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Old 4th May 2018, 16:36   #1
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Who knew I'd been parking wrong all these years

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Old 4th May 2018, 16:55   #2
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Did you not know you are supposed to park with your wheels on the cross lines....


You couldn't make it up mate. Mind you it stops door dings so maybe he/she is correct?

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Old 4th May 2018, 19:55   #3
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Being a VW, maybe it's just an anti-social car.
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Old 4th May 2018, 23:49   #4
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Old 5th May 2018, 01:22   #5
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good job wasnt parked in the bay in front of you if it parked back as far as that over the line real damage im thinking with that tow bar.
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Old 5th May 2018, 05:16   #6
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Some mothers seem to think parking like the picture above is the way to do it, there kids open the car doors with no care for any other vehicle and even if the do damage another car they don't even tell the child off. Also a lot of parking spaces seem to be the size of a Euro hatch even in newly constructed car parks yet the average car these days is a lot bigger.

I think parallel parking should be part of the driving test, so many people even with all the parking aids that a lot of people have on there vehicles these day just don't seem to be able to do it and if they do they park in the middle of a space big enough for two cars.
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Old 5th May 2018, 07:00   #7
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Some mothers seem to think parking like the picture above is the way to do it, there kids open the car doors with no care for any other vehicle and even if the do damage another car they don't even tell the child off. Also a lot of parking spaces seem to be the size of a Euro hatch even in newly constructed car parks yet the average car these days is a lot bigger.

I think parallel parking should be part of the driving test, so many people even with all the parking aids that a lot of people have on there vehicles these day just don't seem to be able to do it and if they do they park in the middle of a space big enough for two cars.
this is why my car is to be found at the far end of the car park away from the shop entrance or in two spaces, near side in one space and off side in another. I know people get quite upset by this but none of them offer to pay for the damage to my car. Sometimes I wont even use the car park if I cant find what I consider to be a suitable space...or spaces

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Old 5th May 2018, 07:39   #8
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a few years ago i used to deliver bread to stores in london i was in a store delivery area which was an enclosed area when a pour darling parked her bm ubder the tail lift as it was coming down with 3 stacks of bread on it when i explained to her that she cant park there her answer was i am only going to be 20 minutes when i told her the front of her car will be squished if she dose nt move it you should of hered the language that came out of her moouth
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Old 5th May 2018, 10:20   #9
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a few years ago i used to deliver bread to stores in london i was in a store delivery area which was an enclosed area when a pour darling parked her bm ubder the tail lift as it was coming down with 3 stacks of bread on it when i explained to her that she cant park there her answer was i am only going to be 20 minutes when i told her the front of her car will be squished if she dose nt move it you should of hered the language that came out of her moouth
I bet 20 minutes would have felt like a life time to her if she had been blocked in.

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Old 5th May 2018, 10:32   #10
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this is why my car is to be found at the far end of the car park away from the shop entrance
That doesn't always work. I do that as well and still came back to find the driver's door mirror dangling by the wires one time.
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