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AIBU?

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That she stood in a parking space?

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StyleO · 03/10/2019 22:08

AIBU to think you can't claim a parking spot by standing in it?

Out with DH in his large vehicle today, we spotted two spaces and so he headed to the larger one. As we pulled in, a lady stepped into it and pointed over the road to a car coming out of another space. He wound the window down and she said "sorry my sister is parking here". So from what I can see her sister was moving her car closer to the cafe they were going into, that's fine, she may be disabled. What irked us is the way the lady stated it rather than asking politely.

I don't think it's technically a done thing but no harm if done politely. We found another spot rather than squeeze into the other smaller one we'd passed. It may or may not be noteworthy that the car that moved would have fit in either of the spots outside the cafe.

Also noteworthy that the spaces are not disabled bays, nor are there any in this zone.

OP posts:

familycourtq · 04/10/2019 14:22

me, they'd come back to flat tires (no criminal damage),
Fairly sure there’s case law that is criminal damage - and you can’t ram pebbles in there without taking my dust caps off.

familycourtq · 04/10/2019 14:23

Oh or maybe the law I’d different since you must be in the USA to spell it “tired”

familycourtq · 04/10/2019 14:23

Or even tires pesky autocorrect

ProfessorSlocombe · 04/10/2019 14:25

I'd have just driven into the space, revved the engine to scare her, silly cow.

Would it have been worth the assault conviction ?

fiftiesmum · 04/10/2019 14:25

And the growing problem of people parking in electric vehicle charging point bays then having the cheek to ask the owner of the electric vehicle to move (sorry mate I can't until it is finished). It was funny to watch the bloke pacing up and down trying to pretend he wasn't looking at the meter.

LakieLady · 04/10/2019 14:31

I've done this when we've been away in the motorhome. It's also the reason why we won't buy one that's over 6 metres long!

Sorry if that makes us CFs.

pumkinspicetime · 04/10/2019 14:34

I've done this when out with older relatives who struggled with walking. I don't feel particularly comfortable doing it but I'm not going to make them walk further than they have to either.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 04/10/2019 14:35

@MintyMabel They shouldn't have been there in the first instance so yes it was ok. It's not like it was the middle of Asda's car park.

MQv2 · 04/10/2019 14:37

"
To all those who "wouldn't accept it", what would you do?"

It's only happened to me twice in my life. I've just manoeuvred my car in such a way so to make the space inaccessible by the other car and waited for the other person to give up and move.
It didn't take any more than a couple of minutes either time.

Emptyspacex · 04/10/2019 14:38

Anyone who thinks its okay to do this is actually mad.
First come first serve!! ( first car aswell not person!)
However if i was in a similar scenario and the person blocking the space came to my window and said she really needed this space for disabled relative or something similar i would of let them have the space.
Saying sorry my sister is parking here if not a good enough reason to stand in parking spaces. Ridiculous.

RandomlyChosenName · 04/10/2019 14:38

Her sister was visibly moving the car. She wasn’t just being a cf standing in a space waiting for someone 5 mins away.

As for being polite... she was! She didn’t say “bugger off. This is our space you bitch”

Emptyspacex · 04/10/2019 14:42

Ive just realised my username is rather fitting for this thread!

alexdgr8 · 04/10/2019 14:44

why are some people so nasty and so petty.
there was no real inconvenience, and I am shocked by the attitudes of some posters on here.
is this what the world or this country is coming to.
how about being kind, considerate, easy-going, pleasant, cheerful; try it, you might like it.

AryaStarkWolf · 04/10/2019 14:47

To all those who "wouldn't accept it", what would you do?

I would stay there until she moved, I'm a patient person

tequilasunrises · 04/10/2019 14:57

Nah, that ain’t right. Imagine if everyone did that, car parks would be fucking chaos. It’s first come (with your wheels) first served with parking spaces and she was a CF.

Ps, adding sorry into your CF statement doesn’t make it any less CF-ery.

I’m another who would have just driven in as far as possible until she moved.

mnbvcxz098 · 04/10/2019 14:58

You shouldn't try to reserve a space by standing in it. However, get over it and park somewhere else.
BTW - You have a big car? - the environment (and my children) thank you for your consideration

ProfessorSlocombe · 04/10/2019 15:01

I’m another who would have just driven in as far as possible until she moved.

And if they hadn't ?

AryaStarkWolf · 04/10/2019 15:05

Nah, that ain’t right. Imagine if everyone did that, car parks would be fucking chaos. It’s first come (with your wheels) first served with parking spaces and she was a CF.

Can you imagine? You'd have people who are passengers way back in the queue (of cars) jumping out and standing in spaces, totally ridiculous

zxcvhjkl · 04/10/2019 15:07

Might try this with the MIL. Go quick! Go and stand in that space over there I will be over soon, then "accidentally" forget I sent her or at least get five minute peace while I go the long way round.

I'm probably going straight to hell .

YANBU. Standing in a space is cheeky and not reserving a space but feel free you leave your MIL standing there is you wish

FreshwaterBay · 04/10/2019 15:22

If she had done that in Middlesbrough she have been roadkill.

MintyMabel · 04/10/2019 15:33

They shouldn't have been there in the first instance so yes it was ok. It's not like it was the middle of Asda's car park.

But they had their own reasons. You just didn’t agree with them. You said other people were allowed to park there. How were they to know your mum hadn’t turned up yet.

Can you imagine? You'd have people who are passengers way back in the queue (of cars) jumping out and standing in spaces, totally ridiculous

Standing in a space isn’t a new thing. Funnily enough it hasn’t got to the Armageddon type scenario yet.

MintyMabel · 04/10/2019 15:34

However if i was in a similar scenario and the person blocking the space came to my window and said she really needed this space for disabled relative or something similar i would of let them have the space.

How magnanimous of you. Except she doesn’t need to explain herself to you and await your judgement on whether she is a deserving case.

tequilasunrises · 04/10/2019 15:35

@ProfessorSlocombe

Well if I’m gonna be in a parking space Mexican stand off I’d rather be the one with heating, a radio to listen to and a bag of Werthers than the one just stood there like a bellend!

Plus I’m stubborn so the longer it went on the more I’d rather die than move.

AryaStarkWolf · 04/10/2019 15:36

Standing in a space isn’t a new thing. Funnily enough it hasn’t got to the Armageddon type scenario yet.

I've literally never come across this in real life in my 17 years of driving but maybe it's common practise in the UK?

tequilasunrises · 04/10/2019 15:36

Can’t believe posters are gushing to defend this entitled loon

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