To be annoyed at people in large 4X4 pickups to complain that parking spaces too small

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Hi, I had parked my car neatly within the lines marked out for the parking bay and was just returning back to it when a woman in a MASSIVE pick-up truck parks right next to me and so i have to wait as she gets out of her car.
She almost bashes my side of the car and then she gives me a look an says "Its not my fault these spaces are not big enough"
I had to really bite my tongue as she had two school age children with her as i would have loved to have said "well, most people drive normal cars and we don't all have a fat arse like you"
Because, no kidding, she was a fat arsed lady, almost totally round, no wonder she can't fit in spaces.
God help her if someone blocks her in, should be a funny sight trying to crawl in the boot to move the car.
Sorry about the rant, but she really got on my goat.
AB

bobsmum are you in NZ?

i must say, poor cluttered seems to be getting a lot of grief, she has tried to explain why she feels she needs the car she has, and it is a compact one, aren't galaxy's bigger than that?

OK

Our Range Rover will be ready next week. We spend loads of weekends driving through the Mournes and my Mini just isn't the thing for it, although I love my Mini and won't be parted from it.

most would agree there is a difference between those living in Chelsea and farmers/those living half way up Ben Nevis

Aitch, you can do what you like but i can also defend myself if i'm being called an arsehole - sorry just find it a bit offensive but I shouldn't have joined this thread since it isn't a discussion so much as a rant < clutter bows out knowing she's not welcome here>

what? what has my altruism or otherwise got to do with anything? when i see someone in a 4x4 in the town that is what i think, that they have gone round a car showroom and thought 'i know this will make me look like a tit, will make me more dangerous to pedestrians and i know that the spaces in car parks won't comfortably accomodate it but i don't care because I Want It'.

i think that's wankerish. i'm allowed to think that. it's what the 'ignore them, they're just jealous' crowd thrive on, because they labour under the misapprehension that we secretly want to be like them. to which i say hahahahaaaaah you have got to be kidding.

Hey Cluttered we have a Nissan X trail too! Good to here you can get 3 seats in the back as we are ttc no 3!!

Mournes?

The Mourne Mountains

Not in NZ - in rural central scotland. Pic of my house on my profile - scroll down

our range Rover is 10 years old and very rickety so not exactly a status symbol to look at. but it gets us out of the house literally.

I hate driving it for the reason the OP hates 4x4sx - it's bluddy enormous - but I like having it because of where we live.

My own car is a Ka. I have a real crush on my Ka....sigh. A thing of beauty. But it fails it's MOT every year because our track has trashed the suspension

ROFL at Jeremy Clarkson, voice of reason. you know he says anything for a joke, don't you? i know that, because he told me himself. LOL!

i couldn't care less about 4x4s in the country, not at all. in fact i rather hanker after a Landy, they are scrummy and real and who knows one day if i move...
but these big plasticky monstrosities in the city, they're for idiots.

I think there should be obligatory park and ride for all 4x4 drivers.

The equivalent of a cattle grid, but for giant cars should be set up at the edge of civilisation and you have to have a damn good reason for getting through.

You also have to have real mud on your car to qualify

Although apparently some Chelsea tractor owners now buy spray mud in cans!

I certainly don't think anyones jealous of me!!
I'm high up, I feel safe. Someone I know was crushed in her little mini between 2 trucks and died. My brother lost fingers in a car accident as his 2cv was caught by wind and rolled form the slow to the fast lane.
We had the crumpled mess of his car -complete with his blood all over the bonnet- in our driveway for months.

I just want to feel safe....

oh bobsmum I've seen your house really lovely I'm very would too be tempted by 4x4 living there espc. with the loo roll problem.

The mountains of Mourne are so beautiful

I'm vey envious that you have them on your doorstep Paula

1dilemma whispers where are they havn't gone to google yet?

I love them to. I am constantly shocked that so many of the people who live here never take advantage of them

they are in Co.Down in the north of Ireland

not enough 4x4 obv. ppb

we live in Co.Wicklow with beautiful hills and mountains but nothing as beautiful as the Mourne Mountains - they are spectacular

Co. Wicklow is lovely, I go down to the spa at Powercourt now and then.

i just want to feel safe too, muppet, that's my poiint. so what's the outcome? that in order to feel safe we all have to get 4x4s?
plus i'd like to feel safe as a pedestrian too without having to walk round parked 4x4s like sheds parked on the corner of my street, or be worried about people backing into my dd when she is walking. the vision isn't good enough in some 4x4s as was amply demonstrated on a recent tv programme.

LOL I doubt that.