Parking when there are dogs around

You’re clearly mentally unwell and I hope you get some help. Bit if you had smashed my windscreen I’m afraid I would have punched you in the face 🙄

Yes he was the only car ever going to move on the car park 😒😒

Yes, but other vehicles could have arrived after he'd parked up.

I don't know why you're getting such a hard time. He was clearly only thinking about what he's got to do/lack of hazard awareness and consideration towards more vulnerable people/animals. Common sense would be to leave at least one space empty between where you're parking and a car with people and loose dogs next to it. It doesn't matter if you're in the wrong for not having the dog on the lead, he should have waited for you to be clear of the area and reversed cautiously.

It's like the morons that try to pull into a space when you've just got kids out of the car instead of having the patience to wait until you're all clear out of the way.

You’ve made a lot of things up in your head about the man that you’ve stated as fact, maybe seek help for that and your rage?

I'm so shocked to learn that the OP downs a bottle of vodka a day and drives! That is literally criminal! It explains the outrageous behaviour she described in the first post.

So @TheQuirkyMaker you say there were two cars parked next to each other - presumably yours and the other dog walker - which meant that, whichever of you arrived second, they (you?) chose to park right next to the one car already parked. Even though it's a completely empty car park.

But when another driver chooses to park there as well, he's in the wrong?

Sorry to read this.

Where is the lack of common sense exactly ? Pedestrians were standing chatting in a CAR PARK with dogs off the leash. The dogs should have been on the leash as soon as they came out of the park, especially considering they were close to a childrens’ play area. And I don’t know about you, but I always park with consideration for the needs of the passengers in my car.

There was clearly access to the parking space he chose, and any good parent out with children will always try to park as close as they can to their destination so that their kids don’t have spend any more time than necessary close to moving vehicles. One or more of his children may have had special needs - you have no idea what the situation was and neither did OP. And if you look carefully at OP’s posts you’ll see huge inconsistencies in the way she describes the incident - the story changes each time she relates it.

Did you ever stop to think he was parking as close as he could to the childrens’ play area because he was thinking about their safety in the car park with moving vehicles ? Did it cross your mind that one or more of his kids may have special needs - it isn’t always obvious, and I’m mindful of your ableist and unreasonable assumption that if they could use the skatepark they could walk to it. Not always the case.

Your attitude is the one that’s out of order here. He parked in a legitimate parking space - the fact that the rest of the car park was empty (which doesn’t correlate with your description of a few people loading dogs into their cars by the way) is neither here nor there - he had his reasons for parking as he did and it’s none of your business. If you hit his car and swore at him in front of his kids, and displayed any of the horrible aggressiveness you’ve shown on this thread, I think you’re lucky he didn’t report you to be honest.

To be honest I think given OP’s aggressive and entitled attitude it’s only going to be a matter of time before there’s an incident with police involvement - the driver in question could easily have called them if she was banging on his car and swearing. If you know you’re over the drink drive limit why invite trouble.

My SiL passed away a couple of years ago from alcohol related problems and I’d advise OP to get help ASAP if she really is downing a bottle of vodka every day. SiL was doing the same thing secretly for five years after her DH died. She was a functioning alcoholic and no one knew what was happening until she fell and broke her leg. She was admitted to hospital and of course had no access to alcohol. Within a day or so she was having seizures because of the sudden withdrawal - had to be moved to ICU for induced coma. Every time they brought her round she seized. Scans revealed alcohol damage to almost every organ, as well as related brain damage. She never regained consciousness and died a few days later. It’s a horrible way to die, and there are often no obvious symptoms until it’s too late.

My children are very much fit enough to go to the skate park. I. on the other hand, struggle with a chronic illness which means that I do try and park as close as possible as possible to things

OP you're being a dickhead. It's a fucking CAR PARK. he can park wherever he bloody well likes. You're in a car park going to a kids play area with an unleashed dog in tow. Clearly you're unreasonable. You don't get to tell people where to park and bash their cars because they don't do what you want them to do. The guy parked in an empty parking space he's done nothing wrong

There were children in the car, and the father was obviously parking as close as he could to the skate park so they didn’t have to interact with moving vehicles any more than necessary. If they were close to a childrens’ play area the dog should have been on a lead anyway - hanging round talking in a car park with a dog off the lead isn’t exactly considerate of others is it ? Isn’t that what the park is for ?

OP’s account of the incident changed - first she said he speeded into the car park and screeched to a halt and then the account changed to him rolling into the space, and given her previous thread about her alcohol dependence I don’t think she’s best placed to be criticising anyone else’s driving if she’s routinely over the limit behind the wheel.

Looking for redemption in familiar places….

OP is now encouraging people to be kind (the irony) to supermarket workers by paying more for our shopping so goodness knows

By her own admission, OP has a drink problem, I.e. half a bottle of vodka in the morning, topped up with another half bottle at night., every day. I think consistency and reason are something we really can't expect. Drunk driving is clearly something we can expect and alcohol clearly fuelled her ridiculous, extreme and dangerous actions. I think it's a pity one of them didn't get the police involved. It might have got her taken of the road.

Sunny viper,oh,where oh where is the laughing emoji when you need one. I have an SUV, 2 border collies, they aren't allowed in the front,do we assume that the dog has a special seatbelt harness, otherwise that's illegal... perhaps someone should report the original poster. One of my dogs is almost 11, and arthritis in hips, she has a ramp to get into the boot space. Their crates are opened,leads clipped on before their paws touch the ground. The meters, I wonder if they are gas or electric,smart meters maybe, and the offensive language, I cannot even bring myself to type or write THAT word.
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No common sense here at all.

Pedestrians are standing in an area. Plenty of other places to park. Park away from the pedestrians.

Common sense (or so you would think!).

Wonder if the OP has sobered up this morning?
I suspect the late night angry tirading posts last night may have been more than a little vodka fuelled

Your other comments on that linked thread show that you've committed quite a few parking offences yourself (the irony!) - and that you conflate parking offences with drink driving...

You need to give some serious thought to your own behaviour before you take issue with someone else's entirely legal and legitimate driving.

I was going to say exactly the same! And the fact he ‘reverse parked without looking’. I wonder if OP realises cars are fitted with mirrors and many with reverse cameras!

The OP is clearly off-the-scale unreasonable!

It means in any vacant space the driver feels most comfortable using.

FFS OP you are so being so unreasonable you have smashed the AIBU-O-meter.

As the owner of a much loved smallish elderly dog myself ..you’re being extremely unreasonable !!!!
My dog is on lead wherever there are cars , farm animals ( especially sheep ) or any other places where it wouldn’t be safe or would be antisocial for him to be off lead .
Plus you’ve added in parts about this driver potentially running dogs over because he doesn’t like them ?
And that he reversed his car without looking ( there are
cameras in many cars these days to assist parking ) so a good chance he could see behind him .
The part about him parking next to you ..well in all fairness I tend to choose spots away from other cars where I possibly can.
Swearing at him in front of his children after hitting his car !
You will end up in trouble one day .