I had no idea I was this petty

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Yesterday I was pulling into a parking space next to a huge Range Rover when the driver opens his door, gets out, leaves the door open and just stands there. I wait patiently for him to move on but he doesn’t. Then a teen child gets out the back and does the same thing, both can see I’m halfway into the space. Then a woman gets out from the other side and moves round towards her companions, I’m thinking, thank goodness, she’s going to ask them to close their doors and move so I can park. She comes and stands in the space, looks at me like I’m something unpleasant she’s just stepped in, and starts looking at her phone. I will add, this was not a disabled space and all three of them had excellent mobility.
I was picking someone up and there was another space a bit further down, so I moved along to that one. If one of them had something to me—“Sorry, do you mind moving along as we need extra space for our massive car.”—rather than acting like they own the place, I wouldn’t have minded, but the sheer disdain got to me (and the fact that they were teaching this to their child).
AIBU to wish I’d had the time to just wait there and see how long it took them to give up and move, then pettily park as close as possible to their car? Or to wish I’d had the minerals to just lean on my car horn until their ears bled?

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Brilliant!

New Year’s resolution - find some courage and don’t let people walk over you!

I thought maybe they’d all got out the car to stare at her 😂

They did it on purpose so that you didn’t park next to them and risk scratching their car. It was really no coincidence at all that they happened to be in the car and only jumped out the very second you approached and “didn’t see” a whole car. Woman got out and went in her phone? Did she need to get out for that?

Bless your innocent heart. You were probably car number three they did it to.

Some people are so oblivious it is hard not to get annoyed. What is your fantasy revenge?

Play the long game. The real players collect footage over years and put a documentary on Netflix.

Drive over their (empty!) car in a tank. ‘Sorry, didn’t see your car there!’

That's just you guessing though.

Still worth asking and if they do then they do.

Much better than meekly driving away.

I agree. I’m thoroughly ashamed of myself.

I would have been tempted to park next to them but so badly they couldn't get back into their car. I don't think I'd key the car, CCTV and being featured on Crimewatch would prevent me from such a satisfying revenge.

You and me both 👍

No surprise at all to me. Unfortunately, there are way too may selfish, self centred and ignorant humans out there who think the world and all it's minions revolve around them. They are the Queens/Kings and the rest of us are the sorry people.

Roll your eyes and move on. Not worth the head space and they will never change. But you're right about showing their DCs that this behaviour is acceptable - very worrying. The gene pool is getting more diluted by the day.

I sympathise, I am a very petty person. My dad knocked it out of the park once when he'd eyed up HIS space in a supermarket carpark and was about to reverse in to it. Unfortunately an equally entitled person had also seen the space and snaffled it before dad. Dad saw the red mists, marched over and offered to let her tyres down should she pull that kind of 'stunt' again. To her credit she apologised but I suspect mainly because my dad was a vicar and had forgotten he was in his dog collar on the way to take a funeral and must have terrified her. Dad is now long gone but had a sense of justice that was perhaps ill proportined to his role.

I think Karma has kicked in and they went off to do their thing and someone in a massive Warrior pick up pulled up and parked next to them blocking their entry back into their snobwagon without them scraping against the filthy side of slurry covering the truck.

I never understand this business of standing in a parking space ‘saving’ it for someone.

One Christmas I was trying to find a space, I started reversing in when a woman jumped into the space shouting she was saving it for her husband who was driving round. I didn’t back down. She was shouting and I wouldn’t pull out since I was already half in the space.

I often wonder what would have happened if she hadn’t walked away. I know I wouldn’t have hit her but how long the stand off would have gone on?

Gosh you’re very easily intimidated, why can’t you use your words, all you have to do is wind your window down and say excuse me can you move? Instead you’re interpreting looks, deciding what they’d say, all based on what, the fact they had a bigger car than you?

In these circumstances I tend to slather my hands on hand cream just before getting out into the cold - this weather wreaks havoc with my skin.

I'm also exceedingly clumsy and quite often I need to steady myself by just briefly popping my hand on the driver's window as I wobble past.

Apologies.

But odd to be so unaware, i mean the other family. I do think though that sometimes people act like idiots but because they have something on their mind or have just say come from the bedside of a loved one at hospital and just aren't thinking straight. But for all three of them to do it that is odd. I am sure a lot of us have been behind a car parked unreasonably and got irritated and then realised that it's stopped in an odd place as the driver is helping a very elderly or disabled person and then we feel like a real monster!

The type of car seems to have irritated you though op - would a clapped out cheap one have been less irritating!

How busy was the car park? If it was really busy yes they should get a move on, if it was half empty just park in a space where people aren't faffing about getting in and out.

My DH can be really slow getting out, although he is getting older now, I could have been halfway round the shop while he's faffing about, finding his jacket, checking he's got his cards, sometimes changing his shoes, Aaargh. And of course he's really impatient of people doing the same thing!

Feeling intimidated is shit. And who knows what they may have done to your car if you'd budged them and parked next to them.

My father was a parking wanker. Local office staff would park outside our house. No restrictions, no private parking. He just believed he should have been able to park outside his house.
He used to smear dog shit under car door handles and on windscreens 🤮
Im old now, this was a long time ago. Still embarrassed to remember that

Thank you, reading this has really cheered me up 😁

Id have gently sounded my horn

Why didnt you just beep your horn and tell them to shift their arses?

Ahh I see, thanks