h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some people just seem to have it that the world revolve around them and stuff everyone else.

Like yesterday I was visiting someone in a Fold and parked in one of their parking spaces. I came out a few minutes later to find someone had parked behind me in such a way that I couldn't get out. I found out who the car belonged to and politely asked them if they could move it as I was blocked in. The lady replied, "You mean it was you blocking me out of my space?" I was polite and apologised saying that I didn't realise spaces were assigned - there weren't the usual signs up with reg nos or names to reserve spaces. The lady was really quite rude and insisted that I'd taken her space.

I mean really!! Blocking me in wasn't going to get her the space back in a hurry.

Nothing says 'Life Needed' quite so succinctly as getting worked up about 'your' parking space - especially when you're the only one who knows it's yours.

I've got driveway and people never block it in. Generally, I find drivers are good at following the rules about parking, once it's clear what's expected.

My mum's next door neighbour gets mad when she can't get parked right outside her house. She once came to my mum's door when I was visiting and asked me to move my car. I told her to get lost and she tried to play the invalid card (she has an orange badge for her 'bad back' but there's bugger all wrong with it). I told her that I could park where I liked and why didn't she use her garage at the lockup across the road, about 20 feet from her house? She said she was going to phone the police and when I asked her what she thought they would do she started walking home.

It amuses me when people complain about others parking outside their house, particularly when they do have a driveway of their own to use. No-one owns that parking space & the house owner is certainly not entitled to a clear view!

However, there are lots of people who park inconsiderately, even dangerously e.g. too close to junctions, or creating slaloms down narrow roads.

I know! It's different if it's permit-holder only sopace or something. And if it is there's a sign up to say so.

One thing that cracks me up at home is when people park across the end of the driveway or just pull in and stop. We've quite a good sized drive, which helps as my dad works from home. But it never seems to occur to his clients that people need to get in and out. I'd one guy pulled in and stopped and had to walk past mny car to get to the door. When I had to interupt the meeting to say I was blocked in he didn't even seem to twig. My dad then had to ask him to move his car, and even then he seemed oblivious to my car. he thought I was driving my dad's parked round the other side of the house.