to be really angry about being (nearly) blocked in

[kittenwarrior]

I took my 5 month old to our baby swimming class held at a hotel pool.

Parking was in the hotel car park (£ an hr charges). When I finished the class I reached my car to realise someone had nearly blocked me in. They had not parked in a marked bay and had just parked against the wall.

It was peeing down which didn't help and the car was very close to scraping down the right side of my car. I wasn't prepared to risk it but didn't have anyone with me to check how close I was.

Called my hubbie and got him to find number of hotel, call reception with reg no of other car and to explain/rant on my behalf.

Concierge came up and talked me out of space.

My rant comes from the explanation of the hotel that people ignore the 'car park full' sign at entrance.

Surely they could stop the ticket coming out and the barrier coming up when it's full?!
Ofcourse not - they want to get their massive parking fees and are not that bothered about where cars go. Must be against H & S to have cars all over the place?

Can I call hotel and rant or am I being unreasonable?!!

C

this is what i love about mn.you were nearly blocked in !

ffs woman no wonder woman drivers have a bad name

get some perspective you were nearly blocked in and tbh honest if your unable to reverse outta a car park space then you should not be driving with a 5 month old as you are a liability.

and if you need dh's support to get a number for a hotel 50 m away you should not be taking a baby swimming.

hold on.

we get invaded by pistonheads, a mens forum about cars and engines and general ladness.

the next day there is a thread from a woman who is about as good a driver as i am rocket scientist.

would a man know that children's swimming lessons are sometimes held in hotels?

why wouldnt a man know

sorry, that was a really daft thing to say. i am thinking of the kind of men that frequent pistonheads (my OH). not that OH would even have MN on his radar if he was up for a prank but if he did he certainly wouldn't know that hotels run childrens' swimming classes.

i know lots of men will know.

All I was trying to say was, and I'm sorry I'm not being very clear I'm knackered, if you'd brought your baby to swimming lessons you would know the name of the hotel.

In which case, rather than ringing your DP to get the number, why not just ring directory enquiries and ask them for the number?

Does anyone know that road in Dartmouth, now that was tight! Wing mirrors scraping both walls all the way down the road, I had that sinking feeling the car was going to get wedged.

Ahhh... well now I understand the 'I was nearly insulted' thread!!! hahaha!!

Why not just walk back into the hotel???????????????????????????? I really can't see why you had to call your DH at all..

You need a wife swap with my DH. You would never expect anything again My DH works in Germany and DOES NOT ANSWER PHONES (well, not with anything other than 'I'll call you back')

My XH would have been so cross if I had rung him at work with something like this.

My life would not have been worth living.

Which it wasn't with him in general. Would have given him another excuse.

Grow up.

I just don't understand why the OP couldn't have simply gone and got the concierge herself....

Why sit in the car like some simpleton and expect to be talked out of a parking space!!?!

this appears to be the OP's first ever thread.....

Give her a break. Baby needed feeding, all soggy from rain, worried bout scraping car. So she calls hubbie for a moan and he helped her out - maybe she finds it hard to talk on phone and breastffed. Who knows? I do agree she should feel indebted to hotel for helping her out rather than stroppy with them. She is prob v embarassed by all the comments and will prob think twice about moaning on here again. But we all have days when we need a whine and a moan. Friends would have been a better bet rather than mn.

actually this thread reminds me of something that happened to me

went to beachfront with ds then 4 and I'd had an op on by bottom . Bib suburu truck thing parked not straight nest to my ka and I couldn't get in. Passenger door lock broken so can't open this side. Car parking attendant wanted to book car but I suggested opening drivers side ds climbing in releasing handbrake an we pushed the car back. Not very funny at the time but giggle about it now!!

Not worth getting knickers in a twist over but as a single parent I managed without harrassing asking for dh help.

expect parking attendeant gave the big truck its ticket when I'd gone!!!

Right, so the hotel is some distance from the carpark - it's across the road, it's pissing down and the OP was on the 6th floor.

Rather than traipse down 6 floors and cross the street in the rain, baby in tow, she thinks to call the hotel to ask for help but doesn't have the hotel's number.

Why on earth shouldn't she have called a friend who had the number to hand? The fact that the person she called was her DH is neither here nor there, really. It was a perfectly sensible, reasonable thing to do.

Contemplates DH's response if I called him for help with this...

So the car COULD be maneuvered out of the space, albeit you were not competent enough to do it by yourself? you then had to call your husband to get him to call the hotel's reception (poor bloke!)? And you are STILL angry and are certain that soemone needs to be blamed?

ignore my comment, thankfully the majority of people have the same opinion and the author's mistake has been poitned out many times.