Road Rage - not my fault... I think!

radion_auto

coinxoperated wrote: »

Today I saw a 20ish yr old lad in a blue MG ZR push into a funeral precession and beep to make them get out of the way!!

It's a real shame that people like this are pushing up the premiums for careful MG ZR drivers. I've owned the car for the past 5 years and my insurance has skyrocketed because of young hooligans!

prowla

sunnyone wrote: »

I take up two spaces regularly with the supermarkets permission because I drive an adapted car which has a ramp that comes out of the side to allow me to drive my powerchair out of the car, supermarkets are very understanding in my experiance and I have never had a "parking charge notice" issued by them.

That's what the wider disabled spaces are intended to be for, and I (even though they are not legally enforcable) try and respect the needs of people who may need them.

I didn't know that there are some situations that even they are not wide enough for...

Hoof_Hearted

McKneff wrote: »

Heard a story not long ago,
Young fit lad in an expensive sports car, Elderly lady in a small mercedes, both spotted a car park at the same time and both headed for it.
Young lad got in first, jumped out and said smugly 'that's what you can do when youre young and fit missus'
Elderly lady just looked at him, revved her car up and crashed into him, time and time again, he stood there dumb struck, she got out of the car and said 'young man, that's what you can do when you're rich..................

It's from a film....

devilivus

rdwarr wrote: »

If you'd been watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony rather than posting garbage on here you'd realise just how wrong you are.

This is a great country. If you believe you're living in a cesspit then move somewhere "cleaner".

lol, what makes you say that?
Maybe Prince William is a well behaved young man, but I tihnk the post you quoted was referring to the general public. He's right. You really can't deny that the UK is full of very very anti-social, rough people, and it's not a particularly nice place to live.
Try Canada or France.
Personally, i'd love the live in America. Lived there for a short time and the people are as friendly and polite as anything. Almost overly-so in some states.

pacific4130

I have to admit - I love to wind up nasty people like these when I have the misfortune of meeting them on the road.

I love the fact that so often they are really aggressive or rude but too dumb to realise the person they're doing it to is in the position to mess them around more...

Perfect example is tailgaters.... When someone is really aggressive and nearly ramming me off the road on a dual-carriageway or motorway, funnily my speed suddenly matches that of the inside car - for several miles. Ha ha!

I've had similar things as above happen in supermarkets... Recently, in an 80% empty car park I had someone beep at me to hurry up and get out of 'their' space (it was light rain and I was near to the entrance). I was on my motorcycle and, much to their annoyance, spent ages putting my gloves on etc. Of course, had to let the engine warm up to. They finally got p'd off enough to move on (all on 50 meters). Funnily enough, I was ready to leave at this point!

If it was me in the supermarket with the VW van, I'd have said: 'OK, sure I'll move!'. Fumbled with my keys a bit, waste some of their time.... Reverse about 4 inches or so... and then switch of the engine. TROLLOLOLOLOLOL!

cyclonebri1

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

It's from a film....

Not seen it and it's funny, gets my vote.:rotfl:


The ironic thing is that although I consider myself a pretty good motorist, and I'm old, if pressed into a situation like that, it's a cool reaction. I would consider doing it.

The thing folks have to realise is if you are a chancer, at some point you willcome up against some one who has less to lose than you, which is probably what the clip was intended to mean, :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sunnyone

prowla wrote: »

That's what the wider disabled spaces are intended to be for, and I (even though they are not legally enforcable) try and respect the needs of people who may need them.

I didn't know that there are some situations that even they are not wide enough for...

Many disabled bays are not wide enough to accomadate a Chrysler Grand Voyager with one meter ramp extended from the passenger rear door, also room to dismount/turn my powerchair from the end of the ramp and enough room for me to transfer into my powerchair from the drivers door.

I park further from the store over two bays with the shops permission and that frees up a disabled bay for someone else who might only need extra room on one side of the car only as thats the way these supermarkets have disabled bays laid out.

Lum

sunnyone wrote: »

Many disabled bays are not wide enough to accomadate a Chrysler Grand Voyager with one meter ramp extended from the passenger rear door, also room to dismount/turn my powerchair from the end of the ramp and enough room for me to transfer into my powerchair from the drivers door.

Some disabled bays aren't even big enough to park a small 90s Nissan, chuck a folding manual wheelchair out of the driver's door, assemble it and transfer, so your post doesn't not surprise me at all.

And I bet you get plenty of presumptuous idiots who assume you're just afraid of getting a scratch on your "Chelsea tractor" and so make a point of parking as close to your drivers door as possible, even though you're at the far end of the car park. :mad:

Wongsky

A couple of years back, myself and Mrs Wongsky parked in a local Asda car park.

It's not one of those supermarkets that has external companies running or monitoring it - well at least up to now - nor do you have to pay to park there.

There's some fairly normal lines of spaces, but at one side of the car park next to a normal line of spaces, there's some wide diagonal lines, too. There really there to direct traffic driving around the car park, but the diagonals aren't far from normal car width. When the car park is busy, people often using them for parking in - which is fair play, because they're not obstructing traffic or access, nor are they painted in abnormal colours to suggest you shouldn't park there (they're just white lines, as is used to set out the rest of the parking spaces.

One particular Saturday, we'd parked in this area, gone into buy a few things, then returned to our car. A middle aged woman approaches us, as we're putting our shopping in the car, and returning the trolley to a trolley bay.

She first asks us if it's our car, to which I look, rather deliberately at the trolley and the key in my hand. She then goes into a rather put out, polite, middle-class, muted rant about how we've blocked her in, and shouldn't have parked there, and how we're blocking traffic.

I walk around to the rear of the car, and point to it being well inside the "island" marked out, so shouldn't be obstructing any traffic, and ask her how it's possibly blocking her in.

It was only after a bit of her ranting and head shaking, I began to understand. I think she specifically chose to park in one of those particular spaces, because it allowed her to drive in, and because she was of the opinion that no cars should park in the marked out island, that she could then drive forwards out.

The real issue, being that she didn't want to have to reverse out of her space, but wasn't that apparent, until being a little confused at first, I replied questioning how I could possibly have blocked her in, and pointed behind her car saying "If I've blocked you in, how did you get into the parking space to start off with?"

Anyways, both I and my wife probably gave as good as we got, in a sort of polite, yet I supposed somewhat sarcastic argument, in a middle-England, middle-class sort of way (none of us shouted, nor swore, as far as I can remember, although I probably was on the wrong side of sarcasm and condescencion).

And not one to take the moral high ground, or be the bigger man, I waited, and made her reverse out of her space, as much to make her see the errors of her "You blocked me in!" accusations.

Later, myself, and Mrs Wongsky were quite suprised that somebody who was really behaving more about what they were uncomfortable doing, behind the wheel of their car (reversing out of car parking spaces) would let it get to them so much, as to be quite over-the-top and unreasonable, and rant and somebody else. Plus, I think she'd waited in her car for us to return, in order to do so.

Rolandtheroadie

sunnyone wrote: »

Many disabled bays are not wide enough to accomadate a Chrysler Grand Voyager with one meter ramp extended from the passenger rear door, also room to dismount/turn my powerchair from the end of the ramp and enough room for me to transfer into my powerchair from the drivers door.

I park further from the store over two bays with the shops permission and that frees up a disabled bay for someone else who might only need extra room on one side of the car only as thats the way these supermarkets have disabled bays laid out.

I'd imagine any requirement to use one bay would not be legally enforceable anyway .