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Drivers that don't park in car park bays and insurance

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  • Andy_L
    Andy_L Posts: 13,080 Forumite
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    jase1 wrote: »
    No insurance attached to the trolleys :D

    Awww, is your little car scwatched? Isn't it a shame :rotfl:

    In which case you're personally liable. Feeling rich?
  • reeac
    reeac Posts: 1,430 Forumite
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    gardner1 wrote: »
    I sometimes park between 2 bays in local Tesco because they are too small...otherwise some fat ba5tard parks so close then dinks my door

    Other car park users probably wonder who the fat ba5stard is who's occupying two spaces.
  • OddballJamie
    OddballJamie Posts: 2,660 Forumite
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    gardner1 wrote: »
    I sometimes park between 2 bays in local Tesco because they are too small...otherwise some fat ba5tard parks so close then dinks my door

    Just park in the disabled spaces, they're wider.

    I prefer to handbrake it sidewards into three spaces, then if anyone parks in the adjacent bays I ram them on my way out. I can sleep soundly at night knowing their insurance will fix their car, not mine. ;)
  • jase1
    jase1 Posts: 2,308 Forumite
    Andy_L wrote: »
    In which case you're personally liable. Feeling rich?

    Better off than people with a sense of humour bypass, certainly.
  • artbaron
    artbaron Posts: 7,285 Forumite
    edited 4 November 2013 at 1:25AM
    I am getting annoyed with drivers that don't park in bays (not straddling over two or three bays) and park anywhere in the car park. 99.9% of the time its down to laziness, when the car park has over a quarter of spaces empty.

    I can understand why people parking on a slip road is annoying, but why would you be annoyed by someone taking two spaces if there are hundreds of empty spaces? Surely just park in an empty one and don't bother about what other people do.

    Where I normally park the car park has about 400 spaces, of which never more than 200 are full. I deliberately park far from the store and across two spaces, because if I don't you can bet that some retard will park right next to me and open their door smack into my rear panel and cause exactly £280 of damage, then drive away without leaving their details. True story - 300 free spaces and the [Removed] drives 100 yards to squeeze in beside my car and damage it. So now I always park across two spaces and if anybody doesn't like it they can suck my ass.
  • goonarmy
    goonarmy Posts: 1,006 Forumite
    edited 4 November 2013 at 1:25AM
    artbaron wrote: »
    I can understand why people parking on a slip road is annoying, but why would you be annoyed by someone taking two spaces if there are hundreds of empty spaces? Surely just park in an empty one and don't bother about what other people do.

    Where I normally park the car park has about 400 spaces, of which never more than 200 are full. I deliberately park far from the store and across two spaces, because if I don't you can bet that some retard will park right next to me and open their door smack into my rear panel and cause exactly £280 of damage, then drive away without leaving their details. True story - 300 free spaces and the [Removed] drives 100 yards to squeeze in beside my car and damage it. So now I always park across two spaces and if anybody doesn't like it they can suck my ass.

    Id aim to park next to people like you in car park in work vans:rotfl:
  • sunnyone
    sunnyone Posts: 4,716 Forumite
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    I parking in two bays at supermarkets, they are aware Im doing it and are ok with it.

    I drive a wheelchair accessable vehicle which has a 6ft electric ramp that comes out of the side and I also need room to get off the ramp and many disabled bays are just not wide enough.

    Where is the harm in me using two bays in a car park with many empty spaces?

    Some drivers are just looking for something to moan about, they should get a life.

    its amazing that some drivers park ajacent to me inbetween the two bays next to me because they are too stupid and/or lazy to look at the bay markings, at least I look at the markings and then park in a suitable way to allow me to enter and exit my vehicle.
  • pogofish
    pogofish Posts: 10,853 Forumite
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    edited 25 October 2013 at 8:42PM
    No harm at all - In your case that sounds like a perfectly sensible and appropriate reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act. :)

    And I must say that I've been parking for extra width recently as I've been needing to use mobility aids more after the surgery to help relieve aspects of my disability but as things heal, the need for extra space is now decreasing again.
  • 27col
    27col Posts: 6,554 Forumite
    You have a great signature signature artbaron. Reminds me of when I first came across binary numbers.
    I can afford anything that I want.
    Just so long as I don't want much.
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