Supermarket carpark rage

She put a curse on you?
Was she wearing a black pointy hat ?

you just saunter in totally oblivious to what’s going on around you
Or maybe not so obliviously but entitled people don't care.

You said you were only vaguely aware there was a vehicle approaching from your right.

So how could you know this?

‘You can’t reserve a parking space by looking at it.’

😂😂 This is very true!

On a sort of related parking note - Can a person reserve a parking space by getting their mate / relative to stand in it until said person arrives with car?

I’ve had similar experiences where I’ve just missed a space because another driver has been better positioned
As suspected, you took the space she was waiting for. Bloody rude! And now you're on MN to get some sympathy. Definitely not from me. I have no time for people like you.

I reckon she was lining up to reverse park and you stole her parking space 😭😭

Yabu!

This is not the kind of context we need nor is relevant to any of the story. The context we need is was the woman waiting to park, letting someone out so she could pull in? I find it bizarre anyone would create such a fuss in a half empty car park just because you pulled in a space first, I can see someone being annoyed because they had been waiting or on their way to it then you just saunter in totally oblivious to what’s going on around you

Nope. Just sauntered in
Yet this uncharacteristic woman arrived when you were already slowly engaging in the space, decided that it was her space for no good reason, and despite being others near by, gets in such a furry she gets her pen and paper out and calls you a name...

Ummmm, maybe mental health diagnosis, so cut her some slack...or she likely has a very different version of the situation than you!

I think this is what happened
thenother woman was doing it right, about to reverse in and you nipped in and drove into the space. It’s infuriating when someone does that.

Sounds more like Tesco behaviour, in ASDA you would have got stabbed OP

Was she already positioning her car to reverse into the space and you've nipped through the gap and parked nose in? The highway code is clear that it is preferential to reverse in the parking spaces and drive out for a safe exit.

She randomly decided they had a greater claim despite being further on and not having reverse lights on
Here goes the perfect example of what I mean....any space goes to the person who first saw it and waited for it, even if they are a bit further to let other cars go through and haven't had the chance to put the reverse gear on.

I find it quite astoning the number of people who think they are entitled to a spot despite just arriving when they either see that another car was already waiting or don't bother to check if anyone is indeed waiting already.

In this case, I say good on the woman not to care and say it in a way that makes her feel better afterwards! I wish I could in those instances but I'm too disciplined to do so, and ultimately, you're the one that is judged as unreasonable!

It's best just not to engage with people like this. Blank look and walk off. Absolutely no point in trying to start a row in the shop by confronting her. You really think you were getting an apology/reasonable response from someone shouting and swearing over a space in a car park?

You genuinely didn't see her? That's concerning. Especially if she was heading to the same parking space

Depends if she was already heading into it, perhaps had waited for someone to come out and you grabbed it. I would be pretty annoyed at that

Thank goodness you told us her age and hair colour.

That would've kept me up all night.

Was it a disability parking space? As it stands you dud nothing wrong. However if I'm with people and they are all able bodied, I tend to not use the parking right outside, or the seats at the front on public transport etc. If she had a blue badge and showed you it, then you'd have been selfish.

You would never get this at Booths

Your choice of words would leave me to wonder whether you were actually quite aware that she was there before you and like you favoured the most convenient place but you chose to pretend you were fully innocent...

Let's face it, why would anyone, blond or not, in their 60s or younger, feel the need to be so pissed off if you did nothing wrong.

I'm taking the liberty to make this assumption because I've witnessed it quite a few times in car park, the suddenly appearing person who drive into a space that take that perfectly innocent, I don't what you are on about, when others mention their wrong doing when it was quite obvious they knew they pushed the boundaries of acceptable social behavior but had hoped nothing would be mentioned.