So I’m sat in Sainsbury’s car park…

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I’ve been here about 30 mins or so. I can see to my rear left is a BMW 520i and my rear right is a Porsche Boxter.

Neither of those owners have yet come back to their cars but I have seen one lady in a red fiesta literally drive into the adjacent space (heaven forbid people should do anything as difficult as reverse park into a space), hit the Porsches front bumper, pull forward and then try again. She actually managed it this time only for her to open her door onto the Porsche and merrily wander off. I have her number plate. Oddly the bumping hasnt done any apparent damage but her door has put a nice knock in the paint of the Porsche.

The bmw has also suffered - again a woman in a Ford Kuga who also did not reverse park but because she managed to park at a 45 degree angle, she managed to give herself enough room to squeeze her large backside out of the Kuga and wonder off. Upon returning, she inexplicably didn’t use her boot to put the shopping away but purposefully pushed her door open so that it leant against the BMW so that she could lean on it for support whilst putting shopping on the passenger seat. More damage. She too has driven off now.

I despair. If the owners come back I’ll tell them I suppose
 
Supermarket car parks are scary and potentially expensive places to venture onto, even more-so around the busy Xmas period. I always cringe when I can hear someone bouncing the car off the rev-limiter when simply trying to ease the car into an empty space. Not so long ago I watched a woman drive over the dividing curb on a carpark and basically beach the car on it's belly. She then did her level best to tear the exhaust system off the car while see-sawing back and forth. It's like they have zero spatial awareness.
 
ChrisGTL said:
This is why I park as far away from the entrance as I can........only to find a beaten up 4x4 parked next to me :cry:
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Same here and it's always a 4x4 or a bloody van.

I saw something similar to the OP in Asda Elgin on Friday. The car park was heaving with most slots taken and a 15 minute queue to get out. Going back to our car there was this bint in a silver Zafira trying to reverse out of a slot. First she went straight back with no steering lock on then she drove forward with full right lock on then realised she was nowhere near going to get around so she reversed straight into the bumper of a black BMW X5. Then she drove forward and back again straight into the bumper again. She then drove forward again and almost got around but needed one more reverse, you guessed it, into the X5's bumper to make sure before driving off. A couple of people were shouting at her to stop before she hit the X5 but she paid them no attention at any point in this farce. Luckily one bloke had his phone out filmimg it and left his details on the X5's windscreen. Despite seeing the X5's bumper being pushed in the only visible damage was scuffs to the paintwork. So many people have these big cars and they have zero spacial awareness or how to drive them (or even drive at all for that matter). They feel safe and superior in their tanks while causing all matter of chaos around them and not realising what they are doing or care about what they are doing. Something needs to change.
 
ChrisGTL said:
This is why I park as far away from the entrance as I can........only to find a beaten up 4x4 parked next to me :cry:
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This, always this!

I'm obsessive when it comes to my car, always waxing it, getting PPF etc to reduce the risk and parking as far away as humanly possible only for someone to park right next to me at the empty end of the car park, so close to the point that if they were any closer they would be sat inside my car.

I get that some people might not be bothered about their own motors but surely you'd realise "Huh, maybe otherpeople actually care about the thing that costs a fair chunk of change"

Me and the Mrs went to IKEA a while ago and as per usual a mini SUV pulled up next to us whilst I was inside and opened the door straight onto my Mrs' car, luckily it didn't do too much damage but we hadn't even had the car for 6 months at that point!

I'm convinced there is no point having nice things because some people just don't care about anything other than their own situation

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ChrisGTL said:
This is why I park as far away from the entrance as I can........only to find a beaten up 4x4 parked next to me :cry:
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Mind you I have the opposite experience - I'll park my beaten up 4x4 as far away from everyone as possible and find someone has squeezed their car in right beside me... there seems to be more people than not with something wrong up top worryingly.
 
This is exactly why I would never again buy a new car.
You can't even park at the back because if you do some moron will still park next to you even though there are plenty of spaces.
 
Not that I could afford a new car, but I really don't see the point in buying one when stuff like this is an actual everyday occurrence. People just really don't care any more, it's all about the me, me attitude.
 
Uther said:
A lot of people just don't give a **** anymore. I've had someone open their door into my car when I've actually been sat in it, and still deny it.
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Someone did it to me a few days ago. I knocked on my window and she just shrugged her shoulders. I got it to check and thankfully no damage.
I was seconds away from smashing her wing mirror off.

I've given up with cars, just run off the mill cars nothing special. Look after them mechanically but in happy with DIY touch-up now for scratches and dings. Much happier life.
 
Friday I’m sat in my car waiting for my son to come out of school - massive parking space, loads of room to my left side, when a woman opens her car door into my left wing mirror, knocking it into the folding position.
I drop my window and polity point out what she did and she denies it :cry:

She re-constructs the door opening and realises it could happen and I show my mirror is out of position and finally apologies.

Luckily no damage
 
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It's silly season out there so it's worse than usual. I went to the local Sainsbury's and there were stacks of SUVs parked diagonally in the spaces. Some even managing to go over the line on both sides which is quite impressive. I had to abandon my first attempt because as I pulled in I realised that the Toyota CHR in the next bay was parked at a stupid angle. Annoyingly I hadn't noticed that the back of the carpark was half empty so should have just headed there.

I was always one to park the furthest distance from the shop but since getting a company car I just park wherever and honestly, it's made zero difference to the number of parking marks it has picked up.

I did push this theory out to the limit on Friday and parked next to the most beaten up Pug 807 I'd ever seen. Rear passenger wheel was on the curb, wing mirror was gaffa taped on and the drivers door so damaged that when it was shut you could see straight through the gap. It had gone by the time I got back and funnily enough I seem to have gained a new chip on my passenger door handle I hadn't noticed before...
 
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