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

KwackerJack · 01-08-2017 11:17PM #1

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 · 01-08-2017 11:20PM

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 · 01-08-2017 11:20PM

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

PirateShampoo · 01-08-2017 11:23PM

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 · 01-08-2017 11:26PM

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 · 01-08-2017 11:27PM

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

PirateShampoo · 01-08-2017 11:28PM

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 · 01-08-2017 11:28PM

What was sneaky about the ice cream?

Mean Laqueefa · 01-08-2017 11:35PM

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 · 01-08-2017 11:40PM

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 · 01-08-2017 11:51PM

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 · 02-08-2017 12:00AM

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 · 02-08-2017 12:12AM

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 · 02-08-2017 12:13AM

Because people are stupid, that's why.

LordSutch · 02-08-2017 08:02AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:05AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:11AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:15AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:16AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:23AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:29AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:29AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:44AM

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 · 02-08-2017 08:56AM

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 · 02-08-2017 10:18AM

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 · 02-08-2017 10:25AM

in future just straddle two parking spaces diagonally!

Pinch Flat · 02-08-2017 10:30AM

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

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

Mountainsandh · 02-08-2017 10:31AM

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 · 02-08-2017 10:53AM

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 · 02-08-2017 11:16AM

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 · 02-08-2017 01:45PM

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.

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

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