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It's fine in supermarket carparks. However when there are limited spaces available its more than a tad annoying. What about the car park at Asda Wakefield? That one is baffling, for some reason some people park on paths etc. It makes no sense as there's always spaces free. |
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LowStandards
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Not bad parking from me at all here, but I got wheel clamped and a severe ticking off cause it didn't fit in with all the directors cars who normally park there   |
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Tim
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Not bad parking from me at all here, but I got wheel clamped and a severe ticking off cause it didn't fit in with all the directors cars who normally park there  |
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This thread is SOOOO going into the whinge bin! I too cant stand people who park in disabled spaces when they are obviously perfectly able bodied. They are often flash gits in sports cars or they typical "white van man" character. I wish an "incredible hulk" style character would appear and flip the car over when people park like this. Same for people who park in mother and baby spaces when they arnt with their kids. The most annoying thing is the shop staff don't seem to be bothered.  DATMAN. That last pic is class. Well done for strapping the patrol down well enough to keep it on the trailer! |
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Sooooo want to say nothing, but seen one of two comments, including bike parking etc. Many places do not cater for motorbikes at all, or put them at the far end of the carpark (which is still OK) However, I had a colleague who was and is a prize TWUNT.... he would shut the door on motorways if he saw bikes come from behind in traffic, absolute prize cock. He thought it was funny seeing bikers almost lose it when he moved over in his BMW ... Cock. The ones that really get me are the 4x4's in the disabled bays with HUGE hairy arsed builder types , looking like they just came from thje local gym.... once more Prize cocks. What is much nicer in my opinion is seeing the surprise in peoples eyes when you are considerate. Have to say the twunts who park right up against you, or accross 2 spaces in their ego wagons peee me off too. Some dickhead came flying into sainsburys t'other week, straight into a disabled bay, got out, locked his E34 and walked into the shop. Told me to "Eff off " when I enquired aloud how his disability must be mental, not physical, as he could obviously move ok. Lovely man :-) don't like being sworn at, so thought i'd draw attention to his car by stopping behind it and beeping my horn - he didnt like that :-) Funny thing is, if he had said "sorry, its an emergency" no-one would have cared :-) On the flipside - at the M&S near work i've seen a disabled badged car parked in a normal space when there were several disabled bays free - meant I couldnt park anywhere! Nobbers!  Fair enough .... but the flipside of this is the fact that some poeple with disabled badges and motability cars are terminally ill so next time just give it a thought ... I'm sure that guy was more than likely a twunt but thought it worht a mention  |
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Sooooo want to say nothing, but seen one of two comments, including bike parking etc. Many places do not cater for motorbikes at all, or put them at the far end of the carpark (which is still OK) However, I had a colleague who was and is a prize TWUNT.... he would shut the door on motorways if he saw bikes come from behind in traffic, absolute prize cock. He thought it was funny seeing bikers almost lose it when he moved over in his BMW ... Cock. Some guy did this to my Dad in stationary traffic on the M25. He hadn't seen the police car next to him, but the police car had seen him. A quick blip of the sirens and pointing by the PO to clear the way was enough. Funny that. |
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Mar 10, 2009 15:05:13 GMT
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Currently contracting for a certain well known healthcare authority. We work in a small office with private car park next to a local library. The car park has just about enough spaces for us. 'The Public' are forever ignoring the private car park signs and take our spaces. So we park in front of them. They'll occasionally come in and (tentatively or angrily) ask us to move, but more times than not, they'll just sit there patiently for an hour or more and wait. The angry ones are the funniest. Been threatened with legal action and all sorts, bless 'em. Never hear from them though - strange that  The car park also has 2 disabled spots. There are no disabled people in the office, so being a private car park, we use them. On several occasions notes from irate old library users have been found under wipers, and my colleague recently received the classic 'I was in the war' rant from a limping old dude. Brilliant! |
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Mar 10, 2009 15:19:12 GMT
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Currently contracting for a certain well known healthcare authority. We work in a small office with private car park next to a local library. The car park has just about enough spaces for us. 'The Public' are forever ignoring the private car park signs and take our spaces. So we park in front of them. They'll occasionally come in and (tentatively or angrily) ask us to move, but more times than not, they'll just sit there patiently for an hour or more and wait. The angry ones are the funniest. Been threatened with legal action and all sorts, bless 'em. Never hear from them though - strange that The car park also has 2 disabled spots. There are no disabled people in the office, so being a private car park, we use them. On several occasions notes from irate old library users have been found under wipers, and my colleague recently received the classic 'I was in the war' rant from a limping old dude. Brilliant! Ha! We (me and a snapper for the mag) parked in the disabled space at Tesco's not so long back. We got out, and an old dear let all hell loose on the snapper who was driving. He stood there, took the abuse, then when she'd finished rolled up his trouser to reveal his fake leg. He told her, in some words, to not be such a judgmental git and we went on our way. The look on her face was priceless. And to keep this almost on topic, we just watched Lou, the editor of Performance BMW, try and park her E36 coupe. After a 76-point turn it's in, albeit at a jaunty angle. God I wish I had my camera! Chris |
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Mar 10, 2009 15:37:57 GMT
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Tim
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Mar 10, 2009 16:01:55 GMT
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Currently contracting for a certain well known healthcare authority. We work in a small office with private car park next to a local library. The car park has just about enough spaces for us. 'The Public' are forever ignoring the private car park signs and take our spaces. So we park in front of them. They'll occasionally come in and (tentatively or angrily) ask us to move, but more times than not, they'll just sit there patiently for an hour or more and wait. The angry ones are the funniest. Been threatened with legal action and all sorts, bless 'em. Never hear from them though - strange that The car park also has 2 disabled spots. There are no disabled people in the office, so being a private car park, we use them. On several occasions notes from irate old library users have been found under wipers, and my colleague recently received the classic 'I was in the war' rant from a limping old dude. Brilliant! Ha! We (me and a snapper for the mag) parked in the disabled space at Tesco's not so long back. We got out, and an old dear let all hell loose on the snapper who was driving. He stood there, took the abuse, then when she'd finished rolled up his trouser to reveal his fake leg. He told her, in some words, to not be such a judgmental git and we went on our way. Aye, It did occur to me that the bloke i wound up may have had a disability, but i'm 99.99% sure he was just a cock :-) His attitude seemed to confirm it |
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Mar 10, 2009 18:09:22 GMT
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I used to travel to Leicester quite alot and park in an NCP car park called the Rutland.It always said it had spaces and let you in but then you would find a beemer or a merc or any other luxobarge over 2 spaces.One day i drive in and get to the 2nd level and i spot a nice mint condition VW corrado over 2 spaces.Theres a crowd of 5 or 6 people round it all laughing,so not wanting to miss out on the fun i get out for a look.Writen on the side in a key or other sharp object was this "i bet you parked like this so no one would damage your nice car eh?" i could not stop laughing,and being short on time could'nt wait for the owner to come back so i could see the look on his face.
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Mar 10, 2009 18:41:11 GMT
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I used to travel to Leicester quite alot and park in an NCP car park called the Rutland.It always said it had spaces and let you in but then you would find a beemer or a merc or any other luxobarge over 2 spaces.One day I drive in and get to the 2nd level and I spot a nice mint condition VW corrado over 2 spaces.Theres a crowd of 5 or 6 people round it all laughing,so not wanting to miss out on the fun I get out for a look.Writen on the side in a key or other sharp object was this "i bet you parked like this so no one would damage your nice car eh?" I could not stop laughing,and being short on time could'nt wait for the owner to come back so I could see the look on his face.  Are you being sarcastic? That's really not funny |
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RobinJI
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Mar 10, 2009 19:06:12 GMT
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It is kinda funny if it was a crowded car park of that type, but its also incredibly harsh, one of those things where you'd never even think of doing it, but you'd giggle if you saw it.
I've got a friend who regularly gets ranted at for parking his modified mk4 astra in disabled bays, then getting out apparently fine, at which point he normally rolls up a trouser leg to reveal 2 10" scars, and asks if they'd like to see the matching ones on his back arms and other leg. He was in a pretty harsh car accident and only has partial movement of one of his legs, along with more metal in him than most minis have filler. Normally shuts them up.
It always curse word's me off when people park across 2 spaces so people don't open doors into them if its right outside a shop, or in limited parking, but if there's plenty of space to do it it's fair enough. I normally try and park in spaces at the end of rows so you're only next to one car, and park right on the far side of the space, so I give the other cars a wide birth, haven't found a mark on my car yet, and no one blocks me in out of anger.
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Last Edit: Mar 10, 2009 19:08:48 GMT by RobinJI
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Mar 10, 2009 19:08:10 GMT
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If your really care about your car, don't take it to multistories or supermarkets!
Since having a car I actually care about ive started using buses, trains and my pushbike more. Good for the enviroment too!
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Mar 10, 2009 19:11:12 GMT
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No i'm not being sarcastic.One thing that annoys me is that people think its ok to park across 2 spaces for various reasons,known only to themselves.Now whether this VW driver parked like this so that no one bumped their door against his/her fine motor car,or they were lazy/stupid/in a hurry what ever.they still parked accross 2 spaces.I'm not saying that the vandal/voice of everyone else who was incovenienced buy their actions was right in scratching this car,it still does'nt change the fact that i found it and still find it funny. And i'm just as entitled to to an opinion as you are.And the bottom line is that people today have no consideration for other people,hense bad parking being one of those things.Would i like it done to my car? no because no on would have reason to write this quote on my car because i think about other people,would i still find it funny if my car was randomly vandalised in such a way no because again, the vandal had no consideration for my property.You might think i'm odd but thats your opinion and your entitled to it.
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Mar 10, 2009 23:17:12 GMT
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No i'm not being sarcastic.One thing that annoys me is that people think its ok to park across 2 spaces for various reasons,known only to themselves.Now whether this VW driver parked like this so that no one bumped their door against his/her fine motor car,or they were lazy/stupid/in a hurry what ever.they still parked accross 2 spaces.I'm not saying that the vandal/voice of everyone else who was incovenienced buy their actions was right in scratching this car,it still does'nt change the fact that I found it and still find it funny. And i'm just as entitled to to an opinion as you are.And the bottom line is that people today have no consideration for other people,hense bad parking being one of those things.Would I like it done to my car? no because no on would have reason to write this quote on my car because I think about other people,would I still find it funny if my car was randomly vandalised in such a way no because again, the vandal had no consideration for my property.You might think i'm odd but thats your opinion and your entitled to it. for real? it's never funny when someone vandalises another persons property. NEVER. It doesn't matter if they were breaking the rules, or even if they were a particularly nasty person, or just trying to keep their car safe from the type of degenerates who do that kind of vandalism - fact is, vandalism is always, always wrong. It's not up to you or anyone else unless in authority to decide whats wrong and whats not, and to laugh at someone elses abject misfortune I just find sick. |
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What? I work at Halfords and as such I am forced to park in a busy carpark which we share with a Dunelm. I'm fed up of getting my car battered to hell by Dunelms target demographic (I'll leave that to you to interpret) so all our staff try and park in the far corner of the carpark and we all park inches away from each other, leaving the end car halfway across a space, hopefully oout of the reach of doors being swung open by customers eager to buy poor quality rugs or plastic smelling pillowcases. More than a few times, the lad next to me has popped out on his dinner without me knowing, leaving my car across two spaces. Yes, if I saw this, I'd drive past and think "Who's that cock with the curse word green girls car thinking it's worth money and taking two spaces up" but I wouldn't think for one second he deserves £1k of damage for parking like a twonk. Maybe an abusive note under the wiper if you are that way inclined, but nobody deserves to get their car vandalised for taking up two spaces. Yes, we are all entitled to our opinion, but I'm sure the vast majority of people on here wouldn't find causing hundreds of pounds of damage to someone's car because it was parked 4 feet to one side funny. EDIT: I apologise for the negativity of the above post, and offer this by way of an apology:  |
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Last Edit: Mar 11, 2009 0:36:26 GMT by cobblers
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I just remembered last year at uni we watched a girl try and park her Yaris in a park that i could have got my galant into! she took about 5 mins to do it and even then it wasn't in straight. Heres some fail parking.    Cheers |
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This started off amusing, and has now got stressy... so..... off to WB
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