Car Parks

[davidsl500]

I always park at the far end of any car park I visit - where no-one else parks and whenever I go back to the car there is always some pratt parked right next to me even though the rest of the car park is empty. You just know they have probably got 15 kids and have been less than careful opening their doors. Makes you want to get the baseball bat out...... I have started taking up parking in the centre of 2 bays now just to keep these idiots at bay..

Anyone else found drivers with irritating parking habits (apart from people that take up 2 spaces that is...)

 

[SLinKyjoe]

yeah, why do people drive round the supermarket for hours until the nearest space to the door is available...i have seen them circulating round and round....then go in with a basket and run about, get 11 items, go to the 10items or less, look flustered, check their watch, breath heavily and then cause a commotion when the checkout staff count the items and send them to a big till......i really like that.


why go shopping in a supermarket when you are in a rush? some people are just so un organised it is no wonder the pope died!

 

[91merc300sl24]

I really hate it when you have just parked and some road rally driver screeches into the space next to you. Don't know how many heart attacks I've had!
But even a better one is, I watched a car in front pull into a space at asda and something told me to hesitate. The car backed out again, stopped, & pulled in again. (thought it was safe then) I pulled in next to them slowly & there it was , the rear car door oped just perfectly timed for me to hit it and a kids hand right there. Heart attack #672. Thank goodness I didn't hit the kids hand......Pheeeew

 

[EuroCLK320]

I try to avoid parking next to transit vans. Most seem to have doors that are dented and bent. Somehow i can't see some hairy as*ed brickie caring about what his door will be banging into as he gets out.

I have to admit I am almost paranoid about where I leave my car. having a soft top doesn't help either. 5 seconds of pleasure for some poor deprived and bored teenager with a penknife and I am £1,000 worse off.. not a nice thought to make you sleep at night.

Davidsl500 - SO ITS YOU WHO TAKES UP 2 SPACES!!!

 

[SLinKyjoe]

I try to avoid parking next to transit vans. Most seem to have doors that are dented and bent. Somehow i can't see some hairy as*ed brickie caring about what his door will be banging into as he gets out.

I have to admit I am almost paranoid about where I leave my car. having a soft top doesn't help either. 5 seconds of pleasure for some poor deprived and bored teenager with a penknife and I am £1,000 worse off.. not a nice thought to make you sleep at night.

Davidsl500 - SO ITS YOU WHO TAKES UP 2 SPACES!!!

you have a lexus....you shuld have your roof ripped everynight until you off load the toyota-in-drag.......but think lucky...if you had a bmw we would have to set fire to you as well..

my brother has a land rover defender for defense in car parks...nobody evey parks next to that ever....i have even seen people leave the car park when it has been the only space available........

and....i had to go the BBC on the 1st Feb. so as i dashed round looking for a parking space nearby i saw the female who had driven really slowly in front and found the only space...thus causing me to be late...however i did get my own back.....i was on the interview panel that she was being interviewed at....so as i walked in 15mintues late.....i did smile......obviously we had to offer her the role as i couldn't let emotion get in the way of being professional.....however the other 2 on the panel disagreed and sent her a rejection....so there is a God! Not entirely sure when i have felt happier!

 

[EuroCLK320]

obviously we had to offer her the role as i couldn't let emotion get in the way of being professional.....however the other 2 on the panel disagreed and sent her a rejection....so there is a God! Not entirely sure when i have felt happier!

Thats cos they had seen her scrape her car against their bright shiny limos in the parking slot between their cars that she couldn't quite squeeze into!

 

[TheJim]

Thinking of transit vans, at the pub I used to run in Gerrards Cross a local plasterer opened his van door without looking- into a Lambo Diablo. I forget how much the new door was but he did go a funny green colour.

My personal hate is when people take forever at petrol stations to pay and get back in their cars and go. Do they just do laps of the shop? Or do they get trapped in some kind of Esso vortex?

 

[davidsl500]

Even when they get back into their cars they seem to take an age to move off - how long does it take to put your seatbelt on, start the engine and drive off I ask you ...?

 

[SLinKyjoe]

seatbelt? :?

 

[TheJim]

Seatbelt. Don't they fit them to those ridiculous BMW scooter things?
I seem to remember Austin used to fit red ones to some of their cars to make them go faster. I don't know what they're for though. They take all the fun out of sudden braking.

 

[turnipsock]

Aktually, this gives me an idea...

When people start queing up behind you at the pump, why not have a coffee before you pay for you petrol.

When you come out you can deflect the 'daggers' by opening you bonnet and checking your oil.

 

[com]

If there are no free spaces in the spots furthest away from the door I try to park next to the better cars rather then the bangers as I hope that the owners of those will atleast be wary of their own doors if nothing else.

Parking in 2 spaces can be a bit iffy while parking in the city as my old boss found out when he returned to his car to find the words PRAT keyed into the bonnet. It was the worst but he had previously found abusive note's left on the car and always laughed them off

 

[sooper coop]

I always park in the disabled bays in The David Loyd Gym. And The Mother and Baby bays
There is 16 bays for The Disabled.

Am a bast*d.

No./

I never see any disable people at the Gym, and they never park there. funny coincidence.

And Mother and Babys make me late for work so F-em.

 

[turnipsock]

I always try and take my mum to Tescos, that gives me the choice of parking in the pensioner section or the mother and child section.

Another place to avoid parking is near the trolly parks.

The one that annoys me is people that park across the doors at petrol stations and we all have to walk round their cars. Usually I use there car to steady myself my putting my hand on the their bonnet as I walk past (usually with my keys in my hand)

The best punishment comes when I have the estate and I can get on the pump next to the offending car. I can then get the nose of my car almost against their driver door so they can't get back in to move there car and free the que of cars now building up behind them.

 

[pascal]

I like to park mine a little distance from the entrance so I can admire it for longer on the way back :smile:

 

[turnipsock]

My car always seems to be two rows further back when I come out of Tescos.

That reminds me of the woman that reported her car stolen from the Mitchell Street car park. After an extensive citywide search, the police found it on the level above where she left it.

 

[jonnyjohnson]

Seat belts most dangerous things invented. Have you ever tried to put one on whilst driving and having a fag??????????

 

[pascal]

Excessive Smoke

I presume you mean,

Putting on your seatbelt, lighting a cigarette whilst reversing into a parking spot

PS: I usually begin to take it off when parking As for the ciggie, Yea, Last smoke for a while, as you cannot smoke in any indoor public or bussiness premices here for over a year.

 

[marshie001]

avoiding parking spaces

the parking spaces i tend to avoid are the ones next to the cars that lean........think about it....ever watched a fat bloke get into a car??
its not pretty,first youve got the belt buckle or back pocket studs on their stretchy jeans right across the top of your door or window,then youve got the door itself opening,then youve got the scratch it makes when they get in and the suspension goes down.

 

[peterchurch]

I always take two spaces... In really rought areas I have been known to park length ways I just don't take spaces near the doors... I parked on the 8th floor of a car park the other day. I could see the car park from where I was working. I looked out the window while I was geting a cup of water and low and behold a f*ing 4x4 in the space next to me!!! two cars on the whole floor!!! I used some pretty choice language and pointed out that It was not like a ****ing car thief couldn't walk the length of the car park if he wanted to chose my car over the 4x4 5 minutes later the car was gone didn't see who moved it but at least thats one moron that now has got the message