Pathetic Parking...
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Happens quite a lot.... this was in Italy so a left hand drive car. There was plenty of room to the left of the white car.
Happened the other day in the UK. Van driver parked close with lots of empty spaces around. He was still in the drivers seat and looking at me for a reaction. I really enjoy not making eye contact and just getting in an going.
Happened the other day in the UK. Van driver parked close with lots of empty spaces around. He was still in the drivers seat and looking at me for a reaction. I really enjoy not making eye contact and just getting in an going.
Seaby said:
Happens quite a lot.... this was in Italy so a left hand drive car. There was plenty of room to the left of the white car.
Happened the other day in the UK. Van driver parked close with lots of empty spaces around. He was still in the drivers seat and looking at me for a reaction. I really enjoy not making eye contact and just getting in an going.
Plenty of room the other side of the black car?Happened the other day in the UK. Van driver parked close with lots of empty spaces around. He was still in the drivers seat and looking at me for a reaction. I really enjoy not making eye contact and just getting in an going.
WRT 'plenty of other spaces around', I think some drivers do choose to park their cars next to 'nice' ones as usually indicates a careful owner.
But yes, based on the photo they are a bit too close. However they may not had clocked that being 'this close' meant they were actually preventing the drivers door from being opened
But yes, based on the photo they are a bit too close. However they may not had clocked that being 'this close' meant they were actually preventing the drivers door from being opened
Your car is a bit 'look at me', which some people find obnoxious and react accordingly.
Alternatively, an Italian might have a slightly negative reaction towards an expensive German car for various reasons.
However most likely IMO is that they simply assumed it was a LHD like practically every other car in Italy, and therefore it wouldn't really matter if they flung it in a bit too close.
Ultimately you'll never know, so if you're a glass half-full person might as well assume the best : )
Alternatively, an Italian might have a slightly negative reaction towards an expensive German car for various reasons.
However most likely IMO is that they simply assumed it was a LHD like practically every other car in Italy, and therefore it wouldn't really matter if they flung it in a bit too close.
Ultimately you'll never know, so if you're a glass half-full person might as well assume the best : )
I wouldn't think too much of it. By far the most likely scenario was that they just treated your car as if it were LHD. It happened to me once in Germany (my car at that time was a Mk.1 TT, so unlikely to be brand related).
In smaller car parks it actually means there is more space available if passengers doors are fairly close up against the other passenger doors of another car.
In smaller car parks it actually means there is more space available if passengers doors are fairly close up against the other passenger doors of another car.
Not Porsche related, and both RHD cars - I had someone park just like that next to me in the T3 short stay at Manchester airport.
Only went in there as was picking up daughter and granddaughters and didn't want to be faffing around at pick up. I went in and turned back on myself into a completely empty section and parked front in (as putting bags in the car) against a wall like the white car. When we came back someone had reverse parked a Toyota Corolla in a very similar way to how the Porsche is positioned.
I was in wife's Tiguan and there was no way I was getting it to the driver side - I had to get in the passenger side and step across, not easy at my age (daughter offered to do it but she'd never driven an auto and she's not good under pressure!).
During all this, the Corolla driver came back with the people he'd collected. He was mid-50's (same as me at the time) and looked perfectly normal. I did a WTF to him and he just shrugged and said he hadn't realised - I've no idea how he managed to get out even if Corolla has thin doors. Of course he then had to pull out the space to be able to get his passengers bags in.
OK, in the OPs case you could say the other driver was just a bit unaware, but in my case how can the guy not have noticed it was awkward to get out of his car? Never mind that he’d parked without access to the boot. I can only conclude that he was just thick as s
t.
Only went in there as was picking up daughter and granddaughters and didn't want to be faffing around at pick up. I went in and turned back on myself into a completely empty section and parked front in (as putting bags in the car) against a wall like the white car. When we came back someone had reverse parked a Toyota Corolla in a very similar way to how the Porsche is positioned.
I was in wife's Tiguan and there was no way I was getting it to the driver side - I had to get in the passenger side and step across, not easy at my age (daughter offered to do it but she'd never driven an auto and she's not good under pressure!).
During all this, the Corolla driver came back with the people he'd collected. He was mid-50's (same as me at the time) and looked perfectly normal. I did a WTF to him and he just shrugged and said he hadn't realised - I've no idea how he managed to get out even if Corolla has thin doors. Of course he then had to pull out the space to be able to get his passengers bags in.
OK, in the OPs case you could say the other driver was just a bit unaware, but in my case how can the guy not have noticed it was awkward to get out of his car? Never mind that he’d parked without access to the boot. I can only conclude that he was just thick as s
t.The solution in this case is to climb through your Porsche. Move the car forward.
Get out.
Kick wing mirror straight off white car.
Let two tyres down on white car.
Park up somewhere visible and watch persons reaction when they return. Better still walk up and interact with them and explain how it’s a shame their car has been damaged. Go fetch your Porsche after the conversation and drive past making sure they know your the reason there having to inflate a couple of tyres.
No im not inciting you to carry out the above.
Get out.
Kick wing mirror straight off white car.
Let two tyres down on white car.
Park up somewhere visible and watch persons reaction when they return. Better still walk up and interact with them and explain how it’s a shame their car has been damaged. Go fetch your Porsche after the conversation and drive past making sure they know your the reason there having to inflate a couple of tyres.
No im not inciting you to carry out the above.
I had something similar a couple of years ago. Not in my car but in the Wifes.
We park up in a hotel car park in the centre of Liverpool as, at the time, this was the only charge point available that my wife could use to charge her car (company car btw). We parked in the appropriate bay and went shopping. Came back a couple of hours later to find an I-Pace had parked so close to ours that there was literally 1/2 an inch, and I'm not exaggerating, between the folded wing mirrors as the charging cable wasn't long enough if he parked 'normally'.
The driver of the Jag left a note apologising for the parking but he had to travel to the south straight after work and didn't have the time to stop on the way. What a t0$$er. the owner of the Jaaaag hadn't been charging that long but I was so annoyed I pushed the emergency stop button on the charge point. Unlucky d!ckhe@d.
I think it's safe to say that those that park like complete throbbers get everything they deserve!!
We park up in a hotel car park in the centre of Liverpool as, at the time, this was the only charge point available that my wife could use to charge her car (company car btw). We parked in the appropriate bay and went shopping. Came back a couple of hours later to find an I-Pace had parked so close to ours that there was literally 1/2 an inch, and I'm not exaggerating, between the folded wing mirrors as the charging cable wasn't long enough if he parked 'normally'.
The driver of the Jag left a note apologising for the parking but he had to travel to the south straight after work and didn't have the time to stop on the way. What a t0$$er. the owner of the Jaaaag hadn't been charging that long but I was so annoyed I pushed the emergency stop button on the charge point. Unlucky d!ckhe@d.
I think it's safe to say that those that park like complete throbbers get everything they deserve!!
KittyLitter said:
The Dacia is a LHD and not mindful of such an outcome when parking close to a RHD drive - could just be an innocent oversight - give them the benefit of the doubt.
Yes, that’s the most likely reason here. They didn’t think to check which side the steering wheel was on. This thread shows a lot of the issues society now has to deal with. Not only inconsiderate parking (that may or may not be intentional), but frankly an astonishing justification of vandalism that can only come from entitled, angry and poorly socialised people.
If you think vandalism is justified, you are absolutely wrong and you ought to rethink why you have got it so wrong.
If you think vandalism is justified, you are absolutely wrong and you ought to rethink why you have got it so wrong.
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