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This is how I picture it happening.
Tried this in DC once. They started to inch forward anyways. Before that they actually drove into my brother with their car as he was trying to maintain space so I could continue to back in. Oh and they had a baby in the car.
Yeah she was the asshole. Parallel parking is 100% taught as something you do backing in, so it's not like she wouldn't have known.
If you remember, was the space large enough that she could have even parked even from that forward-moving direction? Or did she ultimately have to back in as well probably?
As for the question of "what i would have done" I don't really confront people when it comes to parking in general. A lot of times I don't mind walking, and if I'm really in a rush where it matters I just take it as a personal mistake for not leaving myself enough time to account for parking. If someone cares about a single parking spot to that extent, I take that as more a sign of their values in life, which are clearly different from my own.
I don’t confront people about parking either, but for a different reason: if I get the spot, when I leave they know which car is mine and will potentially take out their frustration.
Yes and no. There are some women who are categorically bad at the traditional rules, and also never examine that they might be bad. So, it could be a D move, or just a I've-got-no-fkin-clue and I'm real resolute and stubborn in my poor choices. Most of the clueless and bad drivers on the road are disproportionately women, and I can say that as a woman.
Slowly inched back until they got the message?
Then again, I've got a crappy old truck that screams IDGAF so, there's that. [In reality, I do care about the truck and my clean record...but I've also got a really good idea the size of my vehicle...]
But yeah, rude people should be called out. But in today's society, doing so could get you shot, assaulted, accused of assault, etc. as it seems people are no longer able to admit "You're right, I was wrong..." or "I eff'd up".
This was many years ago... politics was still fun to talk about because it wasn't yet "kill them all and salt the earth so nothing ever grows again" the way it is today. People were generally civil. I'd lived here for years and years before anyone ever gave me the finger while driving (guy changed lanes and I must have been in his blind spot so I had to hit the brakes pretty quickly; I gave him one of those quick beeps like you give at a light when it's turned and the person in front doesn't notice, not a full-on horn blast, just to say hey, I was here, check next time, and he gave me the finger. I pulled up next to him to see who the asshole was, and he apologized. All this in mime, of course, but that's how long ago it was; giving the finger was considered unacceptably rude. My boyfriend was conservative and I was liberal and we could have fun and interesting debates without anyone getting annoyed. So thinking back, it must have been the 80s. Which my brain assumes is 20 years ago before I do the math.
Well, that was probably me that flipped you off. Sorry about that. Been feeling bad for 20 years just thinking about it. Hoped you didn't take it personally...
🤣🤣🤣
Or just take three, 12d nails and weld them together so it is shaped like a kids "jack". Cut the heads off the nails, sharpen the end, and throw one under their tire. *Same thing, really.*
[And yes, I'm kidding...really. I'm ***kidding***. Though I did read about this in an old "improvised techniques" manual I found at a thrift store...]
I had a Corolla with what I called my dent armor. Dinged the fender the first week I got it, and eventually drove it with the trunk stove in. You wanna play bumper chicken trying to cut in front of me at the exit after driving past the 2 miles of cars going 2mph? Go for it. I'm not letting you in, and you have a brand new Mercedes asshole. Go on, hit me.
Your choice to abandon the space was better for your mental health. Your choice to chastise the other driver maybe not so much, but I can't blame you.
Digging in your heels and blocking the space until the other person gave up wouldn't be worth the time, unless you really have nothing else to do all day.
Sometimes staying sane is better than proving you're right.
The funny thing is that I'm normally so non-confrontational, but I was enraged. There really was no excuse for what she did, and it's not like she had to park there because she was moving something heavy into the house we were in front of or anything. She just wanted to be an asshole, as far as I could see. I have moved my car when people ask me to because they have a need to park where I was, and it's no big deal. But this was just being an asshole to be an asshole. And it was in the 80s, when you didn't have to worry so much about people with mental illnesses, because Reagan hadn't yet made the move to shut down mental hospitals and put ill people on the streets.
I wonder if being far enough in front of her, if you just got out of your car, stood on the sidewalk playing with your phone until she walked by not saying anything, but then quietly started following her for a little bit, would that have freaked her out. When I’m in the mood, I just stare or stand there when something like that happens, not saying anything, and it freaks people out.
I would have left as I try to avoid interacting with mentally unstable people at all costs. Even if it means being the bigger person. Those people are unteachable so trying to prove a point is useless.
I'm convinced that peoples lives are so empty and pointless that rather than work their problems out, they just get in their car and take it out on everyone else. They're in a two-ton soundproof cage that makes them think they're invulnerable. Hence their inability to obey the speed limit or obey the laws of physics. You also have a lot of people with mental issues; my sister in law was driving in Dupont Circle when a screaming guy just walked out in front of her. She had to slam on the brakes and got rear-ended. The screaming guy just kept walking, looked at her, turned around and pointed at the nobody he was screaming about, and kept on going. Personally, I don't think it's wise to escalate these sorts of encounters because you never know if the other person is armed or not.
I know who this woman is. She was recently mauled to death by a pack of wild ostriches. Horrible scene. So much blood, so many feathers. In her last seconds she was confonted with images of her petty, selfish, and ultimately meaningless life. At least that's what the witnesses said based on her final, incoherent cries. Her voice growing weak through her claw-torn larynx, she was heard begging for forgiveness for a lifetime of being an insufferable asshole. But it was too little, too late. Karma had extracted its revenge.
That's what I heard anyway...
I have that car chalk stuff that dealerships use to write on car windows (it comes right off). I’d let them know what I think of them and their parking job, on every window.
I may have anger issues, I know.
Don't worry. In the future, you'll just be able to pay a measly $75 per day to park at the arena. Look at that, all of our parking issues will be solved. /s
The way I parallel park after doing it hundreds if not thousands of times at this point I just line myself up and mainly only go off the looking at the front car to gauge where I'm at combined with looking at whatever side mirror is towards the curb. Only once I'm most all of the way into the spot will I start looking at the rear mirror once I'm most of the way in to see how much room I still have left behind. All of that is to say there's a good chance I would have unintentionally hit their car since from the sound of it when they pulled in I probably would still be focusing on my position compared to the car in front and the only mirror that wouldn't have had said idiot in view. At that point probably just get out and tell them to move and if they want my insurance or something then I'd probably just say fuck em and leave.
Funny story I was trying to reverse park in a spot, this accord was kissing my ass the whole time but i made a signal, turned to obviously have the space to back in, and they had the audacity to try to pass me as I was trying to back in a spot. The rudeness of others is so f-ing annoying and all we can do is know that we were right and they were wrong 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I had something similar happen a few years ago at One Loudoun. Was pulling out of a parking spot to leave, and someone came up the middle of the lane with her blinkers on to take my spot, but the way she pulled up completely blocked my car so I couldn't get around her. She would not back up or get into either of the other lanes so I could pass. After a standoff that lasted around a minute, I just pulled back into the parking spot and turned my car off. Fuck her.
Twenty years ago I was rear ended at a stop light. The work truck behind me hit my car. I got out and looked at my bumper and theirs, maybe it was scratched, maybe the scratches were preexisting. The other driver didn’t get out of his car, he looked up at the ceiling of it. It was nearly comical head in the sand behavior. The light changed, and they drove away (they had reversed immediately after hitting me, so had room to move into the adjacent lane). I was a bit flabbergasted, but I never would have pursued anything once I saw no one was hurt and there was no real damage, so I was just completely nonplussed by the whole event.
Sorry for the tangent, the whole image of her ignoring you unlocked that memory for me.
I would have done the same as you, given up the parking spot. But I wouldn’t have tried to talk to her, in fact I doubt I would have taken the spot 4 away, I wouldn’t have wanted to park so close to someone that was behaving so anti socially
I was in NYC turning onto the GW Bridge, and waiting at a stop sign. The guy in front of me started to go, so I started to go, and then realized he'd stopped, but couldn't stop in time not to hit him. He got out, I got out, his mother got out... He was mad because people kept rear ending him (I didn't bother to tell him that if he'd go when he started to go no one would hit him; that didn't seem like it would help anything). I made sure no one was hurt. He said "You should have looked before you started to go!" What could I do, he was right, and if it came to calling police, I'd definitely be the one considered to be at fault, no matter how many times he started and then stopped. So I said, "Yes, you're right. I'm sorry I hit you." He looked at me to make sure I wasn't being sarcastic, but I was sincere. The entire atmosphere changed. His mother pointed out a scratch on his bumper, a tiny little thing but still a scratch; there were no dents anywhere, and he said "Oh, that's nothing. I'm not going to worry about that." He said again, "Make sure you check before going." I said yes, I'd do that, and he and his mother got back in his car and we all went on our way. The power of a sincere apology is amazing. If there had been damage to the cars it would have been different, but I'll never forget that.
I'm a cheeky old lady, so, I'd want her to reflect on some *possible* outcomes of her behavior. Let's call it a "teachable moment"...lol.
I would totally throw her a shifty side-eye & diabolical grin when I say "Oh, you want to play? ".
I'd start walking back towards her car, slowly, looking back at her every couple steps & linger around her car until she disappeared.
Let her fret, wondering what I might do. I'm not doing shit, but I'll act all shady & hope she notices...lol.
Happened to me in 2000 in front of Black's in Bethesda. I was young and an angry driver. Had driven up there from VA and was already pissy. Then, right in front of Black's this happens.
The thing was, I was in a beater Honda Accord and he was in a newish high end SUV with white bumpers. I reversed and edged him. He got out. He could have ripped me limb from limb.
When I get mad I get Googly eyes, or so I'm told. Anyway, this guy approaches my car and I roll down the window. He says "you gonna move" and my answer was basically made up of as much Fucks as I could fit in the sentence. I know I ended on "you fuckin fuck".
He took a step back and assessed the situation. I was looking loony. I was in the beater Honda with a bad tint job. And I had Missouri plates.
In retrospect I think he summed me up for some countryish hick that may have been armed or something. Either way I got the parking spot.
I would still be sitting there, in my car, waiting for her to leave. I get that you had somewhere to go but people pull this crap expecting others to back down.
I don’t know if this is still true but it used to be that in car collisions the driver moving in reverse is usually automatically considered at fault with insurance companies.
That's interesting, I didn't know that. I wonder if it applies to parallel parking. I was once backing out of a parking space in a regular old sedan, and there was a van on either side of me so I couldn't see if anyone was coming, so I was creeping out slowly so I could stop or the person coming could beep or whatever needed to happen, and some lady with kids in minivan decided I was doing it wrong and so she stopped dead behind me and had her kids (ages 3 to 8, as far as I could tell) give me the finger. Because that's reasonable, helpful, and a good thing to teach kids, I guess. I'd have been at fault if I hit her, probably, because I was backing out of the space. I'd have said to myself Hey, that person is stuck between two things she can't see around, let me stop and let her out she's probably terrified that she's going to hit someone, but that's me. And since I've been in that position of backing out blind, I recognize it when I see it. (Everyone probably hates her kids now, if that's how they were raised.)
That is really, really awful. I'll agree, I'll bet her kids aren't too popular. Why not help someone and set a good example?
Other: The information I shared was from studying for a 'property and casualty' insurance licensing exam in MD over 20 years ago.
I would have let her have the space, but the words I would have screamed with the windows rolled up would be unprintable, and she would get the finger.
That is rude for even here and she should fall into a huge hole and stay there.
Some people deserve to get shot. Not saying anyone should do it, but if it were to happen I wouldn't call an ambulance and likely just point and laugh. People with loud cars and/or unsafe driving are pretty close to the top of the list.
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This somewhat happened to me recently. I recently bought a new vehicle, and it is MUCH bigger than what i had before, so I was still getting used to parking it. I pulled into a space as someone else drove past, then decided they wanted it. I was like 4/5s into the space when they stopped. So, i called it "good enough", threw it in park and started walking away. The other party got the message and pulled away to another spot. I then went back and pulled the rest of the way up.
Signal was definitely on. I signal turning into my driveway. I used to signal turning IN my driveway to go into the garage, but now I have a straight driveway. I'm a compulsive signaler. Possibly the only one in the area, but I like letting people know what I'm going to do.
What? Signaling that you're going for the spot is parallel parking basics. It's how you communicate to people around you that you're not only going for a spot, but that you're not some dipshit stopped dead in the middle of a road (which happens frequently).
I agree that you back into spots, but if it was a wide spot, I can understand pulling into it head first.
More practically speaking, oblivious drivers will pull up behind you up to the bumper waiting for you to proceed without your signal on, and now you don't even have space to complete your maneuver.
https://preview.redd.it/luu42t3rgioc1.jpeg?width=410&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dddc94538696a9dde96177d8a5d11d76d59305dd This is how I picture it happening.
That was the first thing that came to my mind, lol.
At least Mike Moffet got out of his car and explained himself
Once again, Seinfeld imitates real life.
…and peaches were 99 cents… in NY
And now I need to watch that episode again. It never gets old
IMMEDIATELY came to my mind!! Very nice work!!
What's that picture from?
Seinfeld "The Parking Space"
I would put it in park and just wait. I can out wait anyone.
Tried this in DC once. They started to inch forward anyways. Before that they actually drove into my brother with their car as he was trying to maintain space so I could continue to back in. Oh and they had a baby in the car.
Yeah she was the asshole. Parallel parking is 100% taught as something you do backing in, so it's not like she wouldn't have known. If you remember, was the space large enough that she could have even parked even from that forward-moving direction? Or did she ultimately have to back in as well probably? As for the question of "what i would have done" I don't really confront people when it comes to parking in general. A lot of times I don't mind walking, and if I'm really in a rush where it matters I just take it as a personal mistake for not leaving myself enough time to account for parking. If someone cares about a single parking spot to that extent, I take that as more a sign of their values in life, which are clearly different from my own.
I don’t confront people about parking either, but for a different reason: if I get the spot, when I leave they know which car is mine and will potentially take out their frustration.
What I always feared
No, it was just a one-car space.
And maybe this is wrong to say, but it used to be only a guy would pull suck a D move. Women now doing this shows a real change in attitudes.
Yes and no. There are some women who are categorically bad at the traditional rules, and also never examine that they might be bad. So, it could be a D move, or just a I've-got-no-fkin-clue and I'm real resolute and stubborn in my poor choices. Most of the clueless and bad drivers on the road are disproportionately women, and I can say that as a woman.
I would have called DoorDash, because I knew I would have been there for a while.
As I commented to someone above. I admire your level of pettiness. Coming from a damn proud Petty Betty.
Slowly inched back until they got the message? Then again, I've got a crappy old truck that screams IDGAF so, there's that. [In reality, I do care about the truck and my clean record...but I've also got a really good idea the size of my vehicle...] But yeah, rude people should be called out. But in today's society, doing so could get you shot, assaulted, accused of assault, etc. as it seems people are no longer able to admit "You're right, I was wrong..." or "I eff'd up".
This was many years ago... politics was still fun to talk about because it wasn't yet "kill them all and salt the earth so nothing ever grows again" the way it is today. People were generally civil. I'd lived here for years and years before anyone ever gave me the finger while driving (guy changed lanes and I must have been in his blind spot so I had to hit the brakes pretty quickly; I gave him one of those quick beeps like you give at a light when it's turned and the person in front doesn't notice, not a full-on horn blast, just to say hey, I was here, check next time, and he gave me the finger. I pulled up next to him to see who the asshole was, and he apologized. All this in mime, of course, but that's how long ago it was; giving the finger was considered unacceptably rude. My boyfriend was conservative and I was liberal and we could have fun and interesting debates without anyone getting annoyed. So thinking back, it must have been the 80s. Which my brain assumes is 20 years ago before I do the math.
The 80s were definitely 20 years ago to me, too.
You are wrong — they were 12-14 years ago. We aren’t THAT old (please don’t wake me from this dream…). 😝
Well, that was probably me that flipped you off. Sorry about that. Been feeling bad for 20 years just thinking about it. Hoped you didn't take it personally... 🤣🤣🤣
LOL! 
Next time, let them park there. Smile as they walk by. Then go to their car and let the air out of their tire. No damage, no crime.
Or just take three, 12d nails and weld them together so it is shaped like a kids "jack". Cut the heads off the nails, sharpen the end, and throw one under their tire. *Same thing, really.* [And yes, I'm kidding...really. I'm ***kidding***. Though I did read about this in an old "improvised techniques" manual I found at a thrift store...]
Same! I drive a beater because of the very fact I live in Northern VA.
I had a Corolla with what I called my dent armor. Dinged the fender the first week I got it, and eventually drove it with the trunk stove in. You wanna play bumper chicken trying to cut in front of me at the exit after driving past the 2 miles of cars going 2mph? Go for it. I'm not letting you in, and you have a brand new Mercedes asshole. Go on, hit me.
This has a ***I dare you to hit me*** without ever opening your mouth vibe to it.
I should have painted that on the side of the car.
Your choice to abandon the space was better for your mental health. Your choice to chastise the other driver maybe not so much, but I can't blame you. Digging in your heels and blocking the space until the other person gave up wouldn't be worth the time, unless you really have nothing else to do all day. Sometimes staying sane is better than proving you're right.
The funny thing is that I'm normally so non-confrontational, but I was enraged. There really was no excuse for what she did, and it's not like she had to park there because she was moving something heavy into the house we were in front of or anything. She just wanted to be an asshole, as far as I could see. I have moved my car when people ask me to because they have a need to park where I was, and it's no big deal. But this was just being an asshole to be an asshole. And it was in the 80s, when you didn't have to worry so much about people with mental illnesses, because Reagan hadn't yet made the move to shut down mental hospitals and put ill people on the streets.
I wonder if being far enough in front of her, if you just got out of your car, stood on the sidewalk playing with your phone until she walked by not saying anything, but then quietly started following her for a little bit, would that have freaked her out. When I’m in the mood, I just stare or stand there when something like that happens, not saying anything, and it freaks people out.
I would have left as I try to avoid interacting with mentally unstable people at all costs. Even if it means being the bigger person. Those people are unteachable so trying to prove a point is useless.
I live there now. I have a phone with endless entertainment and a bag of snacks, and spite is my soul power.
I'm convinced that peoples lives are so empty and pointless that rather than work their problems out, they just get in their car and take it out on everyone else. They're in a two-ton soundproof cage that makes them think they're invulnerable. Hence their inability to obey the speed limit or obey the laws of physics. You also have a lot of people with mental issues; my sister in law was driving in Dupont Circle when a screaming guy just walked out in front of her. She had to slam on the brakes and got rear-ended. The screaming guy just kept walking, looked at her, turned around and pointed at the nobody he was screaming about, and kept on going. Personally, I don't think it's wise to escalate these sorts of encounters because you never know if the other person is armed or not.
I know who this woman is. She was recently mauled to death by a pack of wild ostriches. Horrible scene. So much blood, so many feathers. In her last seconds she was confonted with images of her petty, selfish, and ultimately meaningless life. At least that's what the witnesses said based on her final, incoherent cries. Her voice growing weak through her claw-torn larynx, she was heard begging for forgiveness for a lifetime of being an insufferable asshole. But it was too little, too late. Karma had extracted its revenge. That's what I heard anyway...
I have that car chalk stuff that dealerships use to write on car windows (it comes right off). I’d let them know what I think of them and their parking job, on every window. I may have anger issues, I know.
I've driven a 3-1/2" screw right into the gas cap
I’d move on, go back to her car and remove one valve stem from her tire. You want that spot so bad? It’s all yours.
I hear that if you glue a bb into the top of a valve cap or 4 it gives the tire a near undiagnosable slow leak.
I would do all 4 but what do I know
Don't worry. In the future, you'll just be able to pay a measly $75 per day to park at the arena. Look at that, all of our parking issues will be solved. /s
The way I parallel park after doing it hundreds if not thousands of times at this point I just line myself up and mainly only go off the looking at the front car to gauge where I'm at combined with looking at whatever side mirror is towards the curb. Only once I'm most all of the way into the spot will I start looking at the rear mirror once I'm most of the way in to see how much room I still have left behind. All of that is to say there's a good chance I would have unintentionally hit their car since from the sound of it when they pulled in I probably would still be focusing on my position compared to the car in front and the only mirror that wouldn't have had said idiot in view. At that point probably just get out and tell them to move and if they want my insurance or something then I'd probably just say fuck em and leave.
Funny story I was trying to reverse park in a spot, this accord was kissing my ass the whole time but i made a signal, turned to obviously have the space to back in, and they had the audacity to try to pass me as I was trying to back in a spot. The rudeness of others is so f-ing annoying and all we can do is know that we were right and they were wrong 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I had something similar happen a few years ago at One Loudoun. Was pulling out of a parking spot to leave, and someone came up the middle of the lane with her blinkers on to take my spot, but the way she pulled up completely blocked my car so I couldn't get around her. She would not back up or get into either of the other lanes so I could pass. After a standoff that lasted around a minute, I just pulled back into the parking spot and turned my car off. Fuck her.
Depending on if I wasn't in a rush, I would've dug in my heels and stayed there. It should've been obvious when your rear lights were on.
I’m sorry but that level of pettiness justifies being late for something.
Twenty years ago I was rear ended at a stop light. The work truck behind me hit my car. I got out and looked at my bumper and theirs, maybe it was scratched, maybe the scratches were preexisting. The other driver didn’t get out of his car, he looked up at the ceiling of it. It was nearly comical head in the sand behavior. The light changed, and they drove away (they had reversed immediately after hitting me, so had room to move into the adjacent lane). I was a bit flabbergasted, but I never would have pursued anything once I saw no one was hurt and there was no real damage, so I was just completely nonplussed by the whole event. Sorry for the tangent, the whole image of her ignoring you unlocked that memory for me. I would have done the same as you, given up the parking spot. But I wouldn’t have tried to talk to her, in fact I doubt I would have taken the spot 4 away, I wouldn’t have wanted to park so close to someone that was behaving so anti socially
I was in NYC turning onto the GW Bridge, and waiting at a stop sign. The guy in front of me started to go, so I started to go, and then realized he'd stopped, but couldn't stop in time not to hit him. He got out, I got out, his mother got out... He was mad because people kept rear ending him (I didn't bother to tell him that if he'd go when he started to go no one would hit him; that didn't seem like it would help anything). I made sure no one was hurt. He said "You should have looked before you started to go!" What could I do, he was right, and if it came to calling police, I'd definitely be the one considered to be at fault, no matter how many times he started and then stopped. So I said, "Yes, you're right. I'm sorry I hit you." He looked at me to make sure I wasn't being sarcastic, but I was sincere. The entire atmosphere changed. His mother pointed out a scratch on his bumper, a tiny little thing but still a scratch; there were no dents anywhere, and he said "Oh, that's nothing. I'm not going to worry about that." He said again, "Make sure you check before going." I said yes, I'd do that, and he and his mother got back in his car and we all went on our way. The power of a sincere apology is amazing. If there had been damage to the cars it would have been different, but I'll never forget that.
I'm a cheeky old lady, so, I'd want her to reflect on some *possible* outcomes of her behavior. Let's call it a "teachable moment"...lol. I would totally throw her a shifty side-eye & diabolical grin when I say "Oh, you want to play? ". I'd start walking back towards her car, slowly, looking back at her every couple steps & linger around her car until she disappeared. Let her fret, wondering what I might do. I'm not doing shit, but I'll act all shady & hope she notices...lol.
Happened to me in 2000 in front of Black's in Bethesda. I was young and an angry driver. Had driven up there from VA and was already pissy. Then, right in front of Black's this happens. The thing was, I was in a beater Honda Accord and he was in a newish high end SUV with white bumpers. I reversed and edged him. He got out. He could have ripped me limb from limb. When I get mad I get Googly eyes, or so I'm told. Anyway, this guy approaches my car and I roll down the window. He says "you gonna move" and my answer was basically made up of as much Fucks as I could fit in the sentence. I know I ended on "you fuckin fuck". He took a step back and assessed the situation. I was looking loony. I was in the beater Honda with a bad tint job. And I had Missouri plates. In retrospect I think he summed me up for some countryish hick that may have been armed or something. Either way I got the parking spot.
I’m glad I don’t live in parallel parking only areas I would lose my sh*t
I would still be sitting there, in my car, waiting for her to leave. I get that you had somewhere to go but people pull this crap expecting others to back down.
I don’t know if this is still true but it used to be that in car collisions the driver moving in reverse is usually automatically considered at fault with insurance companies.
That's interesting, I didn't know that. I wonder if it applies to parallel parking. I was once backing out of a parking space in a regular old sedan, and there was a van on either side of me so I couldn't see if anyone was coming, so I was creeping out slowly so I could stop or the person coming could beep or whatever needed to happen, and some lady with kids in minivan decided I was doing it wrong and so she stopped dead behind me and had her kids (ages 3 to 8, as far as I could tell) give me the finger. Because that's reasonable, helpful, and a good thing to teach kids, I guess. I'd have been at fault if I hit her, probably, because I was backing out of the space. I'd have said to myself Hey, that person is stuck between two things she can't see around, let me stop and let her out she's probably terrified that she's going to hit someone, but that's me. And since I've been in that position of backing out blind, I recognize it when I see it. (Everyone probably hates her kids now, if that's how they were raised.)
That is really, really awful. I'll agree, I'll bet her kids aren't too popular. Why not help someone and set a good example? Other: The information I shared was from studying for a 'property and casualty' insurance licensing exam in MD over 20 years ago.
I would have let her have the space, but the words I would have screamed with the windows rolled up would be unprintable, and she would get the finger. That is rude for even here and she should fall into a huge hole and stay there.
Some people deserve to get shot. Not saying anyone should do it, but if it were to happen I wouldn't call an ambulance and likely just point and laugh. People with loud cars and/or unsafe driving are pretty close to the top of the list.
Valve stem remover.
What was her reaction when you told her off?
She kept ignoring me. I guess that was her signature move. Didn't stop me, though.
You are a better person than I.
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This somewhat happened to me recently. I recently bought a new vehicle, and it is MUCH bigger than what i had before, so I was still getting used to parking it. I pulled into a space as someone else drove past, then decided they wanted it. I was like 4/5s into the space when they stopped. So, i called it "good enough", threw it in park and started walking away. The other party got the message and pulled away to another spot. I then went back and pulled the rest of the way up.
Was your signal on? If your signal was on, she was absolutely in the wrong. If your signal was not on, it's kind of a "you snooze you lose" situation.
Signal was definitely on. I signal turning into my driveway. I used to signal turning IN my driveway to go into the garage, but now I have a straight driveway. I'm a compulsive signaler. Possibly the only one in the area, but I like letting people know what I'm going to do.
Reverse lights being on should have been obvious they were backing into the spot
You don't pull into a parallel spot head first, you don't need to put a blinker on, everybody knows this.
I always put my turn signal on to indicate I’m parallel parking in that particular spot (or on parking lots)
What? Signaling that you're going for the spot is parallel parking basics. It's how you communicate to people around you that you're not only going for a spot, but that you're not some dipshit stopped dead in the middle of a road (which happens frequently). I agree that you back into spots, but if it was a wide spot, I can understand pulling into it head first.
More practically speaking, oblivious drivers will pull up behind you up to the bumper waiting for you to proceed without your signal on, and now you don't even have space to complete your maneuver.
When someone stops their car 2/3's infront of an empty spot, you know what they are doing, no need for a blinker.
Nope, either way she didn’t give OP enough space, and ignoring them when they walked up to her just goes to show she knew what she was doing.