To ask why this alway happens?

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Just parked at my local supermarket after dropping dd at nursery.

Enjoying 10 minutes peace, in the sunshine. Listening to an article on the radio.

Parked down the 'far end', away from the store. Not in anybody's way.

Whole of this end of the carpark is empty and some cockwomble idiot parks right next to me. Banging my car with his door as he gets out.

Why? Just why? There must be 200 other spaces that are empty.

Will his poor car be lonely?

I went into a multi storey supermarket car park tonight at 8.30pm. I went up to floor 2 and it had about 3 cars in. Huge floor, loads of free spaces.

I drove through and parked so my car was facing forwards to drive out of the space. I stopped to check my phone and in that time a woman parked directly behind me with her bonnet inches from my bumper and disappeared off. I couldn't get to my boot to get the bags out or put the shopping back in when I got back.

Tube stations. Hordes of people crowding & shoving to get through the gates ... but not all the gates Sail through one of the lonely, unused gates and suddenly there's a shoving horde trying to follow you!

It's like that old trick of looking upwards when there are other people around. More than half of them will look up, too.

Sheeple. Is a thing!

Derren Brown uses this kind of suggestibility test to identify good subjects for his shows. Obviously he uses more sophisticated filters as well.

UMass parking lot 11pm on a snowy night. Only 2 cars in the lot. Me and one other fuckwit person, I couldnt get my drivers side door open they were so close. Had to climb in through the passenger side,not easy in an Imprezza. The fucker wasnt there when I parked and I picked that spot cos it was far from every one else

garlick we had fun with that on a recent theme park trip. We had access passes and the number of times we waited at the (clearly labelled) disability help point, only for hordes of people to leave the back of the queue and join our new, shorter queue. And then they'd glare at us like it was our fault when we showed our passes and were let through, while they got turned away and sent back to the main queue!

in the summer, on the beach which is about a mile long - we were the only people on the beach having a quiet glass of wine, watching the sea, reading our books - a couple arrived and sat right next to us and put their fucking music on their tablet thing - inconsiderate rude bastards. We asked them to turn it down - they wouldn't. We left - still makes me angry thinking about it now - there was a mile of beach . . Some people are just idiots and herd like sheep.

I love writing PA notes to put on the windscreens of crap parkers. Did one this week in a place I regularly park for work. Saw the car the following day - much better parking.... Wrote a note to say thanks!

Had a dentist appointment the other day and was cutting it close, anyway my dentist is in the nearby town with a small council car park a short walk away which always fills quite quickly. I drove in, seen it was busy and was starting to panic but I found a space so reversed in and just as I was getting out an older gentleman (probably late 60s, not being ageist or anything) pulled up in front of me and was just staring, to begin with I thought he must have thought I was leaving but he still didn't move even as I went to get DD out in her car seat. I stopped looking but at one point he had his door open and everything. He had such a horrible malicious look on his face, I thought I was going to get a mouth ful!

I don't know whether he had noticed the space at the last minute so had circled the car park and come back for it but I had got it but I was seriously worried I was going to come back to a keyed car he looked that angry!

Another sheeple thing which infuriates me daily at school is double doors. There are lots of double doors in the school, both sides of which are always unlocked so as to aid the flow of huge numbers of teenagers between lessons. Yet EVERY SINGLE TIME I reach one, everyone's only using one door while large queues build up on each side. I always barge my way through the other door making snidey comments because it annoys me so much. It's not just kids, it's adults too. The other door is right there.

I don't get the "bad parker need a car" thing. I'm not great at parking (always had off street parking so didn't have the baptism of fire most 20 something's in their first house get) so I purposely choose empty spaces. It means if I mess it up I can just go out and start again. If you park by another car then if you mess it up then you risk bumping them.

I got a note on my car windscreen moaning about my parking one time. It was most confusing. Mainly because I couldn't work out which side was moaning. I have a symmetry obsession - I need to be exactly in the middle of a space. I actually measured it (using handspans!) - the difference was less than the width of a finger!

And I had managed to get myself out of the car on one side (I was 36 weeks pregnant) and dd (aged 2) out of the other.

Most confusing of all though was that the note was printed. How???? Did he print it out specially for me? (How???) Or did he carry a stack of them around in his car just in case???

I don't think it's that unusual for a car to park next to another in an empty car park.

I do it myself, unconsciously. The dc play a lot of sport at various football fields/big rugby clubs - the types of places where parking is an issue and you have an attendant directing you and 'lining you up' in an empty field next door.

I think it's just tipped over into everyday life and I now 'line myself up' when i'm parking iyswim? Is it just me that does this?

He was obviously bu to bang your door and not apologise though.

I hate the being lined up thing by attendants. They often have no clue what they are doing.

See to me (and I will admit, I'm not the best at parking, but I'm getting better!) it makes far more sense to park away from other cars. You can always spend time fannying about lining up properly without annoying anyone that way. Why would you want to risk bashing someone's car just because you're bad at parking?!

I always thought parking attendants were kind of pointless (even when parking in an empty field). But I helped out at one of the dc's sports clubs big events and did car park duty for an hour.

You wouldn't believe how some people try to park - in a field where there are clear lines of cars and some douchebag still randomly dumps their car at right angles to every one elses, blocking off a whole line of cars in the process. Never give the general public more credit that they're due was the lesson I learned from that!

I can see the point of them if they know what they are doing and are good at communicating with each other and drivers.
A lot of the time it looks like they pulled straws for the job and aren't very interested.

Must be the same people who sit next to you on an otherwise empty bus or train.

I was sat in an empty Dunelm cafe the other week waiting for my friend. Got a tea and sat down.
Next couple come in and the man goes to order and the lady comes and sits on the next table to me. Inches away.

I put everything back on my tray and moved over the other side of the cafe.

Mrswinkler, I love that you wrote a follow-up note!

I guess it's always happened. When I was 41+ with ds, I had ventured in to town.

Came back to find a car mirrors overlapped on my driver side. My pelvis was dodgy (psd) and every step was excruciating.

I had to get in my passenger door. Reach across and start my engine. Put it into drive (yay!automatic). Creep forwards into the traffic queue (right by entrance) (sorry, it really was my only option)
Put it back in park, so it stopped with a lunge. Waddle round to my door and drive home.

If I had been in a manual, I would still be sitting there!

As for the ones that leave 3 cm to get my buggy out of the boot... I may have thought about using them as a convenient table to place the dirty buggy on while I faffed.