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.

@stopinthenameoflove I do drive and I'm well aware of how angry people like this can make you, and I'd have probably confronted him also. However I don't agree with this reaction

Pinkyyy. The words deliberately and disingenous are forming themselves into a sentence ...

@DishingOutDone I'm not sure why, I'm being quite sincere. I don't think there is any need to sit in a parked car and hold down your horn, I can't understand why people are congratulating the OP for doing this

@Pinkyyy calm down she beeped her horn not slashed his wheels , it's no big deal

I give up with Mumsnet.

I give up with Mumsnet.

Because people don’t agree with you? Okay then.

Great diagram OP .....

(....... totally misses the point ......)

Well that escalated quickly.

Despite my annoyance, my OP was intended as light hearted. Glad most people understand that.

And yes. It was a white van man.

I agree with you OP in this instance and would have done the same as you, but disagree with the judgemental view that all van drivers are entitled. They are not. My DP and DS drive vans, and they are very considerate. DP even once stopped on a road to let a mother duck and her little brood of ducklings cross. Just because some twats behave inconsiderately, don't label them all the same.

@EvansOvalPies A PP asked if it was a white van man. My post was answering that question.

With an angry face emoji. I wasn't singling you out, merely pointing out that no-one should judge another's driving simply by virtue of their choice (or necessary) vehicle.

I think a couple of posters - well, one in particular - have taken great delight in finding the OP somehow at fault.

Here was a man with a huge sense of entitlement and thank god for once someone was able to put him in his place. Our society is full of dicks like this. But hey, as long as no one sounds their horn eh?

Point taken @EvansOvalPies

Thank you @DishingOutDone

Pinkyyy - actually there is a great thread on here for you today, you will love this one - a woman was verbally abused by a group of louts on a train and she asked them if they meant to be so rude or if they were just normally cunts. Get on there, tell her she's in the wrong for using a nasty word (definitely use the killer phrase "two wrongs don't make a right"!), see what happens. Much more fun than this thread.

@DishingOutDone Train lady sounds like a girl after my own heart. I always stick up for myself.

Have just reread the entire thread - not one person has found the OP to have been at fault. Not one. Two mentioned that sounding the horn was unnecessary (one of those two pointed out that it was probably illegal). I agreed with the OP's action and would have done the same, but pointed out that not all van drivers are entitled twats, ergo, unfair to label them all as such.

Nowhere have I seen anyone lay blame at OP's door. Where did you get that from, Dishing ?

My particular objection was with comments like stopinthenameoflove who said Not surprised it was a van think they own the road which of course, is an all-encompassing and unfair judgement on anyone who drives a van. This particular van driver was a self-entitled pratt. But I suspect he would have done the same had he been in a mini - it is the driver (ie the person) , not the vehicle they drive, who is at fault.

Thank you IchWill back to you

Hurrah! I'd have cheered you on Ich

@DishingOutDone I already posted on that thread congratulating the OP, so stop making your little digs. I haven't said the OP on this thread was at fault, I said her reaction wasn't the best.

a woman was verbally abused by a group of louts on a train and she asked them if they meant to be so rude or if they were just normally cunts. Get on there, tell her she's in the wrong for using a nasty word

Never underestimate the power of a very rude word when it's used by a well-spoken woman of middle years (or even older, in my case).

No-one expects someone who sounds like Hyacinth Bucket to call them a cunt. The shock value is exponentially increased. Especially when the terminal T is crisply enunciated.

Bonus points when it's used in a phrase along the lines of "And you, sir, are nothing but a cunt". You can be in your car and halfway home before what you've said has actually sunk in.

My experience has been, I’m afraid EvansOvalPies that it is very often white van man who drives and parks inconsiderately. They certainly do round here.

I understand that they often have a schedule to keep to, but blocking, parking on the pavement and putting on hazard flashers whilst simply stopping as near as they can to the house or shop, without regard for other road users, is at best annoying and at worst dangerous.

I have a child in a wheelchair and twice I have put the fear of god in a couple of commercial drivers for blocking the crosswalk from the handicap parking to the other side of the street believe me had I received anything but an apology I'd be on the phone with their direct supervisor! Once I saw such egregiously poor driving I sent an email to the company and got email apologies from both the business owner and the driver's supervisor. Yeah here in America they tend to put identifying numbers on commercial vehicles and "How is my driving? Call to report me" Good job OP

very often does not mean ALWAYS, I'm afraid, Foxyloxy1plus1
Otherwise, you must be very unlucky where you live.

Many drivers are bad, regardless of their chosen vehicle, full stop. It's like saying all school Mums are bad drivers. Many are, but not all.
Or all 4x4 drivers are bad drivers. Many are, not all.
Or Audi/BMW/Mercedes drivers, and on and on, ad nauseum.

This particular van driver was a twat - it doesn't make all van drivers twats.

One particularly bad driver I remonstrated with was a very large man in a teeny little Smart car. Parked on the school zebra crossing.
That doesn't mean all large men who drive Smart cars are inconsiderate idiots - it was just him.