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Arrogant, entitled bloke in the car park!

123 replies

Toast3 · 29/11/2016 18:11

I pulled into our local m&s simply food car park earlier, it's only a small store and there are only about 12 spaces. They were all full but I was in no rush so I waited. I finally saw a woman come back to her car, she unpacks her shopping, gets in and drives off so I pull forward to drive in (as you do) and there a man stood in the middle of the space, with his back to me, on his phone.
At first I thought he didn't realise so I edged a bit closer and gently tooted my horn. He turned round and said 'no, sorry' (wtf) I wound down my window and asked him to please move out of the way. He refused and said he was saving this space for his daughter who was 'on her way' ... there is only one way in and out of the car park and there was now a car behind me waiting for a space (not the daughter)..
I asked him again to please move as I was physically there and there was now a queue. He told me to fuck off! I kept calm (he was pretty aggressive) and I said 'well there's no way she can even get in the car park and there was no way I was moving and there was now a queue' (whilst desperately looking around for the blooming car park bloke that was nowhere to be seen)..
His phone then rang (his daughter I assume) who clearly couldn't leapfrog what was now 3 cars....he called me a few names and then very cockily said 'it's your lucky day' as he walked off....

WTAF is wrong with people??!!!

Does he really think that is reasonable behaviour - entitled arse!! Grrrhhh

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BitchQueen90 · 29/11/2016 19:40

This happened to us before in a car park. My step dad was driving. Man refused to move out of the space. My stepdad drove in anyway. The man tried to lean on the car to physically stop him from driving in. Didn't work Grin

I can't stand entitled people like that. You don't get to "save" a space!

RockyBird · 29/11/2016 19:42

Proper bellendery.

I've noticed recently a lot of angry men of a certain age think it's perfectly acceptable to behave in this manner towards women.

eyelevelgrill · 29/11/2016 19:47

I find "saving" quite annoying generally because it creates unexpected confrontations. Well done OP

FurryLittleTwerp · 29/11/2016 19:56

Arf at people parking - Grin

FurryLittleTwerp · 29/11/2016 19:57

The whole concept was weird - his daughter wasn't even at the car-park yet Confused

I bet he'd been trotting round the town looking for somewhere for her before she'd even left the bloody house!

Sandsnake · 29/11/2016 20:03

What a dick! This is the first thread I've read where my jaw actually dropped. Well done for standing your ground!

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 29/11/2016 20:03

I'd have been tempted to press my little paws on the horn and not let go until he moved.

I wonder whether he'd have been quite so ...unrestrained if you were an 6 ft 3, 18 stone bloke with facial tattoos?

RichardBucket · 29/11/2016 20:05

Am surprised nobody has yet suggested he might have been having a really bad day (you can't KNOW what's going on in his life, OP) and you should have popped into the shop to buy him some biscuits or a Kinder Egg.

ChickenVindaloo2 · 29/11/2016 20:47

I find pressing and holding down the horn makes people move sharipsh.

I also enjoy blowing kisses to men who are entitled arses.

Grin
Original poster
Toast3 · 29/11/2016 20:52

Some great responses....thank you! Its like therapy lol - I don't feel so pissed off anymore (maybe the wine is helping too) :-)

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FurryLittleTwerp · 29/11/2016 21:17

I also enjoy blowing kisses to men who are entitled arses.

I stick my tongue out - rudely, not lasciviously

I'm 51 Grin

wasonthelist · 29/11/2016 21:19

Apparently we've been exporting it to NYC, too

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/can-you-save-a-new-york-city-parking-spot/?_r=0

lilyb84 · 29/11/2016 21:24

My dad is an overprotective arse sort and I could totally see him doing this sort of thing. He'd see it as looking out for / standing up for his daughter and not as him being a dick to someone else's daughter/mum/wife. One of the many reasons I'm not in a huge amount of contact with him these days.

lilyb84 · 29/11/2016 21:25

Well done for not running him over op!

CockacidalManiac · 29/11/2016 21:30

Am surprised nobody has yet suggested he might have been having a really bad day (you can't KNOW what's going on in his life, OP) and you should have popped into the shop to buy him some biscuits or a Kinder Egg.

Or popped up to say that this is 'MN at its worst'

WeeM · 29/11/2016 21:31

Wtf! My mouth was actually hanging open as I read this, I swear I have never seen the like!

Hotfootit · 29/11/2016 22:09

Was he wearing salmon chinos?

HateSummer · 29/11/2016 22:13

Wow. do these type of people frequent M&S? I expected top hats and cravats and bowing...m&s must be going downhill 😉

MissVictoria · 29/11/2016 22:30

Honestly i would have been worried about leaving my car in case he tried to key it or something.

ShoesieQ · 29/11/2016 22:49

Hotfootit Grin

Ginosaji · 30/11/2016 07:44

People can get so funny about parking spaces! Once when visiting my dad my dh parked on the drive behind my dads car as theres room for 2 cars, (my dad wasnt going to be going anywhere, car was broken down at the time) after about half hour my dsis & her dh arrived, her dh came in all huffy & said to my dh that he would have to move his car so that he could park on the drive,

My dh pointed out there was no need as plenty of space on the road, bil got really grumpy and demanded he move because HE liked to park on the drive & said my dh was being selfish for parking in HIS spot, my dh sighed and said whatever & got up to go and move the car, but id had enough of bil as this was just the last in a long line of entitled twatish behaviour, & i grabbed dh keys and told bil that my dh wasnt moving & that was that & thay if he didnt like it then to arrive earlier next time

He could see he wasnt gonna get his own way & gave up, but refused to talk to us for the rest of day (big bonus!) but that evening my dsis sent me loads of abusive texts calling my dh a selfish cunt etc etc, i ignored them as i wasnt going to get in a silly text row, and after an hour or so she gave up the texts

Next day my dad rang and said dsis had been on phone in tears because of the while thing and he thought that maybe i ought to apologise and also get dh to apologise, i said no & he didnt push it, but although I probably should have been annoyed over it all, i couldnt help but laugh at the total absurdity of the whole thing Smile

Original poster
Toast3 · 30/11/2016 08:58

Gino: That story definitely beats mine...that's bonkers!

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MLGs · 30/11/2016 09:03

I definitely would have edged as close to the space as possible so that daughter couldn't park there even if she did turn up.

Well done for standing your ground.

What frightens me is that people like that would think nothing of shouting and swearing at you with dcs in the car if you didn't give in.

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