Car park runners?

**Taz** · 31st July 2011, 07:47

+1 to owning a shit box car in auckland. Years ago I lived in Te Atatu and owned both a Subaru Legacy (was fairly modern then) and a Bedford CF decked out in primer. Coming on to the western motorway in peak traffic I would indicate in the Sub and people would try not to let me in (fuck knows why they do this) but in the Bedford I would indicate and start to merge and a large gap would just appear as if by magic

**dangerous** · 31st July 2011, 09:14

Originally Posted by Taz

+1 to owning a shit box car in auckland. Years ago I lived in Te Atatu and owned both a Subaru Legacy (was fairly modern then) and a Bedford CF decked out in primer. Coming on to the western motorway in peak traffic I would indicate in the Sub and people would try not to let me in (fuck knows why they do this) but in the Bedford I would indicate and start to merge and a large gap would just appear as if by magic

haha... same, white just looked bigger I spose but I never was taken on LOL

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I think the most of us here would own up as we have bikes that we take pride in... the avarage cage driver its just transport so why give a shit about others.

**lb99** · 31st July 2011, 12:15

I try not to park beside anyone if can, or close to a wall/rail/bollard whatever so at least one side of my car is protected. My bikes dont go into carparks at all unless I know there is a barricade I can park behind.
Sadly fat people with small children are a prime cause of door scratches and dents simply due to the logistics of a small space and having to lean into cars to do seatbelts and stuff.
I usually wait in the car when my wife is in the supermarket, as I suffer from shopping rage and just get too wound up being surrounded by ignorant dickheads and wind up having to say something rude.
So I spend a bit of time watching carpark antics.
Twice my car was damaged while I have been in it, once from a woman loading kids and stuff into an old wreck that was already so full of shit that she had to pack the groceries in around her kids in the back seat, as she was doing this her wide load arse was grinding the door into the side of my car enough to make it rock on its springs.
She gave me an earful when I politely pointed out the damage she was causing, but after a stern dressing down and a lecture about taking better care of her car, kids, and body she left in tears. My insurance sent her a bill I imagine.

second was a young mother walking and texting with a full as trolly, who pushed her trolly off the kerb between my car and the one next to it, but the camber caught the trolly (as can sometimes happen) and it rolled into my car, she looked at me, and while still holding her phone in one hand proceeded to push the trolly with the other, scraping the side of my car the whole way, it was clear she was planning to ignore me the whole time, i was a bit nicer to her than the other one but she still got told......

Then theres the one where I saw a driver get his passenger to move a bike so they could take his park, need less to say the combination of heavy bike, steering lock, and disk lock left the bike on its side in the car park, they drove off, plenty of witnesses, noone said anything I was too far away to stop it but got the rego of the driver for the biker.

Is like people turn their brains off when they have to go to the supermarket or mall, is insane

I mean, who takes a 25 foot boat on a trailer into the supermarket car park on a thursday night ffs, it happens all the time here.

**scumdog** · 31st July 2011, 12:27

Originally Posted by lb99

second was a young mother walking and texting with a full as trolly, who pushed her trolly off the kerb between my car and the one next to it, but the camber caught the trolly (as can sometimes happen) and it rolled into my car, she looked at me, and while still holding her phone in one hand proceeded to push the trolly with the other, scraping the side of my car the whole way, it was clear she was planning to ignore me the whole time, i was a bit nicer to her than the other one but she still got told......
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I have heard tipping the offending trolley full of groceries onto its side stops it from scratching any more of your car and the lucky person who owns the groceries gets some excercise sorting out the mess. (AND maybe learns something, maybe..)

And it your luck the trolley will be chocker full of good shit like glass wine bottles and eggs and flour and similar stuff that mixes well.

**Pixie** · 31st July 2011, 12:50

Originally Posted by Taz

+1 to owning a shit box car in auckland. Years ago I lived in Te Atatu and owned both a Subaru Legacy (was fairly modern then) and a Bedford CF decked out in primer. Coming on to the western motorway in peak traffic I would indicate in the Sub and people would try not to let me in (fuck knows why they do this) but in the Bedford I would indicate and start to merge and a large gap would just appear as if by magic

It's due to issues with penis size.
Actually I've always used this technique driving all kinds of vehicles and no one ever actually hit me.
I bet they feel tiny when their ploy fails.

**FJRider** · 31st July 2011, 13:04

Originally Posted by scumdog

I have heard tipping the offending trolley full of groceries onto its side stops it from scratching any more of your car and the lucky person who owns the groceries gets some excercise sorting out the mess. (AND maybe learns something, maybe..)

And it your luck the trolley will be chocker full of good shit like glass wine bottles and eggs and flour and similar stuff that mixes well.

That method works really well in the rain ... So I've found ...

**mrchips** · 31st July 2011, 16:16

Originally Posted by lb99

it was clear she was planning to ignore me the whole time, i was a bit nicer to her than the other one but she still got told

+ 1000

I thought it prudent to inform a lady who drove into the rear of my car about the expectations of social behavior & she had the cheek to call me a friggin arrogant a-hole !

Them crazies are taking over the planet, just like those zombies on 'The Walking Dead'.

**dangerous** · 31st July 2011, 16:27

Yeah, but why are these attudes becomming more and more common? were is it comming from?

**YellowDog** · 31st July 2011, 17:52

My wife wants her new car to have sliding rear doors so that others can park as close as they like and dent her car getting out of theirs; yet she will still be able to get the kids in the back, without any trouble

**maggot** · 31st July 2011, 19:57

My missus has just got her car restricted, been driving a fair bit, her mum's car and all that. We were out to dinner last night, she failed a parallel park, ditched it and went to find another, was an optimistic gap at best. Anyhow, she got home later and called me to have a bit of a cry, she found a scrape and paint matching the car she'd try to parallel behind. She had just got too close, scraped and didn't notice.
She was just so upset that she hadn't noticed at the time and couldn't have left a note or talked to the owners, she felt bloody terrible. Her attitude gives me hope at least.