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Arrogant, entitled bloke in the car park!

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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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MLGs · 30/11/2016 09:03

If you had had dcs in the car I mean.

Ginosaji · 30/11/2016 09:10

Toast3 thats my bil! Totally bonkers, im so glad im nc with him & my dsis now, very toxic narcissistic people with such a sense of entitlement if you dont treat them with due deference they have hissy fits lol

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 30/11/2016 15:08

Omg Ginosaji The worrying thing reading that as an outsider is that someone so childish is allowed to drive on public roads...

Ginosaji · 30/11/2016 17:02

Thatwouldbe funnily enough hes also a not very good driver, refused to let my kids go in the car with him in the end after a rather terrifying journey (they wasn't in car at the time) where he tried to overtake a lorry in a single lane in the very small space between the lorry and the slightly sloped grass verge, somehow he managed it but as he was also doing it at 70mph and refused to slow down/stop what he was doing i actually thought i was going to die!

Dsis thought i was over reacting not letting my kids in car with him, had many hissy fits about it over the following years, but i wouldnt back down, a year after this he tried to overtake a tractor on a country lane, while speeding & while it was really icy, & he ended up in a ditch on the roof, car was right off, but amazingly he was totally fine, this second incident didn't exactly help matters

OrangePeels · 30/11/2016 17:58

I've actually had the opposite. I came out of the airport with my 4 YO DD. I had a trolley with 3 cases, a car seat and two lots of hand luggage. I didn't know the airport and was trying to find the car rental place. I ended up in a car park by mistake and had a car behind me. I moved myself, DD & trolley into a space to let the car past. Instead of going past he blocked me into the space. He gesticulated at me to move out of the way but there was nowhere for me to go. I couldn't get on the pavement with the loaded trolley. What made it completely bizarre is that there were tons of empty spaces. It wasn't like I was standing in the only one Confused he finally reversed to let me move out of the space then he proudly parked in it whilst I moved into a space a few cars down to call the car rental place and find out where they were. The victory was all his Hmm

MsJudgemental · 30/11/2016 18:06

Hotfoot Grin

MindTheDrawings · 30/11/2016 18:18

What a tw*t! Seriously, who does this!

Tapandgo · 30/11/2016 18:19

I suspect that bloke wouldn't have done it to a big bear sized bloke. Total bully.
Glad you were more than a match for him - backing down will have hurt him.

myfavouritecolourispurple · 30/11/2016 18:24

I've had the opposite - well kind of. I was at my local leisure centre and came back to my car to see that someone was parked across the space that my car was in. There was an empty space two cars down.

My son and I got into the car and he didn't move. I beeped and he didn't move. I beeped again and he moved a fraction and then his (grand)daughter started getting into the car. Had she got in and he then drove off I would have waited. But he still didn't move. Only when I started edging forward and nearly touched his car did he move a bit so I could get out.

I have a 2007 car, his is a Jag. I wonder why people in nice cars behave like that? I'd have been quite happy to drive straight into his car! But I suspect I might have been done for criminal damage, sadly :(

There was also the guy who was in a local garden centre and there was ringing the bell for attention at the enquiries desk. He didn't just ring it and then wait for a minute or two, he just kept dinging it over and over again for at least a minute. Fortunately I was walking out although I could not resist a " I think they might have heard you by now" as I walked out, He gave me a disdainful look.

What is it with these bullying men?

myfavouritecolourispurple · 30/11/2016 18:27

I also enjoy blowing kisses to men who are entitled arses

This is my mother's "weapon" of choice too :)

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 30/11/2016 18:50

Ginosaji Bloody hell! Your BIL's driving is terrifying!

Daydream007 · 30/11/2016 19:02

What a c**t!

CockacidalManiac · 30/11/2016 19:03

Ginosaji

I'm picturing your BIL to be the sort that wears leather driving gloves.

Housemum · 30/11/2016 19:12

Is it sad that I would actually say bring it on to someone being an entitled twat in our local supermarket - I know lots of people on customer service there, so I'd ask them to put a polite reminder out that "car park spaces are for all our customers and the only way to reserve one is by parking your car in it not your friend or relative" Xmas Grin

londonrach · 30/11/2016 19:19

Just be grateful...you are not married to him!

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Toast3 · 30/11/2016 19:29

Some unbelievable stories! Some people are genuinely bonkers!

I wonder if his daughter found a space in the next car park or whether she was mortified by him lol - if he was my Dad I'd have driven off and left him!!

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Thinkingblonde · 30/11/2016 19:46

A woman did that to me a few years ago. I turned to drive into the space and she shook her head at me, wagged her finger and told me she was reserving the space for her daughter. I drove as close to her as I could, sort of half in, half out, switched the engine off and sat there with the hand brake on. The car park attendant came to see what the commotion was so I told him. He told her to move.

Shona52 · 30/11/2016 19:47

Wow had a few men try and bully me in car parks etc. But think this takes 1st prize for the biggest a@&hole

FurryLittleTwerp · 30/11/2016 19:48

wagged her finger WTF? How did you not squash her flat? How patronising Shock

memyselfandaye · 30/11/2016 19:57

He would'nt have fucking dared behave like that if you were whitevan man.

I would have called him a cunt and given the finger, that type of wanker never expects it.

I have encountered so many arsehole men on the roads recently that are always in the wrong but seem to look for the nearest female driver to blame that I'm going to buy front and rear dashcams.

I've even been followed home twice.

Ginosaji · 30/11/2016 20:10

Cockacidalmaniac Grin not quite glasses and a baseball cap and and bumfluff

MonkeyPuzzledTree · 30/11/2016 20:14

We had something similar happen the other day, car park space related.

The car park was super busy but there was a spot further down my DP was planning to park in, however an old man and lady were walking past the space, sort of in the middle of the road (which is fine, it's a car park). So we stopped in the road to let them walk past us safely instead of, y'know, running them over Hmm

Old man started shaking his head and gesturing at our car as he walked past! Rolled down my window to ask him what on earth the problem was, and he had the cheek to complain we didn't have our indicators on! We were stopped!

Gave him a piece of my mind (in my most polite manner Angry)

Car parks make people crazy.

MonkeyPuzzledTree · 30/11/2016 20:15

I will add, even if we weren't going into that space, we would have had to have stopped in order to let them past?

WarwickDavisAsPlates · 30/11/2016 20:46

I was in the car with my friend once when someone tried to reserve a space by standing in it.

The space was his allocated space for his house. As he drove in some lady ran up to the car and sort of slapped the bonnet and was saying "no no no, I'm saving this space. You can't park here, it's reserved!" My friend just replied with "yeah it is reserved, for me. That's why it has my fucking house number painted on it" then he just revved the engine maintaining eye contact until she stomped off.

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Toast3 · 30/11/2016 21:12

Maybe these parking lunatics are all somehow related ! Lol

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