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and the x5/minicab-firm owner reads this forum and knows your name and has you on cctv.
time to emigrate. bye, and take care in foreign lands.
and, don't forget, before you go, make sure grandma has a new "in-case-of-emergency" driver to help her.
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Good for him! I always have parked 'over a line' and taken up two spaces.....because of people who 'carefully' open their doors right into the side of my car!
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>>I always have parked 'over a line' and taken up two spaces..>>
Some while back I was lambasted for stating I use this policy at the local Tesco Extra, usually some distance from the main entrance....:-(
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The 16:20 posting made me chuckle....:-)
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The 16:20 posting made me chuckle....:-)
well, i do try every now and again (rarely) to lighten up a little. ;-)
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And I must admit I have been tempted to walk over the roofs of cars parked on the pavement.
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David, if your OP is supposed to imply that you damaged the X5 then you are an pink fluffy dice, a criminal pink fluffy dice no less!
If however you are commenting on the design of such carparks and sympathising with the unfortunate X5 owner who despite his best efforts sustained damage due to the inept approach adopted in most supermarket carpark design then I agree with you 100%.
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Nope, I watched with amusement as one person struggled to get out of their car after parking with about 6 inches free on either side. The trolley scrape was a stray drifting around the car park which hit the X5 anyway, which I found quite funny. Heavily laden is perhaps an exaggeration... ;-) I'd only nipped in for my lunch and was on foot, but sheltering from the rain before walking home.
Only car I've ever deliberately damaged was one parked in a disabled bay while the young owner ran into a shop to get cigarettes or something, and even that was only a kick and some years ago - and something I don't regret in the slightest! The point I tried to make is that when this person decided to occupy 2 spaces in a busy car park to protect their new car from damage, they ended up more squashed in than had they parked normally.
Dawglish - you are, frankly, a bit of a smug, self satisfied pink fluffy dice Perhaps it's best if a mod removed this thread though, or at least modified my original post so it confirms I had nothing to do with the incident apart from sniggering.
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...Perhaps it's best if a mod removed this thread though, or at least modified my original post so it confirms I had nothing to do with the incident apart from sniggering.
yeah, very funny. i laughed so much that i cried when i read this thread.
not to worry, it all on cctv and its put the fear of god in to the vnadalisng criminal culprit. and by the way, i know when i have hit the sweet spot (when name calling and swearing starts in earnest ).
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If the car is parked on the pavement is has severely reduced the area for walking past i will not be careful when i walk past and my zipper on the jacket rubs against it..
also seeing cars parked over two bays i will park as close as i can to that car's driver side making it awkward to get in. i have an old banger which i use for shopping or parking in town so any scratches dents etc won't bother me.
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Well DH now you have made me snigger. I too was half convinced by yr OP that you had done these things yrself, and very shocked and saddened I was, provisionally of course... Of course I don't suppose either ding will be noticeable really.
Pity you came clean so soon though. You were bringing some people with a clear nostalgia for malicious damage into the open, and who knows what might have appeared if you'd kept shtum a bit longer.
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>>.because of people who 'carefully' open their doorsright into the side of my car!
What's really fun, when a car takes up two spaces, and the car in the neighbouring space then drives off, is to park so close that the drivers' door of the offending car can't be opened. It's highly amusing to watch fat people in suits getting into their low-slung Bavarian bling-mobiles through the passenger door.
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... watch fat people in suits getting into their low-slung Bavarian bling-mobiles ..
careful now, or it will expose your deep rooted psychological "love & respect" for big businesses, not forgetting bill gates to be false.
and then people like me will shout "politics of envy".
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>> ... watch fat people in suits getting into their low-slung Bavarian bling-mobiles .. careful now, or it will expose your deep rooted psychological "love & respect" for big businesses, not forgetting bill gates to be false. and then people like me will shout "politics of envy".
I have plenty of "love and respect" for big businesses. It's selfish gits I can't stand.
In any case I generally avoid the depressing scene of surrender, submission, and wasted life that is the supermarket.
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>>What's really fun, when a car takes up two spaces>>
I had a silver big bumper Jetta for 13 years. The only damage it sustained was on several occasions at Tesco, even through it was correctly parked.
The damage was mainly caused, as you would surmise, by car doors being carelessly opened, but another factor was people pushing trollies through gaps between vehicles.
Hence the decision with the arrival of my current silver Bora to minimise the risk of such damage by using two spaces; that's also why it's parked some distance from the main entrance to minimise inconvenience to others (most people attempt to park as close to the store as possible).
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What a factor the ghastly supermarket has become in everyone's life.
If there isn't an empty far side at your local one, the only choice is to leave someone hulking and unshaven (except on the head obviously) with tattoos and evil shades in your car. Or equivalent. Everyone should know a few people like that surely?
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Not sure this '2-space' strategy is too clever in the long run - sooner or later it's going to attract agit-prop from one source or another, and the meantime anyway, makes the owner look like a boor. What if large numbers of people started doing similar - there wouldn't be any space to park, anytime! I personally cultivate & practice the withering stare to people parked illicitly in disabled bays (i.e. when it's obvious, builders' vans, chav-mobiles etc) & have, on occasion, politely brought to their attention their transgression
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Bloke who goes to our local squash club has a nice X-type Jag estate that he's extremely proud of and which he used to be in the habit of parking across two bays. Unfortunately parking is in short supply and in the past this has upset one or two of the other members. One Friday night a few weeks back (when we had that last fall of snow) he came out to his car and there was a nasty deep scratch all along the driver's door. It wasn't a nice thing to do, and we don't know who did it, but the guy didn't get much sympathy.....
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It's obvious........the supermarkets are extracting the urine and aren't providing big enough parking bays .. plus those with nice cars should use the home shopping service
and those of you with brat kids should bring them up with enough respect for other people's property, not to whack the car in the next bay with their door......as happened to me one week after re-spraying my old car...when i remonstrated i might just as well have been a child molester for the reaction i got
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and those of you with brat kids should bring them up with enough respect for other people's property, not to whack the car in the next bay with their door......as happened to me one week after re-spraying my old car...when i remonstrated i might just as well have been a child molester for the reaction i got
Some years ago I was driving through a council estate in Liverpool when a child of about four years of age hurled a house brick at my car that fortunately missed as I swerved to avoid it. The brat ran to a house so I stopped the car and knocked on the door. When I told the female, who I took to be his mother, what had happened, and suggested she should prevent him from doing this in future, her reply was: "Yer insured aren't yer?"
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were there any wheels on it when you went back? o-)
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Not sure this '2-space' strategy is too clever in the long run, makes the owner look like a boor. What if large numbers of people started
Absolutely woodbines. Quite enough people parking like that already just because they're too goddam thick not to, not just in supermarkparks but all over the place.
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Are cars getting Wider or is it just me ?, don't forget many Parking spaces were not marked out with the larger cars in mind.
Saying that My Focus has a nice line of scratches on the door. Problem is where we work it's by a tall building and it's a wind tunnel - You have to be strong in opening the door and make sure you hold the handle else it will just fly open.
My last but 2 car had this happen to it - One of the women opened the car door the wind took it and it dented my door - Thankfully she owned up - not the end of the world, I have given up on having a nice dent,ding scratch free car.
I have had 2 cars keyed (one twice down the side and all across the back) and 2 where it's obvious someone has opened the car door on it - I blame the wife as we have a narrow drive but she is having none of it although I know it's her !
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I'm giving serious thought to carrying a camera around with me capturing the spectacularly stupid, selfish and arrogant parking that I see on a daily basis for a crappy, glossy coffee table book that would retail for 25 quid. Any backers out there? The Brits are just amateurs.
The guy yesterday who drove across an empty row of designated free bays to park on the pavement. The guys who park ON zebras. The taxi driver in our work carpark who parks diagonally across three bays everyday regardless of how full it starts to get. The same car park where the entrance point is used as a bay if it's full leaving only the narrow exit point for going in and out. Cars parked front end first and at twenty degrees, willy nilly in every shopping centre. My playschool that has just enough space to get three cars side by side, always has one car haphazardly abandoned across the whole space. Pavements everywhere generally just littered with cars. Parking on central reservations. Parking on roundabouts. All disabled bays ignored. Always. Blah blah blah etc etc.
I could moan about it, but it's actually very comical and at worst vaguely inconvenient if you're a pedestrian. And I have to admit, although I usually try to set an example from the Brits, I enjoy the freedom of parking free of charge, wherever I like, dumping it across two bays and flinging the doors wide open to get the kids out of the back.
But vandalising cars because they're parked untidily... jeez, c'mon.
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I could moan about it, but it's actually very comical and at worst vaguely inconvenient if you're a pedestrian. And I have to admit, although I usually try to set an example from the Brits, I enjoy the freedom of parking free of charge, wherever I like, dumping it across two bays and flinging the doors wide open to get the kids out of the back. But vandalising cars because they're parked untidily... jeez, c'mon.
So, old-time Parisian parking has moved into the spaces of the East BBD?
I notice Paris isn't what it used to be.
Love the coffee table book idea.
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>>> I'm giving serious thought to carrying a camera around with me capturing the spectacularly stupid, selfish and arrogant parking that I see on a daily basis
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I personally cultivate & practice the withering stare to people parked illicitly in disabled bays (i.e. when it's obvious, builders' vans, chav-mobiles etc) & have, on occasion, politely brought to their attention their transgression
I have, from time to time - when I have seen an obviously fit person park a car in a disabled bay - tell them that 'I am glad your leg seems to be getting better'.
After the blank look, or the 'do what?' comment, I point out that they are obviously not bisabled. I have had some interesting responses!
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