Blocking me in, in a half-empty car park. Why?

[hungryduck]

Sitting in the leisure centre car park waiting for teen DS to finish training. Car park is half empty. There are 2 spaces to the left of me, 3 to the right of me and loads in the rows behind. Only the row immediately in front of the entrance is full. (Yes, I know I need a diagram but I'm in the car with no paper/pen to hand)

Another parent has rocked up and parked in front of me, completely ignoring the multiple empty spaces and completely blocking me in.

Why? Just why? Why would you do that?

No, I'm not going to confront as there's no point until the finish training and we're leaving, at which point the other parent will be leaving too. I just don't understand the mentality of parking stopping like that.

Diagram would indeed help. But they sound super weird

They did this in front of you?

So are they currently sitting there ...and are you currently sitting there?

I'm the sort of person that would have to go over and say something.

They did this because they are far more important than you.

I passed my driving test about 2 months ago and it’s the first thing I noticed when driving fresh from the instructors car. The majority of drivers will cut you off on a Dual carriageway as you re passing them because they are more important. They will dangerously overtake you on a blind corner of a slim country road because they are more important. They will cut across you on roundabouts because they are more Important. And they will abandon their car wherever the fuck they like, usually blocking someone in or in a disabled/parent space (or on a zebra crossing like I saw last week!!!) because they are more important.

I drive most days and I can count on one hand the times I’ve driven so far where someone hasn’t done something dangerous or totally fucking cunty that could directly impact me.

These people believe the world revolves around them. Hate people like that

If only there were a middle ground between "not reacting" and " confrontation", you might be able to solve it. However clearly, it will remain a mystery 🙄

😂

I genuinely don't know, but am guessing it's down to sheer stupidity. Same as people plonking themselves less than a meter away from you on a near empty beach.. why, just why?

I had someone blocking my drive the other day. There was not one car parked on the street, not one. And yet they chose exactly in front of the drive?

No words.

They consider themselves more important than you may be a reason.

Or you could allege they are unfit to drive, perhaps having taken drugs earlier in the day or drink. Well they are probably unfit to drive even if sober as they cannot park properly.

They need to make a quick getaway because they and their time is very very important.
(Or they're robbers which is a tad less likely but more fun to imagine. )

Someone parked so close to me today that I had to go in through the passenger side door and climb over to the drivers seat. I was giving a lift to someone else so she had to witness my undignified entrance. Loads of spaces elsewhere (also in a leisure centre carpark)

Obligatory diagram:

Okay, that really is quite weird.

I’m sorry to say, but if you are experiencing that with “the majority of drivers” the chances are that it is you, not them.

YABU for just sitting there like a lemon and not asking them wtaf they are doing.

Are you actually blocked in though or could you not reverse out if there is no-one behind you?

Why? They were there to pick up their son, same as me, (they actually left a good 2 mins before me) so didn't actually inconvenience me at all. Had my son come out first, I'd have asked them to move but I didn't end up needing to.

I've only posted because I thought it was really weird.

Yes, I could have if needed. But not really the point. It was just really weird parking from the person.

Assuming that path leads to the door, they’ve stopped as close as they can get, because obviously they/their DC is too important to walk an extra few feet.

YANBU, what a weirdo! Same sort of twat who parks - on the road - opposite someone's driveway, (and leaves it there for many hours, or even several days!) when they have their own driveway!

Why?

Because if people don't challenge others on their shit, they just keep doing it.

How can you not be more angry about this? I'm sat miles away in front of a computer and I am currently furious on your behalf! I get that you want to avoid confrontation but you can't let people piss all over you! Where do you draw the line?

Everyone else has managed to park in a space. Why is this person so much more important than everyone else?

Sorry - I am absolutely fuming about what this person has done!

They're not exactly going to admit they parked there because they're a dick, are they? How would me saying something have ended in anything other than confrontation?

I was quite happy playing Foodie Sizzle on my phone.

If I didn't know he'd be leaving the same time as me, I would be more annoyed. But knowing he was there to pick up his teen, and knowing my teen is always last out, I wasn't too worried about it.

This has gotta be it. But I still don't get the mentality. Parking next to me would have resulted in maybe an extra 2 steps for the precious child.

I think some people are just oblivious… I too have a leisure centre pick up a couple of times a week and often a car will park directly opposite me, engine idling, with headlights blazing into my car blinding me for bloody ages. I wish I was brave enough to say something but I sit and fume silently 😂

Do you have to pay for parking there?

Whether you do or not, I expect that in what I generously call their mind, they aren't parking. They're waiting for their kid to come out directly across from them, given they're across from the entrance.

I'm not parking, I'm just waiting for little Johnny to hop in the car.