I generally park well away from the throngs if I have a choice (and if it's not lashing rain)
Yes, but isn't it amazing when you choose a space with empty spaces on either side of you and when you come back to your car, someone has filled those spaces on either side of you despite their being loads of other empty spaces avilable.
That always amuses me. Why do people do that, I wonder? I had an experience recently where I was parked in a fairly empty carpark and the next person to arrive went to great trouble to park right next to me.Yes, but isn't it amazing when you choose a space with empty spaces on either side of you and when you come back to your car, someone has filled those spaces on either side of you despite their being loads of other empty spaces avilable.
I often try to park close to (though not necessarily beside) a better car than mine, to encourage any prospective thieves to look elsewhere.Yes, but isn't it amazing when you choose a space with empty spaces on either side of you and when you come back to your car, someone has filled those spaces on either side of you despite their being loads of other empty spaces avilable.
Couldnt agree with you more!My least favourite carpark is in Blackrock; the shopping centre accross from the one that has M&S, don't know if it is called Frescati or is that the other one. Anyway, I hate the dank, dimly-lit carpark, the narrow spaces and those impossible pillars!
not to mention the lack of space between aisles. Dundrum is my favourite, light, spacious and loads of room in the actual parking space and very few pillars.
True, though their high-tech red/green lights to indicate free spaces get confused by high vehicles (yummy-mummy SUVs and builder jeeps), which seems to be about 50% of the vehicles in Dundrum1Agree with you on dundrum,thats a good one and spaces are a fair size.
Jasus, bit of a chip on your shoulder there...True, though their high-tech red/green lights to indicate free spaces get confused by high vehicles (yummy-mummy SUVs and builder jeeps), which seems to be about 50% of the vehicles in Dundrum1
The key is to park across two spaces! This totally eliminates the chances of people banging their doors against you car and denting and chipping the paintwork. Has worked, touch wood, on my year old car. It is amazing to sit in a car park and observe how often people just bang their doors against the next car without a care in the world!
Jasus, bit of a chip on your shoulder there...
Agree with this too.+1. Says more about the designers of the high-tech red /green light system than it does about 4x4 drivers.
The key is to park across two spaces! This totally eliminates the chances of people banging their doors against you car and denting and chipping the paintwork. Has worked, touch wood, on my year old car. It is amazing to sit in a car park and observe how often people just bang their doors against the next car without a care in the world!
I agree it may look selfish, but, I was sick of having both sides of my car repeatedly dented. With regard to disabled spaces, this is a separate argument. Two young lads I work with said they tried the double space technique over the weekend and were thrilled when returning to undamaged cars. The word is spreading. Praise the Lord!It's a pet hate of mine. The selfishness of taking up two spaces is beneath contempt - you should be clamped imo if you are parked across two spaces - what if an elderly person needed the second space ? You're almost as bad as the people without a disability who park in spaces for the disabled drivers - they should also be clamped imo.
Absolutely agree - I just hate gimmicky technology that doesn't quite work.Says more about the designers of the high-tech red /green light system than it does about 4x4 drivers.
The key is to park across two spaces! This totally eliminates the chances of people banging their doors against you car and denting and chipping the paintwork. Has worked, touch wood, on my year old car. It is amazing to sit in a car park and observe how often people just bang their doors against the next car without a care in the world!
It's a pet hate of mine. The selfishness of taking up two spaces is beneath contempt - you should be clamped imo if you are parked across two spaces - what if an elderly person needed the second space ? You're almost as bad as the people without a disability who park in spaces for the disabled drivers - they should also be clamped imo.
I agree it may look selfish, but, I was sick of having both sides of my car repeatedly dented.
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