Loads of parking spaces & parking right next to a parked car - why?

neris

Why the heck do people go into practically empty car parks and insist on parking in the space right next to a parked car when all around are empty spaces. I was parked up earlier today in a large car park of a supermarket, the area I was in was practically empty, loads of spaces around me but within a few minutes I had a car parked both sides of me. Went into shops came out few minutes later and car on drivers side had gone. Grand. Back in the car on the phone and then another car decides he,s pulling into the space right beside my drivers door (car parks still practically empty loads of other spaces he could have gone to) next thing his passenger door opens and Bang. The aul one who got out is about to toddle off and I got out the car only to be told "its ok the wind blew it". No "sorry about that" or "is your car ok".

whomitconcerns

So you let them away with it???

People always do this...herd mentality...sure it's safer if near another car :P

fancy pigeon

Because they are stupid cretins with not much between their ears

runawaybishop

Lonely car syndrome. Well known phenomenon.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lonely%20Car%20Syndrome

Also known as Lonely Vehicle Syndrome, it is a disease affecting drivers of all makes and models. Persons afflicted with this disease can be identified by the following symptom. Despite having their pick of any spot in the entire parking lot, they will pull into the spot right next to your car. The doors of their vehicle are then thrown open with wild abandon, colliding with your car, leaving a fantastic dent.

NiallBoo

Parked near the door to the shop?

People well spend 5 minutes driving round a car-park, just to save 20 seconds of walking.


Anyway, the problem isn't really that someone parked beside you, it's that the person beside you was a Muppet.

Alanstrainor

This happens all the time. Park car in a largely empty car park, way down the back and some bell-end in a smashed up Octavia will park beside you. I put this down to people being spanners. People are the worst.

neris

NiallBoo wrote: »

Parked near the door to the shop?

No I was practically at the other end of the car park which is why it was so empty

shietpilot

I guess they don't need to look at the white lines when pulling in and can just park next to a car and know they are parked inside the spot?

Cheensbo

You could balance the car on top of a light pole in a car park and come back out and some bollox will have managed to park beside ye.

It's one of those things I suppose, driving is a passive activity to most - they take more of a follow the leader type approach than independent thought.

Colser

I always park in the furthest possible space away from the shops but this still happens..sometimes it's a car that is well looked after so I presume the driver knows by my car that I won't be careless with the doors or trolley but when I see a car that's in ****e parked beside mine then I get palpitations walking back to it in case I've a scratch or dent on mine.Puts me off parking in some places completely...

shietpilot

Liffey Valley SC is my parking nightmare. Never any spaces and one time a woman slammed her door against mine, said sorry and walked off. The spots are very tight as well

BronsonTB

It's partly why I don't own a new car.....very irritating esp if I had a newish car...

I often try park beside a well looked after car, a lot less chance they will open their door carelessly compared to a banger.

And I never park near a people carrier!!

Alanstrainor

BronsonTB wrote: »

It's partly why I don't own a new car.....very irritating esp if I had a newish car...

I often try park beside a well looked after car, a lot less chance they will open their door carelessly compared to a banger.

And I never park near a people carrier!!

God damn it...

BronsonTB

Alanstrainor wrote: »

God damn it...

It's ok...I never bang my door on another car (No matter how windy it is)

Cheensbo

BronsonTB wrote: »

It's ok...I never bang my door on another car (No matter how windy it is)

Its not ok. :O that's the whole point of the thread

mikeecho

BronsonTB wrote: »

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I often try park beside a well looked after car, a lot less chance they will open their door carelessly compared to a banger.

And I never park near a people carrier!!

Or anything with paw prints from sunscreen, high possibility of kids/buggies and them pawing my paint with their grubby mits

Colser

mikeecho wrote:

Or anything with paw prints from sunscreen, high possibility of kids/buggies and them pawing my paint with their grubby mits

Baby seats ,baby on board signs,visible damage on the car that doesn't bother the owner ,cars that are obviously never even washed etc ..I'd rather leave the car park than park beside any potential damages tbh..probably ott but I can't shop if I'm stressing about the car.😠

Shint0

Colser wrote: »

Baby seats ,baby on board signs,visible damage on the car that doesn't bother the owner ,cars that are obviously never even washed etc ..I'd rather leave the car park than park beside any potential damages tbh..probably ott but I can't shop if I'm stressing about the car.😠

Not OTT at all. Some people value their cars and others value neither theirs nor yours.

Atlantic Dawn

On a rare occassion if I have the car gleaming and park it well away from the entrance to the shopping centre another similarly well groomed car might park next to me, leaving plenty of a gap between the cars, perhaps they think they have 50% of their car covered for damage that way. Majority of the time it's a feckin idiot who not only parks next to mine in an empty car park but parks so close as I wonder how did they get out of their car without hitting mine or else they leave so little room they must think I'm happy to get in my car through the sunroof.

TheChizler

I try to park between two cars at work because it removes more than half the chances of getting doored; they've already parked so the door will only be opened when they're going home, and they're less likely to door my car getting into theirs than out. The car park is full after half an hour anyway, I wouldn't dream of doing this in a half empty car park.

Furtzy2

Back in the day when I always bought new fairly expensive cars I was the same. Always stressed out about scratchs and car park dings. Now I drive old cars it's a much easier life. Unfortunately cars get little knocks and bumps you'll only drive yourselves nuts by worrying about it

jelutong

Never park alongside a 2 door car. Or a Hyundai Velostar!

Harika

I prefer parking next to a car as it is easier to reverse back in, as I have the other car as reference. When using only the markings on the ground, I could be off some centimeters and have to adjust. And I don't plan to slam my doors in yours and don't expect others to do the same to me.

mikeecho

find out what the staff drive and park next to them, they wont be moving for hours.

My local lidl, i know what the staff drive, cos they are always parked in the same spaces at the back of the car park.

I leave a parking space between me and the staff car, but park a little over the white line, so noone can squeze in between me and the staff car, and it leaves lots of room on the other side for any potential door dinger

robtri

mikeecho wrote: »

find out what the staff drive and park next to them, they wont be moving for hours.

My local lidl, i know what the staff drive, cos they are always parked in the same spaces at the back of the car park.

I leave a parking space between me and the staff car, but park a little over the white line, so noone can squeze in between me and the staff car, and it leaves lots of room on the other side for any potential door dinger

that type of parking really annoys me... i would actually try my damnedest to squeeze in beside you or block you in....

mikeecho

robtri wrote: »

that type of parking really annoys me... i would actually try my damnedest to squeeze in beside you or block you in....

Ah ha... So you're that guy

dudara

Herd mentality, people like to cluster.

Presume it's the same logic why waiters put you next to an occupied table in a restaurant even though all the other tables are free

robtri

mikeecho wrote: »

Ah ha... So you're that guy

yep..... sorry but i hate that sort of parking...

dont mind people parking on their own,

but purposely taking up two spaces annoys me....

Shint0

robtri wrote: »

yep..... sorry but i hate that sort of parking...

dont mind people parking on their own,

but purposely taking up two spaces annoys me....

It's the design of some of the car parks. Some spaces are simply too narrow if you have a larger car yet some of the car park operators have signs saying you will be charged if you occupy two spaces but without making adequate provision for larger cars. In the Jervis car park they do have some designated spaces marked for saloons. I haven't seen it anywhere else and there's nothing prohibiting other cars from parking there but it is a good idea. If you have a valuable car parking slightly over the line is far better than relying on the goodwill of others to not cause damage to your car. Too big a risk.

Eric Cartman

empty car park - across 2 spaces down the back, even better is at a 45 degree angle so people won't use you as a guide to park their car.

not so empty carpark - park beside the highest end well looked after car you can find (not the newest one if possible , clean 162 means nothing , a 2005 car with no marks and sparkling paint is a good call) , also preferably at the end of a row so nobody can park on the other side .

always avoid - cars with a beige / straw hat in the back window, baby seat, baby on board sticker, any of the 4 corners scratched or a hire car / lease plan plates / company branding, 3 door cars / coupe's. Also never any people carrier or dacia - those people don't even respect themselves, why would they respect your car.

Using these principals I have managed to keep my car with only 7 door dings in 6 months

BettePorter

Omg this is my biggest bugbear. Its not even the potential dinging aspect of it that annoys me..... its just the mentality of it ..... like choosing a table right beside someone else in an empty cafe. One day I pulled up in a supermarket carpark just to make a call.... parked in the middle of nowhere ..... a few minutes later this car pulls in beside me on driver side. Tight as u like. Out gets the driver and off to shop he goes. The passenger shimmies out and literally stands with her back to her door facing me having a fag. Wtf like????

Comhrá

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Because they are stupid cretins with not much between their ears

100% correct...they are all potential morons as I've learned and I will go to any lengths to park my showroom condition car as far away from them as I deem necessary to keep it that way.

savagethegoat

If I can , I park at the very end of the row, hard up against the kerb at the side of me , giving vital extra inches on the other side. I always go for the middle of a row of empty spaces otherwise and at the quieter end of the car park.

avoid pension day.

LynnGrace

BettePorter wrote: »

Omg this is my biggest bugbear. Its not even the potential dinging aspect of it that annoys me..... its just the mentality of it ..... like choosing a table right beside someone else in an empty cafe. One day I pulled up in a supermarket carpark just to make a call.... parked in the middle of nowhere ..... a few minutes later this car pulls in beside me on driver side. Tight as u like. Out gets the driver and off to shop he goes. The passenger shimmies out and literally stands with her back to her door facing me having a fag. Wtf like????

I will never understand people who do this. I mentioned it before either on here, or another forum, to be told that 'it's safer'. Oh feck off. You have a whole line of spaces to choose from, but no, you must nestle in cosily beside my car, all the better to dent and scrape it.
And yes, I have had the experience of returning to my car to find another car across the line, they are so anxious to be near another. Meanwhile there could be twenty empty spaces in the same row.

I admit I do like, (and it has happened a couple of times lately), when someone is just parking and I am approaching my car to leave the car park. I wonder do they have to immediately move so their car won't be lonesome. :rolleyes:

Captain Chaos

dudara wrote: »

Herd mentality, people like to cluster.

Presume it's the same logic why waiters put you next to an occupied table in a restaurant even though all the other tables are free

I hate that, no I don't want to be be seated right beside the table with the 75 little darlings running amuck and dropping knives and forks all around the place. I'd like the table in the empty part of the place where I can relax and have a chat without have to shout over other loud people.

ironclaw

BronsonTB wrote: »

I often try park beside a well looked after car, a lot less chance they will open their door carelessly compared to a banger.

I must admit, I tend to this. Myself, an R8 and an RS4 had quite the car cuddle in Dundrum one day :pac:

Otherwise I literally park a marathon walk away from the door, and include a gentle incline in the walk if I can. Discourages all but the most persistent knuckle draggers.

anewme

I always try to find a space at the end of a row, so it does not matter if you go over the line a bit.

Also, will drive around till I get a longway space, that no one can park beside. Have been known to leave a shopping centre if the spaces look like someone will whack the car.

Have managed to escape unscathed for the past 3 or 4 years and been lucky with my car!

New car tomorrow so hope this one is as lucky as the last ones have been!

Arcade_Tryer

mikeecho wrote: »

I leave a parking space between me and the staff car, but park a little over the white line, so noone can squeze in between me and the staff car, and it leaves lots of room on the other side for any potential door dinger

Shint0 wrote: »

If you have a valuable car parking slightly over the line is far better than relying on the goodwill of others to not cause damage to your car. Too big a risk.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

empty car park - across 2 spaces down the back, even better is at a 45 degree angle so people won't use you as a guide to park their car.

Sense of entitlement alive and well in society.

Amazing how you think it's fine to park both incorrectly and inconsiderately. If everyone decided to do the same the system simply would not work. If you're afraid of parking your car inside the white lines then there are a few easy solutions; walk, run, cycle.

shaunr68

ISTM that to any right minded person there should be an unwritten rule to not park in the space immediately adjacent to another parked car if you have a choice. Much like in a row of five urinals. If they're all free you use either end one. The second bloke parks himself at the other end. The third bloke uses the middle one. Only at that stage does the fourth man have no choice than to park himself next to another user.

A man approaching an almost empty row of urinals and installing himself right next to another fella will probably be met with a suspicious look and the previous occupant making a quick exit.

Arcade_Tryer

shaunr68 wrote: »

ISTM that to any right minded person there should be an unwritten rule to not park in the space immediately adjacent to another parked car if you have a choice. Much like in a row of five urinals. If they're all free you use either end one. The second bloke parks himself at the other end. The third bloke uses the middle one. Only at that stage does the fourth man have no choice than to park himself next to another user.

A man approaching an almost empty row of urinals and installing himself right next to another fella will probably be met with a suspicious look and the previous occupant making a quick exit.

That's fine.

But what some people here are advocating is akin to standing in between two urinals and pissing into both of them. Society doesn't work like that. Only self entitled people do. And fools.

robtri

Shint0 wrote: »

It's the design of some of the car parks. Some spaces are simply too narrow if you have a larger car yet some of the car park operators have signs saying you will be charged if you occupy two spaces but without making adequate provision for larger cars. In the Jervis car park they do have some designated spaces marked for saloons. I haven't seen it anywhere else and there's nothing prohibiting other cars from parking there but it is a good idea. If you have a valuable car parking slightly over the line is far better than relying on the goodwill of others to not cause damage to your car. Too big a risk.

Jervis spaces are marked for saloon becasue of roof clearence, (a hatch would potentially hit the roof when u swing it open) nothing to do with bigger cars

way worse risk as you will have people like me squeezing in to park... and a lot of other people would have no issues with banging their door of yours...

dudara

I love it when I can get a space between two pillars or columns. No parking near me, thank you!

corks finest

neris wrote: »

Why the heck do people go into practically empty car parks and insist on parking in the space right next to a parked car when all around are empty spaces. I was parked up earlier today in a large car park of a supermarket, the area I was in was practically empty, loads of spaces around me but within a few minutes I had a car parked both sides of me. Went into shops came out few minutes later and car on drivers side had gone. Grand. Back in the car on the phone and then another car decides he,s pulling into the space right beside my drivers door (car parks still practically empty loads of other spaces he could have gone to) next thing his passenger door opens and Bang. The aul one who got out is about to toddle off and I got out the car only to be told "its ok the wind blew it". No "sorry about that" or "is your car ok".

Loneliness

Eric Cartman

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

That's fine.

But what some people here are advocating is akin to standing in between two urinals and pissing into both of them. Society doesn't work like that. Only self entitled people do. And fools.

If youll notice, i specified empty carpark only, if you can figure out another way to guarantee somebody will not park beside me then I will gladly stop using 2 spaces.

This entire thread is about the problem.

Also a better analogy would be that if you use one urinal somebody is going to come along and stab you in the thigh , if you use 2 they think your mental and leave you alone.

mikeecho

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

Sense of entitlement alive and well in society.

Amazing how you think it's fine to park both incorrectly and inconsiderately. If everyone decided to do the same the system simply would not work. If you're afraid of parking your car inside the white lines then there are a few easy solutions; walk, run, cycle.

I don't see it as taking up two spaces, to me it's two cars sharing 3spaces., or 3 cars sharing 5 spaces.
But if spaces were made big enough like in U.S., we wouldn't have any problems.

mikeecho

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

That's fine.

But what some people here are advocating is akin to standing in between two urinals and pissing into both of them. Society doesn't work like that. Only self entitled people do. And fools.

Big Wall length urinals... plenty of elbow room to operate big equipment

Arcade_Tryer

Eric Cartman wrote: »

If youll notice, i specified empty carpark only, if you can figure out another way to guarantee somebody will not park beside me then I will gladly stop using 2 spaces.

This entire thread is about the problem.

Also a better analogy would be that if you use one urinal somebody is going to come along and stab you in the thigh , if you use 2 they think your mental and leave you alone.

I did notice that. But it is entirely irrelevant. You are still parking incorrectly, and potentially inconsiderately. And the same scenario applies whereby if everyone decided they were entitled to park that way, the system would simply not work. It's entitlement, pure and simple.

That's not a better analogy at all. That's irrational behavior and paranoid thinking. And of course incorrect use of the system once again for your own personal benefit. Entitlement.

Colser

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

I did notice that. But it is entirely irrelevant. You are still parking incorrectly, and potentially inconsiderately. And the same scenario applies whereby if everyone decided they were entitled to park that way, the system would simply not work. It's entitlement, pure and simple.

That's not a better analogy at all. That's irrational behavior and paranoid thinking. And of course incorrect use of the system once again for your own personal benefit. Entitlement.

Well I see lots of other people who act "entitled" when it comes to their own interests.Have you ever been annoyed with cyclists taking over the whole road,people letting their beloved doggies poop all over the place,people letting their kids run wild while the rest of us control ours etc...some of us love our cars and we will look after them as best we can..each to their own.

Eric Cartman

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

I did notice that. But it is entirely irrelevant. You are still parking incorrectly, and potentially inconsiderately. And the same scenario applies whereby if everyone decided they were entitled to park that way, the system would simply not work. It's entitlement, pure and simple.

That's not a better analogy at all. That's irrational behavior and paranoid thinking. And of course incorrect use of the system once again for your own personal benefit. Entitlement.

Well, as in my previous post, give me a better solution to not having my doors destroyed and ill gladly stop parking like a dick.

runawaybishop

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Well, as in my previous post, give me a better solution to not having my doors destroyed and ill gladly stop parking like a dick.

Just a point. Parking like that invites people to try and squeeze up into the space to 'teach you a lesson'.

mikeecho

runawaybishop wrote: »

Just a point. Parking like that invites people to try and squeeze up into the space to 'teach you a lesson'.

The way I do it, would mean that you would also be parking across two spaces.

Two wrongs making a right....

Unless you're driving a peel p50, in which case I would just pick your car up and put it in a bush.