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Would you park here?
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Why does me driving in forward make it difficult for other shoppers?
Not just difficult for others but also extremely difficult for you.
If you have reversed in then driving out is easy you just look to left and right and have a clear, wide angle view.
If you have to reverse out you are having to twist around to your right and left while reversing.
You also have a very narrow field of vision because of the cars parked next to you. If a van driver has parked next to you then you are blind to that side as you drive out.0 -
Like this do you mean.
I wonder if any of these are Mikey.
The supercar drivers happy to dump their cars on double yellow lines, across several spaces and in disabled bays | Mail Online
Yeah that's it exactly, chap.:T:T:TI like the thanks button, but ,please, an I agree button.
Will the grammar and spelling police respect I do make grammatical errors, and have carp spelling, no need to remind me.;)
Always expect the unexpected:eek:and then you won't be dissapointed0 -
They're parked like that to stop someone parking next to them and opening the door into them.
I must admit, I couldn't be bothered straightening up as the car park was half empty, and the car next to me was well over away from me.
So why someone had to park on top of me I don't know. If it had been the last space, or closest to the shops, maybe.0 -
About 20 years ago I and a load of my 18 year old mates after the pub on a Friday drove from Leicester to Coventry to the multi-plex for the midnight showing. In the car park some show off and parked his brand new Maserati over two spaces, however the gap he left was just big enough for my mates Fiat Panda (after we had folded the mirror in). It was so tight he had to climb out of the sunroof. This left the Maserati owner with no choice but to walk over the muddy grass verge and climb across his passenger seat to get to the drivers. How we p1ssed our selves with laughter whatching from the cinema foyer as he attempted this. Student days, happy times.0
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worried_jim wrote: »About 20 years ago I and a load of my 18 year old mates after the pub on a Friday drove from Leicester to Coventry to the multi-plex for the midnight showing. In the car park some show off and parked his brand new Maserati over two spaces, however the gap he left was just big enough for my mates Fiat Panda (after we had folded the mirror in). It was so tight he had to climb out of the sunroof. This left the Maserati owner with no choice but to walk over the muddy grass verge and climb across his passenger seat to get to the drivers. How we p1ssed our selves with laughter whatching from the cinema foyer as he attempted this. Student days, happy times.
hehe, nothing grates me more than a very busy car park and an idiot deciding they need 2 spaces. My little old clio can fit quite comfortably next to them
As for reversing into spaces, what if I'm only nipping in for a loaf? I'll always reverse in those scenarios. Added to this my local Tesco has pathways between spaces so its possible to take your trolley to your boot if you reverse in (and a lot easier than having a trolley in the road).0 -
A few years ago we returned to our then Range Rover after visiting a supermarket only to be confronted by the angry owner of a Citroen which had been parked (badly) next to us. He was effing and jeffing about the size of our car etc etc, even blaming US for HIM opening his OWN car door into the side step bar of our Range Rover!!! Our car was perfectly parked between the white lines and yet his little Citroen was parked on the white line with enough space on the opposite side to probably fit another car and even more stupidly there was another 2 empty spaces next to him where he could have parked quite happily.
Who was there first?0 -
Like this do you mean.
I wonder if any of these are Mikey.
The supercar drivers happy to dump their cars on double yellow lines, across several spaces and in disabled bays | Mail Online
That's just common sense if you have a car like those then you will always want 2 spaces.
The lamborghini and the yellow Ferrari were just idiots though.
The blue Rolls though if you look at the size of the car v the size of a single space he would barely be able to have an inch either side if he was stupid enough to take just 1 space. And the reason he is projecting to the rear into the other 2 spaces is probably more to do with the length of his car v the length of the space.
This problem would not occur if car parks were mandated to have those Disabled Bay hatched areas 1m wide on either side of ALL spaces.0 -
worried_jim wrote: »About 20 years ago I and a load of my 18 year old mates after the pub on a Friday drove from Leicester to Coventry to the multi-plex for the midnight showing. In the car park some show off and parked his brand new Maserati over two spaces, however the gap he left was just big enough for my mates Fiat Panda (after we had folded the mirror in). It was so tight he had to climb out of the sunroof. This left the Maserati owner with no choice but to walk over the muddy grass verge and climb across his passenger seat to get to the drivers. How we p1ssed our selves with laughter whatching from the cinema foyer as he attempted this. Student days, happy times.
Which answers the question why in those pics some of them are parked diagonally into 2 spaces, as it would also stop some small car thinking they will squeeze in to the space remaining.0 -
My own solution usually, ( our Tesco car park is huge ) is to park in the "picking up" bay which is illogically not located near the supermarket doors and so never used by anyone except people like me and even then only rarely. I suppose a lot of it has to do with the time I go to the supermarket, usually about 8pm on weekdays. Recently I returned to the picking up bay to find a new Bentley parked behind me, lovely car, but he spoiled it when he put his foot to the floor as he drove away towards the exit of the car park, I would have been much more impressed if he had sedately driven away - taking care not to run down any children or pedestrians.
It must have been one of these
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