Parking next to someone

[SpaghettiSquash]

I am sitting in my car in a supermarket car park which is half empty. I just needed to reply to a text before getting out. A stupid woman in a big 4x4 has just
parked in the space next to me and is very close which means I will have to carefully squeeze out of my car.

WTF do people do this? There are loads of empty spaces! I'm not near the shop entrance. Opposite me I can count 24 empty bays all in a row and there are plenty of other spaces free.

I always work on the split the spaces rule unless there is not enough spaces. ALWAYS park in the middle of 3 spaces. Its just how i am.

The worst parking incident i had was at a McDonalds (I know). I was literally the ONLY car in the car park. I wandered in to get my food and as i came out another car, honestly only the second car in the car park, parked next to me. Not only that it was so close i had zero chance of getting back into my car.

After trying to weigh up if the person was going to readjust i banged on their window and made a WTF signal. They looked up puzzled. I opened my door and showed i couldnt even get my arm inside. The daft cow reversed back enough for me to open it and once i climbed inside, she drove back in the space. Fucking idiot.

Same here @MontyDonsBlueScarf. At least it was until the advent of the reversing camera, now I reverse into a space and the camera shows me the lines . Best invention ever for short people!

You need adjustable blind spot mirrors.

It’s happened to us before at the beach. We’ll set up a blanket on an almost empty beach and another family comes along and set up so close we’re practically sharing a picnic. I don’t think I’ll ever understand it.

This really annoys me too, and I had a suspicion that the people who do it need the car park to look neat.

My suspicions have been confirmed!

yes its highly annoying also in pubs resturants-i get why they waiter puts you next to someone because of staffing but when its empty and they say sit anywhere why does someone always plonk themselves right next to you

This is why I park across 4 bays in my big car, even if they park next to you there is room to manoeuvre.

@DayOfNight not the point of the thread I know, but my parents used to take a plastic bin with us. Also doubles up as a loo 🤣

But…if the car park is empty you don’t need to line up with the car next to you. You can pull into a space with spaces either side and drive all across the white lines if you want. You won’t hit anything because there’s nothing there to hit. Then you can straighten up once you’re in.

Your car is obviously like mine. A twat magnet....

I dont get it either, theres a car park I park in regularly and I park at the furthest side from the store where its usually empty.

I do this as I have to get a SN toddler and baby out (one out of each side) and a pram out of the boot.

Yet regularly someone will drive past 40 odd empty parking space and park RIGHT next to me. Sometime I come back to the car and theres a car either side of mine in an empty fucking car park.

I just dont get the selfishness or even WHY someone would even want to - I understand in busy carparks where anyone is looking for any space but this car park is almost always half empty and I have clearly delibrately parked away from others.

I think in some areas people park in a crowded fashion to stop their catalytic converters being stollen.

Also when I return and people have parked like that I cant leave my hyper toddler and baby unattended and hop in the car to drive to another empty space so I have room to get them in.

I parked up in a nice empty car park, went in and did my shopping and came back to some utter twat parked halfway into the back of my space as well as all of theirs. One of those ridiculous Ford Rangers or something similar. What they didn’t realise is my boot dropped down so I rested it on their car so I could put my shopping away. Lots of shrieking and complaining when they came out of the shop. Stupid idiots.

When I first started driving I used to do this because I felt like it was easier to line up with another car. But I learned to drive in the days when they didn't teach bay parking and it wasn't on the test. I had literally never parked in a car park until I had my licence.

I don't do it now obviously but it always seems to be the massive cars that do it, maybe they find it easier to park them that way? Although massive cars tend to have cameras and stuff these days...

Really annoying! I'd move to another bay.

Ha ha yes, you've hit the nail on the head - I appear to have one of those cars too!

Because people are just brainless these days.

How does that work when returning to your car and the other ‘safety’ cars have left?

Maybe I can throw some light on why people might do this. You might be able to see the lines when parking, but I'm too short to see them once I've started to move between them.

Open the window, then. You'll be able to look out and see where the off-side of your car is in relation to the white lines.

This is why I park across 4 bays in my big car, even if they park next to you there is room to manoeuvre.

I assume this is a wind-up. I come across enough moronmobiles parked like that to have considered going into business offering paint jobs saying "I am an antisocial bastard", as I'm sure people who park across four bays are immensely proud of their antisocial bastardness (as well as of their hideously ugly and uncool vehicles).

Happens on the beach too
Sit alone in a nice quiet spot
Someone sets up camp next to you. FUCK OFF

Luckily it is. In OP's situation I would just move to an empty bay.

It's not just car parks.

Years ago I treated myself to the cinema in the middle of the day. If was the main screen so the cinema was huge. It was also completely empty. I know what people are like so I resisted the urge to sit in the very middle, but went slightly to one side, slightly back of centre.

Just before the film started a guy came in and sat down in the very seat in front of me and, as they don't line up, on the side where he was blocking my view. Naturally I hurrumphed and got up and moved a few seats away and another row or two back. He turned to me and said 'Oh, was I blocking your view?'

Just why?

There were just two of us for the whole film and he even left a bit before the end!

My DH does this, it drives me nuts because I hate when someone parks right beside me in an empty carpark. His reasoning is thiefs will target the most isolated car like a lion targets a straggling wildebeest. As if the tesco carpark resembles the savannah.