car park spaces in supermarkets

Seanie M

I actually have to confess to breaking a side mirror of a Polo that parked beside me in Dunnes Stores in Tullamore a few years back. It wasn't there when I went in but when I came back about 30 minutes later, there was approx 6-8 inches between my drivers door and their passenger door. This estimate is based on when I tried to squeee past, and I let my hip break off their passenger mirror, but not totally. I was in a rage about how they parked. I climbed into the drivers side via the passenger door, wrote them a stern letter on a sheet of paper I had in the car and put it under their wiperblade, told them to go back to driving school, and to mind the side mirror because I broke it with my hip to show them how close they were to my door, among a few other rants.

No one saw me, and I just drove off. Not sure if I regret it, as what I usually do when I notice a car doing this to me before is let the air out of their tyres - especially if double parked parallel. I can be a mean person to someone else if even basic common sense is not used... I hate it when common sense is not used...

Seanie.

Seanie M

delly wrote:

Did this recently after driving around the Blanch centre for ages looking for a spot. The only space i could find was beside an MPV with two car seats and with nearly every panal dented. I wasn't looking forward

Like the number plate!

delly

BrianD3 wrote:

Good idea about the photo but i would never have parked in that spot
1) The MPV is parked crooked meaning that the driver is probably sloppy and clumsy. This crookedness also means that the MPV is physically closer to your car
2) It's an MPV
3) It's a Hyundai MPV
4) It's a 02 car with you say dents in every panel
5) It has child seats
6) It has a Baby on Board sticker

As i said i was driving around for ages and;
1)My breakfast was getting cold
2)Mrs.delly was getting impatient

I just wonder which was more of a pressing matter

Curran

I hate people that cant park their cars straight
I hate people that cant park their cars in the middle of the spot
I hate people that dont give a sh*te about other peoples pride and joy, just cos there's is a heap of junk!

And do you know what else i hate......

......people who park their cars so close to your car, so they have loads of space to get out of their car, but leave Funk all room for you to get into yours!

Car park spaces should be at least 2ft wider than the current average!
So that everyone can get in and out of their car comfortably, whether you are a large person or have kids in car seats etc etc etc!!

Rant over !!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

stratos

Small dents and dings can be repaired by a company who call to you.
I think they are called dent magic.
They repair dents by using specialist tools to massage out dents, no spraying required.
I believe it is quite cheap too.

Curran

stratos wrote:

Small dents and dings can be repaired by a company who call to you.
I think they are called dent magic.
They repair dents by using specialist tools to massage out dents, no spraying required.
I believe it is quite cheap too.

Seen them at the RDS at a motor show, last year!
They seemed pretty good.....they lashed a tennis ball against the drivers door leaving a sizeable dent and then struck a lil device down the side of the window and smoothed the dent out
They were doing it all day long and the paint was perfect!

But how they perform on dents that they cant stick that device down along a window is another question........supposed they use them plunger type things that you heat up and pull the dent out!

Anyways.....worth a call to price a job!

AMurphy

sandyg wrote:

annoy anyone else? :mad:

Parked between the two white lines leaving good space each side of the other cars opposite me to discover that some b**tered left a nice big dint on the side door of my car either with a trolley or with their door. .......
(rant over)!!! :mad:

My sympathies, however most parking markings in irish parts are too small, somehow the designers seems to think everyone drives Micras.
I have notices several times when everyone is parked properly, there is difficulty getting out and not having the door up againse the next car.

The other way around this is get your car pre-dinged, not always an option on a new car.
I have been hemmed in by a disabled driver parking half ways over in the next spot where I happened to park. That was somewhere in Wicklow.

ando

BrianD3 wrote:

1) The MPV is parked crooked
2) It's an MPV
3) It's a Hyundai MPV
4) It's a 02 car with you say dents in every panel
5) It has child seats
6) It has a Baby on Board sticker

ouch ouch ouch.. ah i'm crying here. i would of abandoned the car on the kerb and got clamped rather than park beside that mpv

edmund_f

wonder if the clampers starting clamping badly parked cars? - although the revenue generation argument could be a bit of a problem

Squirrel

A way people should start opening their doors is by putting their hand over the prominent shoulder line of the door, that means your fingers hit the other car instead, I've been doing it as a passenger in cars and never had difficulty, just open the door slowly.

DubTony

I've been doing this myself for years. Problem is when driving a 2 door coupe with long doors. My arm doesn't reach. *shrug*

Dades

Squirrel wrote:

A way people should start opening their doors is by putting their hand over the prominent shoulder line of the door, that means your fingers hit the other car instead, I've been doing it as a passenger in cars and never had difficulty, just open the door slowly.

Yeah but is this you...

Jip

Seanie M wrote:

... I hate it when common sense is not used...

Seanie.

Ha Ha you twat, you harp on about common sense but get so enraged because you feel someone parks too close to you so you destroy their wing mirror and write a note to them ?? Take a chill pill, they did no damage whatsoever to your car and you do this ?
In the words of Mister T. Fool !