Why do people do it!

[300bhp/ton]

Big'ish quiet car park, supermarket maybe.

I deliberately drive further up the car park to not park next to another car to avoid fkwits banging their doors into mine or scratching my car with their carelessness and inability to control where they put their clothing or handbags.


5+ spaces clear on either side of me and a completely empty row behind.

Come back to the car 10 mins later to find some twit has parked next to me, and not even just in the next space, but up close so they must have been trading paint with their drivers door and my passenger door when they got out!


Not once, but this seems a regular thing round here............ :angry:


Are some people such clueless dumb fks that they feel cars have to "group" together in a car park for safety reasons like sheep flock together???

I wouldn't mind so much, but I make the extra effort to park further away from the shop doors to avoid precisely this.

[edo]

My only conclusion to this is that they can't be THAT stupid and they are doing to (in their eyes) be funny.

[bicycleshorts]

As you say, it's either herd mentality or possibly people doing it on purpose to wind you up - I'm not sure I'd give them this much credit though.

See also: The pedestrians who will stand at a set of traffic lights waiting for the green man, till someone else walks up, checks both ways, gauges traffic and crosses safely. At this point they will then saunter across without looking.

[Laurel Green]

Think it might be more to do with OCD and neatness. Doesn't want to park with the mongs but, must not leave a gap between cars.

[redgriff500]

Why didn't you wait around and ask them why they'd parked there ?

[Pvapour]

Laurel Green said:

Think it might be more to do with OCD and neatness. Doesn't want to park with the mongs but, must not leave a gap between cars.

sort of using you as a security blanket

[Big Rod]

I was chatting to someone about this over the weekend.

One of my cars has very long doors so I park as far away from the masses as I can within reason and invariably I get some twunt parked right next to me with no other cars for twelve places either side.

I know I shouldn't let it get to me but it really does vigorously evaporate the contents of my bladder.

[300bhp/ton]

redgriff500 said:

Why didn't you wait around and ask them why they'd parked there ?

My partner said she wasn't keen on that idea

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Park over two spaces - problem sorted.

[JonnyFive]

If you find out the answer to this, OP.. Let us know!

[Pvapour]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Park over two spaces - problem sorted.

nah, length ways you can take 4

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

M4FFU said:

Kinda thing I'd do, but not so much parking really close.

I get to work quite early and notice certain people parking in the same places every day. I then get there a little earlier the next day to nick their place. Childish, yes, but it makes me chuckle.

I think we share the same level of humour

[kambites]

I'd always assumed that people found it easier to park if they had something solid to line up against, rather than just a line on the floor.

[crmcatee]

Came back to my Cobra parked in Rye yesterday to find a guy writing out a note advising me that he had watched a car reversing out of the space opposite and had knocked against the front of my car three times before he could get out of his car and had a word with the driver. The driver basically took a quick look at the car (whilst not getting out of his), and then drove off.

So if you're driving a car with the registration EG02 KLZ, I'd like to have a quiet word with you.

[300bhp/ton]

M4FFU said:

Kinda thing I'd do, but not so much parking really close.

I get to work quite early and notice certain people parking in the same places every day. I then get there a little earlier the next day to nick their place. Childish, yes, but it makes me chuckle.

Why?

Anyhow that's not the same thing.

My car is small, but to get in/out of it requires you to open the doors fully. So there's a practical reason to not wanting some selfish arse parking right next to me in an otherwise empty car park.

I'm also fed up of the countless dings and scratches that have been caused due to these selfish people. They or you might not care about your car, but some of us do.

[otolith]

Like this?

[madal]

i was sitting on Tresco's car park on Friday waiting for her in doors as she as ran in the store just to get a few items ..
opposite me was a 4x4 and next to it was a new'ish focus rs when the woman came back to get in the 4x4 i noticed she had 3 kids the oldest about 12 she got the shopping in the back why the kids got in the rear of the 4x4 but when the 1 opened the door it smashed the rear quarter window on the focus ..she just drove off so i put a bit of paper under the guys wiper with the reg of the 4x4 and my mobile number he rang and i told him what went on and this is not the only time i have seen kids do this most have no respect or give a st ..

[SWoll]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

M4FFU said:

Kinda thing I'd do, but not so much parking really close.

I get to work quite early and notice certain people parking in the same places every day. I then get there a little earlier the next day to nick their place. Childish, yes, but it makes me chuckle.

I think we share the same level of humour

I think you're both mistaking a 'humourus' with being a 'bit of a c**t' TBH

300, is it possible that people just find it easier to park if someone is next to them to use as a guide eg. if there is no-one else around they find it more difficult to park straight, either that or pure sheep mentality? Grasping at straws TBH, maybe they just think it's "funny" like these 2 above...

[soxboy]

Of course the true PH answer is that you should have gone to Waitrose or M&S rather than slumming it in Tesco or Asda (and that by going to Tesco you deserve everything coming to you).

[SWoll]

madal said:

i was sitting on Tresco's car park on Friday waiting for her in doors as she as ran in the store just to get a few items ..
opposite me was a 4x4 and next to it was a new'ish focus rs when the woman came back to get in the 4x4 i noticed she had 3 kids the oldest about 12 she got the shopping in the back why the kids got in the rear of the 4x4 but when the 1 opened the door it smashed the rear quarter window on the focus ..she just drove off so i put a bit of paper under the guys wiper with the reg of the 4x4 and my mobile number he rang and i told him what went on and this is not the only time i have seen kids do this most have no respect or give a st ..

Good man, seee this kind of thing all the time in the morning parking at the train station.