Carparks are not big enough.......apparently

KwackerJack

I decided to go to Blanchardstown today with my GF to look at some baby bits (Due last week)

I parked in the multi-Storey car park on the 3rd floor, Smack bang in the middle overlooking KFC. There were empty spaces each side of me spanning the entire width of the carpark.

After some Kays, a sneaky ice cream and a lifetime in Mothercare we arrive back at the car to find a dark blue Ford Focus parked right beside me in the next bay???


Right ****ing beside me.....out off the 20ish spaces each side of me and the few thousand all around he/she decides it a good idea to slip into the bay beside me!!

Was she afraid her car would be lonely? Was she craving some social acceptance by parking beside me??

Now..... it's no big deal but it really intrigues me why people do this?

Is it something in their brain that goes ohh look park beside that car because you don't want to park alone!!

s4uv3

I can't get past the fact that your girlfriend is a week overdue and willingly went to a shopping centre. She crazy

Poor Uncle Tom

When you park your car, why do other spaces bother you?

PirateShampoo

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

When you park your car, why do other spaces bother you?

Because some people don't give a **** if they smash thier car door off the side of yours or not.

Poor Uncle Tom

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Because some people don't give a **** if they smash thier car door off the side of yours or not.

..and this isn't a concern when the car park is full and all spaces around you a full too?

A Battered Mars Bar

Best park your car near a car yourself rather than alone and some halfwit scraping off you!

PirateShampoo

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

..and this isn't a concern when the car park is full and all spaces around you a full too?

Of course, which is why I try to park next to expensive cars and not one that's covered in dents.

mfceiling

What was sneaky about the ice cream?

Mean Laqueefa

mfceiling wrote: »

What was sneaky about the ice cream?

Well when a vanilla coloured car parks right next to you in a big empty carpark its a bit flakey imo , would ice cream ? yes prob but my blood pressure would be like 99. He is prob a screw ball.

I need to get my coat its a bit Mr Whippy outside

vicwatson

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Of course, which is why I try to park next to expensive cars and not one that's covered in dents.

Twice in the last two weeks selfish assholes got into their cars beside mine and hit my car with their doors - and I was sitting in the fookin thing. Some people are twats

lazybones32

Mean Laqueefa wrote: »

Well when a vanilla coloured car parks right next to you in a big empty carpark its a bit flakey imo , would ice cream ? yes prob but my blood pressure would be like 99. He is prob a screw ball.

I need to get my coat its a bit Mr Whippy outside

I hope boards put in a 'dislike' button for posts...you and the pun brigade would get my vote everytime.

Bio Mech

For now you have time to worry about this sort of thing. It won't last though once the baby is here and sleep deprivation kicks in. You will wonder how anything short of being a walking zombie ever bothered you before.

..:well at least that's what happened to me.

freshpopcorn

I have no idea why people gets so worked up when somebody parks near them. When you park in a car park. You might get a scratch. The only way of really avoiding it to park in two/four spaces!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Because people are stupid, that's why.

LordSutch

KwackerJack wrote: »

Carparks are not big enough.......apparently.

And many spaces aren't wide enough!

Almost as if the template used for parking spaces was taken from the 1960s, when cars were generally shorter & narrower.

Bigger car parks & wider spaces I say.

Grayson

s4uv3 wrote: »

I can't get past the fact that your girlfriend is a week overdue and willingly went to a shopping centre. She crazy

My sister used to go to blanch everyday when she was overdue. The walking was the only thing that kept her sane. She was one of the most heavily pregnant women I've ever seen and just desperate for the baby to arrive.

whoopsadoodles

I had one a few weeks ago where the carpark was empty but some gobshyte had parked not just in the spot beside mine. But actually in mine so there wasn't even space for me to walk between the two cars, let alone get into my car.

I found her and told her to move. She nearly hit my car a few times trying to get out of the spot and when she did eventually pull out, her car was absolutely destroyed with dents and scratches. Wound me right up.

I was just glad I was standing there watching her pull out because I'd say she would have hit my car and kept going if I hadn't been.

Gavlor

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I had one a few weeks ago where the carpark was empty but some gobshyte had parked not just in the spot beside mine. But actually in mine so there wasn't even space for me to walk between the two cars, let alone get into my car.

I found her and told her to move. She nearly hit my car a few times trying to get out of the spot and when she did eventually pull out, her car was absolutely destroyed with dents and scratches. Wound me right up.

I was just glad I was standing there watching her pull out because I'd say she would have hit my car and kept going if I hadn't been.

Did you go around asking random people if they parked beside you?!

whoopsadoodles

Gavlor wrote: »

Did you go around asking random people if they parked beside you?!

No, it was in a hotel carpark so I asked reception if they knew who it was and they knew straight away as she was a manager of some sort there for a vury important meeting.

Del2005

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Of course, which is why I try to park next to expensive cars and not one that's covered in dents.

When buying my current car I took a test drive in a car which was in bits from dings it was a Lexus. I've seen some really old Micras and Starlets which are still perfect body and paint wise.

The price of the car doesn't affect the amount of damage on it or cars next to it. It's the owner/operator and they can drive any price of car.

Delphinium

You will soon qualify for my rule of not parking next to a child seat. Agree people are idiots when it comes to parking. I have a two door and am always conscious of the extra space needed to open doors.

whoopsadoodles

Del2005 wrote: »

When buying my current car I took a test drive in a car which was in bits from dings it was a Lexus. I've seen some really old Micras and Starlets which are still perfect body and paint wise.

The price of the car doesn't affect the amount of damage on it or cars next to it. It's the owner/operator and they can drive any price of car.

Micras and starlets fit in the spaces!!!

StillThinking

Ah don't chat, I swear some people have no idea how to park. When hubby was learning to drive with 2 big L plates up on the car a woman parked in a spot next to us and she was near sideways in the space, I ate her, asked her how she expected a learner driver to get past her car, she then looked at her own car, laughed and said oh I suppose I could have parked a bit better and how was the learning going, I told her it was a lot better than hers was going

whoopsadoodles

StillThinking wrote: »

Ah don't chat, I swear some people have no idea how to park. When hubby was learning to drive with 2 big L plates up on the car a woman parked in a spot next to us and she was near sideways in the space, I ate her, asked her how she expected a learner driver to get past her car, she then looked at her own car, laughed and said oh I suppose I could have parked a bit better and how was the learning going, I told her it was a lot better than hers was going

Every second car in this country has L plates when the learner isn't even driving. As a result, they become almost invisible.

TPD

Not strictly relevant... but I've had my first car 3 years now, never got a scratch on it while learning / driving solo before test / the time with the N plates. Left the car parked up with the folks for a few months recently, and come back to find someone had hit the front panel and wrecked it. It's just an old Polo so doesn't matter too much, but still..

filbert the fox

in future just straddle two parking spaces diagonally!

Pinch Flat

You could always just park like this w*nker. Problem solved.

https://www.facebook.com/BadIrishParking/photos/rpp.438346159536300/1008044219233155/?type=3&theater

Mountainsandh

KwackerJack wrote: »

I decided to go to Blanchardstown today with my GF to look at some baby bits (Due last week)

I parked in the multi-Storey car park on the 3rd floor, Smack bang in the middle overlooking KFC. There were empty spaces each side of me spanning the entire width of the carpark.

After some Kays, a sneaky ice cream and a lifetime in Mothercare we arrive back at the car to find a dark blue Ford Focus parked right beside me in the next bay???


Right ****ing beside me.....out off the 20ish spaces each side of me and the few thousand all around he/she decides it a good idea to slip into the bay beside me!!

Was she afraid her car would be lonely? Was she craving some social acceptance by parking beside me??

Now..... it's no big deal but it really intrigues me why people do this?

Is it something in their brain that goes ohh look park beside that car because you don't want to park alone!!

I hear you OP, it drives me mental too, and I often wonder about these subconscious herd impulses.
Same in shops, everyone seems to be browsing happily until the very minute they see me heading for checkout, then they all want to go check out

There must be something in it, seriously.

Good luck with the baby !

Kivaro

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Because some people don't give a **** if they smash thier car door off the side of yours or not.

Last week as I was heading back to my car, I saw a man getting out of his car throw open his door with no care at all. It banged the side of my car but as he saw me approaching, he spat on his fingers and started rubbing the impact zone.

Don't know if I was more appalled that he was infecting my car with his DNA or that he just didn't care in the first place when he pushed his door open all the way to its maximum extension in a busy car park.

andekwarhola

In a sparsely populated carpark, I actually park far away from everybody else in the hope that nobody bangs my car. The spots that require a walk of over 1 minute to the door are usually the best bet.

jimmycrackcorm

I think this came up before. One of the reasons people do this is that they think their car is more precious than yours and if someone comes looking to try steal from it, that your car is a more tempting decoy.

Many years ago I saw something similar but the driver of the first car came out and moved his car to the other side of the second car. I thought this was strange behaviour but soon after the second driver came out only to find their drivers door blocked and having to get in using the passenger door.

Steve F

lazybones32 wrote: »

I hope boards put in a 'dislike' button for posts...you and the pun brigade would get my vote everytime.

That's how World Wars start

Grahamer666

andekwarhola wrote: »

In a sparsely populated carpark, I actually park far away from everybody else in the hope that nobody bangs my car. The spots that require a walk of over 1 minute to the door are usually the best bet.

This is exactly what i do. Most people want to park as close to an entrance to the shops as possible. If you park a good bit away you have more chance of not having someone park an inch away from you. Of course if you're there at a busy period then you're outta luck.

_Kaiser_

LordSutch wrote: »

And many spaces aren't wide enough!

Almost as if the template used for parking spaces was taken from the 1960s, when cars were generally shorter & narrower.

Bigger car parks & wider spaces I say.

This is very true.. there's a shopping centre car park in Cork I would use a fair bit and the spaces are definitely from another era. My car always ends up overhanging significantly and wedged between the lines.

Even "small" cars today are significantly bigger.

Grahamer666

There was a report on Sky News a few months ago noting the above. Spaces are marked out the way they are because cars from 10-20 years ago were smaller.

LirW

Love me the Parnell car park where everyone is mental to get a spot and the parking is lethal but once you go up to the last 2 tiers you get the pick from like a million spots.

vicwatson

Pinch Flat wrote: »

You could always just park like this w*nker. Problem solved.

https://www.facebook.com/BadIrishParking/photos/rpp.438346159536300/1008044219233155/?type=3&theater

Wanker, why are they a wanker? dude getting abuse on Facebook, I say fair play to them, my door being hit whilst sitting in my car count has today gone up to three times in less than a week. Some people are just selfish, couldn't give a damn, twats

Crazyteacher

Don't worry you'll soon qualify to park in those extra wide parent and child spaces. Although in most places anybody at all parks in them. Selfish people.

Cocobongo

Exact same as you were sitting at the top deck in the bus alone and someone came over to take a seat next to you rather than choose one of 50 spaces peovided. Creeps

Ninthlife

I read before there is a scientific reason as to why people choose to park close to one another.

Its got to do with the primal herding instinct and being safe in groups.

Science has an answer for everything even assh*les in car parks:)

dan1895

Wait until you start taking that kid to the zoo. Then you'll know all about car parks not being big enough.

kylith

Was in Blanch myself this morning, parked over by M&S and some absolute eejit had parked their Tuareg half in-half out of a space so it was blocking the road. Bet they got a few dings.

LirW

It's quite shocking to see how bad people can park. Lots of people with big cars don't know their dimensions and how to handle them. It's so annoying when I park further away because all parents-kids spots are taken and some eejit parks next to me that I can't open the door to get the baby in.

Red stables car park is usually lots of fun too on Saturdays.

ohnonotgmail

LirW wrote: »

It's quite shocking to see how bad people can park. Lots of people with big cars don't know their dimensions and how to handle them. It's so annoying when I park further away because all parents-kids spots are taken and some eejit parks next to me that I can't open the door to get the baby in.

Red stables car park is usually lots of fun too on Saturdays.

its not just people who big cars who haven't a clue how to park. the worst offenders are those who drive into a parking space and dont bother to straighten up.

LirW

You'd be surprised about people who don't reverse because they are not capable of doing it.

On my way to work I had to pass a quite long passage where only one car can drive at a time, plenty of times I had to reverse a pretty long way until I realized a lot of people genuinely don't know how to do it.

pablo128

My missus shows no mercy. She drives a Yaris, and I specifically showed her how to park properly into a spot. In fairness she's pretty good at it, probably from reversing into our driveway and then having to turn 90 degrees to allow me to park in aswell.

Anyhow, if she is forced to climb over the passenger seat to get into her car, she lets her window down and keys the sh1te out of the offending vehicle, and is quite unapologetic about it too.

1874

LirW wrote: »

You'd be surprised about people who don't reverse because they are not capable of doing it.

On my way to work I had to pass a quite long passage where only one car can drive at a time, plenty of times I had to reverse a pretty long way until I realized a lot of people genuinely don't know how to do it.

Id prefer people drove straight in if they cant reverse, otherwise worse damage could occur. Plus if they are careless with their driving, they will probably scratch past your car with their bags as they return with shopping, better if they have easy access to the boot.

I was sure I saw a thread with devices that protruded from a car door when it was opened, all cars should have that and door scratching would be a thing of the past.

kylith

1874 wrote: »

Id prefer people drove straight in if they cant reverse, otherwise worse damage could occur. Plus if they are careless with their driving, they will probably scratch past your car with their bags as they return with shopping, better if they have easy access to the boot.

I was sure I saw a thread with devices that protruded from a car door when it was opened, all cars should have that and door scratching would be a thing of the past.

But then they wouldn't be able to reverse out of the space.

My driving instructor wasn't going to teach me to park because it's not on the test. I insisted cos tis a pretty important part of driving.

1874

pablo128 wrote: »

My missus shows no mercy. She drives a Yaris, and I specifically showed her how to park properly into a spot. In fairness she's pretty good at it, probably from reversing into our driveway and then having to turn 90 degrees to allow me to park in aswell.

Anyhow, if she is forced to climb over the passenger seat to get into her car, she lets her window down and keys the sh1te out of the offending vehicle, and is quite unapologetic about it too.

I suppose 2 wrongs make a right?? sounds like a scummy thing to do, getting blocked or hindered a bit isn't great, but keying someones car because of it.

pablo128

1874 wrote: »

I suppose 2 wrongs make a right?? sounds like a scummy thing to do, getting blocked or hindered a bit isn't great, but keying someones car because of it.

Fair play to her. Meet ignorance with ignorance. It could be an 80 year old man or woman having to climb across their car because some w@nker can't be arsed to park properly.

1874

pablo128 wrote: »

Fair play to her. Meet ignorance with ignorance. It could be an 80 year old man or woman having to climb across their car because some w@nker can't be arsed to park properly.

But she isnt an 80yo man/woman and as inconvenient as it is, its not a crime, Id say keying cars is, what would her defense be if she was caught? you are right though, its ignorant and I shouldnt be surprised anyone would post it let alone support it, I hope its keyboard warriorism, some people might deck her if shes caught.