Anyone else loose the rag with people abandoning trolleys in carparks

[ChrisJ]

If it have been a bloke then different story but a fat woman, mind you as she bent over I commented to the missus, "has the sun just gone in?"

 

[mcostello]

Turned my back on trolley in the store and was about 3 meters away, turned around and a woman was emptying my stuff out, she said she thought it was abandoned in the store and no one was using it.

 

[rtbcomp]

Note left on a windscreen after a guy had his car hit

"People watching think I'm writing my name and address down, but I'm not."

 

[chevy2]

About a couple of months into a new job i was sitting in the company van whilst parked in a b&q in Luton and got the crap frightened out of me by an almighty bang,
an abandoned shopping trolley had come hurtling down the hill of the steep carpark and into my front wing stoving it in nearly a foot!
explaining that one to the office was a challenge,
they obviously didn't hold it against me as that was about 15 years back and i'm still with the same company.

 

[Tiggy_dorset]

About a couple of months into a new job i was sitting in the company van whilst parked in a b&q in Luton and got the crap frightened out of me by an almighty bang,
an abandoned shopping trolley had come hurtling down the hill of the steep carpark and into my front wing stoving it in nearly a foot!
explaining that one to the office was a challenge,
they obviously didn't hold it against me as that was about 15 years back and i'm still with the same company.

Luton you say? Well in that case, it was probably no accident I used to use that very same carpark for practicing my wheelies on an old smokey Z200 (trying to at least), and flying around on go-carts at about the same time 15 years ago. I hadn't even thought up a game of pushing trollies down the hill, so you cant blame me for that one

 

[TechnicAl]

We have to put a Pound Coin in our trolleys so no-one abandons them

The other week I watched a woman trying to reverse out of a space. I tried to help but she angrily waved me away. She managed to scrape down the sides of BOTH the cars parked alongside her. I took photos and I put my contact details and the womans car registation behind the wipers on both cars. One was a nearly new Honda CRV

I havent heard a thing

 

[SiPMerlin150]

some point last year I took my mother to a supermarket, as you do, As I parked up in a space, a renault clio jumped in to the space next to me with some grey haired bloke in the car. Being the polite one, I waited for him to open his door and climb out before me. As he opened his door it slammed into my car, putting a divet in the bump strip on my door. I waited for an eye contact from him to say sorry, but nope! He carried on as if nothing happened. Well that really got my blood boiling. I observed him in the supermarket, throwing stuff forcefully into his basket, pushing past people and filling his basket with beer etc. He even tried pushing the queue at the checkout, then just throwing his items all over the counter, flinging it over mine. By this time I was really fuming. I managed to get out before him, load up my car and leave, but not before leaving him a nice surprise on his car to come back to.

 

[ChrisJ]

Did you poop on his bonnet?

 

[Windy Miller]

... By this time I was really fuming. I managed to get out before him, load up my car and leave, but not before leaving him a nice surprise on his car to come back to.

What was the nature of this surprise?

 

[SiPMerlin150]

What was the nature of this surprise?

Oh that would be telling.. Lets just say that earlier that afternoon before the carpark incident I had spent the day polishing and waxing my car, removing and scratches using cutting paste. He shall now have to do the same.

 

[Jim_gsxr1000]

Yeh I get proper rage, when iv spent time cleaning the car, the other thing that annoys me these days is not many cars are fitted with mudflaps so you get a lot more stones kicked up and chiped windscreens !

 

[ChrisJ]

And people not using trafficators going round islands grrr....

 

[Wedg1e]

And people not using trafficators going round islands grrr....

I feel your pain, brother

I wonder if there's been a change in how they teach use of indicators, I'm thinking in respect of urban dual carriageways with roundabouts... a lot of lane markings now tell you that it's OK to use both lanes for turning right OR going straight on so maybe people think it's OK not to indicate as they sail 3/4 of the way round in what most of us would see as the 'wrong' lane, or go straight ahead in what we'd see as the right-turn lane.
Anyway it p1553s me off so much that if I approach a roundabout and a car coming from the opposite direction is looking like it'll turn right (i.e. across me) but not indicating, I just pull out in front of it (with due care and attention, I'm not totally reckless )... maybe that'll inspire a few of them to use the bloody indicators, but I suspect not.

 

[Wedg1e]

Yeh I get proper rage, when iv spent time cleaning the car, the other thing that annoys me these days is not many cars are fitted with mudflaps so you get a lot more stones kicked up and chiped windscreens !

Well mudflaps have always been seen as a bit old-fogeyish as long as I've been driving (1981) and who would want the lines of their modern 4-wheeled posing pouch ruining?
Add to that the fact that modern windscreens are thinner and you have a licence to print money for the windscreen people (obviously not Auto Windscreens who I hear went bust...).

Both my Connect vans have had their front fog lamps broken by flying stones, which doesn't really worry me as it's a company van and when do we ever get enough fog to warrant using them? The only time mine are ever on is when I use them to flash the bl00dy idiots who have theirs on not because it's foggy but because they seem to think they act as a forcefield against Klingons. It's not as if modern car headlamp are inefficient, especially in a built up area
So there you have it: my pet motoring gripe: improper use of foglamps

 

[spaffmonkey]

I went to visit the wifes family who live in a flat it surrey yesterday park the car in the comunal parking area plenty of space come down to go and my wing mirrors were folded back How sodding fat are some peoples ****'s

 

[rtbcomp]

.........The only time mine are ever on is when I use them to flash the bl00dy idiots who have theirs on not because it's foggy but because they seem to think they act as a forcefield against Klingons...........
So there you have it: my pet motoring gripe: improper use of foglamps

Flashing your lights is to warn other vehicles of your presence, similar to the horn. Any other use is improper use.

Personally I don't bother with other motorists, if they're being stupid near me they'll do the same near someone else who is as big an idiot and they can sort it out between them. Confucius he say "he who seeks revenge should dig two graves."

 

[julianthegypsy]

some point last year I took my mother to a supermarket, as you do, As I parked up in a space, a renault clio jumped in to the space next to me with some grey haired bloke in the car. Being the polite one, I waited for him to open his door and climb out before me. As he opened his door it slammed into my car, putting a divet in the bump strip on my door. I waited for an eye contact from him to say sorry, but nope! He carried on as if nothing happened. Well that really got my blood boiling. I observed him in the supermarket, throwing stuff forcefully into his basket, pushing past people and filling his basket with beer etc. He even tried pushing the queue at the checkout, then just throwing his items all over the counter, flinging it over mine. By this time I was really fuming. I managed to get out before him, load up my car and leave, but not before leaving him a nice surprise on his car to come back to.

I find the best way to deal with this kind of old cantankerous fogey, male or female, is to slip a packet of condoms and a tube of ky jelly into their basket when they aren't looking. They never notice until they dump them on the conveyor, and by then its too late. Watching the discomfort is priceless!

 

[Wedg1e]

Flashing your lights is to warn other vehicles of your presence, similar to the horn. Any other use is improper use.

Flashing your headlamps agreed: not sure there's a Highway Code entry for flashing foglights I see some modern cars illuminate the foglights individually when turning, wonder how that fits the Construction & Use regs..

Besides, I would use the machine guns but the MOT tester made me take them off

 

[Jim_gsxr1000]

Aye folk squeezing between cars drives me daft scuffing paintwork and mirrors!

 

[ChrisJ]

Re trafficators
A good friend of mine is a test driver for a well known prestige british car maker, he was on a road test route one day, when another brand , new car of the same make cut him up quite badly, he followed him into the next petrol station pulled at the pump behind him went over and commented what a beautiful car, the guys head begin to swell with pride, but my friend said I'm a test driver for the company and have noticed yours has a small fault, your indicators seemed to have stoped working!! he got really arsey saying it was brand new and therewas nothing wrong with it and proceeded to demonstrate there were working, see they are working, my mate immediately changed his polite tone, stuck his face close and said, "well f*******g well use em then, he tells the story much better than me....