damaged car supermarket carpark

Silver-Surfer_2

AdrianC wrote: »

I don't see gender being particularly relevant. Everybody is capable of driving into large stationary concrete blocks, if they don't look where they're going as they drive across the clearly-marked pedestrian areas, no matter what the contents of their underwear.

Or even someone's shopping. :rotfl:

gilbert_and_sullivan

Was taking responsibility for your own mistakes made an offence over the last 20 years, one could be forgiven for thinking so.

Seems a lifetime ago when someone did something daft and could be heard muttering oaths at themselves for their idiocy.

EdGasket

My wife parked in the multi-storey next to a pillar but when she came back the pillar had changed sides (that's how she explained it to me) and when she reversed it took the door mirror off and dented the door! Funny that; scratches head.

neilmcl

londonTiger wrote: »

if you want you can look for a parking space that has a pedestrian inbetween two rows of cars. This is very common and allows you to reverse in and still have boot access.

Not as common as you think, certainly no supermarket round mine has that sort of access.

robbies_gal

we also dont have pedsestrian walkways between our lines of car park its too awkward to get the shopping in if u have squeeze through a car with your bags

takman

robbies_gal wrote: »

we also dont have pedsestrian walkways between our lines of car park its too awkward to get the shopping in if u have squeeze through a car with your bags

The OP was in a Child and Parent bay which have extra room either side of the car.

But even if your parking in a normal space all you need to do is park away from other cars so you will have plenty of room to loan the bags into the boot. This also means your less likely to have your car damaged by other drivers opening their door or reversing into you.

But I personally so my shopping when the supermarket is quiet such as late at night on a weekday so there are not many cars there. I'm always surprised at how many people waste their weekends by doing shipping during the day on a Saturday or Sunday!

Strider590

I went shopping myself yesterday, I just kept driving further from the store until I found a nice open area, I reverse parked and had no issue at all getting my shopping into the boot.

I've never understood the obsession with parking right up next to the entrance, it risks vehicle damage for the sake of having to trolley shopping an extra 100 yards. It's not really a hardship, but i've seen people parking in loading areas, on grass verges, on footpaths, disabled bays, P/C bays, etc JUST to be a little closer.

pendragon_arther

"The car in front hit the pedestrian but he got up so I hit him again"

"I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law and headed over the embankment."

"The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intention."

"I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way"

"A truck backed through my windshield into my wife's face"

"A pedestrian hit me and went under my car"

"In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole."

"I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home. As I reached an intersection a hedge sprang up obscuring my vision and I did not see the other car."

"I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident."

"An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished."

AdrianC

An ex of mine once spent a uni summer holiday working for an insurer, processing claims forms. She had one where the owner of a Range Rover was claiming for damage caused when it was used for a ram-raid. Unfortunately, his correspondence address was c/o HMP...

Yep, he was driving it at the time.

neilmcl

Strider590 wrote: »

I went shopping myself yesterday, I just kept driving further from the store until I found a nice open area, I reverse parked and had no issue at all getting my shopping into the boot.

I've never understood the obsession with parking right up next to the entrance, it risks vehicle damage for the sake of having to trolley shopping an extra 100 yards. It's not really a hardship, but i've seen people parking in loading areas, on grass verges, on footpaths, disabled bays, P/C bays, etc JUST to be a little closer.

That's fine if the assumption is that no one else parks next to you in the meantime, which invariably they do no matter how far away you park.

Anyway, let's not get into this pointless argument again, it's not really relevant to this thread as it seems the OP wasn't paying attention full stop.