Lectured by stranger about parking!!!

[musica]

This astonished me - I pulled into our little Tesco Express, to get some milk, and as there was a car behind me, went into the space forwards, to let him get past me, and also so he didn't take the space...as people do tend to do there. Anyway, I had to straighten up the car by reversing out, then going back in. As I went into Tesco, the bloke from the car behind me said 'All that so you didn't have to reverse' - I didn't know what he meant, so I said 'sorry?' and he said 'well I've noticed that women don't like reversing, so they'll take several attempts to get into the space forwards when it's much easier to reverse in, and then drive straight out.' So I said something like 'well I didn't want you to take my space' and he said 'oh well, I'm probably just being picky' to which I replied 'yes I think you are'.

Would any woman comment on the direction someone had parked in???? I didn't park badly either - just pulled into the space, then straightened the car up. Certainly didn't inconvenience him at all!

Musixca; what a stupid ignorant man.

Besides I always go in first into a car park at a shop - so I can get to the boot for either a pushchair, or to put shopping away.

Are you sure he wasn?t trying to make conversation in order to flirt with you?!! It is the sort of "friendly banter" that some men just come up with as a clumsy way of chatting (well, it is the case with my DH) ;o Seriously though, forget it the man was just being an a@££hole.

Men!! They feel so superior when it comes to cars don't they? (Not all men, obviously ) I bet he wouldn't have commented if you'd been a man. I agree with Hulababy - at shops it's generally more convenient to go in forwards anyway.

Reminds me of when I couldn't get the petrol cap of our car open - it's supposed to unlock when the car is unlocked. Anyway, this smartar$ed man watched me stuggle and said "Did you realise there's usually a lever to pull by the drivers seat." I wanted to slap him. Of course, I simply smiled and said "No there isn't. It unlocks when the car is unlocked" and left it at that. It was actually an electrical fault. Anyway, I bet he wouldn't have said that if I'd been a man!

I think the best way to deal with people like that is a short, sharp "f*ck off"

Soupdragon - you should ahve asked him to show you, and then stood laughing as he struggled and looked daft.

Cheeky sod.

The other day my friend went to get petrol and whilst in the queue to pay, this old bloke said
"do you drive in those boots"
she replied "yes"
he said "well if you bumpoed in to me in your car and you'd been driving in those, you wouldn't have a leg to stand on"
My friend ignored him and bit her lip to stop her replying, but he carried on with
"then again you young people don't care do you"
and whoich point my freind decided enough was enough and replied
"yeah and you old people have got nothing better to do than moan"/

The bloke was quite shocked that she'd replied i think. The sho assistant said he is always speaking to people like that.

I was too annoyed to think of anything clever

I would have been tempted to drive into the back of his car on purpose, Nutty!

I always wish I could think of good responses in time. Always think of them afterwards.

The funniest time anyone came up to me or dh was when we had to go to Banbury for a concert. Dh was wearing a shirt and tie and jacket, because he was fed up of looking scruffy, and shopkeepers thinking he was a shoplifter! (This was in Cheltenham, where I used to work). Anyway, we went to Banbury and were just doing some window shopping when this strange bloke came up to him and said 'You vote Conservative.' Dh denied this (and he voted Labour at the last election so he really isn't a closet tory), and the bloke carried on 'You did - it's your fault this country is in the mess it's in. If people like you didn't vote Conservative we would all be a lot better off.' He then followed us down the street yelling abuse about how we voted conservative and were single handedly responsible for all the problems in the country.

NUTTER I say!

Musica, I've been really annoyed by the irrational behaviour of others before - you just have to rant to yourself for half a day and then congratulate yourself that you're not one of them.

Funnily enough I was in Tesco's this morning and went to one of the express checkouts, only to be told by a man in the queue which appeared to be for the counter next to me, that there was one queue for both counters. Confused I looked at the other people in the queue and was told by someone else that he had also been sent to the back. The man then proceeded to tell everyone to go to the back of this single queue 'he' had decided there should be. Hilarious really, but he needed to be challenged. So I asked him who he thought he was to be organising the queue in Tesco's as he didn't work there. He said one queue avoids congestion and then said, use your brain if youv'e got one! What a cheek! Of course this wasn't the end of it, as lot's of people then started to join in the banter, but it just struck a cord when I read this thread and I thought I would share it with you!

It is always men, isn't it?

I had one of these when I had just passed my driving test. There are these tiny little narrow car parks in town with tiny little spaces. There was someone waiting, but I was in a hurry and thought as I'd driven past that I'd seen a space, so I pulled in front of this other car. Drove down to the end of the car park and realised there wasn't a space, so had to turn round. And it was sooooo tight. I was kind of doing a 33-point turn (lol) when this bloke came up and told me I'd be there all day if I carried on like that and proceeded to direct me, yelling at me and patronising me. It was horrible, I was sooooo embarassed. I drove out of the car park and went to park on the other side of town and had to fight the urge to burst into tears.

I'm with Stripymouse though, I reckon it was an attempt at a chat up. Oh, and I never reverse into a space. I would be too frightened, I know rthat's shameful to admit that, but it's true. And I manage perfectly well parking forwards, so what's the problem???

i think the funniest one i ever had (now mind im 22 light blonde) was i was just parking up my car been driving for a couple of years now and had longer than that of the blonde jokes i reversed the car in (didnt have my ds then) andgot out thinking nothing in perticular and some bloke shouted out omg a blonde who can drive and park and shes young get off the roads before she kills you trying to show of infront of his mates to the point i had had enough so i just walked over quiet nicely and said quietly but clearly for his mates to hear as well yeah but we dont all keeps our brains in our balls now do we
and just turned around and walked of to leave his mate giving him grief and him just standing there gob smacked

There must have been someting in the air at Tesco's yesterday....

Having popped out at lunchtime to get some fuel, I found the filling station pretty busy and joined what looked to be the shortest queue. Now this happened to mean that the pump was on the opposite side of the car to the filling cap. Not a problem in my book - I do this regularly if it will save time, and the hoses reach perfectly well to the other side. But the man (it would be a man wouldn't it?) who then pulled at the opposite pump couldn't resist telling me that I was a "typical woman" as I clearly didn't even know on which side of my car the fuel cap was and I was therefore a menace to society and shouldn't be allowed on the road. I just told him that at least I had the intelligence to realise that it was perfectly possible to fill the car up from either side of the pump and as a result I'd just had to spend less time queing than he had.

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We always say that the kids are going to be hard to handle on windy days - looks like some people never grow up.

I once had my camera jam up. A man I knew immediately jumped into help, suggesting I load a film!

GillW - Unfortunately for me Sainsburys hoses arn't long enough, as I tried this a few weeks ago. I embarrassingly got nowhere near the filler cap of my car as the hose was only about half the length of most other petrol stations. So red faced me not only tried and had to put it back, in my embarassment I opened the door to my car to move to another pump, sat in and DS started laughing saying hello mummy, I'd only gone and sat in the back seat and had another red face episode climbing back out of the back and into the front! Maybe all these comments are aimed at me.

I think you were very good, to try and straighten up I usually don't bother.

I was in a queue in M&S the other day,I had a small trolly. This man came to the front of the queue and forced his way past to go in front of me, I just stood there amazed at the cheek, then said,"Excuse me there is a queue",to which he replied( in a really patronizing tone, as if I was stupid), "Baskets only,love".
It wasn't, so I replied load enough for other to hear,"Well, if you look, the very large sign says it's the next till", then turned to the woman behind me, tutted and said,"Men, they never pay attention do they".As if that didn't make him look small enough, he then go caught up in a "scan your own" queue, and got himself in quite a tizz, and the assistant had to keep showing him how.

It must be the start of Nutter Season. A woman stopped me in the street yesterday to talk to ds1 & 2. I didn't mind this in the slightest. Then she started talking about how she and I were obviously from (quote) "respectable families" and weren't like other people as "We don't have no black people in our family". I was just stunned into silence for a few moments. This woman knew nothing about me or my family.

Then, with the most impeccable timing, my cousin came out of his house and waved at me. I could have kissed him. I waved back and said to the woman, "That's my cousin ."

I don't know whether she believed me but she stormed off. Completely mad!

sorry about mistakes,it's past my bed time!!!

Laughing my head off at these!

What happened to my brain cells??? I forgot to mention that my cousin is black!