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Would you park here?
Well, next to me actually.
Supermarket car park, fairly empty, so I pull through the double space to the one in front, so I'm parked facing into the road, (I always drive in forward) parked in my usual abandoned style with the back wheel on the right line, and the front on the left.
Car on the left of me, but right over to his left, so loads of space between us, otherwise I would have made a bit more effort.
No wheel trims, (I took them off in November to put the winter tyres on, and haven't bothered putting them back on yet).
The car was washed for it's mot (March 2011) It was recently gritted, so the front looks like pebble dashed mud. You can see the wiper lines on the windscreen (I do occasionally wipe the edges, not today though)
Trolley dents, scuffs on the side, odd patch under the lacquer on the drivers door that I don't know how it got there.
I come back, with the trolley, and there is a huge, shiney, 61 BMW next to me!
He's driven in forwards, so it's drivers door to drivers door.
And he's parked over to the right.
So it's not like he can't see the state of the car, or the fact it hasn't had the contents transfered into the wheelie bin yet this month. (And when I say month, I mean year)
I have to put the shopping in my offside rear door, as every other space is full, and can just open my door onto his front wing to fit the carier bags through.
Drivers door opens onto his mirror, so I have a gap about 8 inches to get into.
The funny bit was he came back before I drove out, and he wasn't the slimmest bloke if you know what I mean.
He'd never have got out, or climbed over the centre console.
But he had obviously. (Sunroof?)
But why park there? Why not drive forward 15ft into the next space.
Why park next to, (well, inside, near enough), something even shopping trolleys would come off worse from?
Supermarket car park, fairly empty, so I pull through the double space to the one in front, so I'm parked facing into the road, (I always drive in forward) parked in my usual abandoned style with the back wheel on the right line, and the front on the left.
Car on the left of me, but right over to his left, so loads of space between us, otherwise I would have made a bit more effort.
No wheel trims, (I took them off in November to put the winter tyres on, and haven't bothered putting them back on yet).
The car was washed for it's mot (March 2011) It was recently gritted, so the front looks like pebble dashed mud. You can see the wiper lines on the windscreen (I do occasionally wipe the edges, not today though)
Trolley dents, scuffs on the side, odd patch under the lacquer on the drivers door that I don't know how it got there.
I come back, with the trolley, and there is a huge, shiney, 61 BMW next to me!
He's driven in forwards, so it's drivers door to drivers door.
And he's parked over to the right.
So it's not like he can't see the state of the car, or the fact it hasn't had the contents transfered into the wheelie bin yet this month. (And when I say month, I mean year)
I have to put the shopping in my offside rear door, as every other space is full, and can just open my door onto his front wing to fit the carier bags through.
Drivers door opens onto his mirror, so I have a gap about 8 inches to get into.
The funny bit was he came back before I drove out, and he wasn't the slimmest bloke if you know what I mean.
He'd never have got out, or climbed over the centre console.
But he had obviously. (Sunroof?)
But why park there? Why not drive forward 15ft into the next space.
Why park next to, (well, inside, near enough), something even shopping trolleys would come off worse from?
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Maybe it was just a hire car or a company pool car that he didn't care about.
Got to say I love having empty spaces nice to my mobile rust bucket...0 -
with the back wheel on the right line, and the front on the left..............................................
Why park next to, (well, inside, near enough), something even shopping trolleys would come off worse from?
Because he thought typical woman driver parking like that, I'll let her have a struggle to get in.0 -
I don't like dings in my car's paintwork. My car's got them, but I don't like it. Bad enough if I do it, but when someone else is responsible...If I'm parking in a carpark, I always park on an "end" and as far away from the entrance as possible. I can guarantee that when I go back to my car, they'll be another (usually a bloody great 4x4) parked so close you couldn't get a fag paper between them.
Why do they do it? What is the mentality? Anyone dings my car, my knee goes into theirs - several times.0 -
it makes me laugh you park the furthest away from everything you could possibly think of in the hope no one will bother parking next to you only to retrun and find cars next to yours on both sides.0
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atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »it makes me laugh you park the furthest away from everything you could possibly think of in the hope no one will bother parking next to you only to retrun and find cars next to yours on both sides.
Drives me mad.
Always some huge ancient Volvo estate with massive driver and passenger...0 -
But a new BMW?
Massive? the only way the driver could have got out was if he was the T 1000 from Terminator 2 and poured over the sill.
And he parked there!0 -
One of my pet hates when people drive into parking spaces in the supermarket at an angle, They're making it difficult for the cars on both sides to get in and out. Then when they're trying to get out blind, they're expecting others to give way to them.
It only takes a minute to reverse in and straighten up between the lines.
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It only takes a minute to reverse in and straighten up between the lines.
Which is the correct way to do it and is the sign of a good driver.
I always try to park away from other cars but if I have to park next to someone else I always park next to a car that is reversed in.
I'd rather park next to a driver who knows how to drive properly than one who doesn't, I know they will have more respect for other cars.0 -
Last year we came out of the garden centre to find the person parked next to us (in a 4x4) had left about three inches on the passenger side (parked passenger door to passenger door). She was just getting out of her car so I asked her if she could have parked any closer. She told me she 'had to leave room for them' pointing to the 4x4 on the other side of her. I have no idea what her logic was, in fact, there was probably no logic, she was just shocked to have been challenged on her lack of parking skills so came out with the first thing that entered her head.
I have often confronted bad parking culprits, and left notes under windscreen wipers. When I have had the opportunity to confront them in person, they have always been women without exception (I am a woman before anyone jumps down my throat).There is nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro.....0 -
Based on all you have described here as to the state of your car - you were obviously lying when you said you removed your carpets down to the metal every week to clean them.
If you reply you won't get an answer - I hate liars.
And no I would not park next to your shed of a car. If you can't take care of your own car then you sure as hell won't care what you do to mine!Don't grow up. Its a trap!
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