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?

@TheQuirkyMaker keeps going on about how it was an SUV as if that makes a difference. I feel like probably half the cars on the roads are SUVs these days and what are we actually talking about here? A Nissan Qashqai is hardly an unreasonable car to own lol

No I don’t and as I said I agree it’s annoying. But the fact is you were chatting in the car park, he wanted to park there (which is annoying) but he had just as much right to be there as you did. I can’t understand how swearing and banging on a car with children in it is ok?

Sorry meant to quote your reply that said I probably park badly in an SUV.
I still can’t believe you smacked his car!
poor children though. If that was me I would have told my children ‘Don’t worry, unfortunately there are some not very nice people who think they’re right and everyone else is wrong’

Agree that I’d have been annoyed but he can park wherever he wants so it still makes you unreasonable (and very grumpy in your replies) I’m afraid.

Not sure who you would have reported it to either and what for 😂

This must be a wind up.

I always park on my own towards the back of a car park. You can guarantee that I always end up with someone parked next to me. I don’t get why people can’t find their own space however I don’t go round swearing or tapping the roof either.

I always park on my own towards the back of a car park. You can guarantee that I always end up with someone parked next to me. I don’t get why people can’t find their own space however I don’t go round swearing or tapping the roof either.

May I suggest a mug of chamomile tea before you give yourself an aneurysm?

Safety training courses I have been on always recommend you park:

1. As close as possible to where you are going (so you don't have to walk across the car park).
2. Reverse into the parking space (for a easier getaway).
3. Park where there are other cars (safety in numbers).

It sounds like this man and others who follow this safety advice are pissing off OP (and even a few otherwise rational posters).

So much inconsistency though:

why reverse 3 feet away
to drive 2 feet away from us
decides to stop and reverse in the space next us
screeched to a halt and banged his car into reverse
He just rolled near us and reversed without looking
sweep in and reverse

2 feet or 3 feet

Rolled or screeched to a halt

Swept or banged into reverse

Your hyperbolic language does you no favours on making you look more reasonable (there's no way to look reasonable anyway), it's just adds to you being fucking ridiculous

Those "close to" have to mean int the next apace though? Leaving a one space gap those make things easier for people.

(But PP is still a loon)

What road rules did he think didn't apply to him exactly? Reported him to whom? The Dogs-above-humans-always-lunatics Scoiety?

Yeah you were unreasonable. In a car park I’m looking where best to park MY VEHICLE, in a safe way to suit MY PASSENGERS (especially children). Not for if there are any off lead dogs in the area. All dogs should be on leads in public areas in my opinion especially car parks. You were wrong and to hit someone’s car you’re lucky they didn’t take the situation further.

As the owner of a much loved smallish elderly dog myself ..you’re being extremely unreasonable !!!!
My dog is on lead wherever there are cars , farm animals ( especially sheep ) or any other places where it wouldn’t be safe or would be antisocial for him to be off lead .
Plus you’ve added in parts about this driver potentially running dogs over because he doesn’t like them ?
And that he reversed his car without looking ( there are
cameras in many cars these days to assist parking ) so a good chance he could see behind him .
The part about him parking next to you ..well in all fairness I tend to choose spots away from other cars where I possibly can.
Swearing at him in front of his children after hitting his car !
You will end up in trouble one day .

It means in any vacant space the driver feels most comfortable using.

FFS OP you are so being so unreasonable you have smashed the AIBU-O-meter.

I was going to say exactly the same! And the fact he ‘reverse parked without looking’. I wonder if OP realises cars are fitted with mirrors and many with reverse cameras!

The OP is clearly off-the-scale unreasonable!

Your other comments on that linked thread show that you've committed quite a few parking offences yourself (the irony!) - and that you conflate parking offences with drink driving...

You need to give some serious thought to your own behaviour before you take issue with someone else's entirely legal and legitimate driving.

Wonder if the OP has sobered up this morning?
I suspect the late night angry tirading posts last night may have been more than a little vodka fuelled

No common sense here at all.

Pedestrians are standing in an area. Plenty of other places to park. Park away from the pedestrians.

Common sense (or so you would think!).

Sunny viper,oh,where oh where is the laughing emoji when you need one. I have an SUV, 2 border collies, they aren't allowed in the front,do we assume that the dog has a special seatbelt harness, otherwise that's illegal... perhaps someone should report the original poster. One of my dogs is almost 11, and arthritis in hips, she has a ramp to get into the boot space. Their crates are opened,leads clipped on before their paws touch the ground. The meters, I wonder if they are gas or electric,smart meters maybe, and the offensive language, I cannot even bring myself to type or write THAT word.
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By her own admission, OP has a drink problem, I.e. half a bottle of vodka in the morning, topped up with another half bottle at night., every day. I think consistency and reason are something we really can't expect. Drunk driving is clearly something we can expect and alcohol clearly fuelled her ridiculous, extreme and dangerous actions. I think it's a pity one of them didn't get the police involved. It might have got her taken of the road.

OP is now encouraging people to be kind (the irony) to supermarket workers by paying more for our shopping so goodness knows

Looking for redemption in familiar places….

There were children in the car, and the father was obviously parking as close as he could to the skate park so they didn’t have to interact with moving vehicles any more than necessary. If they were close to a childrens’ play area the dog should have been on a lead anyway - hanging round talking in a car park with a dog off the lead isn’t exactly considerate of others is it ? Isn’t that what the park is for ?

OP’s account of the incident changed - first she said he speeded into the car park and screeched to a halt and then the account changed to him rolling into the space, and given her previous thread about her alcohol dependence I don’t think she’s best placed to be criticising anyone else’s driving if she’s routinely over the limit behind the wheel.

OP you're being a dickhead. It's a fucking CAR PARK. he can park wherever he bloody well likes. You're in a car park going to a kids play area with an unleashed dog in tow. Clearly you're unreasonable. You don't get to tell people where to park and bash their cars because they don't do what you want them to do. The guy parked in an empty parking space he's done nothing wrong