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(Message started by: TRACEYS_LIMO on Feb 5^th, 2007, 2:46pm)

Title: car parking
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Feb 5^th, 2007, 2:46pm

is it me or has anyone else noticed that sainsburys carparks are shrinking if you can get the car in the narrow space, then the rear of the car sticks out two foot >:(

Title: Re: car parking
Post by taliban on Feb 5^th, 2007, 3:23pm

i've always found that, just glad i've got a viscious tow bar sticking out the back...

Title: Re: car parking
Post by cossie_al on Feb 5^th, 2007, 4:14pm

Yep, mine always sticks out!!!!
Errr the car from the parking bay that is ;D
On the subject of tow bars and shopping it always makes me laugh inside when the wife bangs her shin on the tow bar as she loads the shopping into the boot.
Well she has bumped the scorp more than once so its just pay back ;)

Title: Re: car parking
Post by dh_dove on Feb 5^th, 2007, 7:04pm

ALL car parking spaces are shrinking........it's all part of a drive to force you to drive an "economical city car", whatever that is. AND to increase revenue....... :'(
When in the XJS I look for the most out of the way deserted part of the car park and park there...............BUT some lonely person ALWAYS comes and parks next to me ???
On a recent Sunday morning visit 11.00am to our local Mall I parked at the far end of the (huge) car park and thought.....IDEA.....park right over the white line so I can't be trapped (Jag coupe doors are v. long......)
Came back half an hour later to find a note under my windscreen wiper.......
"You are arrogant and selfish, learn to park in a space!" (note was in a womans writing)
No other cars parked anywhere nearby and car park still nearly empty!!!
Best bit is, I told this story to a very old friend of mine recently and he said
"What was she.............psychic?"
Doh :-[
DH Dove

Title: Re: car parking
Post by cossie_al on Feb 5^th, 2007, 7:52pm

on 02/05/07 at 19:04:10, dh_dove wrote:

I told this story to a very old friend of mine recently and he said
"What was she.............psychic?"
Doh :-[DH Dove

;D ;D ;D
I used to work as a manager for a national car parking company.
I often handled complaints where a member of the public would place a note under the wiper of a car and the driver would come and play holy hell thinking an attendant had done it ::)

Title: Re: car parking
Post by TiberiuS on Feb 5^th, 2007, 8:42pm

on 02/05/07 at 19:04:10, dh_dove wrote:

Came back half an hour later to find a note under my windscreen wiper.......
"You are arrogant and selfish, learn to park in a space!" (note was in a womans writing)

Alas, that's without the ex-wife/girlfriend ranting on ::)

Regards Bruce (the person with shorter, lowly saloon doors ;))

Title: Re: car parking
Post by jonnycab on Feb 6^th, 2007, 1:08am

I've got a two year old & it really is a pain when the spaces are so tight that you can hardly squeeze yourself out the door, let alone get the littl'un out the back..

Thank god for mother & child spaces, although I think they should be renamed mother/father & child spaces, 'cos I do get some dirty looks ::)

My wife works part time, so when she's at work, I look after the littl'un.
A few weeks back I took him shopping at Tesco's & parked in one of those extra wide spaces (it also happened to be the last one as well).
I was getting my little boy out of his seat in the back when a woman came up & demanded I move my car ???

When I asked why, she said....
"cos your in a mother & child space"
"yes, I know" I said, "& your point being?"
"your not a mother"
"no, I'm a father" I said, as I lifted my little boy out of the car ;)

She looked me up & down, then stomped off back to her car with her snotty kids in the back & screeched off, narrowly missing an old couple with a shopping trolley.

Equal rights for fathers......that's what I reckon ;)

Title: Re: car parking
Post by big_neil on Feb 6^th, 2007, 8:44am

count me as guilty, i tend to take two spaces up in my scorp,when my brother in law was in hospital i took my sis in law every day for two weeks, my car was bashed to bu**ery in the car park, one mark was 6in long right down to bare metal, good job i took my old granada, it was on it,s last legs any way. i once parked in asda totally away from any one when we came out i,d to get in the passenger side some muppet had parked right up to my drivers door,left a note on his windscreen saying i,d bring a tin opener next time and ar**holes like you should come on the bus!!

Title: Re: car parking
Post by cleave on Feb 6^th, 2007, 9:37am

hahah one sunday in my local wickes diy store,as usual i decided to park over the white lines deliberatly{grim i know}but only do it when theres 50% spaces still available as i sick of numptiies needing 6 feet to open there door lol.I grapped my paint and returned to my car to see a guy had squeezed in next to me,and i mean NEXT to me ....wing mirrors nearly touching.He knew i cauldnt get in the gap to open my door let alone get in the scorp.I asked him to back out so i cauld go and his words were ...when ive loaded my boot m8 youll have to wait wont u teach u to learn how to park.On this he started to load up whet seemed to be 5000 block pavours 1 at a time witha little smile at me after each brick was neatly and slowly placed.It seemed i waited 20 minutes b4 he finally did it and looking at the tyres resting on his wheel arches he was obviously overloaded.He pulled out of the car park with me behing him approaching the excessivly high speed ramps near the exit.This is when i realised the last laugh was gonna be mine he drove over front wheels fine as soon as back hit ramps there was a huge bang and i sat and watched both rear tyres turn to mush.I indicated pulled around him opened passenger window and shouted oi m8 u wanna learn when enough is enough,i parked as i did on purpose i dont lack driving skill but your obviously a complete tard have a nice day ;D ;Di was laughing all the way home....once again the gods smiled on car owners with great taste in cars

Title: Re: car parking
Post by mr._floppy on Feb 6^th, 2007, 10:55am

<<< You are arrogant and selfish, learn to park in a space!" ( note was in a womans writing ) >>>>

You're havin' a larf How can you tell ?

Are you a Graphologist or summat ?

Title: Re: car parking
Post by petehull on Feb 6^th, 2007, 4:13pm

Probably had perfume on it :D }{

Title: Re: car parking
Post by jonnycab on Feb 6^th, 2007, 4:49pm

Or maybe it was written in lipstick ;)

Title: Re: car parking
Post by taliban on Feb 6^th, 2007, 5:38pm

you can generally tell female writing, especially if they're under 50

Title: Re: car parking
Post by lurchy666 on Feb 6^th, 2007, 7:22pm

my estate granada is a good one for parking

i always try to park in the parking space but either the front is hanging over or the tail end but one day when i got back to the car i had a ticket on my window from the traffic warden person (in the carpark) for 60 quid as well i will just add for not parking in the place propally

so i went to him and complained about it and he said you should learn how to park

he came out of his little hut and saw my car was longer than the parking space and said i should get a littler car and off he went

by this time i was fuming so i got in the granada waited for him to get in his little hut and got out of the space and went over to the hut rather sideways parked right in front of his door which opened outwards and just parked there so he couldn't open the door and asked him to fone his manager and i wasn't moving till i saw some one

i just sat there for a good hour with him shouting at me cause i had blocked him in (searved him right anyway)

coppers appeared and asked why i had parked like it so i told the and even got a tape measure out and showed them i couldn't propally get in the space

the coppers asked me to move my car which i did and the coppers said to him about my car is to long for the spaces etc he went off on one at the coppers about me parking agenst his hut and the copper laughed at him ;D and said he did ask to speak to the manager and it's your own fault for being a git basically with that ticket was taken back and i went off happy as larry

lol my car has never had a ticket on it since in that car park altho the bloke is quite nice to me now }{

Title: Re: car parking
Post by dh_dove on Feb 6^th, 2007, 7:25pm

Can't everyone tell the difference (generally) between the handwriting of women and men ???
DH Dove

Title: Re: car parking
Post by scorpio197 on Feb 6^th, 2007, 8:13pm

As a rule women right notes slowly because they think us men cant read very fast . ;D

Title: Re: car parking
Post by TiberiuS on Feb 6^th, 2007, 8:25pm

on 02/06/07 at 16:49:43, jonnycab wrote:

Or maybe it was written in lipstick ;)

Or the blood of her previous lover :o ;D ;)

Title: Re: car parking
Post by jonnycab on Feb 7^th, 2007, 3:03am

on 02/06/07 at 20:25:27, TiberiuS wrote:

Or the blood of her previous lover :o ;D ;)

Hmmm......that gives me an idea for my next letter to Tony Blair :)

Now, what did I do with that empty ink cartridge? ;D