To get really annoyed when someone parks next to me in a quiet car park!

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It really bugs me when people do this. Today I’m taking my ds swimming. Quiet car park so I park with plenty of space between bays so it’s easy to get out. Someone decides to park next to me once we’ve stopped so it’s a pita to get out! Why make it harder when there’s plenty of free spaces!

Hahahahaha, yes, this!! Like when you park far, far away in the supermarket car park, miles from the entrance, tumble weeds blowing about and you come back to your car and about 37 other cars have suddenly appeared and parked right up next to you!

I don't do it, but I think it's because they find it easier to line up next to another car.

Second day of car ownership, first motorway drive, I stopped at services and parked miles from anyone deliberately. Came back to find someone parked right next to me. Bad decision on their part. I made a complete mess of reversing out and had to leave an apologetic note on their windscreen.

Now that I am better at driving and parking, I never park near a lone car, just in case it’s me from thirty years ago.

My parking isn’t always fantastic but I’m not sure why it’s so difficult to park in a painted box without having to park to someone right next to you!

You're right to be annoyed. I was in a near empty car park and someone parked so close to my driver's side, I had to breathe in and do a little shimmy to get into my car.

I’ve had this done to me loads of times! Worst one was when I was heavily pregnant and I’d parked at the furthest end of the carpark from the supermarket so I was closer to town. The whole 15 parking spots to my right/drivers side was empty. Pavement to my left. Went into town, came back 30 minutes later to find a massive camper van parked right up against my drivers door. All the other spaces were still empty! I was fuming! Had to drag myself over from the passenger side to get in. 😡

Do you have a very large car? Don’t know about anyone else but my sympathy levels are directly correlated with the size of your vehicle.

No a mini. It’s irrelevant anyway. Other peoples inability to park in a straight line without having to park next to someone else shouldn’t be my problem.

When a friend and I go to local City we park in a park and ride service . We purposely park as far as possible from the station (about 1/2 mile) due cars being scratched previously. We come back and there are always cars around us.

Are they afraid that their cars will get lonely.

Maybe it’s a sheep mentality. People just follow where the other cars are and don’t pay attention to the dozens of free bays.

I take my mother for a regular appointment. Her GP surgery is next to a supermarket. I park in a quiet bit of the car park while she goes to her appointment, then help her with her shopping afterwards.

I look forward to a nice quiet read in the car, but inevitably someone pulls alongside and sits with the engine running or music blasting or both!

It does my head in!

I don't see why it's so difficult to get out of a painted box.

It’s called the “herding instinct.”
Try this ….
Stop and look in a shop window where there are no other spectators looking in. I bet within a few minutes, give it time, others will join you. That’s the herding instinct kicking in.

This is a thing. Like in the same way you can guess a child learning to ride a bike will smash into the only tree for 200m.

People often seem to do this on public transport (buses, trains etc) as well...there can be plenty of spaces/seats available and people will decide to come and sit next to you/other people regardless, god knows why.

Cut to the chase and park where everyone else does instead of starting a new 'preferred' parking area. You're going to have company either way and it will irritate you less when you've chosen your parking bay companions yourself.

It can be if an idiot parks too close to open the doors to get my kids out.

This or is the next closest space to where they're going.

I didn’t park closest to the leisure centre by any means so it wasn’t that. There’s nothing else you’d be parking there for.

I hate this! I pulled into a car park with a flat tyre and parked right at the far end to change it. Convoluted story but there was something wrong with the wheel and I couldn’t get the nuts undone and ended up calling breakdown. I was sitting in the car with door ajar slightly waiting for the recovery van when a man beeped his horn for me to close the door so he could park next to me. We were in a sea of 20-30 empty spaces. I told him that he probably didn’t want to park there as the wheel that needed attention was drivers front and we were both nose in. He was quite miffed and huffed a whole space over. I was right though because the breakdown man’s solution was hitting the wheel with a sledgehammer!

Yes. Park in the most empty section of car park normally miles away from the doors and come back to someone so close to the door you can barely open it. Why!!!!

Another 20 plus spaces empty but you want to be up my arse, or rather in my door.

its like when i went camping in a very large near empty field .It was a pick your own spot so i picked well away from anyone else. Woke up someone parked directly next to us just why .Well it was on them i parked away from everyone else out of curtesy because i had a excitably loud child hahahaha

It’s baffling! At a park near me if the main car park is full you can park on the grass near the car park - whenever I park there someone ALWAYS blocks me in because rather than leaving a car gap to let people reverse out, people just park in rows so right behind - the lack of common sense baffles me.

I saw this early one Saturday at swimming A mum had clearly parked in the very far, fenced corner to help with getting kids in/out. Car park otherwise very empty. Despite this a hatchback was dementedly reversing in directly beside her as she unpacked her kids.

I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of British drivers are taught to use another car to park themselves.

It’s also why anyone who says “parent parks aren’t a right! Anyone can park there! Just park in the back of the car park if you need space” is a total melt because I have found on many many occasions when I’ve parked at the back for that reason, that someone has parked right up against the line of my spot in the back of an empty car park.

And in cafes. I always sit as far away as possible from others but someone invariably sits near me when there is plenty of space.