Someone parked next to me
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Johnnytheboy said:
My Focus RS is semi-retired and doesn't come out often. I know it's not a Ferrari, but I've managed to keep it more or less flawless from new and want to keep it that way.
You've got the same problem I've got. "It's just an old Ford" Worst example of that came from my Mrs. once - we were sitting at traffic lights & there was a pristine 1986 Sierra Cosworth opposite. Beautiful thing. Mandatory RSOC sticker in the windscreen and clearly owned by an obsessive. I made some comment about how good it looked and she replied with "it looks like an old banger" - when you're up against that... 
Mr Dendrite said:
sxmwht said:
Mr Dendrite said:
Chris Harris has rather a nice little rant on this topic on Instagram, where someone has parked an absolute heap next to his gleaming yellow Porsche in an otherwise empty car park.
Link to the post?So many parking snow flakes, "Oh you bad person you invaded my personal space and parked next to my car". Talk about first world problems when there is so much other s**t going on in the world 
As long as you park within the white lines you are entitled to park anywhere there is a space. I always seek out better cars than mine to park next to.
Good wind up thread George. Mokkas rule, it is my new lifes ambition to make one my next car.
Amazing how so many posters get wound up by Mokkas
As long as you park within the white lines you are entitled to park anywhere there is a space. I always seek out better cars than mine to park next to.
Good wind up thread George. Mokkas rule, it is my new lifes ambition to make one my next car.
Amazing how so many posters get wound up by Mokkas
Last year my Golf received a dent in a public car park.
The repair cost me £450 and three days of having to drive a Vauxhall Astra courtesy car.
I'm the guy who parks in the corner of the car park furthest from the supermarket entrance, even when it's raining. Car park spaces haven't increased in size, but the sheeple think that they have to drive oversized SUV's nowadays, so the space available for normal people decreases.
I don't mind parking in Costco, who have embraced the fact that a large proportion of their clientele are incapable of rational thought, and subscribe to the "me too" large SUV mentality, "because safer" when they inevitably crash into somebody else, or need to mount the kerb in order to park within three feet of the school entrance in case their obnoxious brats are abducted by gangs of marauding paedophiles. At least Costco spaces are large enough to accommodate the hard of thinking, and allow the rest of us to park without putting our paint and bodywork too far "in harm's way".
The repair cost me £450 and three days of having to drive a Vauxhall Astra courtesy car.
I'm the guy who parks in the corner of the car park furthest from the supermarket entrance, even when it's raining. Car park spaces haven't increased in size, but the sheeple think that they have to drive oversized SUV's nowadays, so the space available for normal people decreases.
I don't mind parking in Costco, who have embraced the fact that a large proportion of their clientele are incapable of rational thought, and subscribe to the "me too" large SUV mentality, "because safer" when they inevitably crash into somebody else, or need to mount the kerb in order to park within three feet of the school entrance in case their obnoxious brats are abducted by gangs of marauding paedophiles. At least Costco spaces are large enough to accommodate the hard of thinking, and allow the rest of us to park without putting our paint and bodywork too far "in harm's way".
Whilst car parks are public spaces, and every one has the right to park as and where they wish we just have to live with it I guess. Don’t like it, don’t park there. In the past I’ve received a parking ticket more then once as I’d prefer parking on double yellows rather than having my doors bashed in by some careless idiot- costs less then repairs! I’m in favour of parking in a deserted spot, IF and only IF I need to park, I admit I’ll plonk it by the flashiest car I can find because I know they will be careful as am I.
colin_p said:
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... you park your shed perfectly but create a very narrow gap.
Someone did that to me in the little used old arrivals pick-up car park at Manchester airport T3. ... you park your shed perfectly but create a very narrow gap.
I'd turned back on myself going in, so was the only car in the row. I'd parked forwards in so as to be able to put bags in the boot, but he'd reversed parked, with drivers door next to my car, so close that it was a massive struggle for me to get back in the car.
He did appear as we were loading the car - a normal looking bloke of about 60. I asked why he'd parked so close and he seemed baffled by the question.
Thoughtful people worry about whether they are inconveniencing others. They’re the sort who turn down the volume on their hotel TV after 9pm, move along a busy tube carriage, and leave a bit more room next to a car that looks like it needs it in the car park.
For the rest, their impact on other people is either something that hadn’t even occurred to them, and/or they feel totally entitled to do whatever suits them personally. They take the shared armrest in the plane, talk loudly on their phones in public places, and park selfishly.
My view is this second group should pay double taxes to make up for the unreasonable level of impact they have on the rest of us. I also don’t think they deserve a vote, since, let’s face it, they don’t really believe in society.
For the rest, their impact on other people is either something that hadn’t even occurred to them, and/or they feel totally entitled to do whatever suits them personally. They take the shared armrest in the plane, talk loudly on their phones in public places, and park selfishly.
My view is this second group should pay double taxes to make up for the unreasonable level of impact they have on the rest of us. I also don’t think they deserve a vote, since, let’s face it, they don’t really believe in society.
My car is pretty big and very clean and I will absolutely go out of my way to park it next to the nicest car in the car park if I can. The best chance you have of not getting a door dent is by being next to a car that the owner will care about. The Russian roulette of parking in a secluded spot and not knowing what kind of fat b
d family in a clapped out jalopy are going to park next to me will be on my mind until I get back to the car.
d family in a clapped out jalopy are going to park next to me will be on my mind until I get back to the car.67Dino said:
Thoughtful people worry about whether they are inconveniencing others. They’re the sort who turn down the volume on their hotel TV after 9pm, move along a busy tube carriage, and leave a bit more room next to a car that looks like it needs it in the car park.
For the rest, their impact on other people is either something that hadn’t even occurred to them, and/or they feel totally entitled to do whatever suits them personally. They take the shared armrest in the plane, talk loudly on their phones in public places, and park selfishly.
My view is this second group should pay double taxes to make up for the unreasonable level of impact they have on the rest of us. I also don’t think they deserve a vote, since, let’s face it, they don’t really believe in society.
I'm with you there. For the rest, their impact on other people is either something that hadn’t even occurred to them, and/or they feel totally entitled to do whatever suits them personally. They take the shared armrest in the plane, talk loudly on their phones in public places, and park selfishly.
My view is this second group should pay double taxes to make up for the unreasonable level of impact they have on the rest of us. I also don’t think they deserve a vote, since, let’s face it, they don’t really believe in society.
I was waiting in the car for my wife to finish shopping one time and some fat bifta sat her arse on my cars front wing and scratched it with the metal corner thing on her bag while she was trying to squeeze into her car. I got out and had a look, I didn't even say anything. She looks at me and says "its only a f
king car" like I was in the wrong. Nope it's not A car, it's MY car, that means you don't need to touch it! Budgie smuggler and that’s the point, some people see it has only a car. But there’s some of us who worked hard to buy that bloody car and To some of us who it’s a passion and hobby. Not many people get that. I totally respect everybody’s space and car, but the feelings not mutual some People are so lost in their own little worlds they’re careless in their actions, it’s for that reason I park at the back of the car park
budgie smuggler said:
67Dino said:
Thoughtful people worry about whether they are inconveniencing others. They’re the sort who turn down the volume on their hotel TV after 9pm, move along a busy tube carriage, and leave a bit more room next to a car that looks like it needs it in the car park.
For the rest, their impact on other people is either something that hadn’t even occurred to them, and/or they feel totally entitled to do whatever suits them personally. They take the shared armrest in the plane, talk loudly on their phones in public places, and park selfishly.
My view is this second group should pay double taxes to make up for the unreasonable level of impact they have on the rest of us. I also don’t think they deserve a vote, since, let’s face it, they don’t really believe in society.
I'm with you there. For the rest, their impact on other people is either something that hadn’t even occurred to them, and/or they feel totally entitled to do whatever suits them personally. They take the shared armrest in the plane, talk loudly on their phones in public places, and park selfishly.
My view is this second group should pay double taxes to make up for the unreasonable level of impact they have on the rest of us. I also don’t think they deserve a vote, since, let’s face it, they don’t really believe in society.
I was waiting in the car for my wife to finish shopping one time and some fat bifta sat her arse on my cars front wing and scratched it with the metal corner thing on her bag while she was trying to squeeze into her car. I got out and had a look, I didn't even say anything. She looks at me and says "its only a f
king car" like I was in the wrong. Nope it's not A car, it's MY car, that means you don't need to touch it! ts like this should be lined up against a wall and machine-gunned. Twice, just to make sure. They have no place in a civilised society.RobM77 said:
chow pan toon said:
RobM77 said:
chow pan toon said:
RobM77 said:
It's called common courtesy. If there's an empty street and you go to a cashpoint and queue, you don't stand 2 inches from the person in front of you using the machine do you? You space out a bit. Likewise, with an empty train carriage, it's considered rude and an invasion of personal space to sit right next to someone. Same with car parks.
Personal space and not making people worry about you peering over their shoulder looking at their PIN number is not remotely the same as parking a car near another car ffs.k's sake" so you were swearing. What perplexes me is how you can get so upset when defending other people's right to be rude and imposing on others. Sure, people are free, and yes, car parks are for parking, but surely basic manners and common sense has a place here?Why should a mother with two young children and a trolley load of shopping struggle to load her car because someone's parked right next to her car in an otherwise empty car park? Why should an 80 year old man struggle to get through a small gap to sit in his car, when if that other car had just parked a space or more away, their ingress would be easier? Why should someone who's just bought a large bookshelf struggle to load it into their car because they can't open their doors fully? Fair enough in a busy car park, but in a car park that's otherwise empty?!
The way I see it, parking close to other cars in otherwise empty or sparse car parks is either an ignorant lack of manners, common sense and politness; or it's inherently nasty people who enjoy inconveniencing others when given the freedom to do so.
colin_p said:
wsn03 said:
colin_p said:
As a shed driver, parking next to a pride and joy at the back of the car park is great fun. Polo is said to be the sport of Kings, well parking a shed next to a lone nice car is the sport of shedding.
Obviously meticulous care has to be taken not to cause any harm, but it is even funnier if said gleaming pride and joy has been parked badly and too close to the white line and you park your shed perfectly but create a very narrow gap.
On rare occasions you can be lucky enough to witness their return to said pride and joy and watch them get all huffy and puffy.
Some bloke at an office years ago started parking in the far corner of the car park, car always on its own, and he reached work really early.Obviously meticulous care has to be taken not to cause any harm, but it is even funnier if said gleaming pride and joy has been parked badly and too close to the white line and you park your shed perfectly but create a very narrow gap.
On rare occasions you can be lucky enough to witness their return to said pride and joy and watch them get all huffy and puffy.
I started parking next to him...just to do his head in. It was great fun, but more so when he decided to change his parking spot, and I followed him!
Couldn't resist, it was a s
t Skoda ( when Skodas were st) covered in spoilers etc
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