Idiots in car parks

AugustusMinimus

Picture the scene.

1. Huge multi story car park at about 10.30 in the morning
2. The lower level is full
3. There is acres of space on the upper 3 levels.

There is a massive queue going into the car park as people refuse to drive another 200 to 300m and hold up everyone entering the car park in order to park in the very first available space. And how slowly they decided to back into these available spaces.

This sort of stuff drives me bananas. The worst place I've experienced it is in Tesco's in Douglas where there's often a queue of traffic down to the street because people won't just drive on a bit and get a space down the back, which ironically is actually closer to the entrance of Tesco's.

In fact, it got so bad at Christmas in Douglas, that they had people stopping cars from parking straight away and kept waving them on. Thank Christ for that.

Any other car park peeves ?

dgt

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

Picture the scene.

1. Huge multi story car park at about 10.30 in the morning
2. The lower level is full
3. There is acres of space on the upper 3 levels.

There is a massive queue going into the car park as people refuse to drive another 200 to 300m and hold up everyone entering the car park in order to park in the very first available space. And how slowly they decided to back into these available spaces.

This sort of stuff drives me bananas. The worst place I've experienced it is in Tesco's in Douglas where there's often a queue of traffic down to the street because people won't just drive on a bit and get a space down the back, which ironically is actually closer to the entrance of Tesco's.

In fact, it got so bad at Christmas in Douglas, that they had people stopping cars from parking straight away and kept waving them on. Thank Christ for that.

Any other car park peeves ?

I feel your pain. See here

JohnBoy26

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

Any other car park peeves ?

Yes. When people park beside me and smack they're door off my car when getting out and then proceed to walk off without a care in the world :mad:

DubTony

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

Any other car park peeves ?

Oh yeah. The one where, after driving round an almost full car park, you see a car pull out, and just as you head for the spot some bitch/bastard drives into it from the parking space behind, because he/she doesn't want to have to reverse out of the space they pulled into.

I've had a word on 2 of the 3 occasions it happened. First time she told me to f*ck off, second one did the right thing, and on the third occasion I waved my annoyance with 2 hands in the air .... and got a dopey looking clueless response, so I just left.

Oh, the one with the potty mouth came back to not one, but 2 flat tyres. :mad:

Dartz

Someone's been going to the Blue car park at Blanchardstown, haven't they?

It's **** to ****ing get around, even if people are being sensible. This is also why I hope one day to discover Irish Rail selling off their old horns...

120dB+ in a confined space. Might encourage them to move.

jimmycrackcorm

The wife irritates me no end driving around and around liffey valley shopping centre car park looking for the closest free space to the centre. Whereas I always go directly to the bottom of the car park and walk.

Atlantic Dawn

My pet hate is people parking about 2mm from my car so I have to enter it Dukes Of Hazzard Style yet theres hundreds of other vacant spaces they could take instead.

serious3

Dartz wrote: »

Someone's been going to the Blue car park at Blanchardstown, haven't they?

It's **** to ****ing get around, even if people are being sensible. This is also why I hope one day to discover Irish Rail selling off their old horns...

120dB+ in a confined space. Might encourage them to move.

have a look for a nautilus motorcycle horn, nit louder than 120db tho!

bladespin

Gobsh1tes (usually, though not always) in expensive cars parking across 2 spaces, love jamming the bike in between the drivers door and the line

Marcusm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

My pet hate is people parking about 2mm from my car so I have to enter it Dukes Of Hazzard Style yet theres hundreds of other vacant spaces they could take instead.

Recently had this in a supermarket where I'd done a pitstop before getting on ferry; came out and minimal distance between both car doors - both DRIVERS doors, theirs right against the white line. Other driver must be stick thin, i thought. Decided not to wait so had the car number called out. They hadn't started shopping and no distance from door to car so minimal muttering o n her behalf.

Opens her door, banging into mine - she'd clearly had trouble getting out but decided not to readjust but to risk damage. Said nothing but inspected the door - nothing apparent. She (snidely) commented that banged doors are to be expected in supermarkets and walked off. Banged doors completely unnecessary in this case.

Her car was very dirty, quite thick layer. So I wet my finger (about 20 times) and wrote "stupid" on the side of her car. I feel no remorse.

RacoonQueen

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

The wife irritates me no end driving around and around liffey valley shopping centre car park looking for the closest free space to the centre. Whereas I always go directly to the bottom of the car park and walk.

Ha my mum and sister do this. They drive up and down the rows down close to the door at Vue, while there are LOADS of spaces up on the same row but further away. They drive around for ages, in the time they spend driving around they'd have walked down to the centre 10 times. Drives me mental.

Superquinn Lucan another time, driving around the big car park at the shops lookin for spaces for fricken ages, then all of a sudden she says;
''I suppose we'll have to go over to the other side to park, there might be spaces there''
Didn't even know there was other spaces myself, evidently neither did ANYONE else, about 5 cars there, loads of space. We'd probably have finished in Superquinn by the time we parked if she'd just gone there in the f*cking first place.

I just park in any available slot. Quick, easy, simple...

Dr Turk Turkelton

bladespin wrote: »

Gobsh1tes (usually, though not always) in expensive cars parking across 2 spaces, love jamming the bike in between the drivers door and the line

Whin I'm in my second (ie old) car and I see this I always take great pleasure in parking as close to their drivers door as possible making sure that they have to get in the passengers door and climb across.

As its an old car I'm not worried about damage so I always walk away feeling great about myself.

Mugser

bladespin wrote: »

Gobsh1tes (usually, though not always) in expensive cars parking across 2 spaces, love jamming the bike in between the drivers door and the line

Amateurs!! I usually take up 4 spaces when I can.

monkeysnapper

I share the pain in this thread. My mrs would drive for the whole day in order to get a spot 1 min closer to a shopping centre.

When I drive I park I little further away so I can get a nice open space where I won't need a can opener in order to get into my car when I get back.

I remember years ago going out with a girl that drove into a space in a shopping centre when it was quite clear another driver had her indicators on reversing into the space. I was mortified. I really thought I was going to be stabbed that day.

101sean

I always back in to spaces as it's easier to get out in the 110 and usually choose a quieter area, does pee me off when following cars hang on your rear end though. They soon back off when the reversing light comes on and my tow hitch threatens to take their bumper off.

Was in Dunnes multi storey in Thurles just before Christmas where there's a block of very wide disabled spaces, watched one guy park straddling the line between two cars leaving no room to open the doors fully, what a selfish twat!

ongarite

Stealth request for bad parking thread? Bring it back for 2013 please..

Colonel Sanders

I use Drury Street in Dublin a good bit and on busy days the amount if people taking up 2 spaces is unreal

If I owned a car park my price would be €X per hour PER SPACE

johnny2676

leaving your paid ticket in the machine and figuring out when you go to leave!!

mikemac1

Ah Tesco Ballyfermot

Drivers would almost slit your throat to get a space by the door

Double parking all over the place though 30 metres away are lots of spaces

Disabled spaces are always full and it's not because we have many disabled drivers in Ballyer!

The taxi rank is only big enough for two cars but there are usually at least 15 taxis in the car park at any time.
Hard to describe what they used to do, it involved parking on the pedestrian crossings and getting in everyones way

They have unofficial ownership of an area in the car park now, it works a lot better. A holding area.
Not sure what would happen if you parked with them in the area


Security man inside, I don't know what he does.
Fair enough if he doesn't want to do much work but the disabled spaces are right beside him, could at least look after those

johnny2676

whilst on the subject of carparks!!anyone know where you can get replacement carpark key fob ,not from the management company

Grayditch

The entry lane to car parks should be giant yellow boxes to stop space lurkers holding up the entry to the car park.

Case in point, the red entrance to the Blanchardstown center. Held up by a lurker the other day, making the cue go around the corner.
People shouldn't stop traffic to lurk a space, especially near the entrance, it's infuriating.

On another note, in Swords Pavilion hardly anybody gives way to the traffic coming off the ramps. This causes a backlog on the steep ramps. Annoying, but sure....What can ya do.

Iwannahurl

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Ha my mum and sister do this. They drive up and down the rows down close to the door at Vue, while there are LOADS of spaces up on the same row but further away. They drive around for ages, in the time they spend driving around they'd have walked down to the centre 10 times. Drives me mental.

Superquinn Lucan another time, driving around the big car park at the shops lookin for spaces for fricken ages, then all of a sudden she says;
''I suppose we'll have to go over to the other side to park, there might be spaces there''
Didn't even know there was other spaces myself, evidently neither did ANYONE else, about 5 cars there, loads of space. We'd probably have finished in Superquinn by the time we parked if she'd just gone there in the f*cking first place.

I just park in any available slot. Quick, easy, simple...

This phenomenon has actually been seriously studied, by Prof Andrew Velkey, an expert in Comparative Psychology whose primary research interest was the foraging behaviour of animals.

It seems some people prefer to circle around looking for a parking spot and some lie in wait for a space to become available.

In multi-storey car-parks that I use, my preference is to go straight to my favourite spot on one of the upper floors.

That means I have to drive for longer, fuming at what I regard as the idiots holding me up as they try to manoeuvre into a closer spot.

I have to walk further too, and haul shopping etc back up the stairs. But the payoff -- in the car park I usually use -- is a roomy parking spot where I can access and load the car comfortably. The exercise probably does me some good as well.

My pet hate on the way out are the idiots who forgot, or didn't bother, to pay their ticket before they collected their car. Then I have to sit and wait while they block the exit and root for the money...

Hearvee

Parked in Dunnes Cornelscourt one Saturday, and came out to find the cars either side of mine had parked very close, so little space to turn while reversing out.
So after about 4/5 goes of back/forward, while keeping an eye on all mirrors, and my gf standing outside the car to let me know I wasn't too close to the car behind, I finally saw in the passenger side mirror that there was space (not much, but definitely a gap) for me to reverse without hitting the car behind. So I backed out, my gf got in the car, and I prepared to drive away.

Now here comes the idiot. I heard screaming and shouting. I looked around and a woman was at the side of the car screaming "YOU NEARLY HIT MY CAR!!! WHAT THE **** DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!!!!"
It was the woman from the car behind me, who's car I'd just spent 60 seconds specifically NOT hitting....
My comment that "But I didn't hit it" was ignored with more shouts and screams of "YOU NEARLY HIT IT! IT'S BEEN HIT BEFORE! I WAS LEAVING SOON WHY COULDN'T YOU JUST WAIT!!!! YOU NEARLY HIT IT!!!"

At which point we drove away laughing at the crazy woman who was still shouting and roaring at me for NOT hitting her car...

mackeire

bladespin wrote: »

Gobsh1tes (usually, though not always) in expensive cars parking across 2 spaces, love jamming the bike in between the drivers door and the line

Some lad tried that with me with his moped. So I hooked a bit of towing rope around his back wheel and on to a jeep that was parked behind it. I sat in burger king for a while til the bike got ripped out of the spot and the skanger was going mad and then i just walked back and got in my car (i could now open the door fully) and drove off.

bladespin

mackeire wrote: »

Some lad tried that with me with his moped. So I hooked a bit of towing rope around his back wheel and on to a jeep that was parked behind it. I sat in burger king for a while til the bike got ripped out of the spot and the skanger was going mad and then i just walked back and got in my car (i could now open the door fully) and drove off.

I hope your insurance covered the damage.

My bike's a lot bigger than a moped, I'm a lot bigger than the average moped rider too , I wouldn't recommend tampering with any bike large or small, the repercussions could be hilarious.

BTW love the gone in 60 seconds reference but that's just a movie

Leprechaun77

The wife's car has been dented a few times on the passenger door specifically from parking in the red carpark in Blanchardstown. This annoys the fook out of me. We went down a few months ago and we parked at the very far end of the car park with absolutely nothing around for about 50 spaces.......this she assures me she does all the time anyway. What happens when we return an hour later?....yes, you've guessed it....the carpark is still empty down that end apart from a car parked right beside us jammed up beside the passenger door. We tried this a few times and more often than not a car parks right beside us where there are a junk load of spaces everywhere else. I believe it is something to do with human psychology but it irritates me to no end!

padd b1975

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Ha my mum and sister do this. They drive up and down the rows down close to the door at Vue, while there are LOADS of spaces up on the same row but further away. They drive around for ages, in the time they spend driving around they'd have walked down to the centre 10 times. Drives me mental.

Superquinn Lucan another time, driving around the big car park at the shops lookin for spaces for fricken ages, then all of a sudden she says;
''I suppose we'll have to go over to the other side to park, there might be spaces there''
Didn't even know there was other spaces myself, evidently neither did ANYONE else, about 5 cars there, loads of space. We'd probably have finished in Superquinn by the time we parked if she'd just gone there in the f*cking first place.

I just park in any available slot. Quick, easy, simple...

Don't get me started about that car park...

Ever notice the people who drive through a space to the one behind leaving them an almost impossibly tight turn to get out, then there are the ones who do this but twist the knife by turning out the easy way and fcuk up the one way system:mad::mad:

_Kaiser_

DubTony wrote: »

Oh, the one with the potty mouth came back to not one, but 2 flat tyres. :mad:

bladespin wrote: »

Gobsh1tes (usually, though not always) in expensive cars parking across 2 spaces, love jamming the bike in between the drivers door and the line

Cuchulainn1. wrote: »

Whin I'm in my second (ie old) car and I see this I always take great pleasure in parking as close to their drivers door as possible making sure that they have to get in the passengers door and climb across.

As its an old car I'm not worried about damage so I always walk away feeling great about myself.

While I'm not condoning the behaviour of the people referred to in these posts, these reactions are juvenile and just as bad if not worse.. forget car parks, this is like school yard stuff :rolleyes:

Just find another space and move on FFS.

bladespin

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

While I'm not condoning the behaviour of the people referred to in these posts, these reactions are juvenile and just as bad if not worse.. forget car parks, this is like school yard stuff :rolleyes:

Just find another space and move on FFS.

Reactions? Just parking up the bike/car in a space it fits into, where's the school yard there?

djimi

Im going to be honest, having had my car damaged on more than a few occasions in car parks (once quite badly) I can completely see the logic in parking across two spaces. Irish car parks are, for the most part, appallingly badly designed, with spaces that are far too narrow for most cars. If the choice is between parking between two spaces and looking like a prat, or coming back to find damage to the side of my car, I know which one I would find preferable.

That said, if I ever do feel inclined to park across two spaces I will do so at the far end of the car park, in the near empty half that noone wants to park in as it is more than a 5 second walk from the front door...

juan.kerr

I hate when there are tonnes of spaces free including all around my car and someone decides to park right next to my car. The reason I parked there was so someone doesn't hit my car with their car door or a trolley.

kona

bladespin wrote: »

Reactions? Just parking up the bike/car in a space it fits into, where's the school yard there?

You said you put it there to piss people off to get a reaction.

kona

bladespin wrote: »

Reactions? Just parking up the bike/car in a space it fits into, where's the school yard there?

You said you put it there to piss people off to get a reaction. Which someday could cause damage to your bike when it's knocked over and damaged and in true car park wanker ettiquette the **** drives off. Wouldn't be so smug then!? Why put your bike or car in a position it's likely to be damaged to get a reaction you likely won't see is bordering on severe retardation

mackeire

bladespin wrote: »

I hope your insurance covered the damage.

There was no damage to my car

bladespin

kona wrote: »

You said you put it there to piss people off to get a reaction. Which someday could cause damage to your bike when it's knocked over and damaged and in true car park wanker ettiquette the **** drives off. Wouldn't be so smug then!? Why put your bike or car in a position it's likely to be damaged to get a reaction you likely won't see is bordering on severe retardation

We're talking about idiocy in carparks :P

TestTransmission

ongarite wrote: »

Stealth request for bad parking thread? Bring it back for 2013 please..

Nope...

bladespin

mackeire wrote: »

There was no damage to my car

Maybe not but you're liable for the moped and any damage to the other car, that said I'm not sure if your insurance would cover that.

Defo sounds like an idiot, doing that in a public carpark with people coming and going, probably have cctv etc etc, risking a criminal conviction over a moped parked legally? Not that bright.

Even worse if the rider had stuck around to see the reaction of the driver.

MargeS

People parking next to me when the car park is 90% empty...and I've parked far away from shop entrance. I can't figure that out!

Colonel Sanders

juan.kerr wrote: »

I hate when there are tonnes of spaces free including all around my car and someone decides to park right next to my car. The reason I parked there was so someone doesn't hit my car with their car door or a trolley.

I simply don't get this either.

Cungi

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

While I'm not condoning the behaviour of the people referred to in these posts, these reactions are juvenile and just as bad if not worse.. forget car parks, this is like school yard stuff :rolleyes:

Just find another space and move on FFS.

With regards to people taking up two parking spaces, it could be put down to stupidity

However the woman that intentionally stole a space and then told the poster to fuck off, now that's just hostile.
I say fair play to the poster who let the air out of her tyres.
No damage done and she could have got them filled up again however i'm guessing she drove on the two flats to a fitters and had to get two new tyres.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Letterkenny has a similar problem with one of the retail parks (Argos/TK Maxx park) It has two entrances which are both on a one way system. Every one queues to get into the first entrance causing long queues which back up so much that they block the roundabout further back and in turn block the entrance to Forte retail park. Then when the idiots get into the car park they clog it up trying to get spots in front of the shop they wish to visit. There is another car park at the rear if the park with 500 spaces but the idiots wouldn't dream of using it and walking the 1minute journey around the front. I have to admit that the biggest problem us the car park layout and the entrance positions, there was absolutely no foresight when they were being planned/built. They simply stuck two entrances on the one stretch rather than making one an entrance and the other an exit and having the lanes into the car parks immediately as you turn off the road rather than down at the shop fronts which causes all sort of chaos on busy days and only encourages the lazy idiots to try and get parking places right at the front door of the shop.

Janedoe10

It's the ones mostly women i might add who are driving big cars/jeeps but don't know how to physically park them !!!! I swear 15 minutes one day this dope couldn't decide if she wanted to reverse in or drive in and then eventually when she did park up got out and proceeded to walk on .. Not even a look of apology ... Didn't appreciate the comment -- u need driving lessons or get a smaller car !! I couldn't resist . grrrrr....

repsol

Marcusm wrote: »

Recently had this in a supermarket where I'd done a pitstop before getting on ferry; came out and minimal distance between both car doors - both DRIVERS doors, theirs right against the white line. Other driver must be stick thin, i thought. Decided not to wait so had the car number called out. They hadn't started shopping and no distance from door to car so minimal muttering o n her behalf.

Opens her door, banging into mine - she'd clearly had trouble getting out but decided not to readjust but to risk damage. Said nothing but inspected the door - nothing apparent. She (snidely) commented that banged doors are to be expected in supermarkets and walked off. Banged doors completely unnecessary in this case.

Her car was very dirty, quite thick layer. So I wet my finger (about 20 times) and wrote "stupid" on the side of her car. I feel no remorse.

I'll bet your car is a lot newer than hers so she doesn't care.Its the only thing I dislike about having a new car.You park carefully and come back to find that some soap dodger has parked their 25 year old mobile compost heap 1 inch from you.

Judge Weiner

People would park in the shops if they could get away with it.

Odyssey 2005

Parked in a disabled spot in Kilkenny just before Xmas. The spot beside me was also a disabled parking spot,with a 'white hatched' area between the two,for opening the doors of either car to facilitate wheelchairs. I was still in my car when a silly Kcnt tried to park in the hatched area. Her excuse was 'there's nowhere else to park cos the car park is full'.

dave45dave

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

Yes. When people park beside me and smack they're door off my car when getting out and then proceed to walk off without a care in the world :mad:

Not been bad or a crap driver , but I always take up two spaces in multi storey car parks.
I then proceed to walk off without a care in the world.

Judge Weiner

dave45dave wrote: »

Not been bad or a crap driver , but I always take up two spaces in multi storey car parks.
I then proceed to walk off without a care in the world.

I salute you!

Gmol

Met a car coming up a downward ramp only in the bridgewater in arklow. I mean its not as if it isn't clearly signposted.

JohnBoy26

dave45dave wrote: »

Not been bad or a crap driver , but I always take up two spaces in multi storey car parks.
I then proceed to walk off without a care in the world.

cars can still squeeze in beside you though unless the two parking spaces on either side of you are taken and even at that some people would still try :pac: :mad:

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dave45dave wrote: »

Not been bad or a crap driver , but I always take up two spaces in multi storey car parks.
I then proceed to walk off without a care in the world.

Muppet. That's the kind of crap I hate. Had my fill of going into carparks over Christmas and seeing Muppets taking up two spaces and I had to waste my time finding a other carpark.

dave45dave

Keith Hissing Ukulele wrote: »

Muppet. That's the kind of crap I hate. Had my fill of going into carparks over Christmas and seeing Muppets taking up two spaces and I had to waste my time finding a other carpark.

Wrong with the muppet thing , I can park a car properly , I just don't wish to. Ive spent the guts of 30k on a car which I work hard for and don't want some gob****e in their €500 fiat uno banging doors.
Sorry if this upsets you but I couldn't give a rats what you think