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AIBU?

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A parking one

14 replies

Auntieobem · 08/08/2022 18:49

To get it out of the way - can't do a diagram just now!

So, I was parking in town taking my mum to the bank. She has a disabled badge. There is a single disabled spot in a sort of bay at side of the street, near a junction. Pavement behind amd yellow lines in front. Big space, but not big enough for 2 cars. As I'm getting out of the car another car pulls in behind (car nose in space, back in the road). Driver asks if I can pull forward to let him in. I say it's a single space he says it's clearly a double space, I should be able to see it's a double space. I get back in and drive forward probably about a foot - to the end of the space, just before yellow lines.

He says I need to move further forward, that I should park on the yellows. I tell him I'm not doing that, that it's dangerous to park so close to the junction. He's getting cross and shouting that it's fine, that he knows what he's talking about and I need to move. I ignore, lock car and head off.

We're only 10 minutes, when we get back to car he has parked with half his car on the pavement and the other half in space behind me. He's still there shouting about how inconsiderate I've been, that I can see it's a space for 2 cars etc. I ignore and he walks away. (Shop owner who's been watching and listening to whole thing then comes out and offers me and mum some sweets).

Who the he'll did the Parker think he was? Would you have moved onto yellow lines to let him park? (There were available disabled parking spaces available round the corner)

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Aquamarine1029 · 08/08/2022 18:51

No diagram needed. The man was a prick and you did the right thing.

ChampagneCharlieIsMyName · 08/08/2022 18:51

Diagram or it didn’t happen.

SirChenjins · 08/08/2022 18:56

The litmus test in these types of situations is ‘would he have behaved this way if you were a 6.5 foot, heftily built bloke? No, of course he wouldn’t - he was being a dick and no, I wouldn’t have moved forward, but I’m in my fifties and generally can’t be bothered indulging menchildren and their foot stomping tantrums.

longtompot · 08/08/2022 19:05

I think the fact he had to park how he did says it wasn't big enough for two cars to park in the space. Disabled spaces are usually much bigger to allow things like wheelchairs to be hot out of boots etc

He was BVU!

Auntieobem · 08/08/2022 19:06

ChampagneCharlieIsMyName · 08/08/2022 18:51

Diagram or it didn’t happen.

I'm the green box, he's the red one. Not to scale!!!

A parking one
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Auntieobem · 08/08/2022 19:06

And the black bit is the marked space

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Blossomtoes · 08/08/2022 19:08

He’s an arsehole with anger issues.

Pleiades2020 · 08/08/2022 19:32

If you had parked on the yellows you'd have been parking illegally and could have got a ticket (any part of your car not just the tyres). So yes he was very much in the wrong.

SavoirFlair · 08/08/2022 19:34

Horrendous man with unchecked arrogance. YANBU

Auntieobem · 08/08/2022 20:24

If I'd parked on the yellows I'd have been hit by buses coming round the corner! No way would he have spoken to a man the way he spoke to me.

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SarahSissions · 08/08/2022 20:28

Disabled spots are bigger to give clear boot access. He shouldn’t have tried to get so close behind. If you’d moved you would’ve been obstructing the junction.

did he have a blue badge?

Auntieobem · 08/08/2022 20:51

Yes he had a blue badge. He was elderly - looked to be in his 70s

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redastherose · 08/08/2022 20:55

He's an entitled arse, I wouldn't have moved forward the first time personally I'd have locked up and walked off.

YomAsalYomBasal · 09/08/2022 08:07

He's an idiot. The space is that big so that people like me can park disability minibuses and still get the ramp down. Not for 2 cars.

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