Waiting in car park.

[Alexkate2468]

So, dh is off work. Dd1 is at school. We've decided to go christmas shopping together with my DS who is a little under the weather but not so poorly that he'd need to stay in. He fell asleep in the car so when we got to the shopping centre, I said DH should go in and make a start and I'd wait in the car with DS as transferring him to the pushchair always wakes him and I'd like him to sleep. A guy has just come over and nearly knocked my window out, swearing at me for taking up a space. There are other spaces available. I explained my husband was in shopping but he suggested I should get out of the space. He Called me a selfish bitch. I think if I Was alone I'd have kept driving and not parked but with a limited time before going back for the school run, we wanted to get stuff done. Also if the car park was full and I could see people wanting spaces, Id move. AIBU to park whilst baby sleeps?

Thanks everyone. I'm over it now. Nasty little man. You're right. If my husband had been there I bet it was different.

I wasnt in a parent and comes space. There aren't any in that carpark. Xx

“f I Was alone I'd have kept driving and not parked... Also if the car park was full and I could see people wanting spaces, Id move”

But why would you do either of those things?

You had 2 options: wake up your DS and take him to the shop with you, or stay with him in the car.

In both cases, your car remains in the car park.

Why would you move? Why would you drive around? Why would anyone just drive around??

What a dickhead. There's no rule that if you park in a car park you must leave your car.

It's a car park... You parked your car there. Hope karma gets him hard.

He’d have gotten a fuck off from me, and a threat to phone the police.

Hmmm I can KIND of see where's he's coming from but there's no need for rudeness.

My pet hate is when I need to go to the dr and the car park is full up with people waiting in their cars for their other halfs to come out of the surgery. I

just think that the other halves are just having a lift, the car would still be there even if they were not.

I use my car to change nappies when I am shopping, or for whatever I need. I can't see how anyone could insult me because I am there.

I agree he wouldn't have done it to a man. He's probably angry coz he has to buy a Christmas gift for someone and he thinks that's women's work 😜

It's easy to become the town's most hated person just for doing perfectly legitimate things inside your own car at this time of year. I could have died from the loathing I caused the other day, taking bags back to my car but failing to drive away afterwards as I hadn't finished shopping. I could live with that, but OP's guy would have got a fuck off from me too.

What a lovely man.

“My pet hate is when I need to go to the dr and the car park is full up with people waiting in their cars for their other halfs to come out of the surgery.”

But why would this bother you? If the cars were empty - ie. their partners were inside in the waiting room - you wouldn’t even think twice about it.

But because they chose not to enter the waiting room, instead waiting in the car, it annoys you?

Why? It makes no sense!

Wow what a psycho :/ YANBU clearly

deadgood I was thinking this, surely it would be even more annoying if the partners who had driven sick people to the doctor's were taking up spaces in the waiting room? The car would be in the space either way.

This is one of the reasons I'm scared to go out. Things like this have happened to me so many times and now I have a fear of car parks as well as other things. If he'd done that to me, I'd have had a complete melt down.

Me too Valerrie, I'm practically a recluse these days because of incidents like this and those on the close call thread

YANBU.

He was a bully.

I had a guy threaten to kick my head in in asda carpark on Christmas Eve once. I was a bit close on one side so pulled out to straighten up and he thought I was leaving. His fault. When I drive back into the space he got out his car shouting and threatening me. What he didn’t count on was that fact that I was taller, younger and much bigger than him. So I got out and walked right up to him and yelled at the top of my lungs and inch from his face ‘call me a cunt again you silly wee man and you’ll be eating turkey via a straw!’ He scuttled off. Bullies are usually cowards.

Hiding and Valerie, so sorry you've both had such horrible experiences. The idiots are few and far between but they shouldn't be allowed to make you feel like that. X

Fluffy...Go you. 🙌🏼