To think if you park so far across the pavement that even f**king slenderman would struggle to get past, it’s your own damn fault if your car gets scratched?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Walking into town today with DS in the pram (in the pouring rain). I was walking up a road that is in a residential area, but this particular road is part of a cut-through between two main roads into/out of the town centre and is on a bus route, so it gets a lot of traffic.

It’s a fairly narrow one-way street, on one side are parking bays painted onto the road and dickheads people will often park like dicks across the pavement on the other side if there isn’t a free space and they’re too fucking lazy to park round the corner. The other side of the road is single yellow line so parking is restricted 8-6 Mon-Sat.

Apparently this arsehole bloke didn’t think those restrictions applied to him however, and had parked right the way across the pavement, leaving a tiny gap between the car and a garden wall.

This was close to the end of the road and a lot of cars tend to turn up the road without slowing down at all, so my options were to a) squeeze past the gap between the car and the wall or b) go around the car and into the path of oncoming traffic on a rainy day. It’s uphill too, and between DS, the pram, and my 23 week pregnant baby bump I was already fairly out of puff so wasn’t moving particularly quickly.

So I chose option a. Unfortunately, because it was such a tight squeeze the pram came into contact with the side of the car and left a bit of a graze. I didn’t really give a shit to be honest, so I just carried on walking.

What I didn’t realise was that the arsehole driver of said vehicle was sitting in the driving seat on his phone. When he realised what had happened he got out of his car and came running after me, yelling that I’d damaged his car and demanding I give him my details. I refused, pointing out that he was parked illegally, the pavement is for pedestrians and my and my son’s right to not get hit by cars overrides his right to not have to park somewhere thats a bit inconvenient for him.

He followed me a short distance and then went back to his car, saying he’d be contacting the police.

WIBU?

If you damaged his car then he is right to report. You could have gone round even in the rain.

Serves him right.
My adult dc is a wheelchair user and people like him make me mad.
No doubt people will tell you off, but i say well done.

Yes, and if a car had come around the corner and slammed straight into DS and me, the damage to us would have been far worse.

Park like a wanker and that is the natural consequence.

I can't blame you, if he was that precious over his car, he would have left the space. He probably does in a car park and take parents parking space then, usually the same kind of entitled CF.

I am not sure the police will give a damn, or have a way to find you if they did!

He'll have to prove the scratch doesn't come from his superior parking as well...

Oh I would have done the same idiot man !

He’s absolutely wrong

But, you did scratch his car, and sound almost gleeful about it

Your post title is fabulous 😂

I wouldn't give a shiny shite either. What's he going to do, admit to the police he parked illegally and risk getting a fine and how is he going to prove it was you anyway? There's no proof (dash cam, cctv) that wouldn't incriminate him too.

Bet he doesn't park there again.

YANBU, I did similar when I was pushing a buggy. People's safety comes before car paintwork, if people don't like that then they can choose not to block the pavement.

You accidentally damaged his car when it was parked illegally on the footpath. Let him report you the police will do nothing.

It was an accident. You are both ‘at fault’ but he is a dick.

YANBU at all

I saw an argument yesterday somebody parked on the pavement on a corner. A man with buggy clipped a wing mirror other man comes running out his house. There was gesturing and shouting.

He was parked illegally. His car was scratched accidentally due to his own selfish behaviour. The police wouldn't be remotely interested. YADNBU op.

I’m not gleeful, but I’m not in the least bit sorry- this neighbourhood is awful for people parking across the pavement and it drives me insane. I don’t like having to push DS’s pram into the road because entitled drivers think their right to park right outside their house is more important than pedestrians’ safety.

admit to the police he parked illegally and risk getting a fine

It's probably not illegal though.

Your post title is fabulous 😂

It's great you really feel the op angst just by title

"Hi police, a pregnant lady with a pushchair I have no details for scratched my car while I was parked illegally. What are you going to do about it?"

You would be better off saying nothing. He can't prove it was you. I always walk around it if I think ds's wheelchair won't get through but ds has been known to cars on the pavement a kick or thump and there is nothing I can do about that

Yeah his paint work is more important than you and your children’s lives Nope!

And so what if you sound gleeful? It was gleeful to read and I’d feel gleeful if it had been me and I couldn’t care less if it makes me a bad person. Your life and your DC’s is not something to be risked.

Fuck him.

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss if OP had said she went on the road and almost got hit but a car, putting herself and her child in danger, because she didn't want to scratch the car, was she being unreasonable? What would your answer have been to that?

I suspect OP would be damned either way by you

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

If you damaged his car then he is right to report. You could have gone round even in the rain.

And a dead pregnant woman and child would be a suitable outcome in what world, exactly?

It was too dangerous for a vulnerable pedestrian to use the road in the driving and visibility conditions - the visibility was so bad that it wasn't possible to see the driver in the vehicle, for example. And he was probably parking so far over precisely because he knew that oncoming vehicles would not be able to see or stop if he were parked further out, further supporting the fact it was too dangerous for a pedestrian and buggy to use the road where he'd parked illegally.

He won't report it accurately, as in 'I was parked illegally in a dodgy position during poor weather and road conditions and my car got scratched because a pregnant woman and child didn't want to die'.

Serves him bloody right.

Entitled prick.