WIBU refusing to move my car?

[LuluNTutu]

Eating a sandwich in my car in a P&D carpark. Still had 15 mins left on my ticket.
I'm surprised mid bite by a man tapping on the window. I open car window and he asks if I'm going.

I gesture to the sandwich and tell him I'm going to finish it first.
His response: "You've got the last space and there's nowhere else to park. You need to move now."

I'm now annoyed and again tell him I'll move when I've eaten my sandwich. I'll only be a minute. He leaves muttering under his breath that it's not a bloody restaurant and I'm a bloody cow.

Was IBU not to move? He promptly got a space over the other side of the car park. In my defence I'd had a busy morning, it was after 2pm and I was really hungry.

I've never done it on purpose but gone back to the car halfway through a shopping trip to offload bags and annoyed another driver hoping to get my space.

You've just given me a great idea for some free entertainment this christmas :P

Guy sounds a bit zoned out.

Depending on "desperate" I was to leae/get home, I would have stayed in the car for as lomg as possible just to piss that twat off even more!

What with Xmas coming and more retail parks getting busier etc, this sort of confrontation will become a lot more prevalent....season of goodwill my arse!

You might have been waiting for someone - another passenger - to return to the car, you might have been on your lunch break planning to return to your workplace (by foot) after eating the sandwich, you might have just arrived and were quickly grabbing a bite to eat before heading off around the shops - there's no end of legit reasons why you might have been sitting in your car. YWNBU

Of course YWNBU. If it was busy he wasn't U to ask but his reaction was rude and unnecessary.

mumzypopz your description made me smile. I wouldn't do it to wind up drivers as I know how tiresome finding a space is, but I have been known to purposely walk as though I'm headed right past my car and then dive in suddenly and hide slouched down in seat if I want to sit for a bit before leaving.

i would have got out of the car and walked away til my time was up, just to piss him off hopefully

You've paid your ticket you can have up to the time your ticket expires!

So what if you were in the car?

prick! "Not a bloody restaurant!" ARE YOU SERIOUS MATE?

YWDNBU!

His time and car are obviously more valuable than yours OP! - Soz!

I was once in a not-remotely-full carpark, loading a baby, a toddler and a whole load of shopping into the car, when a woman decided she had to have that particular space. There was nothing special about it- it wasn't a large one, or on an end - she just wanted it.

I am pretty efficient about getting into the car and getting going, but there is only so fast you can go when you have a baby in a sling and another child to strap in, so when she leaned out and screamed 'could you go any slower?' the obvious response was 'yes, yes I can, actually.'

And did.

Erm slightly tragic to deliberately play games in a car park to piss people off. We are all busy, trawling round trying to find a space with kids in the car, or a deadline to be home by, or a load of stuff to get isn't fun.

Everyone is being super nice and saying YANBU but try posting the same one week before Christmas, at lunchtime!

I think YANBU though

YANBU op. I hate it when people do this.

It used to be so irritating when I had DS in a pram, which meant collapsing the pram, baby into car seat, bags in the boot - all with people waiting for you!

On one occasion, DS didn't want to get into his car seat, went all stiff, and I'm struggling to get him in. A woman actually hot out of her car and tapped me on the shoulder to try and get me to hurry up! I did a screaming banshee impression then, put DS back in the pram and walked off to try and calm him ( and me) down.

You've got the last space

How did he know ?

"i would have got out of the car and walked away til my time was up, just to piss him off hopefully"

LOL

I'd have popped another 50p or whatever in the meter just to prolong his fucking agony!