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?

Just looked back at OPs posts, and nowhere do they mention their gender. One post refers to the OP as ‘she’ and the OP doesn’t disabuse anyone of that notion.
Serves me right for assuming, but perhaps explains the attitude and fruity language a little.

The OP certainly does claim to be male in that thread:

"I developed a friendship with a much younger F colleague (I'm M). I kept it from my wife as I knew she would go apeshit. It wasn't physical but we couldn't just not see each other. We had such lovely days at NT places for cream teas and walking our dogs. Someone dobbed us in with a camera phone and it all blew up and she went mad. It's all resolved now but I so adored her. It was a bit like the movie Brief Encounter. That bit of heart ache and what could have been."

How to reassure my wife about my friendship. | Mumsnet

But then they also post wildly inconsistent details on the same thread, and finish it off by saying

"Sometimes I remember things that never happened. I think I was getting my life mixed up with the Don Black lyrics to the theme from The Italian Job. Easily done at my advanced age."

How to reassure my wife about my friendship. | Mumsnet

Honestly surprised this thread is still up.

It's pretty obvious what's going on here...

You are unhinged OP. In the space of one thread we have found that you:
park right next to other people cars in an empty car park.
get very angry when others park right next to a car in an empty car park
think that parents should not look out for their children’s safety by parking as close as possible to a skate park,
think it’s ok to hit a car with children inside
think it’s ok to smash the windows of a car with children inside
think it’s ok to swear at a stranger with their children in earshot.
thinknits ok to have your dog off lead in a car park, even when the car park has cars entering and trying to park.
has an irrational phobia of SUVs because they are ‘safe and entitled’
drinks half a bottle of vodka before leaving that house of a morning
drinks the other half a bottle.
presumably drinks and drives.
has in fact been caught DUI 3 times.
doesnt regret it.
probably drink drove to a public park where theres are parents and children causing danger to them.
lectures people to be nice to supermarket staff but is fouls mouthed to both a stanger and their children’s safety and other posters.
starts ‘friendships’ behind their wives back with women they are ‘besotted with’
can’t really see why that wrong.

I just want to know if mystery side woman was the other car you were parked next to and if you’re actually upset that a family ruined your private rendezvous??

Please get help. Or a divorce.

She wasn't somewhere safe. She was loose in a carpark that can have moving vehicles at any moment. If your poor dog had been run over it would be 100% your fault for not having her on a lead. It maybe a bit odd to park next to the only other cars in the carpark, but his reasoning made sense and absolutely did not warrant your behaviour. Smacking people's cars, yelling at them to fuck off infront of their children and repeatedly calling them a cunt on here makes you sound unhinged. Look after your dog properly and then maybe you won't have to be such an arsehole to random people.

She was in her late twenties, we had just finished renovating a villa in Tuscany (which is why I made the sad reference to Don Black in the Italian Job movie). We work together, my wife does a completely different job based in the UK. It is not a crime to become fond of someone.

She was late 20s, she was 30, she was 35....

You consistently say you were 45 at least. But you now claim to be 70.

So you're a letchy, old, violent, aggressive alcoholic - from your own posts.

Nobody on here is your therapist.

No but it makes you a cheater aswell as an aggressive, violent drink driver who should be stripped of his licence for life.
I do hope that your wife sees the light and leaves you for her own sake

Not quiet the same but I parked my car early one morning ….to go to the supermarket not particularly close to door or anything but when I came back someone was parked right next to me out of all the places seems a bit bizarre whilst writing but at the time it was a WTF

Bloody hell, and I thought the OP was unreasonable based on the first post! All around hero, isn't he?

You are the reason mumsnet hates dog owners.

I am a 'my dog is my child' dog owner, but I still have the common sense to know they have the intellectual range of a toddler bred with a wooden spoon. For this reason, if a car is approaching and he is off-lead, I grab his collar, as I would grab a child's hand...and , you know, not let a child play in the middle of the road 👀