Louth Hospital (Krap) parking.

[Bob Williams]

This is how I was left with the last space by a motorist who has no idea how to park considerately or with any thought for others. I took my wife down to the Drop-off point for her op, walked back 300 yards and this was the last space in the whole car park, next to a kerb and path. I parked carefully, with my sensors going bonkers and watching the door mirrors, hoping this idiot would return for his car before I did. I had to drive back, wait in the hospital 2 hours for my wife to sit and wait for the anaesthetic to wear off, walk back to the car, drive back and pick her up. Yes, I photographed the cars in case of vandalism and yes the blue one is my Hyundai iX20. The white one was still there when I left. Fortunately, Louth Hospital operates a policy of disabled drivers on Blue Badges, parking anywhere if BB spaces are full. Every space except this one, was full. Either this driver is visually challenged and should not be driving, or did not want someone in the space next to them.

Had to be an Audi driver, didn’t it? You call this parking, barmpot?

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[Optional]

It makes you wonder how they passed a driving test.

What annoys me, some even do it in disabled spots, I mean how much room do they need. You would think a disabled driver would know better.

 

 

 

[Richard]

Optional wrote:

It makes you wonder how they passed a driving test. What annoys me, some even do it in disabled spots, I mean how much room do they need. You would think a disabled driver would know better.

Or wonder how many customers Specsavers are missing out on, because people who cannot park like that one are everywhere. If they park like that when they lazily drive into a space, I wonder how many accidents they have reversing out ‘without seeing or looking’.

[The Duke]

The bit that confuses me with this type of stuff is not the common courtesy of it (we know the world is full of c+*ts), but the lack of respect of their own property.

I drive as far as i can from others where possible, when not, I’ll eye up the two two neighbouring cars, always give the shoddely park or badly looked after car car a bit more room.

I’m forever pulling people in car parks that leave trolly out. I know it doesn’t help, but I like to attempt to shame them to not do it next time.

You’d think cars was a cheap throw away item!

[dwynnehugh]

Just pause a moment and look at the situation – nowadays parking spaces are getting tighter and tighter. I have a VW Passat Est Sports 2L jobbie – it has 4 doors but the two front passenger ones are wide and with a back / leg problem I need to open them as wide as I can to get out. In doing so I have to consider others BUT in this instance without knowing what was parked on the other side of the white car, it looks as if the driver COULD have had the same problem as I have. Yes the parking is poor but whilst he is somewhat diagonal into the other bay, he has not prevented the other driver using his door to move the car out for any passengers who can’t get in because of the Audi.

With so many very narrow spaces these days sometimes it’s v difficult to park correctly without causing damage to cars parked adjacent when getting out of the car by bumping their doors / paintwork when doing so.

This could be the best option in certain circumstances. The ideal answer is to make parking spaces wider than they are now but then that would be at the expense of less cars and possibly less revenue!

Just a thought as to the cause and reason for this.

Unpacking tin hat.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[The Duke]

I’ll swap you your doors on your passat for mine on my GTC. Not only are they silly long, they are very heavy.

I live on a steep hill, my wife and 10 year old girl can’t open then from the inside. I would drive down forward, but it’s almost impossible due to the angle at the top of the road.

Also the GTC is wide, so that and the long doors makes parking a chore. In a car park, I have to push my chair all the way backwards, to give the door more angle/space to let me out.

[dwynnehugh]

Sorry but the doors on the Passat are also very heavy and quite long – if I park across a hill, my wife cannot open the door if she’s on the up side, or if on the bottom side, can’t close it. They have steel side-impact panels which weigh a ton so I more than understand the problem.

Sometimes before we go ‘off on one’ it might wiser to have a look around and see whether it is just inconsiderate parking or whether there could well be a genuine reason for it and it is simply not a matter of poor / inconsiderate driving / parking.

After 30 years in the police I reckon that I have seen most of it and it is not always as it first appears.

Should anyone ever attend at Venue Cymru (Theatre) in Llandudno the spaces are so narrow, even normal sized humans have great difficulty exiting their cars – I have no chance. It’s like putting a 6′ wide car in a 7′ wide garage!!

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[The Duke]

It is inconsiderate parking above. The owner of the white car isn’t even in thier own space. The chose to impede someone else, in order to ease their parking. If not they are just thoughtless.im not sure which isworse.

Also there is no need to apologise over having big doors. However given the GTC has 2 doors to cover both rows, against the passat 2. I don’t see how it could have longer doors.

The passat b pillar is about online with the seat back, a Coupes b pillar is a good 6 to 8 cm beyond the back. Maybe more.

To make matters worse the gtc is also a good 4cm wider than the passat. So it’s bad new  all round for getting in to tight spaces. I

If you have a passat cc you’ll probably have longer doors. Iirc the cc would need alot of structural strength too. Which would make for a very heavy door.

A side note, the heavier the door, the worse the car. Rule of thumb of course. Go an try out the Hyundai competition to the grc/scirocco/etc, their doors are paper light. That’s because they have about 25% more high strength steal in their builds (right a cross the board) , so don’t need to lean on the doors for structural rigidity. Feels cheap, but is far from it. Iirc it’s the x30i (the the one that now has the gti beating ‘n’ spec model) Hyundai are the only car Co that owns its own steel Co.

[Richard]

I had a 2 door coupé, but I replaced it 18 months ago with a 4 door saloon. The Jazz, was going as well but it got sick, now it again is in rude health it’s the hospital car, the tip car, the dog car, the supermarket car park dodgem and one time granddaughter fetcher. Its smaller lighter doors allow consideration for others in the car park. I avoid the town hospital car park unless on chemo patient ambulance duty,  but as the car is well into its 13th year I worry less and still park as carefully as possible in any available space. Most local spaces are still designed for cars, not bicycles as they are in some places.

If you cannot fit the space go somewhere else, use a bus,  or use a taxi; show consideration. Taking two places is straight out anti social and should be ticketed.

[Bob Williams]

Dwynne, sorry but your explanation/excuse for this totally careless, inconsiderate parker, does not hold up. If I had extended the photo to the left of the white Audi A5, you could have seen that the car next to him/her, was parked completely within the white lines. The left (offside) rear bumper and wing of the Audi was actually obstructing the car to his/her left. The space I was forced into taking, was the last in the hospital car park, with a kerb next to my driver’s exit door. I am subject to 3 separate disabilities, including spinal problems which make it difficult for me to look very far to left, right, up and down. Yet I was able to manouevre my car in reverse, so that I at least could get out and back in to fetch my wife from the ward.

There is no excuse for how this driver parked. It is just a symptom of the general lack of consideration for others, admittedly by a minority. I have since shamed the driver (without reg plate) on a local site and HE has been named and shamed. Job done, no regrets.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

To clarify a point, today I practised what I was preaching before a bowel scan. I arranged for someone to take me and someone else to collect me afterwards, so no car parking and no dodgy tired, very thirsty and very hungry driver after not eating for the better part of two days. Now I await the report on that one and no, I do not want another thank you, rolling about on the scanner bed might have looked funny, but not where I was doing the rolling.

[Bob Williams]

Been there Richard, done that several times. It never gets easier or more comfortable, does it? I hope you have a good outcome, best of luck.

Today I felt like Superman, well compared to the last few weeks anyway. I don’t know if it’s the chemo or the tablet Trials, but I was able to carry out several jobs that I have been wanting to do for weeks. My lovely Roses were suffering from neglect, so I pruned away the recent heavy rain damage from the rear garden climbers and pruned a lot of the old Honeysuckle which was completely out of control. Then to the front roses: the white one blooms from March until sometimes a (mild) December, but the huge, gorgeous, aromatic peach climber always makes it far up the wall in the southern sun and is just now blooming. All my neighbours stop while crossing our front door, to have a sniff. I’ll have to start charging a fee! Had to get out the stepladder for the rear roses in the Arbor, and the topmost blooms on the front. We are having some work done to the rear later, including taking out a huge conifer (which I never wanted) and some turf laying where now there is gravel. (Ditto, never wanted)

After lunch I took the shears to my Lilac bushes, which were beginning to attract my attention by grabbing me as I walked past them. I love roses, honeysuckle and Lilac, which has a very faint but beautiful scent.

Today the Boy done good: SWMBO is pleased and cooked me a fine lamb dinner as reward. Even my blackbird came to tell me, well, something. We have a conversation, after he takes to my roof and we whistle back and forth. I have no idea what either of us is saying, but my neighbour likes it.

Tomorrow, Chemo 3 then a week off. One day at a time…

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Bob Williams]

The Peach rose, last year, many more buds this year:

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[dwynnehugh]

Bob – if you read my initial post I did clearly say that ‘without knowing what was the other side of the white car …’ perhaps you should post the complete picture and not bits that you suggest prove your point?

Having been in the enforcement game for many years in the police – it’s not always as ‘cut and dried’ as it first appears.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[Richard]

Glad you had a good day, I am not sure but the tablets might well help.

Your work shows and will pay its dividend in the coming weeks, I had someone cut the grass today and do some weeding but cannot keep up with your efforts. A rose does need dead heading but at 6~8 up it is probably not going to get done by me anytime soon. So I shall not rival your show.

My wife had a fairly crap day but she will not take the pain killers early enough. She can take up to 8 per day but has been taking on in the morning and one too late in the afternoon or evening, teatime was not a comfortable period and neither was the next hour until she was persuaded. Half an hour later she was moving again if not exactly bouncing. Her next Chemo is next week so she should have a few good days coming, I hope.
My scan was not a fun job, I stuck to the plastic platter making rolling over not off the edge a challenge, lifting my arms above my head was undertaken very slowly but triggered no issue so went well. Apparently I earned the seal of approval from the radiographer ‘I got really good images first time every time.’ I just want a solution to the pain with no interruptions to the support activities. That is SWMBO’s concern at the moment. She could get stuck with about 5 months treatment to go, so I can see her point.

[Ed P]

Bob, I see you have the ubiquitous plastic doors (nice rose btw). I hope you have found the time to update your Euro lock barrel, some of the earlier Euro locks take seconds to open with a vibrator (sex toy) and blank key. link

A couple up the road from me have a near identical front door, and they were done over by a walk-in thief a few months ago. They had quite a problem with their insurance company as there was no sign of a forced entry (naturally the insurance company tried it on that they had left the front door unlocked). Luckily they were able to show they still had the old Euro lock and police reports on ‘bumping’ in the area.

[The Duke]

Our doors are never locked. Thevfront was is now time to to time, if we are out and we are expecting a parcel as he has let the dogs out once or twice.  The back door has probably been locked less than 10 times in 15 years.

Usually only if we are all away on hols.

[Richard]

Not an hospital but a supermarket, part wanted the space on the left, part wanted the space on the right but they could not agree so this was the result. In many ways it was a lucky escape, this was caused by a rusted out wishbone that simply failed, happily not at speed. Across the other side of the main road is the showroom for the local dealer, oh dear.

[The Duke]

@dwynhugh out of interest (read being a geek) I measures my car door at its widest part. it measured 1.45m in length.

When I said yesterday the B pillar sits about 4 to 8 cm behind the front seat, it’s closer to 20cm, well over a foot.

[Bob Williams]

Dwynne, I don’t want to labour this point, and I don’t wish to argue with someone whose experience, opinions  and knowledge I respect: but – I only photographed the areas you see, nothing to the right of the white Audi, didn’t think I needed to. What I took, was enough IMHO to prove that this was inconsiderate and thoughtless behaviour on the part of the Audi driver. To clarify that point, I have received a FB PM from the driver to the RH side of the Audi, who states that he struggled to enter the (next to last) space, was worried about potential damage to his car, and actually had an argument later with the Audi driver, whom he knows as a near neighbour. He also states that the Audi guy parks inconsiderately on their street, including blocking other drives and the pavement. It seems I was perfectly correct when calling the Audi driver a barmpot, should have added an Anglo-Saxon adjective or two.

Richard we have a gardening girl (actually about 30 years past being a girl) who is super efficient and does the heavy stuff. We like and trust her so much that today we gave her the back door keys and returned from chemo/shopping to a beautifully manicured lawn, all plots and borders dug over in front and rear gardens, and not a weed in sight. £20 well spent, IMO. The keys were pushed clean through the letterbox, all doors locked. Her SIL also cleans for us.

Lifting my left arm for the scans, is always a painful chore for me, as that is the side with the nerve-damage. I usually drag it up and support it with my right arm and hand.

Ed when the landlord fitted new doors, our Council Decent Homes group made them recognise that we were a vulnerable age group, all in one complex: a possible target. We received a thicker standard of door, with panel inserts and Euro locks and the added benefit of sliding rods all around the outer periphery of the door, which secure into metal plates in the frame. This was a problem when an old neighbour died of a stroke on his lounge floor, after locking his door, leaving the keys in the inner lock and putting the chain on. The Key Safe with his spare was no use as the keys were blocking the lock. Eventually, after trying to use the Big Red Key to no avail, they were forced to cut the door panels off with a steel-saw and reach through with bolt croppers to cut the chain: the smaller WPC was volunteered to crawl in, of course! The Sgt. in charge was amazed by the security of the doors, advised us regarding chain locks and keys in inner locks, but said that we were secure as long as we did not answer the door to anyone we didn’t recognise.

Landlord not amused and decided to locate his NOK to pay for a new door, came to near neighbours asking why he listed NOK as “none” on his Tenancy Agreement. Unfortunately, he was 93, wife and siblings long passed and he died childless. He had served aboard carriers during WWII and had left all his mementos, including several medals, to RN museum Pompey. In the unfortunate position of outliving the few people in his life who were connected to him.

Steve, we always lock our doors, there is a first time for every nasty barsteward under the sun. Had a few dodgy people over the years, but living in a Close which is a cul-de-sac, there are always at least 2 or 3 insomniac Oldpharts watching from windows and we look out for each other: all have each other’s numbers, take each other’s parcels, etc.

 

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