10 of the Most Annoying Parking Habits

So here's the scenario, you arrive home from a long day at work only to find someone visiting your neighbour has parked across your driveway. You now have to go round frantically knocking on doors to find out who the car belongs to so it can be moved.

This motorist parked so far onto the curb making no allowances at all for anyone or anything apart from a small animal to pass without walking in the road. Therefore any pedestrians walking with a pram or a dog would be in danger by having to walk in the road to pass the car.

You pull into the car park to see cars waiting for spaces, then you see what you think is a space so you speed up before any of the waiting drivers get to it just to find a motorcycle hiding in between two other vehicles! It’s very disappointing when you can see the other drivers smirking because they thought the same thing!

An AA Populus survey of 23,450 AA members found that 33% of neighbour bust-ups are rooted in car-related disputes. 12% of these are for parking outside a neighbour’s house.

Some drivers just can’t parallel park. They just desert their car and leave it where it happened to stop when they pulled in. Cars left sticking out in the traffic or more likely to have their mirrors knocked off.

Many of us have probably witnessed a car reversing in or out of a car park space and seen it hit another car, the driver has a quick look around to see if anyone has noticed and just drives off. Here is an example of a note left by a driver pretending to leave his details.

How infuriating this is when vehicles are parked in these spaces when they clearly don’t need to be. Cars parked in disabled bays with no mobility badges clearly shouldn’t be parked there. Trying to get a wheelchair out in a narrow space proves very difficult, and parents with young children also find it very frustrating when a car full of teenagers is parked in a parent and child space leaving the parent to struggle in a narrow space with baby car seat and/or a pram.

This lazy loader is oblivious to any danger he maybe causing to other pedestrians and motorists while he is parked on the edge of a pedestrian crossing as he just goes about his business.

Some motorists again just don’t realise how close they actually are to drivers in front or behind them when they park their cars. This is extremely annoying for any driver when they can’t get to their boot. Especially if you have a pram, a dog, golf clubs or lots of shopping bags!

Some drivers usually in larger vehicles feel that they are allowed to have 2 parking spaces because of the size of their vehicle. Most parking spaces are wide enough to fit a car, 4x4, or a van. So maybe these drivers need to invest in parking sensors... or parking lessons.