Who wbu me or this woman.

[bluefay]

Hello today I went out with DDS and some friends. I parked my car and was about to go in to eat when some idiot tried to park next to me. I asked her politely to unroll her window and move as she was tailgating and too close to my car far my liking. She moved but was huffing and puffing and sighing and complained before finally giving in. Aibu to think she was acting immature and rude as she messed up my schedule so DD and my friends had to run ahead to reserve a table without me when I wanted us all to sit together.

I understand how you might have felt annoyed at the tailgating and if she parked over the white line into your space. but it's that you could be annoyed about not your friends having to go and reserve a table - because obvs you could still all sit together.

This thread is hilarious! I got to Kim Kardashian and that was me hysterical.

When I went to go and see how much the dent would cost it was a lot of money, I will repeat myself again the driver on the left had parked out of his bay and had parked over the bay lines and partly onto my bay lines. The Woman then swerved in after I'd park. The parking lot was full so I had to stay where I was and its first come first served.

So a third person's parking meant that you squeezed into a too-small space. You then demanded that this woman move her car despite her being parked within a marked bay? And this ridiculous demand cost you more than 30 seconds? And she actually moved?? I'd have told you to shove it up your arse if I'm honest. YABU and she was very accommodating.

OP you could have saved precious minutes by not starting this bizarre thread and not dwelling on another persons completely normal behaviour.

If the parking lot was full, where did she go after you told her she wasn't allowed to park next to you?
If there was an empty space next to the one you were in which clearly there was because she parked in it - and you were overlapping the next bay by the sound of it - then why the hell didnt you just park in the fully empty bay instead of next to the badly parked bloke like a sheep?

Was the price of fixing the damage more than a new car? That was some dent and makes me question my understanding of tailgating!
I thought tailgating meant driving closely behind, not parking in your rear seat!

i don't understand why you parked next to a car that was encroaching on your space? Why didn't you just park in the one that the other women did? Or somewhere entirely different?

I'm so lost. Why couldn't you sit at the same table as your friends? Because you didn't walk through the door at the same time? My brain hurts.

It's quite simple, if you are precious about the space around your car, you take a space far away, where no one is parking around you. My DH is extremely precious in this respect, and always parks at the furthest possible point from the venue. (Which you would possibly find unacceptable as it would mean losing 2 minutes of your time in chosen venue

Your issue OP is that you got involved in parking where there was a badly parked car and then chose to blame a poor innocent third parkee who was not the original sloppy parker.

The whole not being able to sit with your mates thing is completely unfathomable though..

Overall, YABU cos I don't really get it...

So, you chose to park in a bay where the car next to you was right on the lines. Instead of the next bay, where there was no issue.

You then complained to the woman who did park there and made her move. This delayed you so much you missed your lunch.

All because in a prior incident your car got a dent so you bought another one.

Easy solution: sell the car and take taxis instead.

It's the only thing that makes sense in this entire thread. Apart from the Kim Konnection.

So basically you couldn't drive your car between the lines because of the third car and decided you'd attempt it anyway with your pfb car. And then when she parked safely and reasonably next to you within the marked bays, you felt the need to be demanding and entitled because you still have post traumatic stress from the first car getting a bump.
Well why didn't you just tell us that in the first place, Yanbu definitely not

Ok, no one else appears to have said this...but OP, you are 100% absolutely fucking batshit crazy.
You need to get a life. If you had said that to me in a car park I would probably have dinged your car with my door on purpose just to watch you meltdown.
As a side note, did the insurance not cover your car when the tailgater dented it?

I still don't understand this thread AT ALL...WTF?! OP, you are nuts.

So your friends walked in an asked (or found) for a table, without enough seats for the group? And this is this woman's fault because she parked in a bay correctly?

Am I the only one who's still confused?

Bellas can I recommend Zoe's excellent summary...

Please explain why entering after the rest of the group meant you couldn't sit with them. Please, I have tried to understand & just can't.

I think part of the confusion is caused by the fact that OP's latest posts seem to suggest she wasn't tailgating, she just parked too close to OP because OP had had to park close to the line on her own space due to the badly parked car on her left. Like others, I really don't understand why OP didn't just go in the space the woman use in the first place.

I think it really depends on whether the woman left OP with enough room to get out of the car. If she didn't, they yes, she was being inconsiderate. But if that is the case you have to wonder how the friends managed to get out?

Maybe the friends were so embarrassed they went ahead into the place and deliberately got a table with no room for OP?
And that's why she is posting here, because they've told her she WBU?

It makes as much sense as anything else on this thread.