Parking when there are dogs around

[TheQuirkyMaker]

I was in our local park yesterday, talking to another dog owner, when an SUV swept in right beside us, halted, and reversed into a parking space. As it reversed, I slapped it on the roof. The driver jumped out, angry, and I think was ready to give me a slap. I said the car park was empty (it was, it serves about 200 cars) and he had no need to park next to us and potentially hit a dog. He said he was parking near the skate park for his children, and our dogs should be on a lead (they weren't). They are elderly, obedient little dogs, and don't need to be on a leash but they are little and could be hit by a car.
I told him to "F--- Off" and felt okay at the time but couldn't sleep last night for worrying who was in the right.
Was I the unreasonable one?

Someone did i.e. that the only property damaged would be the children in the car that was hit - not sure how a dog hits a car and damages it without itself being hit and damaged. I thought it was you. Sorry, must have got my quotes mixed up.

Yeah, think you need professional help to be honest.

no one of a sound mind would act or think like you are doing.

You have grandchildren? Do you tell them to fuck off too?

you really have anger issues/alcohol issues.

i wish you well on the quest to recovery

I worded that point badly - as you say it is an offence if you don't report hitting a dog as they are classed as domestic animals and hitting one must be reported (cat owners get very cross about this because cats are only classified as semi-domesticated and you don't have to report hitting one). Same as if you hit a cow (though I think you might have more problems than reporting an accident in that case 😃).

You didn't read the OP.

So it's 3 feet now, not 2 feet? 🤔

Sounds like you'd have had to walk over to his car to hit it, as that wasn't close enough to hit without moving.

I note you're also now saying you were loading the dog into the car, which is another change of story.

Not that you have much any credibility, but all these changes just make you an unreliable witness.

OP is clearly not ready to let it go just yet. Despite the lack of sleep wondering if she was out of line effing and blinding at him and umpteen people saying her aggression then and since was/ is completely unwarranted, she now think she sees a missed opportunity to have smashed his car up. That would have been a good one. Bloke parked his car next to mine so I put his windscreen through and he called the police, was he being unreasonable 🤣🤣🤣

Yes it does drive me nuts. By definition, someone who squeezes his car between mine and a trolley bay such that I can't access my car cannot be disabled requiring additional access

Nope they only entitled person is you.
You're also a violent and abusive person who if you don't reign in your attitude and obnoxious personality is going to wind up in jail or hospital

You can dislike his choice of parking space but it’s mad to bash his car!!! He’s just parking.

By the same token, why did you choose to park near the skate park and let your dogs off the lead, knowing that other drivers wanting to use the skate park were likely to want to park there?

Yes, you should. It would have given the police a laugh. I can just imagine them solemnly writing down the alleged offence of "Parking near complainant's car in a car park".

How could they have hit one of you? As people have pointed out, they were almost certainly using the screen in their car to park, and obviously they did so, perfectly safely.

Yeah, who needs to take responsibility for their own dogs when putting them on a lead is too much bother? Why not swear at random inoffensive drivers if you want to take your bad mood out on them?

Please tell me you didn't assume that, because a car park was empty when you got to it, it would remain empty? Surely no-one is that dim?

Yes he obviously read it which is why he said all that in his comment, I don’t even know if this post is genuine or not but if it’s not you’re even more deranged to make something as weird as this up for attention, either way, you’re a crackpot 😂
Some of your statements:

”Really, I should have taken their number and reported them”
For what? He should have reported you for hitting his car!!

“If you can't see he was entitled cunt I expect you have an SUV which you straddle parking spaces with”
No you absolute batshit lunatic YOU are the entitled cunt!!! (And no, I don’t have an SUV)

“Reading all these responses makes me feel I should have smashed his windscreen!”
Almost everyone is telling you that you’re wrong and your response is to say you should have smashed his windscreen??? Have you any idea just how delusional you even are? If you want to keep your dog safe, then be a responsible owner and keep it from wandering away from you into harms way!! If you saw a parent allow their young child walk around freely in a CARPARK and a car hit that child then you’d be saying they should have kept hold of the child, and you’d be 100% correct in saying that, same goes for idiot dog owners who stand in the middle of car parks then complain they or their dog almost got hit by a CAR.
I can’t even believe any of that need explained to a grow aas adult, take a bit of responsibility for your own stupidity and keep your damn nasty angry hands off other peoples vehicles.

I thought it was genuine to start with cos I can believe people can be like the OP

But now I think she must just be enjoying the thread

So your response to being told you are unreasonable is to... say you should have been even more unreasonable?

Ye OK 🤣

Little dogs should NOT be wandering around. You behaved badly.

You’re getting flack because you are the idiot in this scenario. Nobody else. Just you.

You clearly don't care about your dog by deliberately putting it in situations where it could potentially be injured or killed.

Yeah sorry but you're the unreasonable one. I wouldn't go and park near anyone in an empty car park, but I definitely wouldn't stand in a car park with any dog off leash, especially not an old dog that can't hear and doesn't sound very mobile, nor would I hit someone's car. He was entitled to park wherever he wanted and you and your dog should have been on the path.

I think we have an explanation for your bizarre behaviour,@TheQuirkyMaker . You have recently told any Mumsnetter who might have read another of your threads that you drink a half bottle of vodka every morning and the same again at night. That being so, you must be fully loaded up with alcohol all the time. That explains your aggression and your staggering unreasonableness. That would be nobody's business if you stayed home but instead you chose to drive in that state to a park, a place where there are very likely to be children, walking through the car park, on the pavements nearby, getting in and out of cars. What's more, you must do this regularly if this is somewhere you often walk your dog. If the man had phoned the police, you very well might have found yourself in trouble for more than just hitting his car. Pity.

I’m reading it that he drove quite fast and aggressively reversed fast into the spot, which would have been jarring. However dogs should be on a lead for their own safety, and you shouldn’t have sworn or tapped the car. He sounds like a dick and I’d have rolled my eyes and left it at that.

And he had kids in the car and you said that
you deserved a slap.

hope is kids are used to foul language out of nowhere

Why was your dog off the lead, wondering around in a car park? My dogs have great recall, but I would put them on a lead around cars - i think any responsible owner would. He has every right to park in anywhere in a car park regardless of if you've decided that's where you want to have a chin wag. You are 100% unreasonable and probably deserved a slap tbh