Parking next to car while someone is loading kids

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you are fine but here’s the flip story. Guy standing there with door open, next to sleeping baby, typing on his phone. I wait a few minutes for him to notice me, then roll down my window and ask him if he can close the door so I can park. He says “Do you mind if I take out my baby first?” In a tone that implied I was being unreasonable. I was a little irked he made me wait so long if he was taking his baby out anyway. I had three kids in the car myself.
Everyone should be more considerate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you are fine but here’s the flip story. Guy standing there with door open, next to sleeping baby, typing on his phone. I wait a few minutes for him to notice me, then roll down my window and ask him if he can close the door so I can park. He says “Do you mind if I take out my baby first?” In a tone that implied I was being unreasonable. I was a little irked he made me wait so long if he was taking his baby out anyway. I had three kids in the car myself.
Everyone should be more considerate!

Yeah that's rude. Lady in the car and guy texting are two sides of the same coin, just in different positions. Inconsiderate selfish, weirdly sadistic jerks.

[Anonymous]

Op - that person was very rude and she should have taken one of the other open parking spots.

This sort of thing happened to me when my kids were little and now a decade or so later I will still find myself in the process of unloading a cart full of large items into my car with doors and trunk open and some dingbat will try to squeeze into the space next to my car while I hurry to shut my car doors and get myself and the cart out of the way. Invariably, not even 2 spaces away there is at least one other open spot that the individual could just as easily have parked in.

Do I "own" the parking lot? No. But if you see someone struggling to load kids and/or bulky items into their vehicle, be nice and either give them a chance to finish or take another open spot. Simple common courtesy is overrated.

[Anonymous]

under rated.

[Anonymous]

I saw someone honk at a poor woman trying to get her elderly mother in a wheel chair out of a car. We all live in society. Be fucking patient. Also, the people who insist on parking next to someone loading/unloading when there are plenty of other spaces are the same weirdos who pick the stall right next to you in the bathroom to take a monster dump when there are plenty of other open ones. Inconsiderate, thoughtless, stupid.

[Anonymous]

She was rude. This is no different than taking a minute to load groceries or whatever into your car - it takes very little time and doesn't really inconvenience anyone. Why should the person who is already there and engaged in a perfectly acceptable activity (loading the car) stop and wait for the other person to park to finish up? The person waiting to park should wait his/her turn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw someone honk at a poor woman trying to get her elderly mother in a wheel chair out of a car. We all live in society. Be fucking patient. Also, the people who insist on parking next to someone loading/unloading when there are plenty of other spaces are the same weirdos who pick the stall right next to you in the bathroom to take a monster dump when there are plenty of other open ones. Inconsiderate, thoughtless, stupid.

SERIOUSLY what is with those people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was rude. This is no different than taking a minute to load groceries or whatever into your car - it takes very little time and doesn't really inconvenience anyone. Why should the person who is already there and engaged in a perfectly acceptable activity (loading the car) stop and wait for the other person to park to finish up? The person waiting to park should wait his/her turn.

+10000

[Anonymous]

Not sure where this started, but I didn't intentionally move slow. I moved as fast as I could. I even tucked my door in, stopped, and tried to let her park, while my kid was still in the stroller. The world doesn't revolve around me, but it seems like common courtesy was make someone wait. There was a few spots in the row right behind us.

It's weird how people fill in details, but that is the price for venting on the internet.

[Anonymous]

what exactly was OP supposed to do --- move completely out of the way so someone can park -- or finish loading her car? She was there first loading her car -- so personally I think she has the right to finish.

[Anonymous]

Everyone should move in and out of parking lots as efficiently as possible. If you have to buckle in a kid, you have to buckle in a kid. People can deal. Same if you are old and take longer to get in and out.

[Anonymous]

People are awful. Some nasty person called me a c**t at the TJ's parking lot in Reston because I was waiting for an elderly woman to pull out of her parking spot, and he thought I was blocking him in some way.

Uhm, really? I told him to relax, he wasn't much younger than the woman I was waiting for (and I wasn't waiting for her parking spot either, just letting her out), but that I hoped he preceded her in death soon. Jerk.

[Anonymous]

The other day I saw a young woman honk at an elderly man who was walking through a parking spot to get to his car parked next to it. So rude.

In your situation, I would have told them to stop trying to park next to me while I was loading up my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are awful. Some nasty person called me a c**t at the TJ's parking lot in Reston because I was waiting for an elderly woman to pull out of her parking spot, and he thought I was blocking him in some way.

Uhm, really? I told him to relax, he wasn't much younger than the woman I was waiting for (and I wasn't waiting for her parking spot either, just letting her out), but that I hoped he preceded her in death soon. Jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is entitled to a few minutes to get their car loaded up. Wait patiently if you want that spot so bad. Youre fine OP

+1

Some people are fast, some are slow. Some have kids, some don't. That's life.

+1

If there are other spots, I avoid parking next to spots where where people (young, old and in between) are loading or unloading. If not, I wait. Either way, it's just not that big of a deal but don't honk when you are 3 feet from someone's face just because you want them to hurry up.

Exactly. This isn't about car seats or young kids, it's about basic courtesy. If there are plenty of other spots, why do people insist on parking right next to someone who is loading stuff or people into their car. If it's the only spot it isn't the end of the world to wait 30 seconds until the person is finished. People seem to have lost all sense of basic manners these days.