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

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

Are people serious when they say they can get in through the driver's window? I'm awestruck 😳😂 I know I'm not very agile but the very idea of doing that makes me sweat 😅

Are people serious when they say they can get in through the driver's window? I'm awestruck 😳😂 I know I'm not very agile but the very idea of doing that makes me sweat

I always loved the idea of doing it when watching the Dukes of Hazard, but once I was old enough to actually start driving, my bones said No.

@Doro371 what I really want to know is how they get the window open 😅

I have had to climb through from the passenger side of the back seat when 8m pregnant (baby seat in front passenger side for dc1). I felt an odd mix of satisfaction and shame when I wrote "twat" on the badly parked cars passenger window in vaseline lipbalm through my driver's window before I left.

what I really want to know is how they get the window open 😅
If it's electric you'd know need to open the door enough to reach the button.

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I actually have a note pad I bought from a joke shop which says 'Thanks for parking so close next time I will bring a fucking tin opener. Morons like you should take the busI I stick it under their wipers, petty I know but it makes me feel better!

You can tell which cars are for wheelchair access.

Plenty of smaller cars are absolutely fine for people with mobility problems. Often it is the type of seat or the height of the car that matters. Most don't need an extra-wide, extra-huge car and in my experience, disabled people don't drive them.

Can we stop saying that everyone is disabled or bereaved or traumatised. No, they drive oversized cars because they like the status and the ability to intimidate other road users but can't actually drive, and in this context, park, them properly.

I've had to get in the passenger side before, though I'm a bit menopausal stiff, have become quite inflexible in my spine, and have a car which has a sports low suspension and FWD sp have the joy of the middle mountain to overcome ... I nearly did myself a mischief!

Can we stop saying that every disabled person uses a wheelchair. The majority do not and the first paragraph are my words. It even says I can walk! I do not have a motability car. No one can tell I’m disabled by looking at me either. If this is your mindset, you’d be judging me with my high status oversized car.

All I'm saying is that some people do have a need for a large car/van for various reasons - including disability (whether a wheelchair user or not), large families, work-related reasons, towing etc. Some disabled people need large vehicles; some don't; some don't need one but choose one.

Disabled or not, some people simply prefer a big car, which is their choice. Some people prefer bigger houses than they arguably need for themselves/their families, which means less housing per acre - again, their choice.

We can't even go on the size of a car these days as a crude marker of environmental impact, as there are so many other factors which can make a large car much greener than a small one, notwithstanding the owner's 'justification' for needing one or not.

Disagree. Anyone can make a misjudgment or a mistake. Even you sometimes I expect.

Are you confident that all of those spaces were still empty when that car arrived?

Or that the car wasn't 'on the white line' because the car on the other side was also too far over?

I honestly think some people lack the imagination to see anything from anyone else's perspective any more. If they're inconveniencing you, they did it intentionally and deserve all they get.

Hmm well let me think. Pissing down with rain, car park pretty much deserted, I parked up, not a single car within half a dozen spaces all round me. Pop into M&S for 10 minutes, come back out to all the spaces around me still empty apart from the twat who had parked on the white lines right next to me. They were the ones lacking in imagination and inconveniencing me.

Climb over from the other side

"They were the ones lacking in imagination and inconveniencing me."

Those malicious bastards. You showed them eh.

You can tell who drives an SUV on this thread.

I drive a big car - not through choice - it's the smallest one available on my husband's work scheme. I always try to park so nothing can park next to my driver's door especially as I'm fat and need to be able to open it quite wide to get in/out.
On one occasion I parked in the first space in a row. There wasn't a space on my right but when I came back to my vehicle someone had decided to park there anyway! There were plenty of other spaces available but they'd decided to reduce the access around the car park rather than parking properly. No matter how hard you try, sometimes you just can't win.

Happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I had deliberately parked in a space which was next to a motorbike sized space. Got back to find that someone had squeezed a car into that space.

No idea why there were plenty of other spaces. Perhaps it was one of the 'I dont need a big car so nobody does' MNers.

I was able to squeeze in through the passenger side. I am hugely fat so it was no mean feat getting in. Fortunately I had just been swimming so I was limbered up!

Now I park in such a way that nobody can park in the space next to me. Disclaimer: this is at my local swimming pool, there is more than enough parking space.

Now I park in such a way that nobody can park in the space next to me.
What does this mean? Do you park across two spaces?

I park into the motorcycle sized space. It isnt marked as a motorcycle space it is just spare space (less than a car sized space). The car park is an odd shape so there are a few odd shaped spaces at the end of rows.

For some reason on that one day someone decided they could turn that extra space into a small car space. Which they could by parking right up next to the driver side of my car.

Wow. What a twat.

This

Who's the twat? Iheartmysmart or the or the selfish parker?

This happened to me recently, the other car was parked about a foot over the line into
my space. Passenger side tyres fully in my space, only a few inches between my car and theirs. Luckily I had just been to the gym and was wearing stretchy gym clothes so I was able to climb in the passenger side and manoeuvre myself over into the driver’s seat without much trouble but I was panicking for a moment!

I agrre that a lot of spaces are no longer fit for purpose. I drive a perfectly ordinary estate car, and (length wise) it wont fit in the spaces of my local car park.

Re opening the door though, if the other car is so close your door needs to touch it to get in, you defnitely can do this gently without damaging it.