Okay, so who else out there is going to admit to worrying about this? I'm not talking "ooh, I'll park out of the way". Oh no, I'm talking full lap of the car park, socially profiling the owner of every car, looking for the points where people are going to walk between cars, trying to find the prime spot, walking away from the parked car, then going back to move it because you've seen a better spot. Then still thinking an hour later "nah, I should have gone for that space between the two tidy cars rather than going for the end space and risking someone parking next to me".
The irony is that I always say to other people "it makes no difference where you park, you are just as likely to get hit". I even proved this by parking in a row of 6 empty spaces at the services to come back, cappuccino in hand, to some fat lump levering herself out of her battered Fiesta. The obligatory (and completely pointless) post parking inspection showed the tell tale vertical clean stripe and even a clean, two stage polish and wax hasn't totally removed the mark... not that anyone else can see it but to me it is like a neon beacon of humanity's inconsiderate nature. Still I almost got 1000 miles on the car before that happened, not bad going.
I'm thinking I need either therapy or a battered old wreck I don't care about. Perhaps some support from others that worry about these things will help in the meantime!
The irony is that I always say to other people "it makes no difference where you park, you are just as likely to get hit". I even proved this by parking in a row of 6 empty spaces at the services to come back, cappuccino in hand, to some fat lump levering herself out of her battered Fiesta. The obligatory (and completely pointless) post parking inspection showed the tell tale vertical clean stripe and even a clean, two stage polish and wax hasn't totally removed the mark... not that anyone else can see it but to me it is like a neon beacon of humanity's inconsiderate nature. Still I almost got 1000 miles on the car before that happened, not bad going.
I'm thinking I need either therapy or a battered old wreck I don't care about. Perhaps some support from others that worry about these things will help in the meantime!