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?

@JudithHarper - @Iheartmysmart

If you've read the rest of this post not everyone is parking selfishly or doing it intentionally. I agree with a PP, people have lost the ability to think outside the usual 'everyone is selfish'

@AdobeWanKenobi

But if I own my car I have to arrange repairs at my inconvenience. If you lease you suggest deductions are made for damage, so the only inconvenience is cost.

Accidentally open your door too hard to give the other car a little bash and then get in via the passenger side and swear a lot until you're in the right seat

I’ve been through the passenger door and come in the boot before!

75% of MN shits their pants if the doorbell rings when they’re not expecting a visitor, I highly doubt all of this “I’d key their key cos I’m practically a Kray twin”.

Not even necessarily badly parked. They could still be within the bay and too close. Sometimes your hand is forced by how another person is parked within their bay. But yes, “I’d be keying their car”’just makes someone sound like an oik

What I find more annoying is people who don’t move forward enough in the space and have their arse hanging over the line and then makes it hard for cars opposite to reverse out. If a few cars do this it’s a 1000 point turn to leave. And there’s no excuse for it

Eugh. Chav.

The point was damage to a car is costly regardless of whether you lease or own.

I'm usually a law-abiding person but confess I have keyed cars twice in the past for doing thi, after looking round for CCTV etc. They're selfish twats and deserve it if they can't be arsed to park properly or a bit further away. I have been driving for many years and ALWAYS park as considerately as I can. If the space was so narrow I'd block someone else then I'd look further afield.

Who, me? Or the inconsiderate scumbag that decided to make their problem my problem?

You. Cars can be big, spaces can be small, mistakes can be made.

Even if it is negligent/selfish, keying is pathetic and immature.

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@BeetFeet And if you’d read my post you would have seen that the car park was about 50% empty yet the idiot chose to park right next to me, practically in my space. That isn’t making a mistake, that’s being a selfish twat.

This happened to me once when I was 42 weeks pregnant and hunting around supermarkets for tubes of smarties. I was so agile back then, I climbed through the boot.
20yrs later, my non pregnant self would be totally screwed

This happened to us once. My very slightly built teenager at the time managed to squeeze through the minutest gap, and then we instructed her on how to drive the car forward a couple of feet so that we could all get in. As a consequence of that experience, I now always try to find car parking space at the end of a row now so I guaranteed easy access from one side of the car

That footage is shocking - the woman doing the keying isn't even prevented from accessing her car. She has parked badly, right across the lines on her passenger side. The Tesla driver has actually left her a decent amount of space and she clearly has no problem at all putting items into her passenger seat - yet she keys the Tesla's paint. No wonder she was convicted, it's beyind ridiculous.

I did this once, but felt terribly guilty about it afterwards and wouldn't do it again

If no other spaces, of grit my teeth and wait for them to return but if many spaces and they had deliberately chosen to block me in I'd try to squeeze in if I could or go in through passenger door.

Then park properly or at least not next to me. It doesn't take 10 seconds to check you have left room for others. I know because I do that.

Perhaps you are one of these people that dump your car where you want and expect the rest of the world to revolve around you?

'Keying' is pathetic, it's immature and it's cowardly.

There is precisely ZERO excuse for damaging someones property because you have been slightly inconvenienced.

Maybe they didn't realise, maybe they were limited mobility and needed extra space on the drivers side (not realising how close they were to you), or maybe they're a selfish arsehole...doesn't matter.

If you want to wait until they come back to their car and confront them then be my guest (you'll find out which of the above is true).

Mindless pathetic vandalism proves nothing and they might not notice or realise until later and make no connection with their parking 'misdemeanour' anyway.

Nope...not one of them.

I rarely drive anyway and I'm very aware that my car's pretty big (huge doors) so always make sure I have plenty of space either side.

I think a strongly-worded note left under somebody's wipers will often have a more instant effect of rebuking poor behaviour than lasting, expensive criminal damage.

Coming back to any note under your wiper that isn't clearly an advertising leaflet will usually give you a real sinking feeling and cause for concern.

They may not even notice deliberate scratches to the paintwork until later - possibly much later if they park up and don't use their car for a few days - so however much satisfaction it may have given the keyer in vengeance, the whole action-consequence message may be completely lost anyway - kind of like taking a toddler's sweets off them as punishment for hitting at nursery a week ago.

A twat keyed my car while I was sat in hospital with my son who had sepsis. They caused nearly £4,000 worth of damage. You would really expect someone to not bother parking at hospital because the spaces are narrow, and park elsewhere when their child has suspected sepsis? Have you ever actually had to sit and wait knowing your child might die, to only then discover that some absolute lowlife bottom feeding scumbag with shite for brains thinks its funny to destroy someones property?

Why did your car get keyed, do you think? It is not unreasonable to think that other people at the hospital had children there with other such serious conditions as yours but they managed to park correctly.

Did you speed through red lights on your way there? Mount the pavement if someone was turning right?

As you yourself said, you were sat there waiting around, so another 30 seconds making sure that you were parked OK and not causing difficulties for other people who may have been in the same situation as you, wouldn't have made any difference to you.