I had no idea I was this petty

Start washing your wind screen, depending on where your washer is located, they may have been accidentally splashed

OP you need to practice asserting yourself.
They were clearly in the wrong and you in the right.

No because the friend's car was in the way! Obviously an open door takes up a lot more room than a closed one. The friend stopped his car within a distance that, if the big car's door had been closed, there would have been a gap between the two. Because it was open the friend's car was in the space needed for the open door to swing through to close.

This sort of thoughtless, entitled, inconsiderate behaviour makes my blood boil. Playing music on phones through speakers on public transport, deliberately veering into my path on the pavement, hitting me in the face with your rucksack, etc., etc. Infuriating.

I’m not understanding much about this thread tbh.

The woman was probably reserving the place aside of their car for their friends who were travelling to the car park but were several miles away but desperately needed to park alongside as their cars get SOOOOO lonely in a strange car park! 🚗🚗

Probably for the best. You can tell the families that will just lay into you verbally rather than apologising. You don’t need that!

Console yourself with the massive servicing bills/probably repayment costs they're forced to endure, before RR's terminal breakdown..............Anyway real wealth/class doesn't behave like that.

I would have given a ‘courtesy tap’ on my horn, counted to 10 and if they hadn’t acknowledged me, started shutting doors etc I would have leaned on the horn , window down and yelled at them to move because I was coming in.
I cannot comprehend selfish entitled idiots like this and I refuse to simply meekly creep off and let them win.
Maybe it’s because I’m highly competitive, maybe it’s because I’m a Loe, maybe it’s because I’m menopausal and refuse to ‘be nice’ to idiots who do not deserve it.
I think the words “Shut your fucking doors before I bash into them” may have left my mouth if I were you.

Could the driver not just get in from passenger side and pull door shut from inside?

Ahh I see, thanks

Why didnt you just beep your horn and tell them to shift their arses?

Id have gently sounded my horn

Feeling intimidated is shit. And who knows what they may have done to your car if you'd budged them and parked next to them.

My father was a parking wanker. Local office staff would park outside our house. No restrictions, no private parking. He just believed he should have been able to park outside his house.
He used to smear dog shit under car door handles and on windscreens 🤮
Im old now, this was a long time ago. Still embarrassed to remember that

How busy was the car park? If it was really busy yes they should get a move on, if it was half empty just park in a space where people aren't faffing about getting in and out.

My DH can be really slow getting out, although he is getting older now, I could have been halfway round the shop while he's faffing about, finding his jacket, checking he's got his cards, sometimes changing his shoes, Aaargh. And of course he's really impatient of people doing the same thing!

But odd to be so unaware, i mean the other family. I do think though that sometimes people act like idiots but because they have something on their mind or have just say come from the bedside of a loved one at hospital and just aren't thinking straight. But for all three of them to do it that is odd. I am sure a lot of us have been behind a car parked unreasonably and got irritated and then realised that it's stopped in an odd place as the driver is helping a very elderly or disabled person and then we feel like a real monster!

The type of car seems to have irritated you though op - would a clapped out cheap one have been less irritating!

In these circumstances I tend to slather my hands on hand cream just before getting out into the cold - this weather wreaks havoc with my skin.

I'm also exceedingly clumsy and quite often I need to steady myself by just briefly popping my hand on the driver's window as I wobble past.

Apologies.

Gosh you’re very easily intimidated, why can’t you use your words, all you have to do is wind your window down and say excuse me can you move? Instead you’re interpreting looks, deciding what they’d say, all based on what, the fact they had a bigger car than you?

I never understand this business of standing in a parking space ‘saving’ it for someone.

One Christmas I was trying to find a space, I started reversing in when a woman jumped into the space shouting she was saving it for her husband who was driving round. I didn’t back down. She was shouting and I wouldn’t pull out since I was already half in the space.

I often wonder what would have happened if she hadn’t walked away. I know I wouldn’t have hit her but how long the stand off would have gone on?

I think Karma has kicked in and they went off to do their thing and someone in a massive Warrior pick up pulled up and parked next to them blocking their entry back into their snobwagon without them scraping against the filthy side of slurry covering the truck.