I go into a relatively empty car park, park well away from other cars, why, when I return to the car, are other cars parked next to me? Is it herding instinct, an urge to tidy up the car park, or, as I suspect, done just to pxxs me off and make it more difficult to get back into my car? I did overhear someone once saying he always parked next to another car to stop his being knocked, but I didn't understand the logic.
The logic (as I see it) is that someone who intentionally parks away from other vehicles is concerned about getting knocks from other cars, therefore they will exercise caution when opening their doors, so by parking alongside an isolated vehicle reduces the tendency for acquiring knocks.
OTOH, by parking in isolation, there are no other vehicles likely to effect damage (until the carpark fills up, of course).
No, it is apparently some kind of herding instinct.....can't remember the details, but I heard a long radio programme on the subject, the speaker being some prominent expert. Same happens to me when I sit in an empty cinema ( I like the cheap matinee showings of fairly unpopular films) before I know it I'm surrounded by people, but they space themselves out so no one is too close to his/her/their neighbours.
I'm fascinated by the mentality of multi storey car park use...drivers ahead of me on the ramp peel off on the lower floors and spend 5 minutes looking for a space....some of us however keep going until a sparsely occupied level is encountered, park close to a lift, and can be clear of the car park while earlier entrants are still parking.
Slightly off thread, pardon me. Why when you turn up for breakfast in a hotel they ALWAYS try to seat you next to others when the restaurant is nearly empty? I am not anti social but FFS.......
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One has to ask why you would wish to take a glider trailer shopping....other than in the hope somebody may feel inclined to nick to heap contained therein in this case....
One has always had a preference for lay by's / greasy spoons and lorry parks re the above you understand....
KNC, you evidently know that trailer well! The truth is that it was on its way back from having some work done, and the Mechta family larder needed replenishment. The fact that no-one batted an eyelid or even commented, suggests that that particular supermarket next to the A303 sees unusual loads quite frequently.
Stuckgear, you're giving me ideas now and I don't mean golf...
Back to the original topic. If you find an end space with a kerb running down one side, and park so your passenger side is as close to the kerb as you can get it, you should be far enough into your space that the driver's side is unlikely to get hit. If it still gets hit, consider selling the 6' 6" wide Mk10 Jag and buy something a bit narrower.
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I think you can rest assured SG that the contents of that trailer have done a more than credible impression of a missile over the years....think of it this way, your wife buys you one as a present.... and increases her contribution to the life insurance on you at the same time...
As for being stopped, proceeding North to Aboyne on the M6 and lots of noise and flashing blue lights behind me...c/o Lancashires "not" so finest...the reason?? "never seen one of these outside it's box before" ) Ka18 on an open trailer..and that was the only reason for the "drama" stop......tossers !.
Back to parking and the ability to block three spaces with one vehicle ( as seen at Cambs. Services recently )...park in one, open pax and driver doors fully across adjacent bays....peruse ( not read, obviously) Sun and stuff gob with McJunk thereafter.
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As for being stopped, proceeding North to Aboyne on the M6 and lots of noise and flashing blue lights behind me...c/o Lancashires "not" so finest...the reason?? "never seen one of these outside it's box before" ) Ka18 on an open trailer..and that was the only reason for the "drama" stop......tossers !.
you may want to cut some slack to the rozzers KnC, they were probably doing a PNC check on your car and running your data to see if anything untoward was going on.
trailered stuff is nicked fequently and often and very easily..
i was stopped with my boat in the small hours heading off to the coast with a couple of friends to do some waterskiing on the flat calm of the morning off hayling island.
bothered? not really. i would rathe thr rozzers pull someone over to make sure they are the owners rather than theiving scum making off with someone elses's property.
a friend of mine had his expensive boat stolen, parked in a locked compound behind posts sunk into the ground all torn out and the boat, on its trailer made off with.
it was found en route to the docks on site just departed by a fine 'travelling community', the boat had a hole on the stern corner from being backed into a concrete bollard and stripped of engine ane electics and electronics, it was technically a write off. he had a 2 year battle with the insurance company that refused to pay out etc etc.
so really comrade give the rozzers some slack. or at least blame thatcher.
I used to have the same issues with trying to protect my nice shiny new car from the peasants in the work car park. Eventually I started to park diagonally in two spaces as far from the front door as you could get and right outside my office window. I found that just appearing in the window and watching people trying to park would put them off and they would park a couple of spaces away.
Not a solution for supermarkets, I know. I now run two cars, one I keep for journeys when I know I can park in a safe place and one for carrying tools, shopping, garden centre purchases, stuff for the tip, aircraft parts, DIY stuff......
I was going to say that people don't all think the same when parking but I suspect most of them don't think at all, ever.
Slightly off thread, pardon me. Why when you turn up for breakfast in a hotel they ALWAYS try to seat you next to others when the restaurant is nearly empty?
Simple - saves walking time and distance for the waitress.
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"never seen one of these outside it's box before"
Was stopped in Yorkshire many years ago in an MGB. All he wanted to do was have a sit in it because he used to drive one years before!
I always try to park in end bays. but still manage to get people who park next to me who are almost crossing the bay lines. Usually females in Range Rovers or similiar, as happened last thursday at KFCcar park.
on the M6 and lots of noise and flashing blue lights behind me...c/o Lancashires "not" so finest...the reason?? "never seen one of these outside it's box before" ) Ka18 on an open trailer..and that was the only reason for the "drama" stop......tossers !.
