I always assumed that they were differently abled and had to open their door all the way open to get access. I feel fortunate that they did not feel obliged to ding my car and that they took the time to ensure they could get back in without dinging my car. Why are we assuming this person is spiting us. Maybe they just need a bit of additional room. Thank you for looking out for me.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I park like that. I am horrible at parking and fully aware of it. I try my best but I also give up someone times too. However, I always park far where so no one else is around me when I park. I also have anxiety and embarrassed that I can’t park so I park far.

You need a smaller car - a car you can handle. Agree with pp, if you continually have such poor spatial awareness, you should not drive. It’s literally THE most important skill when it comes to driving safe. And no, the car safety features are not remotely a substitute for basic safety skills.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I park like that. I am horrible at parking and fully aware of it. I try my best but I also give up someone times too. However, I always park far where so no one else is around me when I park. I also have anxiety and embarrassed that I can’t park so I park far.

So go to an empty parking lot and practice. You should know where your car is, anyway. Practice putting your right tires on a libe, then your left tires, then positioning the front bumper over a line. After you know exactly where your car is, then practice standard parking.

When you park, get out of the car, check your position, and repeat as necessary.

For straight in parking, you might find it easier to pull through into the facing space.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I park like that. I am horrible at parking and fully aware of it. I try my best but I also give up someone times too. However, I always park far where so no one else is around me when I park. I also have anxiety and embarrassed that I can’t park so I park far.

How do you stay in your lane when you’re driving if you can’t park between two lines?

Not PP, but I often have to straighten out if I’m pulling into a space if there isn’t a row of spaces with the same striping connected in front. Once you’ve started to turn in, you can no longer see what’s next to you to see where you are, and with spaces being so narrow in most places, it’s hard to see if you’ve nailed it, especially in an SUV. I love to park at Target because their spaces are wider, so I can just pull in there.

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Anonymous wrote:Once I asked somebody to re-park because I was just about to pull into the spot next to them. I really can't believe I did this but I had been driving around looking for parking spaces for a while and I was desperate. But ordinarily I wouldn't do anything.

Did they do it?

Yes. They weren't happy but they did it. I was nice about it.

Anonymous wrote:Once I asked somebody to re-park because I was just about to pull into the spot next to them. I really can't believe I did this but I had been driving around looking for parking spaces for a while and I was desperate. But ordinarily I wouldn't do anything.

Did they do it?

I mind my own business and find a parking spot where I won't get dinged.

I LOVE the birdseed idea. That's so passive aggressive yet so poetic at the same time. Can you imagine the expression on the owners face if they were coming out of the store and finding all these birds pooped on the "special machine"

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I park like that. I am horrible at parking and fully aware of it. I try my best but I also give up someone times too. However, I always park far where so no one else is around me when I park. I also have anxiety and embarrassed that I can’t park so I park far.

How do you stay in your lane when you’re driving if you can’t park between two lines?

Park then in so they can't open the driver's door.

Sidewalk chalk is the answer here.

I regularly take up two spaces -- the farthest two spaces from the store -- because if someone parks right next to me, I can't open the doors of my truck.

Honestly, I park like that. I am horrible at parking and fully aware of it. I try my best but I also give up someone times too. However, I always park far where so no one else is around me when I park. I also have anxiety and embarrassed that I can’t park so I park far.

I don’t care.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t always know what the situation was when they parked. There could have been other bad parkers, so when they arrived straddling the line was the only option.

This happened to me. When the other cars left, I was the one who got yelled at by a moron who couldn’t guess that obviously this is what had happened.

I never assume someone just decided to parked poorly. Usually there’s an obstacle in one spot that makes all the row out of alignment.