky st out of their car, which was a tight squeeze for them given there is a car on both sides, instead of parking in one of the block of 8 totally empty spaces starting only about 6 metres away. What the actual fk?

Iminquarantine

Original Poster:

2,168 posts

73 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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I moved my car to another block of 7 empty spaces (not the 8 empty spaces in my OP, this is a whole other set of spaces). I had a look at their car and there are scratches and door dings all down the side. Who knows what the fk would happen when they come back to their car with their bags of st.

anonymous-user

83 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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I guess some people like a gap to aim at. biggrin

carreauchompeur

18,319 posts

233 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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People are absolutely mental about parking. I came back to my car and was loading shopping into the passenger door when the car next to me started reversing out. At an angle. I only noticed when the bumper was about an inch from my leg. And on a collision course with my door. I jumped out of the way shouting ‘woah!’ Blank look.

AJB88

15,753 posts

200 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Happens all the time, I was in a car park the other day parked in a space right at the back, well out of the way, the kind where you have to go out of your way to get to. Came back out and a car in the space next to me, despite there being 30+ spaces around me empty.


Hoofy

80,041 posts

311 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Why did you move out of the way?

hammo19

7,706 posts

225 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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My wife had parked up and was just about to get out when she told another woman driver to stop as she would hit our car. She paid no attention and ended up having to pay a £400 repair bill. Apparently, she is well known for parking dints in the town. Why is she still allowed on the road?

Maximus Decimus Meridius

1,230 posts

70 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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They are using your car as a guide because they are crap at parking and probably don't have the brainpower to realise that by dipping their door mirror they will be able to see the parking bay lines.
(If they reverse in).
Never underestimate the number of stupid people who walk amongst us and make things difficult for themselves.

anonymous-user

83 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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They do it because they find it easier to line up next to other cars, rather than relying on the road markings only if there's no other cars around.

(i.e. lazy)

Pothole

34,367 posts

311 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Iminquarantine said:
I just dropped my daughter off for a class. The carpark is only about 15% full. There are whole blocks of spaces empty.

I was parked in a space, of the many empty spaces. Several empty spaces on one side and one empty space on the other. The carpark is so big and so empty you could turn an artic HGV around in it.

So some fkwit has just parked in the single empty space on the one side. Meaning they have a vehicle on both sides. Not only that, when they parked, I was standing in the empty space on my phone and had to move out of the way so they could get in. Then they had to get bags of bulky st out of their car, which was a tight squeeze for them given there is a car on both sides, instead of parking in one of the block of 8 totally empty spaces starting only about 6 metres away. What the actual fk?
You had the perfect opportunity to solve the mystery for us all and you let it go. Why the actual fk?

Pica-Pica

16,569 posts

113 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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So they parked in a parking bay that you wanted to stand in. Right.

Iminquarantine

Original Poster:

2,168 posts

73 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Pica-Pica said:
So they parked in a parking bay that you wanted to stand in. Who’s the dick?
You

Gary C

15,239 posts

208 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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and on the other side of the coin are the tts who park their cars over two spaces right at the front of the carpark to protect their paintwork (or they are so bad at parking).Park at the back if you want to play that game !

I park the 911 in the spaces furthest away from the door, but when I am in the old polo, I love parking mm away from the drivers doors of tts who try to take up two spaces smile

MrGTI6

3,304 posts

159 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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I can't say I've ever noticed this sort of thing before. Probably because I drive a battered old Peugeot!

normalbloke

8,859 posts

248 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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2/10.

Gareth79

9,022 posts

275 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Pica-Pica said:
So they parked in a parking bay that you wanted to stand in. Right.
Found the driver biggrin

donkmeister

12,853 posts

129 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Another vote for "needs something to line up against or they can't park".

Last night we went to the supermarket. Mrs D parked in an empty part of the car park. When we came back to the car there was someone sat in a car parked right next to the passenger door, every other space was still empty. So close that Mrs D had to pull her car forwards so I could get in (her car is small and low, I am not). She'd parked her car skew-whiff, and the car now next to her matched her skew-whiffedness. So, they'd used her wonky car to line up, and as a result were also wonky. Totally pointless.

OP, clearly you didn't dominate the empty space hard enough.

donkmeister

12,853 posts

129 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Gary C said:
and on the other side of the coin are the tts who park their cars over two spaces right at the front of the carpark to protect their paintwork (or they are so bad at parking).Park at the back if you want to play that game !

I park the 911 in the spaces furthest away from the door, but when I am in the old polo, I love parking mm away from the drivers doors of tts who try to take up two spaces smile
Been a while since I've seen this one, but whether or not it's fake it's a great idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MI1jEesuzI

Hackney

7,429 posts

237 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Earlier today I parked at Uttoxeter services Starbucks.
When we got back to the car someone had parked over two bays next to my car. I was putting my son in the back seat so the door was wide open. The car started to reverse, clearly hadn't looked very well as their passenger wing mirror was on course for me and my door. Luckily I'd spotted it and closed the door got out of the way. Of course they gave me a dirty look.

Noticed the driver and passenger were 2 of a group of 4 who'd been into Starbucks without masks on. Muppets.

Narcisus

9,071 posts

309 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Hackney said:
Earlier today I parked at Uttoxeter services Starbucks.
When we got back to the car someone had parked over two bays next to my car. I was putting my son in the back seat so the door was wide open. The car started to reverse, clearly hadn't looked very well as their passenger wing mirror was on course for me and my door. Luckily I'd spotted it and closed the door got out of the way. Of course they gave me a dirty look.

Noticed the driver and passenger were 2 of a group of 4 who'd been into Starbucks without masks on. Muppets.
No masks eh ! Damn them to hell ! You have to watch those pesky no maskers they are bound to have poor driving skills ! biggrin