If a car parks so close you can't get into your car, what do you do?

[heregoesnothin]

Do you just open your car door onto the car and push yourself in if you can fit that way?

Stand and look, shake my head, look around, huff loudly, have a rant, stomp around dramatically to the passenger side and climb over then rant about it all the way home 😂

There are still many options at the 1.6m wide mark which allows plenty of room to get in and out and get a baby or toddler into a car seat if no parent and child spots.

Me too! I was terrified I was going to break my own waters hovering over that pesky gearstick 😅

…Plus I’ve been heavily pregnant with SPD myself. Nowhere near a disability in terms of difficulty or longevity but I struggled. I find your assumption that I’m going to be instantly fit and able-bodied quite an assumption too. Why do you think I park further away? Despite having three kids with ASC (two with little to no danger awareness) and one who can’t walk far (hyper mobility) and has a disability buggy we aren’t entitled to a blue badge according to our ignorant council. Hence why I park further away usually- as I said in my first post.

Again, the world isn’t out to get you. I live around this every single day.

Happened to me when I was hugely pg. I stood there and cried. A nice man came along and managed to climb in through the boot, started the car, backed it out, and patted me on the shoulder saying, 'There there, it's going to be ok'.

My car has just 2 long fat doors, so it happens to me quite often. I usually get in on the passenger side, if room. Otherwise, I can usually reach in and lower the roof to get in. I have occasionally left a note, but usually can't be bothered.

I would never key a car, however much I want too!

Respectfully, I’m a single parent to 3 disabled children. I’m not living it but I do get it. Stop finding offense when it isn’t intended.

Then your earlier response baffles me even more.

Don't you want people to consider your children's needs and their rights throughout their lives, rather than just assuming that 'people like them' don't really exist or, more realistically, don't really matter?

There's an echo in here....

No, but we aren't all able to climb through the boot or shuffle across from the passenger seat!

Wtf! She was the one parked over the line, and was putting things in the passenger side!

Saw someone in this situation recently. She had a Tesla, and simply summoned it via her phone it looked like. It backed out all by itself so she could get in. I was awe-struck.

I've been there, the lunatic who parked way too close to me has stopped me from putting my son's stroller seat onto the car seat and my son into his car seat. Luckily I could get into my seat, but I had to ask a local cafe owner to look after DS when I was reversing. I shamed them on social media and emailed the local council with photos. Idiots everywhere, I swear, there was so much space around my car, there's no excuse.

…Plus I’ve been heavily pregnant with SPD myself. Nowhere near a disability in terms of difficulty or longevity but I struggled. I find your assumption that I’m going to be instantly fit and able-bodied quite an assumption too. Why do you think I park further away? Despite having three kids with ASC (two with little to no danger awareness) and one who can’t walk far (hyper mobility) and has a disability buggy we aren’t entitled to a blue badge according to our ignorant council. Hence why I park further away usually- as I said in my first post.

Again, the world isn’t out to get you. I live around this every single day.

I only assumed that you must be blissfully unaware of the needs of disabled and other physically less-able people based on your apparent dismissal of disabled people's needs.

You must know that parking further away is no guarantee that some selfish person won't still come and park right up against your door, leaving many completely empty spaces. It seems to be a 'known issue' that people will often do just that - whether they prefer the safety of being near somebody else or lack confidence in their parking abilities and want to use another car as a guide to line up (and still do it badly).

I completely agree with you on the blue badge allocation 'lottery', though.

I will put a piece of paper against where my door will hit theirs and let door rest there and then I get in.

may get in the passenger side and shuffle across. But if a car is partly parked in another parking bay they will get a fine. I don’t drive myself but my sister got one. I told her I don’t think she could park like that. She did try and have it dropped but had to pay. Lesson learnt she won’t be doing that again.

Ok fair enough. Think your comment just touched a nerve as I really do understand! 😂👍🏻

Ok fair enough. Think your comment just touched a nerve as I really do understand! 😂👍🏻

I think we were both approaching the same thing from a slightly different angle! Sorry for misunderstanding you

Same to you 👍🏻💐

This morning I came back to my car which I had parked in a bay (one long continuous bay, not marked into separate bays) to find someone had parked in front of me, leaving less than a foot between our cars, yet leaving 4 feet of empty bay in front of him. He'd also parked a foot away from the kerb just to make it more difficult.
I stupidly had parked about 18 inches away from the car behind me, having already checked that he had a generous gap in front.
I was preparing myself for an Austin Powers type 50 point turn to get out, when he thankfully returned to his car and had the grace to look ashamed when I pointed out that he could have left me SOME of the space he'd left uselessly at the front end of the bay.

It is a problem for a lot of people.
Someone did this to my 72 year old fathers car not so long ago. He couldn’t open the drivers door enough. He could just about squeeze in the passenger door but didn’t have the mobility to get across the gear stick and seats. He was stranded. So thoughtless of the other driver.

My Renault Clio was worse for issues with not having room to open the doors than the massive pickup I also drive. The pickup is not much wider than a normal car, and it has quite small doors. The Clio had long doors that were quite deep so you needed more space. I have had to climb in through the boot in the past.

If she's going to park on the line to give herself more space on the driver's side then why then go to the passenger side? She could have put things in from the driver's side if need be, although it looked like she had enough room to even get in herself on the passenger side, the other person looks to be right in the middle of their spot!

This happened to me after a hospital appointment, 38 weeks pregnant, the other car had parked right over the line and not even a tiny child could have squeezed into the gap. I had horrible PGP, so after failing to climb over the centre console I gave up and shimmied myself in from the back, took forever but I had no idea what else to do, I was more annoyed that it made my parking more expensive!

There are plenty of bad parkers, however, many parking spaces aren't fit for purpose anymore. The size of cars have increased, the size of parking spaces haven't.