[Closed] why do poor people park their cars so badly?

Because some people think the whole world revolves around them, so they can park where they damn well like

Cos they don't have a driveway?

[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/people-who-know-how-to-****ing-park-on-brink-of-extinction-20070912397/ ]One of the best Daily Mash articles [/url] 😆

cos they have to park their own cars. 😀

Weird, I would have said it was more the people with astons, like one at work, who just have to use 2 spaces.

I employ a poor person to park my car, I have no idea what sort of job they make of it.

Most of the badly parked cars I see around me either on the street or in car parks are Chelsea tractors, BMWs, Audis and Mercs. Not exactly poor peoples cars!

I could comment on why I think they are parked badly but it just wouldn't be polite.

I employ a poor person to park my car, I have no idea what sort of job they make of it.

You should employ another poor person to monitor their performance.

Police aware sticker on windscreen and park it like you've abandoned it and you'll never have to pay for parking again.

You ought to see the way the rich park in Knightsbridge... A lot of them can't be ticketed apparently, cos the plates are in Arabic, and can't be entered on the wardens computers
[img] [/img]
[img] [/img]

Define poor.
Round here the majority of corner parked cars are either X5/X6, 5 Touring, M450 or Cayenne turbo...

Dents on bumpers, next to reverse parking sensors, always make me giggle 😉

I take great pride in parking my car badly at work.

It gives my colleagues something to talk about.

Some of them even believe I cannot park properly!

It can take great skill to park this babdly!

I used to work with a girl who owned a crappy little Daewoo. She was possibly the worst diver I have ever seen. Watching her try to park was a fantastic spectator sport which used to hold the whole office transfixed.

Her best was trying to reverse into a parking space you could have easily have got an artic into. Next to this parking space was a Ferrari 360. We all knew what was going to happen. And it did! You shouldn't really laugh, but.... 🙂

Cos they don't have a driveway?

In which case they'll park it on their lawn 🙂

I worked opposite a Porsche garage for a while.

they were unloading a mixed batch of carreras and cayennes (still had all the film on the panels) when one of the drivers did the classic 'hit the accelarator and not the brake' thing and punted the carerra straight into a cayenne - the cayenne ended up on top of the 'bonnet' of the carrera.

the driver was uninjured but distraught.

I would have said it was more the people with astons, like one at work, who just have to use 2 spaces.

Totally in favour of this, would be fine apart from the twunts who put those nice little dinks into your car doors for you because they seem unable to open car doors carefully.

The poor and the rich behave selfishly and self destructively for the same reasons - it doesn't matter how they behave as they know they'll be treated with contempt by all around them on face value alone.

The daughter of the couple next door to me arrives every morning in her little Toyota Yaris, parks it at her parents house so they can have use of it throughout the day then she walks to the station.

And every morning at 6.30am, the street is treated to the door to the house slamming as one (sometimes both) of the parents walk out into the street then "COME BACK LOVE!" "TURN YER WHEEL!" "BACK A BIT" "NO, YOU'LL HAVE TO GO OUT AND COME BACK IN AGAIN" "WOOOOAAAHH" (this yelled as she gets to one end of the football field sized space and a bit close to my car behind her) "OK LOVE, THAT'LL DO" (this meaning that the car is now within 2 metres of the pavement at a roughly parallel angle).

It's followed by short bitching session as she gets out of the car about how everyone always parks too close to "her" spot.

I haven't needed an alarm clock since I moved there. In case you're wondering, the driver is 34. And she still needs her parents to help her park... 🙄

I'll be honest I've spent 20 minutes trying to reverse a 25ft long 6ft wide caravan into a 7ft wide gap between two others at the storage place we use.

I di get parallel parking with a 'van sorted after the first few goes though.

Maybe if you have a nicer car you park it more carefully so it's less likely to be bumped into?

My Dad took me to pick up my new car - went over to it and opened the door hitting the new car next to it; some people are pretty clueless really.

Some of them do. Most of them dont. You just notice the ones that do.

A friend tells me all cyclists jump red lights. When walking through the city the other week, we do a count and more actually stop than jump.

You notice only the things that irritate you, everything else pretty much passes by.

Also there are a lot less really expensive cars than really poor cars, so that skews the results anyway.

You ought to see the way the rich park in Knightsbridge... A lot of them can't be ticketed apparently, cos the plates are in Arabic, and can't be entered on the wardens computers

A friend tells me all cyclists jump red lights. When walking through the city the other week, we do a count and more actually stop than jump.

Slight hi-jack but recently TfL study across a number of central London sets of lights where jumping reds is perceived to be a problem found that [b]84% [/b]complied. Perhaps more worryingly an unquantified number of the jumpers apparently thought the red light didn't apply to them!

I can see so many examples of bad parking from the seat of my R44

If you are ever bored and fancy a giggle do a search for "parking" on YouTube.

Now I'm not a great driver, but even I am impressed at what some people struggle to park in.

I live near a mosque. I have never seen more inconsiderate or dangerous parking than occurs every Friday.

I can't work out if this is because they are poor. Asian. Muslim. Or just lazy.

Can you help me decide which prejudice I need to apply here?

Mohammad was very clear about friday parking etiquette so i'd say it comes down to them being poor lazy asians

IME the ability of [i]most [/i]drivers to conduct any reverse manoeuvre is woefully poor. (Control, positioning, observation, speed).

And I've yet to come across a 'good' driver who can't park or vicky versi.

The standard test includes one compulsory most instructors aim to 'get people' through rather than teach them how to do them properly (how many people still attempt to get into spaces forward rather then reversing in?)

The Advanced test includes all three (reverse around corner, reverse and turn and parallel park).

Well it's obvious really...poor = low IQ = lack of fine motor skills = bad parking.

How does the OP know the people that are parking these cars are poor ?

I know of a bloke who has all his family park their cars up on the road outside. He then goes and parks their cars for them in the garage!

As for reversing in the driving test, a hell of a lot of instructors will teach something along the lines of "When their back wheel passes your windscreen pillar, start turning the wheel". As a result, a lot of people learn how to maneuvre one car by rote, rather than actually develop some spatial awareness and skill.

I'm pretty relaxed generally, but when I'm king, parking on the pavement will become a capital offence.

There should be a lot more parking and reversing on the driving test.

In fact, I think that there should be an Autotest-style off-road section for the car test (as there now is for motorbikes). Reversing in a figure-of-eight, slaloms, swerves etc.

Interesting program on last night about the bloke who clamps people who park in his carpark in Howarth.

One woman parked across two bays at 45degrees then kicked off about having to pay £75 to release her car.

She was possibly the worst diver I have ever seen. Watching her try to park was a fantastic spectator sport which used to hold the whole office transfixed.

- Once reversed out of the drive of my mum's house and straight into the car parked on the other side of the road

- Wouldn't parallel park AT ALL and would rather spend hours trying to find somewhere she could drive straight into

- Once (with us all in the car) went around a corner and, spectacularly misjudging it, went onto the pavement then over-corrected so much she went onto the other side of the road and nearly mounted the kerb on the opposite carriageway

I honestly don't know how she ever managed to drive properly for long enough to pass a driving test.

Interesting program on last night about the bloke who clamps people who park in his carpark in Howarth.

Reversing in a figure-of-eight, slaloms, swerves etc

and a Dukes-of-Hazzard-jump-river when bridge is out ?

Don't poor porple smell bad too ? We should shun them and not invite them to our dinner parties, or at least get the butler to give them a good talking-to...

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”

MF I don't think hes a saint agreed. I think the problem stems from him using wheel clamps (emotive items already) whereas conventional places put a ticket on your car or send you a 'fine' letter.

There was the story of a MP raising the scandal of a couple parking their car in the pay and display carpark then walking off to find change somewhere.

You wouldn't do that in a pay and display carpark and be pissed off if you cameback to find a warden had put a ticket on.

I overstayed in Edale carpark by 1/2hour and landed a ticket- tough shit on me.

Yeah I wasn't exactly sure why, I just recall the local news doing a bit about him and they weren't painting him as too nice a picture. Isn't he known for hiding in a van and waiting to pounce the minute he can or something? I do agree though - don't pay and face the consequences.

Yes- one reporter actually said it helps him with an easy story.

simple matter is though its off road privately owned. Looking at this image the prices are hardly extortionate for all day parking - £4. People are being stingy and their chancing gets them stung? Unless you are going walking (you'd pay £4 anyway)- Howarth is hardly a big village- so its tight ****s whining me thinks.

Plus- the T&C's/warning is in angry-red.

[img] http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/resources/images/757489/?type=display [/img]

Usually the rich round by me that park badly. Like the chap in the (mid range) Jag that parked on double yellows right outside the supermarket door. What the flying F does he think these hundreds of other people are doing parking in the spaces if not going to the shop just like him? He must really honestly genuinely think he's better than the rest of us. Words fail me.

Did you shit on his bonnet? If you didn't you have failed in your duty to humanity.

Did you #### on his bonnet? If you didn't you have failed in your duty to humanity.

😆

I'm always stunned by how many disabled people and parents with children drive 2 seater sports cars. 😯

disabled people

parents with children

Some quality driving and parking:

Why can't a disabled person drive the car they prefer?

Well firstly I'd imagine it quite difficult to get in and out of a Boxster, and lord knows where you'd put the mobility aid / wheel chair. Maybe the lack of room is the reason they don't have a badge on display?

I assume they have another car.

...and that they've left the kids at home too?

Well firstly I'd imagine it quite difficult to get in and out of a Boxster,

...and that they've left the kids at home too?

Ahhh I see, silly me, parent and child spaces are for people who are parents, regardless of a child being with them?

And disabled badge holders don't need to display the badges anymore, they can just say they're disabled and park in the spaces?

M_F my appologies for being so stupid today. It's been a long week.

Sorry I see what you are getting at now - 😕

But still, I don't see why a disabled person can't drive a sports car if they wish (and are displaying a badge when in a disabled space). 😉

Been long week for you too then 😆

They most certainly can if they want (room for any required mobility aid permitting 😉 )

Every week is a long week with 1yr old twins. I come to work for a break 😉

Why the hell don't disabled people have to pay on the Severn Bridge?

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”

isn't it just as much the lack of everyone else's expectations ?

It's generally expensive cars I see doing overtly selfish stuff, double parking, parking on disabled spots (with no badge) and taking up two bays.

But just being really bad at parking isn't confined to rich or poor, my house is near spar, butty/pie shop, beuty salon and chemist, lots of short stay parking and lots of bloody awful driving/parking. 1, 2 or even 3 wheels on the pavement, parking about 3ft from the kerb, some guy in a punto just reversed the back end onto the pavement and left it there. Sheds or bling mobiles doesn't matter they are useless at parking

Everyone in a car is selfish though aren't they? I mean, almost every car driver breaks the law by speeding. Most car trips are short, easily cycle-able distances and have only 1 person in the car, while spewing pollutants and killing thousands every year. Hardly a considerate way to move around town at all, is it really?

Perhaps not, but it is much more fun than walking or sitting on a bus with old people.

Driving round town isn't more fun than walking or sitting on a bus. It's a pain in the arse.

Parking's a premium on our street. This isn't helped by the two smallest cars on the block insisting on parking exactly a car-length away from the nearest vehicle. There'd be room for two or three more cars if these two would sort themselves out. Makes me ... grrr ... HULK SMASH!!

We've had 8 cars (and a boat trailer) parked here no problem - mwhahahahaha...

Used to take up top half an hour to find a space in Bristol so I DO NOT miss the hassle at all.

Struggling to see the OP's link between "poor" and "bad parking" though...

konabunny - Member

"You ought to see the way the rich park in Knightsbridge... A lot of them can't be ticketed apparently, cos the plates are in Arabic, and can't be entered on the wardens computers"

[b]They should just be trailered away - not legal to drive without Latin numerals and country of origin disc.[/b]

You'll find konabunny, that Latin numerals on number plates are in fact illegal in Britain.

Some years back a smart-arse made the news because he claimed that the Latin numerals on his number plates were legal - he was swiftly prosecuted and convicted.

It is in fact Arabic numerals which are the legal requirement in Britain.

I only mention it btw konabunny, because of your long and rather impressive pedantry record 🙂

I saw a nice yellow lotus Elise parked perfectly in a disabled space the other day, I couldn't work that one out.

Why the hell don't disabled people have to pay on the Severn Bridge?

Theres not many perks to being diabled, I dont mind them getting this one