I had no idea I was this petty

[RidiculousCar]

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?

I’m fed up with big cars taking up all the spaces in shop car parks. I drive a mini and if I get stuck between two of them - which regularly happens - I have to reverse out blind to other cars. I wish they’d tax them to the hilt - where I live the older the driver the bigger the car. Some of them are hardly visible over the steering wheels. What do older folk need with these machines - and why must they shop at the busiest times. Go home - you’ve got all bloody week.

It must be twats-in-carparks-with-open-car-doors week.

Last night while leaving Tesco at 11:20pm* I was walking across the carpark with a huge overflowing trolley which can be hard to steer. Saw a car with engine running and headlights on, clearly ready to move except for the fact that his passenger door was wide open with noone in the passenger seat. Didn't really register to me as he was obviously waiting for someone and wasn't about to drive away.
Stopped "in the way" to readjust toppling trolley and get my bearings. Bloke leans out of his window to shout "I'm clearly trying to drive off love, can you get a move on?" To which I replied while moving "well it's not that clear mate, your door is wide open".

No apology, no acknowledgement that he'd made a mistake, just an irritated look, leaned over, slammed door shut and drove off. Arsehole.

*I thought I was being really clever by going at 10pm when the shop would be "quiet". It wasn't. The slightly less shoppers was made up for by the staff everywhere with massive crates filling the shelves so I stayed up late for mo reason. Do not fall into my trap.

Diagram.

I read this as ‘I had no idea I was this pretty’, which I thought was a fabulous opening. I’m a bit disappointed 😁

One day they will do the same to someone who doesn’t give a fuck.

I remember the scene in the film Fried Green Tomatoes when two young girls cut up one of the older characters in a car park and then laughed at her, so she retaliated by ramming their car and making a comment to them along the lines of them being younger, and prettier but hey! she had better insurance 😁. It was a glorious moment which I imagine warmed many a heart cockle.

That exact thing happened to us, we couldn't park there as he needed to have his family next to him. When I stood my ground and he had to move, naturally I was a 'racist bitch', we then sat in the car as we expected him to do something to it, he eventually pulled out of 'his' space!

Went to the supermarket yesterday and there was a Range Rover deliberately parked in the middle of two spaces. Wankers …. However a tiny smart car had squeezed in next to it, the RR would have had a hard time getting in unless they climbed in from the other side. I like to think I the Smart car knew exactly what they were doing 😆

Petty would be if, for example, someone came back to their car and saw someone driving past put on indicators to wait to get into it when I left (despite there being lots of other spaces). So instead of leaving, straightened up the car a bit so it looked like I was leaving , then sat there a few minutes more til they left

I don’t mind when there are no spaces but I can’t stand people indicating to get into a space just because they are too lazy to walk further to the shops

I do think you should say something, politely and cheerfully, next time as though you think they just haven't noticed. Nine times out of ten people simply aren't expecting to be addressed on their dickish behaviour and are counting on you slinking away.

If you wind the window down and cheerily and confidently say, "excuse me, would you mind shutting your doors so that I can get in?" the response in my experience is usually flustered muttering apologies (even if actually thwarted).

Most people like this will happily behave like a dick quietly but prefer not to have to acknowledge that other people have actually clocked it and judged them accordingly. Being a dick 'out loud' by acknowledging it was deliberate and standing their ground is too shaming for most.

Do you think the drivers of Smart cars become smart? Like Lamarckism?

Lots of Pumas and cougars Kugas about!

But no Spaniards with Novas.

I'd follow them and slip something with an anti-theft tag into their shopping before they leave. That would be petty. 🤣

Did you ask them to close the doors so you could finish parking your car?

I did not. If I’m getting out of my car and I see someone wanting to pull into the space next to it, I will simply close my door and move out of the way. I don’t open my door as wide as possible and stand there, while my child gets out and does the same, then my other half walks AROUND from the passenger side, gives the driver a dirty look and then stands in the space next to my car on their phone.
It was pretty self explanatory that I wanted them to close their doors so that I could park. I’ve never expected another driver to ask me to do this. They were clearly not going to move and I didn’t want to be on the receiving end of what would likely be negative and possibly abuse, had I asked them to move.
I’d much rather come on here and rant about it anonymously!!
As others have said, I need to stick up for myself more.