To think this kind of parking is incredibly selfish

[Atthewelles]

I was up at the shopping centre last night and, as you can imagine, the car park was absolutely jammers. One big car (I won't say the type ) was deliberately parked right in the middle of two spaces while other cars were circling around trying to find a space. I have been told that people with expensive cars sometimes do this to make sure an adjacent car won't scratch their precious vehicle. But really........ six days before Christmas in a busy shopping centre?
AIBU to think this is beyond selfish behaviour??

They also do it because they are crap at parking.

Maybe when they parked the two cars either side were just too close, or over their space lines iyswim.

Also, big cars have big doors. If they have a car full if people and they have to open all the doors, then they might not have enough room in one space?

Maybe?

Yabu to think you'll get a parking space 6 days before Christmas at a shopping centre!

YANBU obvs. Just asks to be keyed really if u leave that much fecking room round it....

I have done this, but only when hugely pregnant (ds was 13lb and by the end you had to roll me out of the car) and there were no family spaces available. and it wasn't christmas or even a busy time.

I wouldn't do it for any other reason.

(But must add it does annoy me-but not that much. There's worse parking/driving offences IMO)

Never acceptable and totally arsey, saw this in Sainsburys last weekend but it was a shed of a car, not flash.

Parking Twattery at its worst at this time of year!

They were ticketing people for doing that in Brum on Sunday.

I have one of those types of cars. I park like this at the moment. I do feel slightly twattish about it, but I'm 8 months pregnant with spd and a knackered back, i just can't get out of the car without the door being all the way open so I can swing both legs round together. It's either do this or use a disabled space, which I refuse to do as I'm not disabled, or the p&c spaces which Im not entitled to either, and anyway they are always full.

It is selfish.

Shopping centres do sometimes have parking attendants on patrol duty as busy times, so they might get fined for it.

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It makes me deeply happy to see cards like this get tickets. I am on friendly smiling terms with all the local parking wardens, because I don't get tickets (I can park) and the twits in huge cars do.

The worst round here is people who park in the disabled spaces because they're empty and everywhere else is chock full (very few non-permit spaces, near to town, week before Christmas). Then the idiots argue 'oh, but there weren't other spaces so I just nipped in here for a few minutes an hour'.

It makes me deeply happy to see them get tickets but it'd make me even happier if they just stopped doing it so my neighbour, who is in her mid 80s and undergoing chemo for the third time, could actually hope to get a space her flat.

Very selfish and no excuse for it imo.

*cars, even. Not cards. Which made me sound faintly 1920s.

very often it's the knock on effect from how other cars were parked. Don't assume that the car you saw parked that way deliberately - it may well have been the only option

What nancy said.

This car was parked bang between the two spaces. I know sometimes a car can be parked a bit over the white line because of the car beside them being parked badly. But this was definitely done deliberately to allow a lot of room on both sides of the car.

Depends on the size of the car though - some spaces are minute and the doors on big cars can be enormous. Perhaps they had been scratched before?

If another car had parked across spaces so I couldn't get into the space next to it, I still wouldn't park there - why would you? Two wrongs don't make a right.

YANBU - that is total parking twattery.

There's a neighbour near us who is s totally selfish car parker. Our road is semi-rural but the only bit suitable for parking on is a bit limited because of junctions, bends in the road etc. Anyway, Mrs Entitled pulled into a space easily big enough for 2 cars and leaves it right in the middle.

We even watched her go backwards and forwards in the space to get close to the kerb, going right up to the car in front etc but then she reverses back to park right in the middle leaving 3/4 of a car space in front and behind her tiny little Fiesta .

Perhaps there were no P&c or disabled spaces and the driver needed extra room to get pram or wheelchair or walker next to car door?

But Valium why should other drivers be denied a space because you're driving a car too big to fit into a normal parking space or don't want your doors scratched.

But like fish and rogers said op, sometimes there isn't anywhere else do them to park. Or circumstances mean they need more room.

It's selfish and annoying if they just cba.

My DP loves this- he just parks his motorbike in the space on the drivers side.

get the person out of the car before pulling in properly and then park chestnuts?