To want to share my CF parking story (with diagram)?

[IchWill]

I just had a rather public disagreement at my local shops.

Some absolute tool blocked me into my space, by parking perpendicular behind my car, with half his van on the pavement, while also blocking the disabled bays.

So I half reversed my car out and just held my hand on the horn, until a bit of a crowd gathered.

Then the pathetic idiot waltzes out the shop nonchalant as anything. I expect him to be embarrassed, perhaps apologetic. What does he say?

"If you can't get out of that space, you need to go back to driving school!"

The absolute brass neck of him. The only way I could have gotten out would involve me driving onto the pavement and scuffing my wheel.

So I got out my car and had it out with him. He totally believed he was blameless. I called him a few choice names and had people shouting their support for me. 🤣🤣

He caused a queue of traffic and had to reverse out of the entire length of the car park.

Idiot! Him not you obviously!! Well done op.

What a bellend. YANBU.

Total idiot (him). How do people like him exist.

The shopping parade was busy. But you never wait more than a couple of minutes for a space. The fact that he was on the pavement and blocking the disabled spaces too made me see red.

Yanbu. He was a twat blocking you and even more so to also block the disabled spaces.

Good that people supported you.

Well done for calling him on it, and your horn use. ive had to do the same myself in a similar situation. People stared.

Yanbu. I would've had a few choice names for him too, maybe he should go back to driving school!

It was the audacity of criticising MY driving. I was parked perfectly in a designated space, which I had patiently waited for. Like a normal reasonable person.

I have this at school when picking my DC up. I always park in a space then other people park on the road in and out of the car park then stand at the main gates having a conversation with their children running around the car park and blocking everyone in. It's a one way car park, hand on horn a couple of times.

So he's not in a designated space, blocking people in? He's a cockwomble!

What a twat.

Good diagram OP

This fan is a fan

I don't agree with your horn use at all, makes you in the wrong also in my opinion.

Whoop whoop!

The horn is to alert other people to your presence...exactly what she was doing!

What a knob. Love the addition of the ATM machine to your diagram

People do this because others rarely call them out on their behaviour!

You doing that may just have the small chance of making him think twice before doing it again!

TheFifthKey Holding in the horn was very unnecessary. I imagine you'd all be very pissed off if you had a sleeping baby in the car and she did this. Yes he was in the wrong, but two wrongs don't make a right.

There's a long parade of shops and I needed to get back to work. My horn alerted him to the fact that he needed to move.

So we have to tip toe around through life in the middle of the day in case a sleeping baby is in the vicinity Pinkyyy?

No of course not, but I no not think this was an appropriate reaction. It's not really to alert people who are out of their vehicle that they need to come back to it, it's to alert other drivers of your presence- when driving.

Was it a white van OP? When I came to this country I was warned never to mess with a driver of a white van and I’ve avoided any engagement since. They are beyond reasoning with and prone to road rage and feel they are entitled kings of the road

I think it's illegal to use the horn when stationary unless immediate danger, so strictly speaking using the horn was wrong.

However I think his behaviour was worse.

Not surprised it was a van think they own the road .
@Pinkyyy you clearly don't drive as sometimes selfish pricks like that make you see red or are you just merrily driving around oblivious to anyone else ?