Was I unreasonable?

[jollygreen]

Went to Next at a retail site at lunchtime today, parked in the only available space at the area of the park where I needed to go. Car in the adjacent space, a Jag S-Type, was reversed into its space with the drivers side wheels on the white lines, mirror obviously well into "my" space. I reversed in to the space and folded my mirrors in leaving about a 1 inch gap from her drivers mirror to the side of my car.

Walking towards the shop, I see a woman in her fifties walking towards me and obviously looking at my car. We passed and I turned to see her standing, shaking her head. I turned and walked towards her:

Her "Is this your car?"

Me "Yes it is"

Her "You need to move, I can't get in"

Me "Pardon me?"

Her "You need to move, you've blocked me in."

Me, moving towards my car, unlocking it "Well, you didn't park very well did you?"

Her "I'm slightly over the line, yes."

Me, about to get in my car. "You can see how busy the car park is, don't you think that's a bit selfish leaving your car like that?"

Her "You're a real gentleman aren't you?"

Me, locking my car again. "Yes I am actually but people like you wind me up and if you're going to take that attitude and not even apologise then you can get in the passenger side."

"What? I'm not taking an attitude."

"Yes you are, you parked too far over, effectively taking up 2 spaces and now you're angry with me because you can't get into your car. I'm not moving it. You can get in the other side."

"Well, Merry Christmas to you."

"Get on with it. If you can't park a car you shouldn't be driving a car. If you can't park a Jaguar then perhaps you should buy a Smart car."

"Seasons greetings."

"I'm an atheist, get on with it. Maybe you could ask your husband to teach you to park one day. "

She gets in her car and after much dragging of the fat wrinkly arse around, gets into the drivers seat. I'm standing watching with my arms folded.

Opening her window "Are you going to stand and watch me?"

Me, cell phone camera at the ready "Yes because I don't trust your maneouvering skills one bit and I want to make sure you don't scratch my car."

Her "Tut."

After a bit of a 3 pointer trying to get out she manages it and gives me the fingers!

Me - applause.

Edited by jollygreen on Thursday 18th December 14:12

[Marf]

Oops, sorry, voted yes but meant to vote no.

[hornetrider]

You're a .

[jollygreen]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

My wife can reverse park!!!

And the woman I fell out with today is old enough to be my ma...

Edited by jollygreen on Thursday 18th December 13:55

[TonyHetherington]

Yes, she did park badly.

But you purposefully made it difficult for her.

Don't be surprised when next time you do that you have a dink on your passenger door. Self preservation and all that.

[Mc Lovin]

Marf said:

Oops, sorry, voted yes but meant to vote no.

I did the same :haha:

there's only one thing to do in this situation, a punt

[scotal]

Yes,a little, but to be honest, if more people took your line then maybe the fkwits who think its ok for them to take 2 spaces would stop doing it.

[obob]

You sound like a tt

[jollygreen]

TonyHetherington said:

Don't be surprised when next time you do that you have a dink on your passenger door. Self preservation and all that.

Hence me standing and watching her leave!

[Austin.J]

I would of done bang on the same, she should learn to park, who gives two fk about the gentlemen bks, women want equal rights, there you have it.

[chevykevv]

We ALWAYS take two spaces at Tesco because i'm fed up with dents in my bl@@dy doors.
They don't make spaces big enough for normal size cars, just little noddy cars.

[Galileo]

Picking a fight with a woman...wow, what a man.

[ettore]

You behaved like an @rse and should be ashamed of yourself. I trust someone treats you with similar incivility.

[Centurion07]

That would be my first reaction too, but, I take it it didn't occur to you that at the time she parked, that was the only available space & the person next to her was parked badly thus forcing her to park like that?

[jollygreen]

I'd like to point out that had she been polite then I would have moved to let her in. I had the car unlocked and ready to do it when I thought "fk you".

[Nolar Dog]

Yes you were unreasonable.

You should have got in your car and watched her struggle.

[jollygreen]

Centurion07 said:

That would be my first reaction too, but, I take it it didn't occur to you that at the time she parked, that was the only available space & the person next to her was parked badly thus forcing her to park like that?

Yes it did, but she didn't say that.

[ypauly]

I have wanted to do this several times just couldn't bring myself to.

but well done to you sir

[jollygreen]

ettore said:

You behaved like an @rse

Yes

ettore said:

should be ashamed of yourself

No

ettore said:

I trust someone treats you with similar incivility.

No.

[Munter]

Austin.J said:

I would of done bang on the same, she should learn to park, who gives two fk about the gentlemen bks, women want equal rights, there you have it.

Actually no. Most Women didn't/dont want equal rights.....