Went for lunch yesterday at a local hotel/restaurant and parked up neatly between the car park white lines - no cars either side. Hmm, I thought, those bays look narrow. When I returned, the inevitable had happened - there was a lovely black Range Rover parked in the next bay - no way was I going to open the drivers' door!
Now I am nowhere near fit enough to use the passenger door and shuffle across into the driver's seat, so to cut a long, fuming, story short, I was obliged to start the engine from the passenger seat, push the selector into neutral, switch off the engine, get out and heave my car back 10 feet.
This, I think I can hear you say, was probably pushing my luck - messing with the car gear selector with no-one in the driving seat. But...
What has to be said is that the RR was also parked perfectly correctly between his white lines - the bays were obviously set out in the days of Morris Minors.
My starter for ten on parking etiquette is: Could you walk away from your parked car knowing you had trapped the vehicle in the next bay, even though you were parked correctly??
Now I am nowhere near fit enough to use the passenger door and shuffle across into the driver's seat, so to cut a long, fuming, story short, I was obliged to start the engine from the passenger seat, push the selector into neutral, switch off the engine, get out and heave my car back 10 feet.
This, I think I can hear you say, was probably pushing my luck - messing with the car gear selector with no-one in the driving seat. But...
What has to be said is that the RR was also parked perfectly correctly between his white lines - the bays were obviously set out in the days of Morris Minors.
My starter for ten on parking etiquette is: Could you walk away from your parked car knowing you had trapped the vehicle in the next bay, even though you were parked correctly??