Parking, I'm being completely unreasonable,

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but it annoys the hell out of me.

I've just been to the supermarket. The car park was approximately half full. I witnessed 2 examples if selfish parking that really irritated me. I realise it didn't directly stop me going about my business so it shouldn't annoy me but it does. I'm sick of the way no one considers anyone any more.

Driver one parked in the roadway at the end of the row dropping people from driving round the car park. There were plenty of places.

Driver 2 parked lengthways across spaces effectively blocking off 3 spaces. More if others tried to avoid blocking him in.

The car park was approximately half full. I witnessed 2 examples if selfish parking that really irritated me

I'm sick of the way no one considers anyone any more.

The only way that both of those quotes could be true is if it's a four space supermarket carpark, so unlikely.

Yabu for believing that a tiny minority of people constitutes everyone and allowing this assumption to negatively affect your worldview.

Yanbu.

Gobshites.

Ynbu, it irritates me too!

it is terrifying that almost everyone you see on the road has passed a test of competence to be in charge of a motor vehicle.

the other one that annoys me is those that sit for ages with the engine running, especially in a 'drop off' space. Where do they get their free petrol?

I saw one of those at M&S yesterday specialsubject, a man parked across the fully-occupied blue badge spaces, with his engine running, reading the paper. He was really in the way - fucker!

The engine running thing annoys me too. I really am a grump.

OP YANBU - this kind if thing seems to be on the rise. In the fairly small Aldi car park near me we also have the phenomena of, usually, a husband drives to a point near the car park exit while his wife returns trolley to front of store instead of just waiting for her to walk back to where the car was parked.

This means their car is blocking several spaces and anyone wanting to go in or out of them and is preventing other cars from exiting onto the road. Could he not just wait and could she not walk a few more yards? It's not for long, but god it's annoying.

Kotinka I wonder if we use the same pool - one car (large white Audi 4x4, personalised number plate) insists on parking across the front of the disabled space so that it's almost impossible to use. I know exactly who this woman is, she ignores the eye-level sign on the door expressly asking people to park only in the marked bays and leave the disabled space free, as well as the numerous reminder emails to parents about it. What makes it worse is that the next door car park is always available and empty, and requires only an additional 30 second walk.

I can't decide if she's ridiculously entitled or just thick. Actually, having spoken to her, I know it's both.

YANBU at all. I nearly spontaneously combusted on Friday morning due to a case of selfish twattery parking

Ex used to park in the middle of two spaces so no-one would bang his doors. I was like this getting out of the car

School run parking twattery is my bug bear. There's a woman who pulls across a junction and parks there effectively blocking the entire road. When schools go back I am going armed with a means of getting her plate.

There's something about school-run parking that brings out the worst in parents, and if it's mostly mothers it's because more mothers do it than fathers.

They are all convinced that their little darling cannot walk an inch - but other children can - and that if a school-runner "needs" to block a drive then the householder by definition does not need to go in or out.

Andrew not ALL! Said woman is preventing me reaching a sensible and legal place to park which is further away than her 'place'. I miss being able to walk to school.

No, of course not ALL - poster's licence. it just seems that way if you live near a school . . . and if your own DS (now 29, distant days) went on the bus unless he had something exceptionally heavy to take or bring back.

Yay! A parking fred!

I have to go out to a meeting tomorrow. I'm coming home around 3pm.

We have a private, residents only off road carpark which a minority, but sadly still some of the parents of the school next door feel is theirs as their little darlings can't walk

I already know someone will be in my space and that I'm going to block them in again

Sorry, I really should clarify. The children of the school are perfectly able bodied, not unable to walk at all- poor phrasing on my part and I apologise.

The parents feel their precious children shouldn't have to walk an inch

wipes sweat off brow

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I follow them on twitter and it makes me itch. Love seeing them though. It's like picking a scab.

Sorry Andrew that was missing a smiley to balance out the shouty caps.

We walked to school until we moved and are on the waiting list for the school at the end of our road. Meantime I have to take my 7 yr old as there's no bus and I have to negotiate two lots of random school driving every trip.

HauntedNoddyCar if you speak to the police, they might send out a PCSO to wander along during school run time, and 'ave a word with illegal parkers.

Boulevard, yes the old PCSO used to be very visible on early turns. The replacement doesn't seem to realise she's got the word community in her job title! Good idea though.