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#yplac
^^^ ha, was gonna say that 😂
4 spaces, incredible work 👍 Just a shame none of them are disabled bays
How many bays do we think it should take ?
I’ve seen them in the flesh and they are bigger than your average U.K. vehiicly but can’t remember seeing one in a car park situation 🙂
In all fairness would you like if he parked between the lines but next to your car......
But equally does he need a dodge ram in the UK......
Exactly, the mere fact he owns that vehicle tells you all you need to know about him 😂
I suspect he would be substantially more concerned about dings to his vehicle than I would be with mine 😀
I love the juxtaposition of teh Ultimate lifestyle vehicle parked at ASDA.
Even Bo Duke gotta adult sometimes...
I park at the back of supermarkets and shopping centres where there are normally 100s of empty spaces, and in doing so I often abandon my car quite badly, however as there is no shortage of parking these areas, I mean who cares. I avoid the front near the supermarket as I assume these spaces are used by people who diffculty walking more than a few metres. Plus I hate being in the car and find its much quicker to abandon vehicle at the back rather than piss about squeezing in between other cars. I don't want to door anyone and find it easier to load my car if there is nobody else nearby. And I like my privacy and prefer to do all this away from other people.
In doing this I have observed some of the oddest behaviour.
1) The number of people that go out of their way to come to my little oasis at the back and berate me for not parking "correctly", I mean 5 or 10 spaces either side of me are empty, and yet this is still so offensive to someone they have to come and tell me (normally through a half open car window).
2) If I ever do manage to accidentally get my car in between the lines, I'll come back and find someone has parked right next to me. Even with plenty of other empty spaces. These are the people that choose the urinal next to you when there are 20 empty spaces.
British people are so desperate to conform and do as they are told that they have to call out those that dont.
I have no idea what part of the car park Mr Dodge Ram there has parked, and neither do the rest of you, so better to leave him to it.
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I have no idea what part of the car park Mr Dodge Ram there has parked, and neither do the rest of you, so better to leave him to it.
The parent and child space immediately behind him gives a fair hint
I'm not that impressed, I reckon you could take 6 spaces with a Dodge Ram if you tried harder.
and an awesome number plate ..
DE03 RAM
How many bays do we think it should take ?
1, same as any other car. If he needs more space he should leave it in a field somewhere and walk to Asda.
I guess the same applies to workmen stopping on the way home for a pint of milk in their lwb vans.....
Front of store near the entrance. Quite packed today. Loads of ospace at the back of the car park even for lorries.
4x4 bay parking 😉
I was in the US on business and got a cheap deal on a rental SUV - when I rocked up at the rental desk, they gave me the last one, a big black Chevy Suburban (as loved by FBI as I was duly informed). I went to a mall one evening, it was still light and I parked a long way from the entrance where there was lots of spaces. When I came out a few hours later it was dark and a sea of SUVs…
Apropos of nothing in particular, you don’t hear much from the Tyre Extinguishers these days.
I was in the US on business and got a cheap deal on a rental SUV – when I rocked up at the rental desk, they gave me the last one, a big black Chevy Suburban (as loved by FBI as I was duly informed). I went to a mall one evening, it was still light and I parked a long way from the entrance where there was lots of spaces. When I came out a few hours later it was dark and a sea of SUVs
Yeah, we find them quite obscene but as you've noticed in parts of the US, you can't throw a stone without hitting a massive 4x4.
Certainly in the bits around Tennessee. Trucks everywhere. Our rental was a jeep something or other. To me it looked a big motor, the rental lady at Atlanta airport was very sorry they didn't have something bigger.
As for proper commercials parking in supermarkets, taking up extra space, suck it up. Would you rather they make two journeys? They don't tend to have much choice. Unlike the Lifestyle vehicle in the op.
Isn’t the Ford F150 pick up the most popular vehicle in the US? And even they look kind of small compared to some others. When in Oregon earlier this year my rental BMW X5 felt really small in comparison to most other road users.
That vehicle in the UK tells me everthing about it's owner.
A complete dick.
Last year I saw either a Ram or a F150. I'd seen them in the US but in the UK they are ridiculous. What made this particular one standout even more were the flames all down the side together with the proclamation that Jesus is everything.
That vehicle in the UK tells me everthing about it’s owner.
A complete dick.
Quite
They're an amateur compared to this Swiss prick (in France)
It's a horrible thing that just shrieks insecurity or psychopathy but tbh it's always going to take up 4 spaces and its placement right in the middle of 4 has a certain honesty about it. If it was centred on one space it'd make the ones either side unusable for normally proportioned cars and it'd overhang the space behind.
Dodge Ram…… pah kids toy. In the US park next to a F250 Super Duty or something similar. I have a picture somewhere of our Lincoln full size SUV from Florida trip this year, next to a F250. The roof of the SUV came up to the top of the bonnet of the F250. Just enormous and that’s someone’s personal transport.
I'm kinda with 5plusn8 on this, to a point. Taking up multiple bays at the arse end of a half-full carpark is fair game. Doing it when it's rammed* or right at the front is a dick move.
There's a broader issue here in that most car parks are designed to cram in as many vehicles as possible, doubly so if it's paid-for parking, but the 'average' car is getting ever bigger. Supermarkets want to attract more customers, they could do worse than make each parking bay a foot wider.
(* - see what I did there? Oh please yourselves)
They’re an amateur compared to this Swiss prick (in France)
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
That's nowhere near pro level, I managed 7 spaces in a Mondeo towing a Bailey Senator Arizona. If I wanted to be a **** I could easily have made it 14.
Supermarkets want to attract more customers, they could do worse than make each parking bay a foot wider.
They have round here quite a few have been repainted with double lines to "enforce" a gap.
Maybe the owner is a cyclist making a point about the entitled, space hungry car culture we live in?
Yeah Sainbury's near me has double line between parking bays. Makes it much better.
My van doesn't fit into a single standard parking space, It'll over hang into the running lane or another space. I tend to try and find spaces either right at the back where its quieter or where there are bushes I can shove the end of the van into.
I've had to do the caravan thing before, didn't like doing it but didn't really have a choice at the time. Again tucked it right at the back though.
Saw a lazy bastard in a RR at Lidl the other day that had just moutned the kerb at the end of the parking bays even though there were loads of spaces in the first 2 rows by the front door!
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@5plusn8 - utterly glorious rant, absolutely agree. There's a psychological / population / social thesis in there that needs to be written!
Just be thankful you don't live in CH, I think you'd already be in jail and or forcibly removed from the country.
In all fairness would you like if he parked between the lines but next to your car……
But equally does he need a dodge ram in the UK
Yeah, the good thing about us trucks it their ability to tow large trailers but unless it has not been down rated to avoid being a hgv you can't tow the large us trailers over here and if it has not been down rated you may as well use a UK lorry
There was a rich restaurant owner in Glasgow who worked out that the cost of a parking ticket from the council was actually less than paying for all day parking so he just let them ticket him and just paid the fines.
Eventually the council caught on and started lifting his vehicle.
To get round that, he went and bought the largest American pickup he could get, because he knew it was far too big for the truck the council used to lift cars.
You have to admire that really
****s gonna be ****s. I'd favour vigilante action to tyres and/or paintwork.
Lots of American trucks (and large cars) where I live because of the airforce base(s) - many much larger than the above.
Almost always immaculately parked.
^^ That is good but are they really trying? Shirley this is where its at:
There was a rich restaurant owner in Glasgow who worked out that the cost of a parking ticket from the council was actually less than paying for all day parking so he just let them ticket him and just paid the fines.
Eventually the council caught on and started lifting his vehicle.
To get round that, he went and bought the largest American pickup he could get, because he knew it was far too big for the truck the council used to lift cars.
You have to admire that really
I thought it was a Rolls Royce, or am I thinking about another Weegie genius?
The average UK parking space is only 2.4m x 4.8m. Not big enough for a huge number of 'everyday' vehicles, e.g. Range Rover 2.2x4.9m, BMX X5 2.0x4.9m
I don't stand a chance in my Transit Custom L2 at 2.03 x 5.30m - I aim for spaces at the arse end of carparks, ideally at a side where I can hang the back end over the gardens/grass beyond the end of the space.
That is good but are they really trying? Shirley this is where its at:
Cool old Polo in the background
One of the few joys of IKEA in Pratteln...the carpark with mahoooosive spaces. And those little red and green roof lights for empty/full places. Lovely.
There was a woman did it as well. To be fair when you're charging £1 for 15 minutes you're bound to run into folk gaming the system.
And before anyone brings up multis, even the newer ones have been designed around a Hillman Imp, had to do some impressive Jeep Squeezing last weekend to get parked up in the Q Park before doing an impression of the guy in the X Files to get out the car.
This is why MG Midgets rock. I reckon you could park it inside the white lines, in the space they've left. I've definitely done this before when the car parks been busy and some tit has taken 2 spaces to protect their leased German ****panzer. I can climb out as there's no roof, good luck opening your driver's door 😎
There was a rich restaurant owner in Glasgow who worked out that the cost of a parking ticket from the council was actually less than paying for all day parking so he just let them ticket him and just paid the fines.
This is definitely the case in Westmisnter.
It's £28 to park a diesel van in a marked bay for 4 hours, the fine is £40/day.
There was a rich restaurant owner in Glasgow who worked out that the cost of a parking ticket from the council was actually less than paying for all day parking so he just let them ticket him and just paid the fines.
I seem to remember Michael Winner, the obnoxious film director, would drive in bus lanes through London and get ticketed regularly, but because he was so rich it wasn't a problem. He was happy to pay the fines not to be stuck in traffic.
It’s a funny one, I’m with 5plusn8, you’re so conformist that you have a these unwritten rules that must be obeyed and the assumption that it’s a lifestyle toy and the hate directed to someone that would drive it.
Other countries treat the lines as for guidance not sacrosanct.
I actually had a relative who had one as a works vehicle and some days it would have a massive trailer on the back.
You got a lot of it for your money and as he said considering he pretty much lived in it it was very comfortable place to be and he didn’t want a hilux.
5plusn8
Free MemberI park at the back of supermarkets and shopping centres where there are normally 100s of empty spaces, and in doing so I often abandon my car quite badly, however as there is no shortage of parking these areas, I mean who cares. I avoid the front near the supermarket as I assume these spaces are used by people who diffculty walking more than a few metres. Plus I hate being in the car and find its much quicker to abandon vehicle at the back rather than piss about squeezing in between other cars. I don’t want to door anyone and find it easier to load my car if there is nobody else nearby. And I like my privacy and prefer to do all this away from other people.
In doing this I have observed some of the oddest behaviour.
1) The number of people that go out of their way to come to my little oasis at the back and berate me for not parking “correctly”, I mean 5 or 10 spaces either side of me are empty, and yet this is still so offensive to someone they have to come and tell me (normally through a half open car window).
Probably because most people will have at some time had the joy of not being able to park despite there being plenty of nominally empty spaces, except they're not available because of some ****ing Mr Magoo leaving their selfishtwuntmobile hanging over into another space because they're too bone idle to put in slightly more effort to park within the lines.
In an otherwise empty part of the car park? Yup, case for teaching critical thinking right there.
Be lucky if those bits are busy twice a year.
I deal with Glasgow city centre parking charges by rarely driving there. Which I suppose is the idea. There is a reason the likes of Braehead and Silverburn are rammed.
Mrs IRC and I were actually going to get the train into Glasgow the other week then realised it was a strike day. We went elsewhere. Who would be a city centre retailer?
Probably because most people will have at some time had the joy of not being able to park despite there being plenty of nominally empty spaces, except they’re not available because of some **** Mr Magoo leaving their selfishtwuntmobile hanging over into another space because they’re too bone idle to put in slightly more effort to park within the lines.
I think this fits QED. I'll take it anwyay.
I'm quite surprised people park in the urinals. I don't really like the smell.
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redthunder
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ASDA Cribbs, Bristol.Posted 3 days ago
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#yplacPosted 3 days ago
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zilog6128
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^^^ ha, was gonna say that 😂4 spaces, incredible work 👍 Just a shame none of them are disabled bays
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dudeofdoom
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How many bays do we think it should take ?I’ve seen them in the flesh and they are bigger than your average U.K. vehiicly but can’t remember seeing one in a car park situation 🙂
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You park like a ****Posted 3 days ago
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trail_rat
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In all fairness would you like if he parked between the lines but next to your car……But equally does he need a dodge ram in the UK……
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zilog6128
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Exactly, the mere fact he owns that vehicle tells you all you need to know about him 😂I suspect he would be substantially more concerned about dings to his vehicle than I would be with mine 😀
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bob_summers
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I love the juxtaposition of teh Ultimate lifestyle vehicle parked at ASDA.
Even Bo Duke gotta adult sometimes…Posted 3 days ago
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5plusn8
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I park at the back of supermarkets and shopping centres where there are normally 100s of empty spaces, and in doing so I often abandon my car quite badly, however as there is no shortage of parking these areas, I mean who cares. I avoid the front near the supermarket as I assume these spaces are used by people who diffculty walking more than a few metres. Plus I hate being in the car and find its much quicker to abandon vehicle at the back rather than piss about squeezing in between other cars. I don’t want to door anyone and find it easier to load my car if there is nobody else nearby. And I like my privacy and prefer to do all this away from other people.
In doing this I have observed some of the oddest behaviour.
1) The number of people that go out of their way to come to my little oasis at the back and berate me for not parking “correctly”, I mean 5 or 10 spaces either side of me are empty, and yet this is still so offensive to someone they have to come and tell me (normally through a half open car window).
2) If I ever do manage to accidentally get my car in between the lines, I’ll come back and find someone has parked right next to me. Even with plenty of other empty spaces. These are the people that choose the urinal next to you when there are 20 empty spaces.British people are so desperate to conform and do as they are told that they have to call out those that dont.
I have no idea what part of the car park Mr Dodge Ram there has parked, and neither do the rest of you, so better to leave him to it.
Just park your vehicle properly in the space. Consideration costs nothing.
5plusn8
I think this fits QED. I’ll take it anwyay.
oh cool! don't forget your special car park clever-cloggs medal to go with it: 🥇
I always try and park in the empty part of the supermarket, but parking between the lines shows you have the self respect to perform simple tasks well.
This is why MG Midgets rock. I reckon you could park it inside the white lines, in the space they’ve left.
Only problem is you have to have a really good memory of where you left it. I lost my MGB in Nottingham once - for - couldn't see it in the street where I was sure I'd parked it, checked various other streets, and coming back to where I was sure it was - was about to concede it was stolen and it turned out it had been hiding behind a Citroen AX.