Parking when there are dogs around

Yeah you were unreasonable. In a car park I’m looking where best to park MY VEHICLE, in a safe way to suit MY PASSENGERS (especially children). Not for if there are any off lead dogs in the area. All dogs should be on leads in public areas in my opinion especially car parks. You were wrong and to hit someone’s car you’re lucky they didn’t take the situation further.

What road rules did he think didn't apply to him exactly? Reported him to whom? The Dogs-above-humans-always-lunatics Scoiety?

Those "close to" have to mean int the next apace though? Leaving a one space gap those make things easier for people.

(But PP is still a loon)

So much inconsistency though:

why reverse 3 feet away
to drive 2 feet away from us
decides to stop and reverse in the space next us
screeched to a halt and banged his car into reverse
He just rolled near us and reversed without looking
sweep in and reverse

2 feet or 3 feet

Rolled or screeched to a halt

Swept or banged into reverse

Your hyperbolic language does you no favours on making you look more reasonable (there's no way to look reasonable anyway), it's just adds to you being fucking ridiculous

Safety training courses I have been on always recommend you park:

1. As close as possible to where you are going (so you don't have to walk across the car park).
2. Reverse into the parking space (for a easier getaway).
3. Park where there are other cars (safety in numbers).

It sounds like this man and others who follow this safety advice are pissing off OP (and even a few otherwise rational posters).

May I suggest a mug of chamomile tea before you give yourself an aneurysm?

I always park on my own towards the back of a car park. You can guarantee that I always end up with someone parked next to me. I don’t get why people can’t find their own space however I don’t go round swearing or tapping the roof either.

I always park on my own towards the back of a car park. You can guarantee that I always end up with someone parked next to me. I don’t get why people can’t find their own space however I don’t go round swearing or tapping the roof either.

This must be a wind up.

Agree that I’d have been annoyed but he can park wherever he wants so it still makes you unreasonable (and very grumpy in your replies) I’m afraid.

Not sure who you would have reported it to either and what for 😂

Sorry meant to quote your reply that said I probably park badly in an SUV.
I still can’t believe you smacked his car!
poor children though. If that was me I would have told my children ‘Don’t worry, unfortunately there are some not very nice people who think they’re right and everyone else is wrong’

No I don’t and as I said I agree it’s annoying. But the fact is you were chatting in the car park, he wanted to park there (which is annoying) but he had just as much right to be there as you did. I can’t understand how swearing and banging on a car with children in it is ok?

@TheQuirkyMaker keeps going on about how it was an SUV as if that makes a difference. I feel like probably half the cars on the roads are SUVs these days and what are we actually talking about here? A Nissan Qashqai is hardly an unreasonable car to own lol

Why was your dog off the lead, wondering around in a car park? My dogs have great recall, but I would put them on a lead around cars - i think any responsible owner would. He has every right to park in anywhere in a car park regardless of if you've decided that's where you want to have a chin wag. You are 100% unreasonable and probably deserved a slap tbh

hope is kids are used to foul language out of nowhere

And he had kids in the car and you said that
you deserved a slap.

I’m reading it that he drove quite fast and aggressively reversed fast into the spot, which would have been jarring. However dogs should be on a lead for their own safety, and you shouldn’t have sworn or tapped the car. He sounds like a dick and I’d have rolled my eyes and left it at that.

I think we have an explanation for your bizarre behaviour,@TheQuirkyMaker . You have recently told any Mumsnetter who might have read another of your threads that you drink a half bottle of vodka every morning and the same again at night. That being so, you must be fully loaded up with alcohol all the time. That explains your aggression and your staggering unreasonableness. That would be nobody's business if you stayed home but instead you chose to drive in that state to a park, a place where there are very likely to be children, walking through the car park, on the pavements nearby, getting in and out of cars. What's more, you must do this regularly if this is somewhere you often walk your dog. If the man had phoned the police, you very well might have found yourself in trouble for more than just hitting his car. Pity.

Yeah sorry but you're the unreasonable one. I wouldn't go and park near anyone in an empty car park, but I definitely wouldn't stand in a car park with any dog off leash, especially not an old dog that can't hear and doesn't sound very mobile, nor would I hit someone's car. He was entitled to park wherever he wanted and you and your dog should have been on the path.

You clearly don't care about your dog by deliberately putting it in situations where it could potentially be injured or killed.

You’re getting flack because you are the idiot in this scenario. Nobody else. Just you.

Little dogs should NOT be wandering around. You behaved badly.

So your response to being told you are unreasonable is to... say you should have been even more unreasonable?

Ye OK 🤣

I thought it was genuine to start with cos I can believe people can be like the OP

But now I think she must just be enjoying the thread

Yes he obviously read it which is why he said all that in his comment, I don’t even know if this post is genuine or not but if it’s not you’re even more deranged to make something as weird as this up for attention, either way, you’re a crackpot 😂
Some of your statements:

”Really, I should have taken their number and reported them”
For what? He should have reported you for hitting his car!!

“If you can't see he was entitled cunt I expect you have an SUV which you straddle parking spaces with”
No you absolute batshit lunatic YOU are the entitled cunt!!! (And no, I don’t have an SUV)

“Reading all these responses makes me feel I should have smashed his windscreen!”
Almost everyone is telling you that you’re wrong and your response is to say you should have smashed his windscreen??? Have you any idea just how delusional you even are? If you want to keep your dog safe, then be a responsible owner and keep it from wandering away from you into harms way!! If you saw a parent allow their young child walk around freely in a CARPARK and a car hit that child then you’d be saying they should have kept hold of the child, and you’d be 100% correct in saying that, same goes for idiot dog owners who stand in the middle of car parks then complain they or their dog almost got hit by a CAR.
I can’t even believe any of that need explained to a grow aas adult, take a bit of responsibility for your own stupidity and keep your damn nasty angry hands off other peoples vehicles.