Car parking for the selfish

I've parked across the back of a car that dove into a space I was waiting for. When I got out and told the male driver I had waited for 5 minutes for the space, both he and his wife said "tough", smiled and walked off.

They didn't look happy when I returned. "What the effing hell you playing at you ............., I've been waiting for ages to leave". "Tough". Smile happily.

A common trick at a 'works' car park is to park across 2 bays, a bit later the offenders buddy drives up gets out of his/her car goes to the offending car and finds the offenders keys under the wheel arch or another hidden place. He/she then parks the offending car normally and in the now vacant space parks their own car. Nice way of saving a space for your mates.....So next time you see a car parked across 2 bays, check out the rear wheel arches, find the keys move the car (preferably on the double yellows out side the car park) and put your own car in the vacant space, being very careful to return the offenders keys to whence they came.

"You drive round and round looking for a space and you finally spot one. So you indicate and prepare to manoeuvre into the space, meanwhile some git just nips in there and steals it even though you were first to find it. Honestly, it’s no wonder that road rage is becoming more and more common."

The 'git' is one of those people that is aware that most other people abide by understood 'social' rules, and in knowing that they take advantage and do as they want. Most gripes are about such people.

I hear shopping trolleys are better than keys, especially weighted full ones, with lots of sharp edges. And if I ever find out who the b'stard was that used it on my car I will remove their entrails very slowly whilst cooking their toes over a charcoal barbeque....Grrrrrrrrgh! and I was parked legitimately with an equal distance between both white lines.....

My main irritation is the selfish car driver who deliberately takes up two parking spaces at the supermarket ( to protect his / her flash Mercedes / Land Rover / Subaru / BMW / Porche / Etc: car from dents and scratches ? ) while everyone else is hunting for a space . I love my car and keep it prestine but I only take ONE space.
I am often tempted to use my key for more than opening my car door !

Walking along the pavement this morning only to find it completely blocked by a big white van. No space between it and the wall so had to walk in the road. Again. The van was still there 3 hours later so you can imagine how many people ended up in the road. If one of us had got hit by a car - would the owner of the van really care? I doubt it somehow or they wouldn't park there in the first place.

If only it were as simple as the type of car we could make all BMW drivers take an additional test, as part of the purchase conditions. Unfortunately, it's just down to ignorance. Some people seem to live in a forward looking bubble. They don't seem to see, or care about, what is happening around them. This attitude can be witnessed in all areas of British life. The driver who squeezes into the end space on a road, with no thought to how the car in front will get out, is probably the one who sat in front of me on a plane, last week. He fully reclined his seat into my lap and then had to stretch forward to eat his food!

Just an interesting note about BMW drivers.
A friend of mine was the sales manager in a large BMW dealer in the 70's. Strangely, he drove a company Ford from his groups other francise. Why do you not use a BMW? says I, well, says he, I don't want to be thought of as the kind of person that drives a BMW!
He did not say it as a joke, he was serious!

Re disabled parking spaces; is there a recommended percentage of spaces in any car park to be designated disabled?
I would love to know as there is a garden centre / farm shop near me which seems to have far too many! If you go there when it's really busy, summer (I wish) or just before Christmas the car park can be packed, except for three quarters of the disabled spaces being empty. This to my mind is proof that there are far too many.
Hopeful shoppers are left with the choice of parking in a disabled space or going away & spending their money elsewhere!

In my experience the most dangerous drivers are tarted up chavs and chavettes in hotted up Renault Clitos with whip aerials, chrome exhaust pipes, and loads of other crap hanging off them. These are invariably the ones tailgating, lane changing, or belting past on the motorways at 95 mph in the rain.

Most people who drive quality cars tend to do so responsibly. Urban 4x4's are probably the exception, generally they are arrogant idiots with a complex.

Who causes road rage?
1 Arrogant drivers of Mercedes, BMW, Audi and VW cars - note the pecking order.
2 4x4s who won't move over onto the verge on a tight road.
3 Those who overtake you in a low speed area.
4 Idiots who sit in the middle lane of the motorway.
5 Queue jumpers - again usually BMW.
6 Tailgaiters, from white van man to the blacked out Corsa.
7 Chavs who leisurely swagger across the road in front of you.
8 The oblivious lane changer.
9 The woman on double yellow lines - see no 1.

Have you not noticed that often folks that drive fancy cars like BMW, Mercs and 4X4's just don't care and ignore everyone and just pull out any time and give no thought or care to other drivers or any one on the road. Why?