I guess I’m just venting as this was a bit upsetting.
narrow garden square, resident parking on both sides of the road. Usually the right hand side of the road leading out of the square is left empty as 99% of the time us residents always find a space on the left hand side, and it’s so narrow that SUVs and delivery vans struggle a bit. At the moment there are suspensions in place in a part of the square, so every now and then we have to park on the right hand side.
That’s what happened today: I had just parked and was gathering my things and my daughter when I noticed a range Rover approaching, he stopped a few metres back so I approached to ask if he was struggling to get past us. I offered to move my car a bit closer to the garden fence for him, even if I was within the line and even if that means I have to climb out on the passenger side to exit my car. I had only just about finished moving my car when he starts squeezing past - there’s a crunch: he drove into my car. He reversed; I climbed out through the passenger door and approached him. I said he just drove into me, he said he has a camera that filmed it all and he didn’t. I replied that it’s good that he filmed it all as it will show the whole sequence of events. He then called me a bitch several times, and finished it off with f-ing bitch, all this in front of my daughter.
The whole situation felt very hostile so I locked the car and just left to go into my house. I was calm throughout all of this, particularly as I had my daughter with me and did not want things to escalate in front of her.
I called the police for advice as we didn’t exchange details due to the hostility of the moment. As a side note they misheard me when I described the incident and thought I’d been called a slur, and said they’d send a car over immediately as the man was still there, busy reversing to exit the other way. When I corrected them to say that the man called me a f-ing bitch and nothing else they said oh ok then just contact your insurance. I’m not clear on the legal side of this, is that because none of this is considered a slur? But an actual slur would somehow have been cause for possible intervention?