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[Mr.OmegaMan]

Double parking to protect your car, Do you personally do it?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/selfish-driver-defends-bad-parking-9607250?ICID=FB_mirror_main

I don't blame anyone for doing it, Car space sizes are ridiculously out dated, It's all about cramming as much Cars/People as possible so these shops or whatever to gain the maximum amount of customers. That's all well and good but some car parks just take the p**s extremely narrow especially those 10-20+ years old. Cars get bigger, car parks remain the same. Not a good recipe.

Would i double park, That's a tough one to answer. If you do double park you are painting a great big bullseye on your car! ...Tbh I've not seen many double parking around here.

What are your thoughts on this topic?

[Andy B]

I do, but a little more subtly than the bloke in the news. I put the near side tyres on/over the left of the space such that there's not enough room to park to my nearside ...... And ... unless I get a parent & toddler space (they weren't around years ago when mine were little & there aren't enough of them now I'm a grand dad) I need space on my side to get out & space on the near side to get my grand daughter out on the near side. R Class are big cars 

[Olympia5776]

Never .
I ALWAYS park at the furthest away part of a car park with as much space around the car as possible although that still doesn't guarantee idiots still parking next to me.
Here in SW Ireland the majority of people treat cars as a throw away commodity and care not what condition theirs or yours are in.
Twice over Xmas my wife's new Yeti was struck my the door of a diagonal parker when I was sitting in it .When I pointed out what they had done ,inc the mark on the road dirt, they just blatently denied it .One I cursed publicly ,the other I found his car a couple days later and returned the favour when driving my van.........
I absolutely despise careless ,selfish parkers.

[Andy B]

  ...
the other I found his car a couple days later and returned the favour when driving my van.........
...

Ooopsie daisy! 

[Doctor Gollum]

Encountered this appalling effort earlier...

So I did the only decent thing and parked in the three quarters of the space that they weren't using

[Olympia5776]

You are a brave man parking alongside that cretin . I'd be afraid they'd ding your door in spite .
A plant hire owning friend of mine has an old Landcruiser that is only washed for it's annual test and is covered in cooshtie, deisel mud and algae....thats the beast to park next to those 'kers.

[Doctor Gollum]

I did take about 40 pictures and was expecting some shit when I got back to the car... all unfounded as they had gone when I returned, and not so much as a spec of paint out of place

[Viral_Jim]

Not as such.

However I will either park as far away from everyone as possible or, if I spot someone who has done it, I will park very close to the line in the space one away from them - thereby making the space between us very difficult to access. I suspect this isn't actually any better than double parking. But it does make me immune from a parking ticket for parking outside of a marked bay.

The bottom line is that people today don't generally give a crap about their cars. They are appliances which you swap every 3yrs for one because it allows you to instagram a picture of your lunch from the drivers seat, or some other equally worthwhile feature.

Consequently, they care about your car even less than theirs. I've had people run handbags down the side of my car, bash mirrors etc, all through casual thoughtlessness. If I owned a genuinely expensive or rare car, I'd probably double park it.

A ticket is cheaper than paying Aston Martin for paint correction after all!

[Viral_Jim]

On a separate note. Which cretin wrote that article

In fact, Luke claims numerous of his friends use the trick.

Jessica, a 37-year-old cleaner, who was out shopping when she spotted Luke's Astra, said she understands why he doesn't but does not condone it.

My grammar isn't perfect, but I'd be damn sure to at least give a piece of my writing the once again vet if it was going on a national newspaper's website. Even if it was the Mirror

[Doctor Gollum]

Don't see the problem with the priciple of double parking as long as you buy and clearly display 2 tickets... yes it's still seen as selfish, but morally, you're not taking the piss...

Same principle on flights... don't want to sit next to someone else? Buy two adjacent seats

[Doctor Gollum]

Well it was the Mirror

[Mister Rog]

The general standard of driving where I live is so bad that the parking spaces are generally huge, so taking two spaces just isn't needed.

Bad driving ? What does that mean in Wales ?

Ignoring red lights is normal. NOT just by boy racers but by all drivers

Parking on double yellow lines  - Normal

Not indicating - Normal

Frantic horn tooting - Normal, as you always see your mates walking along the road

Driving too fast - normal on the A40 and A48 as you're English and in a hurry to get back from your holiday home

Overtaking on bends - Normal also on the A40 as nothing ever comes the other way. Does it ? See orbituaries

Driving too fast and overtaking on bends - Normal everywhere as you're a farmers son who doesn't get "any" and so has to let off steam somehow

Driving too slow - normal, when your 80 something and should not be driving at all

Unable to reverse or park - Normal. See above




 

[biggriffin]

I can't blame him, people now days don't care a fook, only last week I came back to get in my car, and noticed a bloke park next to mine so I waited a bit, walked up, as he got out of his badly parked mini, opened his door into mine, I said to the bloke excuse me you just hit my car with your door, his reply no I didn't, I retorted I just watched you do it, there was no damage its just the I don't care attitude,,,, I did notice he had a flat tyre as I left, 

[powerslinky]

I can't blame him, people now days don't care a fook, only last week I came back to get in my car, and noticed a bloke park next to mine so I waited a bit, walked up, as he got out of his badly parked mini, opened his door into mine, I said to the bloke excuse me you just hit my car with your door, his reply no I didn't, I retorted I just watched you do it, there was no damage its just the I don't care attitude,,,, I did notice he had a flat tyre as I left, 

Like it BG . .   was only flat at the bottom though was it not ? 

[TheBoy]

I actively look in carparks for people parking like idiots, and ensure I park bang in the middle of the white lines next to them, drivers side, often just a rizzla between us.

Its the only entertainment I get nowadays....

[STEMO]

I parked my car in Asda car park a while ago and, when I came back, a shitty little fiat punto had parked next to me and the driver had obviously opened his door quite forcefully and put a crease in my passenger door.
As I stood there, four young lads came towards the punto. On seeing me looking at my door, they started grinning at each other and letting out silly, teenager types farting noises. As the first lad got towards the drivers door, I didn't give him a chance to say anything, I just punched him square on the jaw. It made a satisfying crack and he went down like a sack of spuds. By this time another lad had come between the two cars, shouting and waving his arms, so I kicked him in the nuts and, as he started to bend forwards, butted him straight in the face. Blood poured from his nose and down his stupid tee shirt with a picture of a minnion on it.
The other two didn't know what to do and started to move away a bit quick like, muttering something about me being a nutter. I thought I'd give them a hiding too, but was interrupted.....
Steve.......Steve........I've brought you a cup of coffee up, love. You seemed to be in a really deep sleep there...were you dreaming ?

 

[Bigron]

What a shame it was just a dream - justice would have been done! 

Ron.

[2boxerdogs]

Just park in a disabled space & hobble away from your car!
I've seen that done many times 😂😂😂

[Doctor Gollum]

Just park in a disabled space & hobble away from your car!
I've seen that done many times 😂😂😂

I keep nagging at Mother to get a blue badge... she walks with two sticks and qualifies for a restriction free bus pass... yet she insists that she doesn't meet the criteria

Biggest bugbear re car parks generally,  is that spaces, and for that matter newbuild garages, are still based on the Mk1 Viva... which is about the same size as the Adam

[Sir Tigger KC]

Bad driving ? What does that mean in Wales ?

Boyo driving along in his chavved up shitbox and spots his Butty coming the other way, who sees him as well.  So they just stop in the road next to each other and have a natter!    Sod anyone else! 

" Der, who's tha jumping an down behind me Dai? "

" Dunno Butt, some oppsin English idiot I 'spect! "

    

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Just park in a disabled space & hobble away from your car!
I've seen that done many times 😂😂😂

Thus depriving a genuinely disabled person a place to park. 

[2boxerdogs]

Yes people do that as well as child & parent spaces, if we go shopping we take the wife's Panda plenty of room in a bay for that.

[Bigron]

I would never abuse a disabled bay, but I really don't see why there are child/parent bays. I will use one if it suits me because I am a parent anyway and those bays are wider/safer. Nowhere does it say that you have to have your child with you, nor what age!

Ron.

[Fraggles Rock]

I would never abuse a disabled bay, but I really don't see why there are child/parent bays. I will use one if it suits me because I am a parent anyway and those bays are wider/safer. Nowhere does it say that you have to have your child with you, nor what age!

Ron.

I believe that whilst somewhat ambiguous, the criteria is implied

[Nick W]

I would never abuse a disabled bay, but I really don't see why there are child/parent bays. I will use one if it suits me because I am a parent anyway and those bays are wider/safer. Nowhere does it say that you have to have your child with you, nor what age!

Just say that you're buying something for them - milk, nappies, new teddy, 6 pack of lager whatever applies

[2boxerdogs]

Unfortunately cars in general are getting bigger ,you only have to look at the Minis of today certain models look huge. I never take the Merc anywhere where I have to use a public car park because it is totally mint & I would like to keep it that way, the 4x4  if I take that usually look for a bay at the end of a row , that seems to have worked so far.

[Bigron]

Nick, I wouldn't feel the need to say anything as it is unenforceable in a supermarket car park anyway.
If I said anything at all I would suggest they speak to someone who gives a fu ck. It's usually the women with children that cause most damage anyway, as they only care about their sprogs and not where the car doors might be hitting.

Ron.

[X30XE]

Just park in a disabled space & hobble away from your car!
I've seen that done many times 😂😂😂

Thus depriving a genuinely disabled person a place to park. 

Oh heavens no!  Guess they'll just have to park in the other 1/4 of the car park reserved for a non-existent proportion of the population who are supposedly disabled.  Not like we didn't already pay their benefits and their brand new motability car... oh wait, we did.     

[BazaJT]

That's one good thing about the V70 or the Omega,another ding/scratch/whatever would hardly be noticed!

[biggriffin]

I can't blame him, people now days don't care a fook, only last week I came back to get in my car, and noticed a bloke park next to mine so I waited a bit, walked up, as he got out of his badly parked mini, opened his door into mine, I said to the bloke excuse me you just hit my car with your door, his reply no I didn't, I retorted I just watched you do it, there was no damage its just the I don't care attitude,,,, I did notice he had a flat tyre as I left, 

Like it BG . .   was only flat at the bottom though was it not ? 

O yes only at the bottom,

[ronnyd]

Isn,t double parking also when you park "beside" another car in the street? I,ve seen that a few times.

[Andy B]

Isn,t double parking also when you park "beside" another car in the street?  ...

it is really ...... 

[Bigron]

That's exactly what I assumed when I first saw the post title. 

Ron.