More Obnoxious parking - ***READ FIRST POST BEFORE POSTING***

CarMuppet

Orla K wrote: »

To be honest the examples you gave aren't valid ones.

As for the granny I was in a similar situation. I parked normally with no car on her side when I came back there was a car there all that had to be done was for my granny to wait a little while I pulled out clear of the other car.

As for the skilled driver part, lessons & pratice and I mean spending time in a quite place until you get the hang of it.

As for life being too exciting:rolleyes: when a person drives around I doubt they're bursting with so much excitment that they are unable/not arsed to park within two white lines.

Most of the time when I see bad parking it's out of lazyness.

fair enough... you made a different choice to me when taking granny out.. that's a judgement call.... my point here is if people see a car taking two spaces it's not their right to interfere with the situation. That's up to the owner of the properly/car park to investigate and clamp if necessary. For example a private car park serving apartments; I would not be happy if someone was taking a space allocated to my apartment! I would not interfere with their car as maybe they did not understand the numbering scheme?

wrt to skill… I’ve been involved with training professional drivers in a different job years ago… one of the brutal facts of life is that some people (it’s a genetic thing I’m convinced) just don’t posses good spatial awareness… plain and simple.. it doesn’t make them stupid or obnoxious it’s just not a skill they possess, so you just cut them some slack.. No one is perfect at everything. I’ve been in a car on a track driven at huge speeds and felt perfectly conformable because the driver exhibited excellent car control and was highly qualified… More recently I’ve been dropped to the airport in Dublin by a taxi driver in rush hour traffic and felt petrified!!

Some of the photos on here show a blatant disregard for road safely by parking on a bend etc. Some of the photos show people with new cars taking two spots because they are fearful for the safety for their cars… that’s a personal judgement. As regards drivers sitting on the lines at a slight angle, that’s down to skill.. just be happy you didn’t park your car next to them…

Ok rant over… it’s Friday.

dudara

Sorry for the poor quality. Short-term car park in Dublin Airport - spaces are tight enough in the car pack without this numpty adding to the mess. For contrast, that's the front of my car at the bottom of the pic.

Orla K

CarMuppet wrote: »

fair enough... you made a different choice to me when taking granny out.. that's a judgement call.... my point here is if people see a car taking two spaces it's not their right to interfere with the situation. That's up to the owner of the properly/car park to investigate and clamp if necessary. For example a private car park serving apartments; I would not be happy if someone was taking a space allocated to my apartment! I would not interfere with their car as maybe they did not understand the numbering scheme?

wrt to skill… I’ve been involved with training professional drivers in a different job years ago… one of the brutal facts of life is that some people (it’s a genetic thing I’m convinced) just don’t posses good spatial awareness… plain and simple.. it doesn’t make them stupid or obnoxious it’s just not a skill they possess, so you just cut them some slack.. No one is perfect at everything. I’ve been in a car on a track driven at huge speeds and felt perfectly conformable because the driver exhibited excellent car control and was highly qualified… More recently I’ve been dropped to the airport in Dublin by a taxi driver in rush hour traffic and felt petrified!!

Some of the photos on here show a blatant disregard for road safely by parking on a bend etc. Some of the photos show people with new cars taking two spots because they are fearful for the safety for their cars… that’s a personal judgement. As regards drivers sitting on the lines at a slight angle, that’s down to skill.. just be happy you didn’t park your car next to them…

Ok rant over… it’s Friday.

Ye see the great thing about skills is with effort they can be improved, some people will just improve faster than others, but there is no reason why people shouldn't be able to improve. Other than thinking, ah it'll do, which alot of people do think.

Gers_punto

gatecrash wrote: »

Not too sure why you thanked my post, i wouldn't call "oh but my car is so precious and special and brilliant and the bestest car in the world EVER" extenuating circumstances.

The parking that has been shown here of your car shows the lack of control/lack of consideration bit i was talking about.
Not meant as a personal attack btw, i just don't understand why you can't park it between the white lines....

I didnt mean to thank it meant to quote it lol

I always have and always will park in that particular space. I am indeed car enthusiast, i appreciate a mark 1 escort the same as the new beautifully designed 5 series bmw. If i was to drive my mothers 92 fiesta to work it would still be in 2 spaces.

Indeed that picture dosent show an ounce of consideration for other car park users but where have i ever been consideration from people bumping off my doors the rare day it is parked in 1 space.

Having worked in that retail park 5 years and having numerous work collegues cars getting damaged and customers asking to look at the cameras as somebody has bashed against there car, ill be damned if my car suffers the same faith, it is my only line of defence against the problem.

But on another note this is the only car park i do it in,
cresent car park (1 space)
Pakway(1 space)
Multi story car parks on the roof (1 space)
AVOID dunnes on the childers road
Park it as it should be every where else as any body on this forum from limerick will tell ya. Our car park is the worst in limerick.

Indeed theres plenty of people here that dont like my car or the way i park it but until we are given proper parking provisions at work it will always be where it is.

SerialComplaint

dudara wrote: »

Sorry for the poor quality. Short-term car park in Dublin Airport - spaces are tight enough in the car pack without this numpty adding to the mess. For contrast, that's the front of my car at the bottom of the pic.

Pic not showing???

dudara

SerialComplaint wrote: »

Pic not showing???

It's visible to me - anyone else with problems?

subway

dudara wrote: »

It's visible to me - anyone else with problems?

http://web2.twitpic.com/img/120545517-48d4fdcee79ff3b08cce1ae471a8dbdf.4c247718-scaled.jpg loads a blank page

dudara

OK - it's disappeared for me now too. Apologies.

Here's the link

cyrusdvirus

Gers_punto wrote: »

I didnt mean to thank it meant to quote it lol

I always have and always will park in that particular space. I am indeed car enthusiast, i appreciate a mark 1 escort the same as the new beautifully designed 5 series bmw. If i was to drive my mothers 92 fiesta to work it would still be in 2 spaces.

Indeed that picture dosent show an ounce of consideration for other car park users but where have i ever been consideration from people bumping off my doors the rare day it is parked in 1 space.

Having worked in that retail park 5 years and having numerous work collegues cars getting damaged and customers asking to look at the cameras as somebody has bashed against there car, ill be damned if my car suffers the same faith, it is my only line of defence against the problem.

But on another note this is the only car park i do it in,
cresent car park (1 space)
Pakway(1 space)
Multi story car parks on the roof (1 space)
AVOID dunnes on the childers road
Park it as it should be every where else as any body on this forum from limerick will tell ya. Our car park is the worst in limerick.

Indeed theres plenty of people here that dont like my car or the way i park it but until we are given proper parking provisions at work it will always be where it is.

Then take it up with your employer.
Take it up with the landlord of the estate.
Take it up with someone, because otherwise you are just behaving like a little child, it's your ball and you're going home

ergonomics

CarMuppet wrote: »

To be honest I wouldn't be too happy if I caught someone messing with my car. Besides there are more serious problems in the world to worry about.

Most peole park 'badly' for some valid reason including the simple reason they are simply not skilled drivers. Or life is too exciting to be worried about some white lines on the floor. Messing with peoples cars is just bad form as is squashing in beside them just to make life akward.

There is one reason that it annoys me when someone parks across two spaces, either on purpose or accidentally, and I guarantee anyone who parks like this has never considered this - in a lot of car parks with a barrier system the barrier works as a sensor. It keeps track of how many cars compared to how many spaces are in the car park. If you park over two spaces the sensor doesn't know that so someone will come in later on when there should be spaces free but you're taking up two.

The pay carparks in UL are the worst for this. The barrier say there are spaces free so I drive in only to find idiots taking up two spaces and the car park full. I now have to pay €3 to leave despite only being in the car park for a few minutes.

notel70

CarMuppet wrote: »

I parked my car across two spots outside a supermarket last week to bring my granmother shopping. She can't drive a the moment and she's on crutches. I don't have a wheelchair pass so I coundnt park in a wheelchair spot. I had to allow loads of space so she could get in and out of the SMALL sizes space. I'd be rightly pi----d off if someone wen at my car because they thought they were some sort of parking police officer.

and what happens when another posters granny comes along and cant park because you took up two spaces, then they have to park far away.

You should have pulled up and collected your granny and not take up 2 spaces

I suppose you have that username for a reason

Henry Ford III

Gers_punto wrote: »

I didnt mean to thank it meant to quote it lol

I always have and always will park in that particular space. I am indeed car enthusiast, i appreciate a mark 1 escort the same as the new beautifully designed 5 series bmw. If i was to drive my mothers 92 fiesta to work it would still be in 2 spaces.

Indeed that picture dosent show an ounce of consideration for other car park users but where have i ever been consideration from people bumping off my doors the rare day it is parked in 1 space.

Having worked in that retail park 5 years and having numerous work collegues cars getting damaged and customers asking to look at the cameras as somebody has bashed against there car, ill be damned if my car suffers the same faith, it is my only line of defence against the problem.

But on another note this is the only car park i do it in,
cresent car park (1 space)
Pakway(1 space)
Multi story car parks on the roof (1 space)
AVOID dunnes on the childers road
Park it as it should be every where else as any body on this forum from limerick will tell ya. Our car park is the worst in limerick.

Indeed theres plenty of people here that dont like my car or the way i park it but until we are given proper parking provisions at work it will always be where it is.

If everyone took your attitude parking capacity would be reduced by 50%!

Why not just park in a quiter area of that car park? I know the area and there's plenty of room.

Lando Griffin

FFS, no obnoxious parking pictures now for ages, its simple to understand car goes between the 3 white lines, not over them, not on top of a Pedristrian crossing, not on a disabled spot (if you have no sign), not in front of an exit, in between the 3 white lines.`Less yackin more snappin.

jimoc

I think every car park needs a forklift in it to move double parking muppets into one space, backwards, and upside down.

D_murph

jimoc wrote: »

I think every car park needs a forklift in it to move double parking muppets into one space, backwards, and upside down.

That ^ or you could just stack them with it and they would take up even less space that way .

Abelloid

ALDI, Cobh.

...although by Cobh standards that's pretty good parking.

Sofiztikated

Outside Supervalu (obviously) in Cavan.

And noticed afterwards, the Audi across the road seems to be taking up a fair whack of space too!

Absurdum

bijapos wrote: »

If it was one of them he was pulling then this is the only car on earth that can pull that: :pac:

he could have just put it in the boot, it's huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!

robdsherlock

@gatecrash and anyother people who has the same problem, get over it we take up two spaces, at the end of the day we only chose to do this to stop people hitting our cars and we are not harming anyone!! if more people would take care of getting into and out of there cars we wouldn be doing this in the first place!! simple as!! and as said we do it at the quieter part of the car park not right in front of the store where people dont care if there cars get damaged.
or is it one of those cases where i couldn give a sh*t about anymore, that oh the have a modified car they double parking there always causing hassle and trouble everywhere....:rolleyes:

tskk

I found great satisfaction in doing this a few years ago!

I had a lovely little fiesta and 2 babies that had to be lifted into their car seats and strapped in. Went to Blanchstown centre early one morning, was there at 9am 'cause I was up at 6am with the kids!

Parked the car, ran into centre, was back at car by 9:30. Some total and complete moran in a huge estate had parked his car on top of my drivers side door. The rest of the car park was nearly empty.

I had to open passenger door and struggle to deposit the 2 kids and climb over the passenger side to get into the drivers seat!

I ripped off a piece from a paper bag and wrote down a suggestion to the driver of the estate that he/she should learn to park. I used some colourful language. Stuck it on the wiper blade.

It was fun!!

KamiKazi

tskk wrote: »

I ripped off a piece from a paper bag and wrote down a suggestion to the driver of the estate that he/she should learn to park. I used some colourful language. Stuck it on the wiper blade.

It was fun!!

Such a badass

Yawns

Where's all this mystery coming from that if you have a child and need ot put them in a car seat you need to open the door the whole way???

Before anyone asks, I have a 2 year old and I rarely open the door the full way to get him in or out of the car. Here's the trick:









I'm careful and considerate of other people and their property. I don't yank my child out or dump him in the car. I lift him in and out.

corglass

Check out this merc in the UG car park of Tesco, Merrion road.

Or what about the Corolla next to it?
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And the winner is......
Carlow!

CarMuppet

notel70 wrote: »

I suppose you have that username for a reason

Yep you're correct. I'm a car muppet of the highest caliber. Thanks for the complement.

again the point is it's a judgement call. My relative was quite sick on the day and she should have stayed at home but insisted on going to shops. I took her. And didn't want to leave her out of my sight. End of.

Best regards,
CarMuppet

-Corkie-

The corolla seems to be parked ok unless im missing something.

CarMuppet

Henry Ford III wrote: »

If everyone took your attitude parking capacity would be reduced by 50%!.

or maybe in the year 2010 it's come to a stage that car dimensions have outgrown the 1970s sized car parking spaces?

If spaces were say 25% bigger then I'd take only one spot when parking my pride and joy.

CarMuppet

Yawns wrote: »

Where's all this mystery coming from that if you have a child and need ot put them in a car seat you need to open the door the whole way???

Before anyone asks, I have a 2 year old and I rarely open the door the full way to get him in or out of the car. Here's the trick:


I'm careful and considerate of other people and their property. I don't yank my child out or dump him in the car. I lift him in and out.

I would gladly park my car next to you! you sound like my ideal kind of parking-neighbour. thanks for posting this.

marious

still can't understand some of You saying "I'm afraid about my car, I'm taking two spaces" Those lines on car parks are painted for a reason, to get as many as possible cars parked. Reminds me of people stopping on motorways on hard shoulder to answer the phone or scratch their balls... doesn't matter if its forbidden, they're special ones

Absurdum

SARASON wrote: »

The corolla seems to be parked ok unless im missing something.

on the far right