... to hope that the PARKING TWAT...

[OurBlanche]

... in Cheltenham yesterday is reading this?

Yes, you! You! The fuckwitted knob that parked so close to my driver's door that I couldn't get in. 4 INCHES IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM YOU INCONSIDERATE WANKBADGER.

Yes, that was me. ANs yes, I really did measure the gap! I also walked round the ample room you had left for yourself to get out, that was about 2 feet. Your left hand wheels were in my parking sapce. If they still had wardens you would have got a fucking ticket you idiot!!!

I walked round that HUGHE space and left a note for you. Yes! I thanked you profusely for having parked like a twat. Yes I really did wish you would meet someone as inconsiderate as you, soon and often... and even today, after a lovely sleep and a breakfast out, I still feel the same!

Think about it a bit... would you like to have to climb inot the driver's seat of your car, over the passenger seat, over the handbrake etc, wearing a skirt, CCTV and other car park users watching? No? Nor did I!

But hey... you managed to get in and out of your car just fine. So that's OK, hey?

Pah!

Yeah that would piss me off too.

But like multi says sometimes I have ended up having to park like a twat because of the people one side or the other parking like a twat. And then if they leave before I do, I look like the twat. Ugh.

The Beechwood car park was my favourite

Before that, the open plan one near The Brewery was my favourite

How long before they get rid of the St James one?

On another Cheltenham note - more crap drivers there than anywhere I've been. Twice this week I've had to come down Cleeve Hill at 30mph (towards Chelt - the other way wouldn't bother me) behind someone sitting on their brakes the whole way. Huge line of cars behind them

Batman, and the inner ring is now two way on part of Albion Street! WTF! I've never ever seen a bus on that bus lane bit.

Happened to me a few weeks ago,

I turned both wing mirrors in and put all their wipers up.

Petty? Moi?

Yanbu op. I had similar a few weeks ago and caught my baby bump as I struggled which winded me. I'd parked properly in the center of it, if I'd parked closer to the other side I'd not have been able to get in since a fence was there.

Someone at work did this and acted all condescending to the people who kept complaining. He was eventually named and shamed in an all company email after numerous attempt by hr to get him to park considerately and warings that theyd start naming. He whined at a departmental meeting and being a suck up he thought he'd get sympathy for the head boss until the boss turned around and coldly informed parking twat that he'd also complained on two occasions. Strangely enough he stopped after that!

I feel your pain OP. This happened to me just after I had had a total knee replacement, just started driving again and was still struggling to get my knee bend beyond 90 degrees. By the time I had climbed in over the passenger side and forced my knee practically into the realms of angular impossibility I was in agony - sweat running down my back with the pain. It set my recovery back days.

And yes, I had waited half an hour for inconsiderate twat to return (no luck). No one had forced him/her to park that way - the ticket on the car in the next bay showed that car had been there since early morning and twatbadger had arrived since.

So, so selfish.

MrsBrent Fri 09-Sep-16 17:36:31

This happened to be when I was 7 months pregnant. I was ready to march into tesco to demand they call the idiot out.
Dh talked me down, whilst I climbed over from the passenger side

Your DH should have just let you march into Tescos, it might have embarrassed the twat into moving the car. If people don't call this behaviour it'll keep happening.

When that has happened to me I get my red lipstick out and write a nice message on their drivers window.

The same happened to me in an Asda car park when I was 8 months pregnant with DD.

The man collecting the trollies saw me trying to work out how to get in & arranged a tannoy announcement in the shop asking the driver to come out and move.

No-one responded so they were either ignoring the tannoy or not even shopping at Asda in the first place. I eventually managed to climb over from the passenger seat but it wasn't easy (or without embarrassment).

The trolley collector was really angry on my behalf. He said he was going to keep an eye out for the driver and speak to him about it, bless him. Whether he did or not I'll never know.

I carry a few

Ellen - haven't been into Cheltenham for a little while so haven't seen it yet. I can imagine though...

This also happened to me when I was 8 months pregnant.

Bearing in mind the elephant I appeared to be carrying, I parked in a space that had a wall to the left. I parked so cannily (or so I thought) that there was only an inch or two between the wall and my wing mirror, thus leaving me ample room on the driver's side.

Only I hadn't taken into account the sort of person that thinks 'parking' means 'throw your car into a space at any angle you like and then fuck off'. The inconsiderate twat had parked diagonally in the space next to mine, leaving a tiny gap at the end of the cars, increasing to a reasonable sized gap at the front end.

So. I couldn't go via the passenger side. Neither could I go through the boot. In the end I rose up on my tiptoes, Kate-Winslet-in-Titanic style, thwomped my hands on the roof of both cars, and sort of shimmied my way sideways through (as much as is possible, given the circs).

I was Most Unhappy. And it seemed to make it worse that this was in Waitrose. I mean, really!

It was in the old Regent's arcade, towards the top. And there was no one on the other side, there was no space, just hatching, and then the wall/bollards thingy. They parked there because it is an extra wide space anyway, but they still parked with 2 feet before the yellow hatching!!!

And yes! What the hell did they do at Albion street? Weird doesn't cover it! Terrified pedestrians, no buses and car drivers looking puzzled. I can't get my head round it, after 30+ years of it being 1-way

And the Black and White is next to go, I think!

Fella did this to me in aldi last week. We pulled in, I was passenger side, preparing to haul myself out (29 weeks pregnant with a trapped nerve in my back) and a car pulled in next to us so tightly I would have struggled to get out when I was a size 8.

Shouted to my Dh that I needed some help and the mans wife saw my belly and told him I was pregnant "move the car up Geoffrey, the girl can't get out!" He looked at me and went "well its not MY fault she's in that state" and walked off. His wife looked mortified. I had no comeback, which made me more sad. Now Dh lets me out before we park up!

Oh God, I love you Blanche! I've got an extremely similar AIBU parking thread on here after I was absolutely annihilated by our local Facebook community page when I (reasonably I think?) asked her to return to her car and give me her insurance details- she'd left a scratch. The whole experience has left me considering people's sanity with people accusing me of thinking that I'm better than them because I consider people's feelings... Yes really!
YANBU at all in my humble opinion.

Genius waitrose genius!

It's really the supermarkets/shops/councils who should get all this vitriol - they're the ones who make the stupid narrow spaces to squeeze in a few more cars. Should also have, furthest away from the shop, extra large spaces for drivers of vans, huge 4 wheel drives etc, and fine them if they park in a normal space.

But the spaces in that particular car park are decent sizes, has been recently upgraded, repainted etc - it's one of those magic ticketless car parks.

Sometimes a PARKING TWAT is just that! No excuses, just a selfish dickhead!