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.

Can anyone link to the train thread? I can't find it.

Hopefully this works Dontaskmeihaventaclue

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To summarise...
@IchWill you’re absolutely spot on, and well played!
The other driver was a twat
@Pinkyyy you’re a precious moron
@DishingOutDone 👍🏻👍🏻

@overnightangel So I'm being precious even though another poster has already pointed out that this was illegal? Okay.

Evans - when referring to White Van Man just assume NAWVMALT why don’t you?

You shoulda said something like 'do you always exaggerate the size of small things'? And raise your eyebrows knowingly.

His behaviour was bad Your reaction understandable. Why are there so many white van drivers driving & parking badly: often they are multi drops & given strict "unreasonable" time frames to deliver & drop which disregard the condition of roads & if they don't perform they can be sacked (often zero hour/so called self employed) & many land up working extremely long hours without breaks ie 12 hours straight (which by law they are suppose to have!) .Many companies deliberate use these vans because they don't have hours logs & restrictions in hours they are allowed to drive (like bigger vehicles) I believe this issue would stop if all commercial vehicles had to have these drive hours logged to prevent this kind of behaviour & abuse of the worker driver. (OK gets off soap box :) ) have someone closely connected who is in the situation - but I don't think he is a selfish driver but he has had problems working for some employers - it was an education to me to learn about these issues!

Oh no but it’s illegal. Try ringing the police, they’ll just laugh.

I live near a church. Someone Parked partly over my drive. There is a tree on the other side so it is tight. I left a note. I heard her say to her children that I must be a really bad driver if I couldn’t get off my drive. She obviously didn’t know that I was in the garden. I popped up and told her children that it was illegal to park over drives but some people were really inconsiderate and through that they were above the law and knew better and that those people tended to blame other people when they had been selfish. she wasn’t amused.

You can get a FPN but this is not a criminal conviction. The hysteria re horn honking is daft.