I'd be careful about doing that, it will entice people to damage it, unfortunately...

 

i never park when shopping, pull up, drop passenger and go for a drive, pickup passenger 1hr later

 

I was mortified to find a so called female friend trying to park her car, i was unfortunately a passenger in the back.

She would reverse into the parking space until her bumper hit the car behind, then she would correct her steering and drive into the car in front until bumpers met.

Obviously i couldnt contain myself - WTF are you doing?!?! youve just hit 2 cars! - her reply, nah its only bumpers, thats what theyre on cars for isnt it!

I was struck speechless for a few minutes - how exactly do you argue against that kind of dumb mentality?!?!?!

 

I would also be stuck for words.

And people like that can never really understand.

I have parking down to a fine art now, in terms of space selection. There are a LOT of things to consider!

 

Even after all this time I still don't like parking my S alongside another car. I care about my car, and I was taught to respect other peoples property. That means I take extra care not to bang my door into someone else's car. They might not care about it, and only think of it as "just a car" but I don't know that. So I'm careful.

If you want to give yourself some more room don't simply double park, just park so badly at a funny angle that you make it impossible for anyone to park along side you. Everyone will look at your poor parking attempt and think you can't park your silly sports car, and won't think you've done it on purpose

I've done this on more than one occasion (but never when it means taking the final two spaces) and even came back to find a friendly note on my windscreen once Someone thought my parking was so bad that I should pop into the local Spec Savers. They were even kind enough to give me the local branches phone number

 

i find chavs are generally the worst offenders.

some scroat chav scab man dumped his car at the end of our road (narrow street) and just blocked the road, my neighbour (bad driver) could not get her barge through the gap so she was stuck in (culdesac), i wriggled out (just) my missus go through in the morning but sat there an honked her horn for a while (go Tiff!) just cause she was pissed off.

When i came home the chav was at the car putting petorl in it from a jerry can...no reasoning with these idiots, they just grunt and swear.

Back on topic, my bin man used the boot of my car as a handy perch whilst waiting for the lorry a few weeks back...again? what does one doo...go and give him hell? report him? am sure either will result in a mysterious scratch / dent later down the line.

Chavs should be deported to the isle of white (sorry isle of white residents, you should move back to the motherland) and not allowed to return, then that is full, we can try france.

Ban them.

 

It is just a car. Just because someone thinks that it doesn't mean that they're not going to be careful.

 

We all put different values on our possessions, so I don't ever think of it as just being a car, but plenty do. As you quite rightly point out that doesn't mean everyone who thinks that way doesn't care about it. Just a turn of phrase

 

The other car I have is an A4 which I keep the bodywork permanently filthy to almost disgustingly filthy, the interior is like new and so is the body work underneath all the crap but it doesn’t half keep people away from it in car parks, if they try to squeeze by they end up as filthy as the car and you’ll be amazed how many people don’t want crap on their clothes!

With the “S” I never stop – so parking never comes into it thank god

 

I'd have broken her hip when I returned the trolley to her, as fast and hard as I could have pushed it into her, we're lucky to have a garage to park the S in at home and like many others park away from others in public car parks or if need be pick a space surrounded by other nice cars.