Vent: Tesco Van Parking Over Driveway

jacques_chirac

mumps wrote: »

Not block us in. If I can't find a space outside the shop I park further away and walk. Anyway he ignored my husband when he asked, only moved when his precious car was in danger. Better his car than my baby.

People block each other in at the local shops, it happens every day, probably on the basis that people are in and out in a matter of minutes. There was no need to threaten to damage someone's car, I'm sure if your husband explained there was a medical emergency the driver would have moved without fuss. Instead your husband came across as a typical four wheel car driver

tonycottee

A 4x4 driver complaining about inconsiderate parking? What is the world coming to?

mumps

skitler wrote: »

when you got blocked in did you get enraged like the op and that's what brought on the bleeding.


the car that blocked you in "could" have also been on more important business.


its all, me me me.


your hubby sounds a right charmer, (don't block my 4x4 or else!!!) and obviously not considerate enough to do his errands another time, thus not putting you in the blocked in scinareo.

No I didn't get enraged, I did get worried when I started to bleed and knew I needed to get to hospital.

The other drive was in a little corner shop probably buying his newspaper or a packet of fags. Absolutely vital.

No it wasn't me me me , it was baby baby baby.

My husband is protective of his family, no question he would do what was needed to protect us. Wouldn't any man do that if his wife was in danger of losing their baby? By the way he wasn't doing his errands, he was collecting a prescription for our older child who was unwell.

mumps

jacques_chirac wrote: »

People block each other in at the local shops, it happens every day, probably on the basis that people are in and out in a matter of minutes. There was no need to threaten to damage someone's car, I'm sure if your husband explained there was a medical emergency the driver would have moved without fuss. Instead your husband came across as a typical four wheel car driver

I have never blocked another car in, as far as I know my husband hasn't either.

He asked for the car to be moved and was ignored and then warned them of his intentions.

Some men might not have the backbone to protect their own, shame for their family.

mumps

tonycottee wrote: »

A 4x4 driver complaining about inconsiderate parking? What is the world coming to?

He drives and parks with consideration for others. Good manners cost nothing.

custardy

mumps wrote: »

OP I sympathise, lots of unsympathetic posts on here. When I was having my fourth child I had repeated threatened miscarriages. One day my husband had parked outside local shops to get something, as we waited we got blocked in and I started to bleed. My husband went into the shop I indicated and asked politely if the driver would move the car. No one responded. We had a big four wheel drive car at the time, my husband looked at his watch and said, "Who ever you are you have 30 seconds and then I will be leaving if the car is moved or not." Red faced man exited the shop very quickly. Some things are more important than convenient parking space.

He wasn't parked. He was making a delivery next door.
What would have been your response if the driver was in your line of sight and you knew it was them?

Money-Saving-King

mumps wrote: »

He drives and parks with consideration for others. Good manners cost nothing.

mumps wrote: »

No one responded. We had a big four wheel drive car at the time, my husband looked at his watch and said, "Who ever you are you have 30 seconds and then I will be leaving if the car is moved or not."

If he said that it sounds not like consideration or manners to me.

The word thug springs to mind though.

skitler

mumps wrote: »

The other drive was in a little corner shop probably buying his newspaper or a packet of fags. Absolutely vital.

By the way he wasn't doing his errands, he was collecting a prescription for our older child who was unwell.

so you don't know what other driver was doing, or weather it was vital or not!


so if that's not an errand, what is it?


some folk eh!!

Morglin

mumps wrote: »

No I didn't get enraged, I did get worried when I started to bleed and knew I needed to get to hospital.

The other drive was in a little corner shop probably buying his newspaper or a packet of fags. Absolutely vital.

No it wasn't me me me , it was baby baby baby.

My husband is protective of his family, no question he would do what was needed to protect us. Wouldn't any man do that if his wife was in danger of losing their baby? By the way he wasn't doing his errands, he was collecting a prescription for our older child who was unwell.

Good for your hubby - I would have done exactly the same! :T

Needing to pop in somewhere is not an excuse to be inconsiderate of other people. :wall:

Lin :doh:

mumps

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

If he said that it sounds not like consideration or manners to me.

The word thug springs to mind though.

So a driver pulls into a small carpark in front of some shops, blocks in four cars, ours the one next to us and two opposite. When my husband, politely asks in the shop for the car to be moved he is completely ignored, he has a sick child and his wife is bleeding and in danger of losing a much wanted baby, what do you think he should have done?

The guy should not have blocked other people in, when someone came into the shop and asked for the car to be moved he should have moved it but no he ignored a polite request. I don't think my husband had much option. Perhaps you would have put an inconsiderate driver ahead of pregnant woman and her unborn child. Your choice.