The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]
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JimbobVFR said:
Busy main road (Skipton Road in Harrogate)
A mum with a toddler in a pushchair chose to stop, carry the toddler and folded pushchair past the car rather than risk the road. Just pure selfish entitlement that's enough to make me want to key the car (I didn't and wouldn't BTW but the urge was there)
I remember seeing a car parked on a narrow pavement AND on zig zags to a pelican crossing with hazard lights on. There were several people with pushchairs queuing next to it. When I got closer I could see that someone the person had parked there to visit the GP surgery and there was so little room between the car and the surgery door that none of the pushchairs could get in!A mum with a toddler in a pushchair chose to stop, carry the toddler and folded pushchair past the car rather than risk the road. Just pure selfish entitlement that's enough to make me want to key the car (I didn't and wouldn't BTW but the urge was there)
JimbobVFR said:
Busy main road (Skipton Road in Harrogate)
A mum with a toddler in a pushchair chose to stop, carry the toddler and folded pushchair past the car rather than risk the road. Just pure selfish entitlement that's enough to make me want to key the car (I didn't and wouldn't BTW but the urge was there)
Frankly, I'd have been tempted to knock on the door of the house and politely asked them to move it, or if they'd mind stepping into the road and stopping the traffic whilst the lady and pushchair walked round it.A mum with a toddler in a pushchair chose to stop, carry the toddler and folded pushchair past the car rather than risk the road. Just pure selfish entitlement that's enough to make me want to key the car (I didn't and wouldn't BTW but the urge was there)
JimbobVFR said:
Busy main road (Skipton Road in Harrogate)
A mum with a toddler in a pushchair chose to stop, carry the toddler and folded pushchair past the car rather than risk the road. Just pure selfish entitlement that's enough to make me want to key the car (I didn't and wouldn't BTW but the urge was there)
When I’m King of the World it will be legal to take a hammer to the mirrors of cars parked like this. And every panel on the offending side. A mum with a toddler in a pushchair chose to stop, carry the toddler and folded pushchair past the car rather than risk the road. Just pure selfish entitlement that's enough to make me want to key the car (I didn't and wouldn't BTW but the urge was there)
rfsteel said:
Surely they noticed their mistake as soon as they opened the door ?
Didn't know wether to put this in here or s
t driving thread but.......
There is a video but it's a FB link...
https://fb.watch/jCyb4fDAtp/
t driving thread but.......There is a video but it's a FB link...
https://fb.watch/jCyb4fDAtp/
boyse7en said:
Vipers said:
thetapeworm said:
Why not reverse out?, oh silly me, some can’t manage that.
But, having lived in the West Country all of my life, I can affirm that a worryingly high proportion of tourists don't know how to reverse their cars at all.
I have, on several occasions, had to reverse a hapless driver's car back to the closest passing point so that we can both continue our journeys.
nessiemac said:
Didn't know wether to put this in here or st driving thread but.......
There is a video but it's a FB link...
https://fb.watch/jCyb4fDAtp/
He absolutely hit 88mph and thats Twin Pines Mall t driving thread but.......There is a video but it's a FB link...
https://fb.watch/jCyb4fDAtp/
Jonmx said:
boyse7en said:
Vipers said:
thetapeworm said:
Why not reverse out?, oh silly me, some can’t manage that.But, having lived in the West Country all of my life, I can affirm that a worryingly high proportion of tourists don't know how to reverse their cars at all.
I have, on several occasions, had to reverse a hapless driver's car back to the closest passing point so that we can both continue our journeys.
She even times her shopping days so that she can drive to a town centre and drive into empty parking spaces and be facing forwards.vikingaero said:
Jonmx said:
boyse7en said:
Vipers said:
thetapeworm said:
Why not reverse out?, oh silly me, some can’t manage that.But, having lived in the West Country all of my life, I can affirm that a worryingly high proportion of tourists don't know how to reverse their cars at all.
I have, on several occasions, had to reverse a hapless driver's car back to the closest passing point so that we can both continue our journeys.
She even times her shopping days so that she can drive to a town centre and drive into empty parking spaces and be facing forwards.We have a local wo drives a FFRR and is utterly incapable of moving more than 18 inches in reverse. We live on a single track road and this can be interesting when she meets one of the farmers towing the muck or bailing trailer.
It is not unknown for said farmer to get in and reverse it for her, no doubt leaving a bum shaped mud patch on the cream doe skin interior.
I watched a woman pull up to a petrol pump yesterday. Busy station. Got out. Locked the car and went in with shopping bags. As I was paying she got back in and drove off. Didn’t get any fuel. Just used it to park. There are around 25 spaces behind the garage, no more than a 20 metre walk.
Gweeds said:
I watched a woman pull up to a petrol pump yesterday. Busy station. Got out. Locked the car and went in with shopping bags. As I was paying she got back in and drove off. Didn’t get any fuel. Just used it to park. There are around 25 spaces behind the garage, no more than a 20 metre walk.
Had this the other day, the only 99 pump and a "shopper" not a "fueler" was parked at it. It doesn't register as a problem or even remotely unacceptable for some, as if it's what you're supposed to do. 
Gweeds said:
I watched a woman pull up to a petrol pump yesterday. Busy station. Got out. Locked the car and went in with shopping bags. As I was paying she got back in and drove off. Didn’t get any fuel. Just used it to park. There are around 25 spaces behind the garage, no more than a 20 metre walk.
I've seen that at a busy petrol station. Badly parked blocking one pump, but far enough away from it to make it difficult for anyone to use the pump at the other side. She went in to the Subway attached to the petrol station and went back to eat it in her car, still blocking the pump. All the while there were free spaces infront of the building. Not sure how empty their head has to be to not realise how much of a dick they're being.
Petrol station for reference - https://goo.gl/maps/PyuKDPANzkMKW3fi6
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