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??

Some cars fit in spaces, some don't - that's just how it is. Very annoying if they CBA or it is just really bad parking though. I parked at the vet's the other nigh and the spaces were so narrow I had a job getting out and my door was touching the car next to me and I don't have a particularly big car.

On Saturday there was a 4x4 parked at our shopping centre with one wheel in each parking spaces.

So managing to take up 2 front parking spaces and prevent anything longer than a mini parking in the back parking spaces.

I did think of that parking website when i saw it.

I don't get the 'sometimes there's nowhere else' or 'some cars don't fit spaces'.

Am I missing something?

Round where I am, if a car doesn't fit in a space, then that's it: it is a gentle, white-lined means of telling you not to park there. You don't suddenly get the right to make up parking spaces just because you would really love one to exist just where you want to park. So, if there isn't a space and there's nowhere else - don't park there. If you can't fit your car in the space - don't park there.

I quite often get to the car park in the centre of town and find there are no spaces left, but that just tells me I've left it too late and need to go elsewhere or do without parking in town today.

Surely that is normal?

"If you can't fit your car in the space - don't park there."

Quite. It's ridiculously selfish. There's a was a mini parked like this at the local shops last night. A mini!! They can hardly have found the spaces were too small!

So do these people who desperately need two parking spaces take two tickets to pay for them?

Thought not!

OOOH I saw someone park their big fuck off F250 through 4 spaces. Parking lot was jammed except for the disabled space so there were definitely no excuses.

Wouldn't want to get you massive (fucking pristine) truck scratched which was designed to go off road and carry work supplies dirty would you?

Ps this is in the states and the space are plenty bg enough for these trucks..and they could have just driven through two spots if desperate. They literally parked between 4 spaces.

Parking spaces are surely designed to fit most cars. I agree with Picadilly.

If you have to park like this, then don't get a car like this that if you are able to park and get out of.

Simple. Problem solved.

I have written "You Selfish Twat!" notes and put on the windscreen of cars parked like this before.

unable *

There is a very wide sports car (possibly Ferrari) which regular parks across two disabled spaced in our local car park.

Apparently the costs incurred in parking tickets are well worth the price of not having to pay to get dings in the paintwork fixed .

I got a parking ticket for parking across the lines a couple of weeks ago, however, there are 2 sets of lines painted on the ground and no one is really sure which set is the current one.

When I parked there all cars had been using one set of lines and by the time I came back all the cars had changed and someone had started using the second set so I was marooned in the middle of 2 spaces. I appealed and won.

However, deliberate dodgy parking annoys me especially my next door neighbour who can't park on his own drive without over hanging mine to save his life

When I had a little 106 I would take some joy in parking my car very close to theirs in the little space that was left (obviously couldn't if they were fully half-half).

It's really inconsiderate.

I've only ever done it where I have been force to because everyone else in the row has parked over the lines and there are no other spaces. The problem is, if the other cars move before you do, you end up looking like an inconsiderate tvvat!

Out side our nursery recently I saw a vogue parked over the two disabled bays. Meaning both were now useless to blue badge holders AND they had decided to park half in the bays and half on the road, so we all had to squeeze round it on a single track road. Arses.