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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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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.

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Esspee · 06/10/2019 08:01

Been in that exact situation. Man standing in the space waiting for his wife to arrive.
Told him parking doesn't work that way in Glasgow and that we had all the time in the world and weren't moving.
He moved after a very long 3 min standoff.
CFs only exist because people give in to them.

BoxFox · 06/10/2019 08:07

CFs only exist because people give in to them.

^^
Exactly.

Elodie2019 · 06/10/2019 08:57

So many videos on YT.

Haven't read whole thread so might have been linked already...

Aridane · 06/10/2019 17:11

I just couldn't get worked up about this. They saw it, she stood in it, you found somewhere else to park

This

Aridane · 06/10/2019 17:12

(bold fail)

Aridane · 06/10/2019 17:20

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

This and the comment about letting the air out of her tires is just pathetic / twattish / disproportionate

Aridane · 06/10/2019 17:27

I'm pretty sure if you called a security guard in the car park she would be told to move aswell

Except by the time you got the security guard, sister's car would have been parked and they would have been long gone

StarlingsInSummer · 07/10/2019 11:59

I have done this before for my disabled step dad when there were no disabled spaces left. No one actually tried to pull in and speak to me but someone did drive past (my step dad's car was close anyway so maybe they figured out what we were doing so didn't bother to ask). If someone had tried to pull in I don't think I'd have moved, nor would I have asked politely if we could have the space. I would have simply told the person that my step dad was parking there and not even bothered to explain that he is disabled because I wouldn't think that it would matter. I had no idea that what I did would be considered rude to some people.

Someone did this to my disabled mum when I was with her - a woman tried to save the space (in a busy, pre-Christmas city centre) for her disabled husband. There was a one-way system in place - so they'd driven past the end of the street and she'd jumped out to save the space while he navigated the one-way system to get into the street from the other end. But we'd got down the street first, having seen the empty space already. So, tough, sorry random woman. My mum blocked the space until she left - why should the woman's husband's disability take precendence over my mum's disability, when we got to space first with an ACTUAL CAR?

shearwater · 07/10/2019 12:07

I saw someone coming out of a plum space right near the supermarket the other day, so waited patiently for them to faff around reversing out, indicated to go in, and as I started to turn, a BMW X3 zoomed in front of me from the right and nearly took my front bumper off to get into the space before me. I sounded my horn and sat there for a moment, and shouted (more in shock then anything else), and briefly thought about going to give the driver (it was a woman as well!) a piece of my mind then I thought better of it and to just take a chill pill and go and find another space. Which of course, took ages to find.

I hope it put the wind up her that briefly I sat there and she wondered whether I was going to get out and yell at her, but in reality she probably didn't give too hoots about the whole thing.

In summary: people are shit and annoying in car parks.

shearwater · 07/10/2019 12:09

Pedestrians as well. One guy this morning in an almost empty car park somehow managed to wander both in front of the car, then walked behind me as I was reversing into a space.

GinDaddy · 07/10/2019 12:13

@shearwater

That woman sounded ghastly, who on earth does that?! YANBH

GinDaddy · 07/10/2019 12:13

@shearwater

YANBU I meant

AryaStarkWolf · 07/10/2019 12:32

Except by the time you got the security guard, sister's car would have been parked and they would have been long gone

Not If my car was blocking the space she wouldn't.

ProfessorSlocombe · 08/10/2019 09:20

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

Is assaulting people a hobby, or have you gone full time ?

Lweji · 08/10/2019 09:28

This reminds me of that time I was leaving a parking space and it happened that a friend was waiting to come in. Football event, with teams coming and going. As I was getting out, I spotted someone else who had arrived and was clearly angling to steal the spot from the first one, so I maneuvered in a way that my friend (first in anyway) was able to park. The wannabe parking spot thief was clearly annoyed.

sally1956 · 09/10/2019 12:26

Watch out in Lincoln. Town and country are operating from the Waterside centre,. Are they a bunch of conmem?

MissPepper8 · 09/10/2019 12:36

This is in the top of pet hates, where people just love to stare and shout abuse at you if you park in a family space or disabled space (even if you've got a badge for it or a child in the back or in its pram by the pavement).

Why do people love to do this never know.

Babynut1 · 09/10/2019 12:43

Someone did this to my Nan last year. My Nan is disabled and went to park in a disabled space when a woman stopped her to say her father is disabled and needed to park there.
My Nan pointed out that she too is disabled but the woman wouldn’t move. My Nan being the passive person she is ended up moving.

I told her she should have just half parked the car and got out and locked it and see if the woman moved! Awful! It’s really cheeky to stand in a space and reserve it!

MissPepper8 · 09/10/2019 12:48

@Babynut1 That's awful! My nan is too, we often take her (me and DM shopping as she's 90) she was standing by the car while DM got her a trolley and a man started hurling abuse at her that she needed a badge and to move the car but she did and it had fallen over flat.

People are awful.

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