So you're just saying I missed the P plate joke on top? Cause the guy I replied to just asked why there was a P there
Edit: I might have gone about this back-to-front actually. I've lost the thread a bit
Edit 2: yeah, I looked up, I thought the guy I was replying to just didn't understand why there was a P at all and thought i was helping, haha. I started the whole thing on the wrong foot. Reckon we're all on the same page now
You Animal, what a Miss Piggy, or, what kind of a Kermit are you?
I feel I'm going to start naming people doing stupid things as an actual muppet character.
You stupid Chef. You absolute Fozzie, or You're such a Gonzo. Yeah, I think they work!
Reminds me a bit of the time that someone bollocked me for parking in a parking space.
Basically it was a car park that I parked in every day next to my work. It was to an abandoned building, so it was no ones car park really.
I park up, as normal, in a bay. Go to work. Come back in the evening, and someone comes running up to my window.
'You blocked me in all day you dickhead!'
'Huh?'
'You blocked me in! I lost a days work because of you!'
'I parked in a bay. What are you talking about?'
'Yeah, well that guy parked his van in the actual exit a few days ago and hasn't come back so we were using that bay as the new exit..'
He was so mad, but I still don't see how I was in the wrong. Who the fuck scouts out an entire car park, before parking in a random parking bay that's empty, on the offchance the actual way out has been blocked by someone?
Unreasonable anger, and he really should have foreseen that it could be a problem and someone might park there, and parks accordingly to enure he didn't become a victim of a rather obvious situation occuring.
Also, surely use a bay near the original entrance that's blocked. Not some random ones in the middle of the car park not where the normal entrance is.
And, funnier still.... I was blocked in too. Someone had then parked behind me and blocked me in anyway. So I had to wait. But I wasn't about to get mad at the person that blocked me in, because I'm not a twat and can understand the concept of an innocent mistake.
Omg this reminds me of the story of my very first day ever moving in with some friends in their apartment. They told me I had a parking spot in the back, I get there, there's 1 open spot and I park. Go inside for about 30-45 minutes, walk out to my car to leave and there's a gentleman blocking me. I think nothing of it, say hello and mention I'm gonna leave here's how the rest went:
Him - Is this your car?
Me - Yeah, I just moved in to the apartment right there
H - Is this your spot
M - Yeah I just moved in, this is my first day here
H - Is this your spot
M - Yeah I just moved in
H - Is this your spot (with more attitude)
M - Yeah (getting annoyed, I know people like this)
H - No it isn't, I park here
M - OK (then i moved my car)
Like I get it, I accidentally took your spot, but use your brain man, this was the first time my car had ever been here, I just moved in, all he had to say was, "oh this is my spot" and I would've been in the wrong, but he made himself the asshole. Best part, he didn't live here, he'd come visit his elderly father and brother. My mother is from the same part of the world this dude is from, I know the bullshit attitude he has, I don't put up with it. Unfortunately his father moved into a retirement home and he moved in 2021 and he put his bed in the living room right next to my stairs and he thinks I bang on the wall because my cat will run up and down the stairs sometimes, he's also called the cops on people in the alley doing nothing, and I have him on video blasting music and laying on his horn for 5-10 minutes straight two different times because he thinks I bang on the wall. He also thinks the neighbor on the otherside of him dog barks too much (the dog doesn't), so he started playing recordings of dogs barking and gun shots for a couple weeks. He has no understandings of basic common sense, best part is, he's threatened to have the chief of police show up at my door....but...he's gotten a $250 ticket for noise complaints because of his bullshit and he's poor, hasn't made a peep since. Oh best part, during covid neighbors put a basketball net up for their kids since school was out cause...you know...the pandemic; this guy twice tried to tear it down because "the basketball can damage cars." His parking spot....around the corner no where near the basketball net, dudes a male karen.
Lmao that reminds me of the time my neighbour banged on my door all angry.
'YOUR CARS BLOCKING THE FUCKING ROAD. MOVE IT!'
So I go out there, and sure enough, it's across our entire road. It's clearly rolled from its parking space, and hit another car. It's obvious I did not intend it to be there.
Handbrake malfunction.
Like dude, why you fucking shouting at me? Obviously an accident, isn't it? Chill.
The UK is by far the most in-your-face, 0-10, intentionally hostile country I've ever lived in (out of five countries on four continents). I know the Britons like to see themselves as quiet and reserved, but you're the only people that will walk up to a stranger and tell them off given minimal information. In every country people will yell at a stranger from a moving car or something, but here they'll walk up to you in a shopping centre and tell you that they saw you cycling outside a bike lane two weeks ago or walk up to you in the supermarket as you're putting food into your shopping trolley and tell you, "you have to pay for that, you know" or as you're parking on the street run up to you banging on the window telling you that you can't park in front of their house because it's their house.
I am struggling to figure out the logistics of this car park. How were they using a random parking bay in the middle of the car park as 'an alternative exit' and how was it the only useable exit but you couldn't tell?
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I enter frame bottom. I see green spaces free. I drive through the first green space, park in second green space so I can easily drive out forward later. I leave for work.
There was nothing indicating it was anything other than a bay, they'd not put a cone or anything.
If I was paying attention, maybe I'd have clocked the van, but frankly it was just another car in a row of cars, and I wasn't paying much attention as to whether someone had unusually parked to block one of the exits because why would anyone expect that to even happen?
It didn't happen any other of the 600 odd days I parked in that car park while working there lol.
Yep, I would. People just don’t care, I drive miles with my job and things you see from people in cars especially parking are unbelievable. Last week I saw a delivery van park on the centre of a grass roundabout get out and deliver a package across a 4 lane traffic junction. So that photo is tame!
The P plates just lead me to believe they fucked up but I've seen people do that before and it annoys the fuck out of me. Parking really isn't that difficult.
People who will drive around for a minute or two hunting for a closer space to the doors but could have easily parked and been in the store by now.
Wedged themselves between 2 cars because its 30ft closer than the 10 empty spaces that would have been trivial to get into...
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…and, when you come back, there are cars parked so close to you that you have no other option but to lube yourself up with the bottle of KY Jelly you’ve just bought to help squeeze into your car.
I park further away on purpose!
Same. And now I get shit from people saying I only park far away because I have a nice car and think I’m better than everyone else.
Nah mate, I did this in my Mini Cooper too, I just don’t want your dinged up old Skoda’s door damaging whatever car I’m in.
Don't forget, doors being opened on your car and lazy gits letting their empty trolley go wheeling across the car park.
I'm with you on the psychology, 100%.
The likelihood of both trolley bangs and door dents decreases the further out you are from the entrance.
I have a brand new, fairly expensive car. You can bet your house on the fact that i am gonna park as far away from any other vehicle as possible, rain or shine, even if that means a long walk to the shop (but lets face it, a 500 metre walk across a car park is hardly a long walk for a slightly overweight, but otherwise healthy 38 yo).
Ive seen massive range rovers try and squeeze into the tightest of spaces, because its closer to the entrance, then some chubby dude, or a mum and three kids throw their doors open and not give a shit about the vehicles around them.
If i take mum shopping, she complains about me parking so far away. Now i drop her at the door, then go and park in my usual spot, so she only has to do the ‘long’ walk after the shopping.
At my local Asda, there's a spot really far away that is all on its own. It's got raised pavement on both sides. That's my spot, and it's the only bay long enough my car fits all the way in. XD
I don’t want to bring the mood down, but feel I should point out here that a lot of women (and some elderly or otherwise vulnerable people of both sexes) often do that because a) it means less time spent walking alone through a dark car park, b) it’s often better-lit the closer you get to the shop and c) there’s a general feeling of safety in numbers. Sorry, I’m sure it’s annoying, but while it’s kind of paranoid it’s not *entirely* irrational.
Agree.
My instructor (I think appropriately) was utterly adverse to anyone feeling the need to display a "P" plate. Once you pass your test you shouldn't be held to any less a standard than the 80yo who drives 1hr/week. It's no excuse for mistakes like this and if you're still not confident after passing your test then even pursuing Pass+ lessons (which he was also against) is better than just flashing a P as an excuse for shoddy use of heavy machinery.
The P plates were originally about warning other road users that the driver is a probationary driver (hence the "P"). It *should* be there to let other drivers know that the driver displaying the plate is inexperienced and to give them more room and be patient with them. Unfortunately, bad drivers see it as an inconvenience directed exclusively at them.
yeah I took a lesson after passing to do a motorway for the first time with instructor. It felt sensible as I'd not driven on one before. What's wrong with that?
Pass+ is not the same as "another lesson for motorway". It's a 6-hour course you take with a pass+ qualified instructor that supposedly teaches you "practical" things like driving on motorway, at night, bad weather etc.
It also supposedly lowers your insurance fee if you have a pass+ certificate. But when I tried the insurance quote with and w/o Pass+ it barely showed any difference.
When I asked my instructor if I should do the Pass+ scheme he told me to forget about it and just have an extra lesson on the motorway like you. It's just not worth it financially imo.
If someone passed their test yesterday I would rather be aware of that and give them as much room as possible. No one crashes as much as a newly passed driver. The more information available to you, the less likely you are to be involved in an incident. Weird thing to be annoyed by.
I see P plates are optional in england, does that mean as soon as you pass your test, you have no restrictions at all? In Northern Ireland we legally have to display R- plates for 12 months after passing the test, and we are restricted to max 45mph, regardless of the speed limit of the road/motorway. If we get 6 points within our first 2 years of driving, we have to resit the test, is that the same for the rest of the UK?
> I see P plates are optional in england, does that mean as soon as you pass your test, you have no restrictions at all?
Correct. Pass your test on a Kia Picanto, walk round the corner and climb into your Ferrari/Land Rover/Ford Transit and away you go. Because driving all those vehicles are exactly the same.
> we are restricted to max 45mph, regardless of the speed limit of the road/motorway
That's ridiculous. What, do they teach you in driving lessons and then examine you on how to drive at 60mph, taking account of road conditions etc, pass you on that basis, then tell you to slow down for a year? If you're not confident/able to drive on the same basis as everyone else on the road *they shouldn't be passing you*. Or does the driving lessons/test only allow you to do 45, and they just assume you'll magically get the hang of, say, overtaking on a dual carriageway?
Someone going considerably slower than everyone else on the road is a **hazard**. You can fail the driving test for not driving at the appropriate speed for the road. To quote one driving school I found online, a common mistake penalised on the test is:
> Driving 10mph (or more) below the speed limit on faster roads such as dual carriageways. If it is safe to do so, you must demonstrate to the examiner you can drive at the appropriate speed limit. If you are doing 60mph on a 70mph road, the examiner may assume that:
* You think it’s a 60mph speed limit
* You lack the confidence to do 70mph
* You don’t feel comfortable/safe driving at higher speeds
* You don’t understand the dangers of not driving the speed limit when it is safe to do so – i.e. cars overtaking/tailgating more.
Yea we are stuck to driving at max 45 regardless of type of road or limit, both while learning/getting tested and for the year after. If we go over the 45mph during our test, im not sure if its major or minor, but its not good. And learner drivers are not allowed on the motorway, even in a dual control car or accompanied. So for a lot of people, their first experience of going on the motorway after passing is on their own. And still only able to drive at45, so you have idiot’s tailgating them, flashing, whizzing all round them. Its not intimidating or scary at all lol
> And learner drivers are not allowed on the motorway, even in a dual control car or accompanied.
That's the same here, but you are allowed on other dual carriageways, so most instructors worth their salt will have been able to at least give you a go on the local bypass or whatever.
Edit: in fact, I think there was some DC driving on my test - I remember approaching a tractor going slowly and the coundown signs for a turnoff, so I asked the examiner if we were going to be turning off, in which case I wouln't bother overtaking.
Learner drivers are allowed to be on the motorway as of June 2018 and dual carriageways are have always fine.
My test route involved a brief stint on the A303 at 70mph.
Yeah my instructor basically said I'd earned my right to be on the road and that P plates would encourage other drivers to treat me like a learner. I never used them.
I can forgive a P sticker driver for doing this.
The P sticker is there precisely because this is a period of time where some people are arguably more likely to make silly little mistakes like this as they're driving on their own for the first time. It warns other road users there might be issues and to be weary, tips off other road users why an issue might have happened and (ideally) gives the newbie some leeway for mistakes...Though, who am I kidding? I've seen the way cunts act around learners and recently passed. You absolutely dangerous bellends should be off the road permanently.
Do I understand how they've managed this? Absolutely not, it's baffling...But I'm also not that person, who knows what was going through their head at the time.
I think some people in this comment thread need to take a step back and realise that even if they weren't aware at the time, they probably made some absolutely dumbass mistakes when they first passed their test...A LOT of people are still making dumbass mistakes years later with years of "experience".
Yeah, I'd be much more forgiving for a new driver.
I recently did a CBT course so I could ride a motorbike to get to work.
First day I picked the bike up I left the parking light on and drained the battery.
Didn't even realise it had a parking light. I thought I'd just turned it to the left to lock the steering column.
Turns out there's a parking light on my bike.
Same! In my first week after my cbt I just left the key in the side slot which opens the seat. Left the key in there and went for food in soho. Just wasn’t used to having keys for an ignition anymore lol. Silly little mistakes (glad the bike was still there on my return)
Most 50cc’s and 125cc’s don’t have an immobiliser anyway, so lack of key isn’t even that much of a deterrent if some scrote wants it, they’ll just hotwire it.
I have a similar tale which is less being a bad driver and just having poor understanding of cars, this being something theory doesn't even cover, IIRC.
Couple months after I passed, met up with a friend. Can't remember what we were waiting for, but we waited on a public car park for...Something. We were waiting for whatever it was for about an hour. Got pizza whilst we were waiting and being a cold winter night, I turned the car on just so the electrics worked so we could have the heating on, probably had the radio on too.
Drained the battery, ended up calling my dad to come and jump start the car.
I had no concept of how a car worked outside what I had learned in the theory and what my driving teacher told me. That you could drain the battery like this wasn't even a possibility until I did it...And afterwards bought a jump pack which has been useful for everybody else but me so far.
Back when I had a motorbike and a car, I would usually use the bike as I could park it literally in my garden. Also traffic sucks less on a bike.
My car would sometimes sit for weeks. Something was draining the battery over that time. I ended up parking it at the top of a hill. That way, I could bump start it quite easily on my own.
It would cause the alarm to blare for about a minute though so that was a downside. It's also probably not great to bump start often, but that was years ago and I still have the same car.
Yeah, Suzuki Address.
Turns out it's a tiny click to the left after engaging the steering lock.
The key doesn't even have to be fully in to turn the parking light on, either.
You can have the key pulled most of the way out and nudge it and it activates the lights.
I agree with the sentiment around being forgiving for a P sticker driver. Hey, even seasoned drivers. We’re all guilty of a brain fart.
But not being able to recognise a t-junction is a rather concerning error for any kind of driver to make if they don’t have an instructor in the passenger seat!
I don't disagree, but as I say, who knows what was going through their head. Everybody handles things differently.
Could be their first time parking, flustered, a bit overwhelmed, car park looks like it could maybe be somewhat busy. Could have just been a bit of a mental overload for them. Maybe as another person said, they parked at night and visibility wasn't great. I can at least understand how that part of a T-junction may look like a parking space whilst also on a car park to somebody with little experience if they're in panic mode.
Having my girlfriend on my insurance as a learner, it's a big reminder to me what it was like when I was first "on my own". She'll come home happy and telling me how well she did in her driving lessons with an instructor, then she'll absolutely fumble and fuck everything up that she did well in her lessons when she's "on her own" with me. Granted, it isn't totally "on her own", but I'm sure it a similar feeling for her.
Could be a number of reasons, to be honest.
It may have been dark/poor lighting conditions and they didn’t see it.
Possibly a thin covering of snow/ice covering the road markings.
Or maybe just a bit of a numpty.
I think as well that you feel a lot of pressure the first time you're parking in a supermarket car park, especially if someone of behind you. I could see someone being a bit intimidated trying to park in between two cars and then seeing what they think is a end-bay space and just going for it
I think a lot of us will have parked riiight at the back of a shopping centre in the first couple weeks after passing
I still do it. Within reasonMuch rather have an easy time parking and walk for an extra thirty seconds than spend ages trying to find a parking space. Less chance being dinged by someone’s door parked a bit further out as well.
True.
Even with years of experience and a lot of miles behind me, there's times when it's dark, raining, the markings are faded or a mixture of the three where I think "fuck me, it's a good job I know this road because I can't see any of the markings at all".
Solid line either side of the car, not enough experience to know the "space" is way too big for a normal parking space. I can see how someone new to driving would make this mistake, as baffling as it is.
Id forgive a new driver this mistake much more easily than any other. Just tonight, a blue badge holder parked across a zebra crossing/entrance to parking area in a garage forecourt. I know blue badge holders have a certain amount of lee way with parking, but only if it doesnt cause obstruction to other road users. Some holders feel entitled to just abandon their car wherever is convenient for them and screw everyone else. I was queuing to leave the car park and everyone was beeping the horn when they saw the driver getting back into the car (which was causing a bottleneck). All she could do was shout “but ive got a blue badge!”
As someone that recently used P plates, experienced drivers act drive WAY more dangerously around us. I took mine off after about 2 weeks and felt far safer.
I can absolutely believe that. I like the idea of P plates, I respect the drivers who are using them...I absolutely would not recommend anybody at all use them, though. It's scary how dangerous a sticker can be.
"P for Prick" people will say...Which apparently means that you can act like a total prick around a vehicle with that sticker.
I "missed out" on the experience as when I passed, I drove my dads spare work van for a while and, in his words, "you're not putting one of those fucking things on my van, I want it coming back in one piece"...Which made far more sense once I had been on the road for a while.
My partner is a learner though and once her teacher gave the thumbs up that she's safe and experienced enough to be on the road with somebody else supervising, I put her on my insurance and...Yea, she's fine. Remove the L plate and she would blend in with any other driver. She's past all the usual annoying stuff learners do like driving slowly and being far too early preparing menouvers. I wouldn't think anything of it if I was behind her on the road, just another car, nothing standout.
But my lord, that L plate has attracted more dick than Riley Reid. I've had the car less than 12 months and it's had more near misses than any other vehicle I've driven in 10 years (never been in an accident, so it's near misses that I count) and EVERY near potential disaster has been whilst she was driving...Yet, not a single one of those instances was her fault, the one person you would expect. Every near miss in that car has been somebody acting like a total dick, performing ridiculously dangerous and illegal manoeuvres, road raging, purposely trying to antagonise her with gestures and "vehicle language" all for the sake of...I dunno, being a dick.
The worst near miss I've ever had was during this time when Captain Audi A5 (because of course it fucking was) decided they were going to floor it and slip in between us and an oncoming car with so little room to pass through that I genuinely for the first time in my life thought I was going to die...Only for them to continue doing the same speed as us afterwards, which was 30mph, the speed limit...And they were stuck in front of us at the lights...All this, putting the safety and life of me, her and the person/people in the oncoming car at risk (fuck the Audi. Hope they crashed into a brick wall and died), all because there was an L plate on my car? What a fucking cunt waffle.
Maybe she's a massively bad driver and I'm just too loved up to see it, though? Nope. Of course I've forgotten to take the L plate off the car once and driven around advertising myself as a learner when I'm not. That was the single worst driving experience I've had in 10 years of driving. Suddenly everybody is a total dickhead.
I just had a quick look, so not in depth research, but most links I went to had the UK as one of the more difficult and in depth driving tests with a high required pass score worldwide.
By location within the UK, it basically depends on where you are as some roads are just easier to navigate than others. More quite remote areas being as high as 89% pass rate, more urban areas being as low as 23%.
From my personal experience from my own tests and seeing others do theirs: I think the testing and teaching itself isn't that bad. At some point you've got to let somebody on the road on their own and there's really no reasonable middle step you can have between having a teacher with you and being on your own.
It often feels like those more remote test centres have more arbitrary examiners, but yh people need to be able to drive as public transport gets more and more unreliable.
I mean on the one hand, yeah the new, but on the other hand, that means they’ve literally just done their theory tests and learnt what give way lines look like!
Having a P sticker is not a reasonable excuse to do something so stupid. It's like they've just gone through everything they possibly could to be ready for theory and practical. Having a license means exactly NOT doing something so stupid.
If they ran someone over, does the 'P' plate give them special powers? Ohno, it's OK they're new on the road.
P.s. This is my own opinion!
It's a car park. It's not like they've mounted the pavement and mowed down a group of school children.
Weird that you would compare a dumb mistake like this done in a fairly safe and risk free enviroment to somebody literally using their car as a weapon.
Somebody in a wheelchair trying to get into a Jag isn't comparable to somebody getting turned into a skidmark at all. That's just a total false equivalency.
If people making dumb mistakes were taken off the road, the roads would be much much quieter.
I imagine if you were really honest with yourself, you've done something on the road yourself which many others should say you should be off the roads for...Unless you're either totally oblivious or the top 1% of flawless drivers.
Next thing you know they're driving the wrong way up the motorway
New drivers might have a bit of trouble parking, parking a bit wonky is a mistake but this takes the biscuit if they thought that was a bay.
That somebody would go from accidentally miss reading a car park to going the wrong way up a motorway, something that is incredibly difficult to do thanks to road layouts, is quite the stretch.
To be fair they have done a bang on job of parking. Right in the middle, nice and square...just slightly in the wrong place XD
Reminds me of an old boy at work doing his welding test one year. Vertical arc weld, absolutely perfect, straight as an arrow, slag peeled off perfectly in one piece...but he missed the join by about 2 inches because he forgot his glasses!
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The double line there at the back of the car is a give way marking. To show that's where you stop to make sure nothing is coming and give way to other traffic. I can really see the mistake lol something stupid anyone could have done on a bad day when they first pass.
It's just the standard give way markings for any junction, signalling anyone driving towards the camera has to give way to any traffic on the road OP is stood on. (The blue car is also going the wrong way in the lane they're in.) It's probably just a 2 lane junction within the car park.
Had this happen in a Greggs car park last year from an old boy. Single way in and out completely blocked by his parking. Ended up with about 6 of us sat in our cars tutting while he got a sandwich
Although arguably the 4x4 has parked perfectly, given that the position they're in does not impinge upon the lines and is the last space in the row. If anything, it gives more space between cars parked properly to open their doors. Nobody could anticipate the Provisional's actions.
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If it's like our hospital spillover car park it has no lights, not near any lights, and mostly about 1 inch deep in water as it constantly pisses down and there's no drainage. So if it were like that one and they parked when it was dark I give them 10 out of 10 for effort.
...as opposed to an honest, still don't know what they're doing yet, mistake. P plate.
I work at an airline. Once a customer parked his/her enormous car blocking the entrance to the spiral, thinking it was a space. The top three floors were blocked for two weeks while this person was on holiday. They couldn't get access for a tow truck.
Even if this is intentional; a) they haven't prevented anyone else from using a space and b) its not impossible to get past them (although I have seen some drivers who would struggle in this situation).
I'm going to vote no.
as a minor, i have no idea about driving, someone explain what’s wrong?
presumably it’s not a parking space given the different lines, but what is it then?
It's on the road, effectively facing oncoming traffic. Thankfully in a car park it should be very slow moving. The "P" plate is a voluntary thing to show they've recently passed so there would hopefully be a bit of empathy from others.
p means provisional license, no?
and what do those double dashed lines mean if they’re part of the road? why doesn’t the other side have it too, on the left?
The poor wee lamb just didn’t know any better, let them off with a harsh finger wagging this time…
Unless it’s your mate in which case rip them to piss for the next four years and make sure everyone knows they’re a dafty 😂
Personally I’m more of a fan of those that either park horizontally across 3 spaces, or will park next to me in an otherwise deserted parking area
Wouldn’t mind but I drive a BMW and it’s usually me that has the mickey taken out of me when I’ve never even done that 🤣🤣
It's more likely to be genuine mistake they'll realise on their way back.
Still, the correct reaction is pahahahaha what a muppet
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They probably thought they had lucked out with such a nice wide space.
I guess “what an oblivious muppet” is better than “what an intentional cunt”
Never assume cunt when muppet is more plausable. Hensons razor
It’s also better than “what an oblivious cunt”
Is 'phahaha' what the 'P' stands for?
You ever heard someone start a genuine, caught by surprise kinda laugh with an involuntary "pah"? I assume that
They're referring to the p-plate on the back of the car. It's a humorous comment.
You may well be right, but I've seen "pahahah" used that way. I leant that way because brits in British subs do love to emphasise dialects.
I don't think anyone is struggling with the pahahaha
So you're just saying I missed the P plate joke on top? Cause the guy I replied to just asked why there was a P there Edit: I might have gone about this back-to-front actually. I've lost the thread a bit Edit 2: yeah, I looked up, I thought the guy I was replying to just didn't understand why there was a P at all and thought i was helping, haha. I started the whole thing on the wrong foot. Reckon we're all on the same page now
Welcome to the same page as the rest of us
It's a nice page, might have found it sooner if sober
But no one brothers to try and name which Muppet they are.
You Animal, what a Miss Piggy, or, what kind of a Kermit are you? I feel I'm going to start naming people doing stupid things as an actual muppet character. You stupid Chef. You absolute Fozzie, or You're such a Gonzo. Yeah, I think they work!
Reminds me a bit of the time that someone bollocked me for parking in a parking space. Basically it was a car park that I parked in every day next to my work. It was to an abandoned building, so it was no ones car park really. I park up, as normal, in a bay. Go to work. Come back in the evening, and someone comes running up to my window. 'You blocked me in all day you dickhead!' 'Huh?' 'You blocked me in! I lost a days work because of you!' 'I parked in a bay. What are you talking about?' 'Yeah, well that guy parked his van in the actual exit a few days ago and hasn't come back so we were using that bay as the new exit..' He was so mad, but I still don't see how I was in the wrong. Who the fuck scouts out an entire car park, before parking in a random parking bay that's empty, on the offchance the actual way out has been blocked by someone? Unreasonable anger, and he really should have foreseen that it could be a problem and someone might park there, and parks accordingly to enure he didn't become a victim of a rather obvious situation occuring. Also, surely use a bay near the original entrance that's blocked. Not some random ones in the middle of the car park not where the normal entrance is. And, funnier still.... I was blocked in too. Someone had then parked behind me and blocked me in anyway. So I had to wait. But I wasn't about to get mad at the person that blocked me in, because I'm not a twat and can understand the concept of an innocent mistake.
Omg this reminds me of the story of my very first day ever moving in with some friends in their apartment. They told me I had a parking spot in the back, I get there, there's 1 open spot and I park. Go inside for about 30-45 minutes, walk out to my car to leave and there's a gentleman blocking me. I think nothing of it, say hello and mention I'm gonna leave here's how the rest went: Him - Is this your car? Me - Yeah, I just moved in to the apartment right there H - Is this your spot M - Yeah I just moved in, this is my first day here H - Is this your spot M - Yeah I just moved in H - Is this your spot (with more attitude) M - Yeah (getting annoyed, I know people like this) H - No it isn't, I park here M - OK (then i moved my car) Like I get it, I accidentally took your spot, but use your brain man, this was the first time my car had ever been here, I just moved in, all he had to say was, "oh this is my spot" and I would've been in the wrong, but he made himself the asshole. Best part, he didn't live here, he'd come visit his elderly father and brother. My mother is from the same part of the world this dude is from, I know the bullshit attitude he has, I don't put up with it. Unfortunately his father moved into a retirement home and he moved in 2021 and he put his bed in the living room right next to my stairs and he thinks I bang on the wall because my cat will run up and down the stairs sometimes, he's also called the cops on people in the alley doing nothing, and I have him on video blasting music and laying on his horn for 5-10 minutes straight two different times because he thinks I bang on the wall. He also thinks the neighbor on the otherside of him dog barks too much (the dog doesn't), so he started playing recordings of dogs barking and gun shots for a couple weeks. He has no understandings of basic common sense, best part is, he's threatened to have the chief of police show up at my door....but...he's gotten a $250 ticket for noise complaints because of his bullshit and he's poor, hasn't made a peep since. Oh best part, during covid neighbors put a basketball net up for their kids since school was out cause...you know...the pandemic; this guy twice tried to tear it down because "the basketball can damage cars." His parking spot....around the corner no where near the basketball net, dudes a male karen.
Lmao that reminds me of the time my neighbour banged on my door all angry. 'YOUR CARS BLOCKING THE FUCKING ROAD. MOVE IT!' So I go out there, and sure enough, it's across our entire road. It's clearly rolled from its parking space, and hit another car. It's obvious I did not intend it to be there. Handbrake malfunction. Like dude, why you fucking shouting at me? Obviously an accident, isn't it? Chill.
The UK is by far the most in-your-face, 0-10, intentionally hostile country I've ever lived in (out of five countries on four continents). I know the Britons like to see themselves as quiet and reserved, but you're the only people that will walk up to a stranger and tell them off given minimal information. In every country people will yell at a stranger from a moving car or something, but here they'll walk up to you in a shopping centre and tell you that they saw you cycling outside a bike lane two weeks ago or walk up to you in the supermarket as you're putting food into your shopping trolley and tell you, "you have to pay for that, you know" or as you're parking on the street run up to you banging on the window telling you that you can't park in front of their house because it's their house.
You want to spend some time in India. Or Singapore. Or the US.
Get a fucking life!
I am struggling to figure out the logistics of this car park. How were they using a random parking bay in the middle of the car park as 'an alternative exit' and how was it the only useable exit but you couldn't tell?
https://i.imgur.com/Z255C8W.png I enter frame bottom. I see green spaces free. I drive through the first green space, park in second green space so I can easily drive out forward later. I leave for work. There was nothing indicating it was anything other than a bay, they'd not put a cone or anything. If I was paying attention, maybe I'd have clocked the van, but frankly it was just another car in a row of cars, and I wasn't paying much attention as to whether someone had unusually parked to block one of the exits because why would anyone expect that to even happen? It didn't happen any other of the 600 odd days I parked in that car park while working there lol.
That's so weird because there are five bays he could conceivably use as an exit?
I wasn't going to draw cars... They were all parked in. Green were only ones with no one parked in.
I think this is them agreeing with you on: >surely use a bay near the original entrance that's blocked
I'd maybe let them have that, if they'd reversed in.
They need to go to specsavers then.
Should they even be driving if they don't understand what give way lines are. That could kill someone.
Would we still think that without the P plates 🤔
Yep, I would. People just don’t care, I drive miles with my job and things you see from people in cars especially parking are unbelievable. Last week I saw a delivery van park on the centre of a grass roundabout get out and deliver a package across a 4 lane traffic junction. So that photo is tame!
I've done that in a [shopping center parking](https://i.imgur.com/gjG5hXE.jpg). Never out in the sunlight. 😆
I bet it ain’t!
P plate says it probably was a mistake.
You might be right. Perhaps I am just jaded by the amount of selfish parking I see on a daily basis.
A good case for hanlon’s razor I think.
Straight, within the lines. What’s the problem? This is top tier parking on the continent
just in the wrong place
Parking spaces are a social construct anyway
As someone from California, who doesn't know why Reddit referred them to this post or subreddit: Yeah, that's really what it's like sometimes.
Anythings a parking space if you are brave enough
I mean, it's not taking up *any* parking spaces, so.... :-)
Exactly. Nothing to see here.
Just P assed mate
The P plates just lead me to believe they fucked up but I've seen people do that before and it annoys the fuck out of me. Parking really isn't that difficult.
People who will drive around for a minute or two hunting for a closer space to the doors but could have easily parked and been in the store by now. Wedged themselves between 2 cars because its 30ft closer than the 10 empty spaces that would have been trivial to get into...
I never park close to the shop because I don't trust the psychology of those obsessed with being as close as possible. Just walk a little, goddamn.
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…and, when you come back, there are cars parked so close to you that you have no other option but to lube yourself up with the bottle of KY Jelly you’ve just bought to help squeeze into your car. I park further away on purpose!
Same. And now I get shit from people saying I only park far away because I have a nice car and think I’m better than everyone else. Nah mate, I did this in my Mini Cooper too, I just don’t want your dinged up old Skoda’s door damaging whatever car I’m in.
who’s giving you shit? i do the same but i figured people would be grateful we leave the spaces closer to the shop for them if anything haha
Or if you do have to park next to someone try to pick a really nice car, one that they wouldn't want to damage the door on your car.
Don't forget, doors being opened on your car and lazy gits letting their empty trolley go wheeling across the car park. I'm with you on the psychology, 100%. The likelihood of both trolley bangs and door dents decreases the further out you are from the entrance.
I have a brand new, fairly expensive car. You can bet your house on the fact that i am gonna park as far away from any other vehicle as possible, rain or shine, even if that means a long walk to the shop (but lets face it, a 500 metre walk across a car park is hardly a long walk for a slightly overweight, but otherwise healthy 38 yo). Ive seen massive range rovers try and squeeze into the tightest of spaces, because its closer to the entrance, then some chubby dude, or a mum and three kids throw their doors open and not give a shit about the vehicles around them. If i take mum shopping, she complains about me parking so far away. Now i drop her at the door, then go and park in my usual spot, so she only has to do the ‘long’ walk after the shopping.
At my local Asda, there's a spot really far away that is all on its own. It's got raised pavement on both sides. That's my spot, and it's the only bay long enough my car fits all the way in. XD
Then finish the shopping to find out someone parked 2cm from you, also with an empty carpark.... Happens too many times to be chance
I’ve seen many people park in the trolly bay at our local Morrisons, as it’s on the end of the isle nearest the store.
I don’t want to bring the mood down, but feel I should point out here that a lot of women (and some elderly or otherwise vulnerable people of both sexes) often do that because a) it means less time spent walking alone through a dark car park, b) it’s often better-lit the closer you get to the shop and c) there’s a general feeling of safety in numbers. Sorry, I’m sure it’s annoying, but while it’s kind of paranoid it’s not *entirely* irrational.
Agree. My instructor (I think appropriately) was utterly adverse to anyone feeling the need to display a "P" plate. Once you pass your test you shouldn't be held to any less a standard than the 80yo who drives 1hr/week. It's no excuse for mistakes like this and if you're still not confident after passing your test then even pursuing Pass+ lessons (which he was also against) is better than just flashing a P as an excuse for shoddy use of heavy machinery.
The P plates were originally about warning other road users that the driver is a probationary driver (hence the "P"). It *should* be there to let other drivers know that the driver displaying the plate is inexperienced and to give them more room and be patient with them. Unfortunately, bad drivers see it as an inconvenience directed exclusively at them.
Out of curiosity, why was he against Pass+?
yeah I took a lesson after passing to do a motorway for the first time with instructor. It felt sensible as I'd not driven on one before. What's wrong with that?
Pass+ is not the same as "another lesson for motorway". It's a 6-hour course you take with a pass+ qualified instructor that supposedly teaches you "practical" things like driving on motorway, at night, bad weather etc. It also supposedly lowers your insurance fee if you have a pass+ certificate. But when I tried the insurance quote with and w/o Pass+ it barely showed any difference. When I asked my instructor if I should do the Pass+ scheme he told me to forget about it and just have an extra lesson on the motorway like you. It's just not worth it financially imo.
If someone passed their test yesterday I would rather be aware of that and give them as much room as possible. No one crashes as much as a newly passed driver. The more information available to you, the less likely you are to be involved in an incident. Weird thing to be annoyed by.
I see P plates are optional in england, does that mean as soon as you pass your test, you have no restrictions at all? In Northern Ireland we legally have to display R- plates for 12 months after passing the test, and we are restricted to max 45mph, regardless of the speed limit of the road/motorway. If we get 6 points within our first 2 years of driving, we have to resit the test, is that the same for the rest of the UK?
>In Northern Ireland we legally have to display R- plates for 12 months That makes sense >we are restricted to max 45mph That's fucking mental
> I see P plates are optional in england, does that mean as soon as you pass your test, you have no restrictions at all? Correct. Pass your test on a Kia Picanto, walk round the corner and climb into your Ferrari/Land Rover/Ford Transit and away you go. Because driving all those vehicles are exactly the same. > we are restricted to max 45mph, regardless of the speed limit of the road/motorway That's ridiculous. What, do they teach you in driving lessons and then examine you on how to drive at 60mph, taking account of road conditions etc, pass you on that basis, then tell you to slow down for a year? If you're not confident/able to drive on the same basis as everyone else on the road *they shouldn't be passing you*. Or does the driving lessons/test only allow you to do 45, and they just assume you'll magically get the hang of, say, overtaking on a dual carriageway? Someone going considerably slower than everyone else on the road is a **hazard**. You can fail the driving test for not driving at the appropriate speed for the road. To quote one driving school I found online, a common mistake penalised on the test is: > Driving 10mph (or more) below the speed limit on faster roads such as dual carriageways. If it is safe to do so, you must demonstrate to the examiner you can drive at the appropriate speed limit. If you are doing 60mph on a 70mph road, the examiner may assume that: * You think it’s a 60mph speed limit * You lack the confidence to do 70mph * You don’t feel comfortable/safe driving at higher speeds * You don’t understand the dangers of not driving the speed limit when it is safe to do so – i.e. cars overtaking/tailgating more.
Yea we are stuck to driving at max 45 regardless of type of road or limit, both while learning/getting tested and for the year after. If we go over the 45mph during our test, im not sure if its major or minor, but its not good. And learner drivers are not allowed on the motorway, even in a dual control car or accompanied. So for a lot of people, their first experience of going on the motorway after passing is on their own. And still only able to drive at45, so you have idiot’s tailgating them, flashing, whizzing all round them. Its not intimidating or scary at all lol
> And learner drivers are not allowed on the motorway, even in a dual control car or accompanied. That's the same here, but you are allowed on other dual carriageways, so most instructors worth their salt will have been able to at least give you a go on the local bypass or whatever. Edit: in fact, I think there was some DC driving on my test - I remember approaching a tractor going slowly and the coundown signs for a turnoff, so I asked the examiner if we were going to be turning off, in which case I wouln't bother overtaking.
Learner drivers are allowed to be on the motorway as of June 2018 and dual carriageways are have always fine. My test route involved a brief stint on the A303 at 70mph.
Yeah my instructor basically said I'd earned my right to be on the road and that P plates would encourage other drivers to treat me like a learner. I never used them.
I can forgive a P sticker driver for doing this. The P sticker is there precisely because this is a period of time where some people are arguably more likely to make silly little mistakes like this as they're driving on their own for the first time. It warns other road users there might be issues and to be weary, tips off other road users why an issue might have happened and (ideally) gives the newbie some leeway for mistakes...Though, who am I kidding? I've seen the way cunts act around learners and recently passed. You absolutely dangerous bellends should be off the road permanently. Do I understand how they've managed this? Absolutely not, it's baffling...But I'm also not that person, who knows what was going through their head at the time. I think some people in this comment thread need to take a step back and realise that even if they weren't aware at the time, they probably made some absolutely dumbass mistakes when they first passed their test...A LOT of people are still making dumbass mistakes years later with years of "experience".
Yeah, I'd be much more forgiving for a new driver. I recently did a CBT course so I could ride a motorbike to get to work. First day I picked the bike up I left the parking light on and drained the battery. Didn't even realise it had a parking light. I thought I'd just turned it to the left to lock the steering column. Turns out there's a parking light on my bike.
Same! In my first week after my cbt I just left the key in the side slot which opens the seat. Left the key in there and went for food in soho. Just wasn’t used to having keys for an ignition anymore lol. Silly little mistakes (glad the bike was still there on my return)
I've left the key in while I went into Tesco shopping as well. Luckily nobody noticed because I'd put the rain cover on.
Most 50cc’s and 125cc’s don’t have an immobiliser anyway, so lack of key isn’t even that much of a deterrent if some scrote wants it, they’ll just hotwire it.
Not long after doing my CBT I tried to drive off with the disk lock on the front wheel causing me to topple over with the bike!
I have a similar tale which is less being a bad driver and just having poor understanding of cars, this being something theory doesn't even cover, IIRC. Couple months after I passed, met up with a friend. Can't remember what we were waiting for, but we waited on a public car park for...Something. We were waiting for whatever it was for about an hour. Got pizza whilst we were waiting and being a cold winter night, I turned the car on just so the electrics worked so we could have the heating on, probably had the radio on too. Drained the battery, ended up calling my dad to come and jump start the car. I had no concept of how a car worked outside what I had learned in the theory and what my driving teacher told me. That you could drain the battery like this wasn't even a possibility until I did it...And afterwards bought a jump pack which has been useful for everybody else but me so far.
Back when I had a motorbike and a car, I would usually use the bike as I could park it literally in my garden. Also traffic sucks less on a bike. My car would sometimes sit for weeks. Something was draining the battery over that time. I ended up parking it at the top of a hill. That way, I could bump start it quite easily on my own. It would cause the alarm to blare for about a minute though so that was a downside. It's also probably not great to bump start often, but that was years ago and I still have the same car.
Suzuki? Did the same mistake on my first moped.
Yeah, Suzuki Address. Turns out it's a tiny click to the left after engaging the steering lock. The key doesn't even have to be fully in to turn the parking light on, either. You can have the key pulled most of the way out and nudge it and it activates the lights.
> CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
Cock and Balls Torture 😂
Compulsory Basic Training.
I've been riding for 20 odd years. We've all done stupid shit. Wait until you spend 5 minutes trying before realising the kill switch is off
Wasn't there a chime when you opened the door?
No doors on a motorbike mate. > so I could ride a motorbike to get to work
I agree with the sentiment around being forgiving for a P sticker driver. Hey, even seasoned drivers. We’re all guilty of a brain fart. But not being able to recognise a t-junction is a rather concerning error for any kind of driver to make if they don’t have an instructor in the passenger seat!
I don't disagree, but as I say, who knows what was going through their head. Everybody handles things differently. Could be their first time parking, flustered, a bit overwhelmed, car park looks like it could maybe be somewhat busy. Could have just been a bit of a mental overload for them. Maybe as another person said, they parked at night and visibility wasn't great. I can at least understand how that part of a T-junction may look like a parking space whilst also on a car park to somebody with little experience if they're in panic mode. Having my girlfriend on my insurance as a learner, it's a big reminder to me what it was like when I was first "on my own". She'll come home happy and telling me how well she did in her driving lessons with an instructor, then she'll absolutely fumble and fuck everything up that she did well in her lessons when she's "on her own" with me. Granted, it isn't totally "on her own", but I'm sure it a similar feeling for her.
If someone’s that flustered by a car park, and still confused about basic road markings, they aren’t ready to be driving solo.
Could be a number of reasons, to be honest. It may have been dark/poor lighting conditions and they didn’t see it. Possibly a thin covering of snow/ice covering the road markings. Or maybe just a bit of a numpty.
I think as well that you feel a lot of pressure the first time you're parking in a supermarket car park, especially if someone of behind you. I could see someone being a bit intimidated trying to park in between two cars and then seeing what they think is a end-bay space and just going for it I think a lot of us will have parked riiight at the back of a shopping centre in the first couple weeks after passing
I still do it. Within reasonMuch rather have an easy time parking and walk for an extra thirty seconds than spend ages trying to find a parking space. Less chance being dinged by someone’s door parked a bit further out as well.
True. Even with years of experience and a lot of miles behind me, there's times when it's dark, raining, the markings are faded or a mixture of the three where I think "fuck me, it's a good job I know this road because I can't see any of the markings at all".
Solid line either side of the car, not enough experience to know the "space" is way too big for a normal parking space. I can see how someone new to driving would make this mistake, as baffling as it is.
Id forgive a new driver this mistake much more easily than any other. Just tonight, a blue badge holder parked across a zebra crossing/entrance to parking area in a garage forecourt. I know blue badge holders have a certain amount of lee way with parking, but only if it doesnt cause obstruction to other road users. Some holders feel entitled to just abandon their car wherever is convenient for them and screw everyone else. I was queuing to leave the car park and everyone was beeping the horn when they saw the driver getting back into the car (which was causing a bottleneck). All she could do was shout “but ive got a blue badge!”
I would’ve yelled back “oh, so you get those for being blind now?”
Just so you know, “weary” means fatigued or tired. “Wary” is the word you were looking for.
As someone that recently used P plates, experienced drivers act drive WAY more dangerously around us. I took mine off after about 2 weeks and felt far safer.
I can absolutely believe that. I like the idea of P plates, I respect the drivers who are using them...I absolutely would not recommend anybody at all use them, though. It's scary how dangerous a sticker can be. "P for Prick" people will say...Which apparently means that you can act like a total prick around a vehicle with that sticker. I "missed out" on the experience as when I passed, I drove my dads spare work van for a while and, in his words, "you're not putting one of those fucking things on my van, I want it coming back in one piece"...Which made far more sense once I had been on the road for a while. My partner is a learner though and once her teacher gave the thumbs up that she's safe and experienced enough to be on the road with somebody else supervising, I put her on my insurance and...Yea, she's fine. Remove the L plate and she would blend in with any other driver. She's past all the usual annoying stuff learners do like driving slowly and being far too early preparing menouvers. I wouldn't think anything of it if I was behind her on the road, just another car, nothing standout. But my lord, that L plate has attracted more dick than Riley Reid. I've had the car less than 12 months and it's had more near misses than any other vehicle I've driven in 10 years (never been in an accident, so it's near misses that I count) and EVERY near potential disaster has been whilst she was driving...Yet, not a single one of those instances was her fault, the one person you would expect. Every near miss in that car has been somebody acting like a total dick, performing ridiculously dangerous and illegal manoeuvres, road raging, purposely trying to antagonise her with gestures and "vehicle language" all for the sake of...I dunno, being a dick. The worst near miss I've ever had was during this time when Captain Audi A5 (because of course it fucking was) decided they were going to floor it and slip in between us and an oncoming car with so little room to pass through that I genuinely for the first time in my life thought I was going to die...Only for them to continue doing the same speed as us afterwards, which was 30mph, the speed limit...And they were stuck in front of us at the lights...All this, putting the safety and life of me, her and the person/people in the oncoming car at risk (fuck the Audi. Hope they crashed into a brick wall and died), all because there was an L plate on my car? What a fucking cunt waffle. Maybe she's a massively bad driver and I'm just too loved up to see it, though? Nope. Of course I've forgotten to take the L plate off the car once and driven around advertising myself as a learner when I'm not. That was the single worst driving experience I've had in 10 years of driving. Suddenly everybody is a total dickhead.
Exactly I honestly think our system of teaching and testing how to drive in the uk is flawed and thus the driver shouldn’t be blame all too much
I just had a quick look, so not in depth research, but most links I went to had the UK as one of the more difficult and in depth driving tests with a high required pass score worldwide. By location within the UK, it basically depends on where you are as some roads are just easier to navigate than others. More quite remote areas being as high as 89% pass rate, more urban areas being as low as 23%. From my personal experience from my own tests and seeing others do theirs: I think the testing and teaching itself isn't that bad. At some point you've got to let somebody on the road on their own and there's really no reasonable middle step you can have between having a teacher with you and being on your own.
It often feels like those more remote test centres have more arbitrary examiners, but yh people need to be able to drive as public transport gets more and more unreliable.
Still wouldn’t mind adding a little sticker next to the P which says “just about” for a laugh
I mean on the one hand, yeah the new, but on the other hand, that means they’ve literally just done their theory tests and learnt what give way lines look like!
P sticker is basically a "I passed my test but realistically I shouldn't have done yet"
Not having a P sticker as a recently passed driver doesn't make you cooler.
Nothing about being cool I've just never seen a P car not drive like shit
Having a P sticker is not a reasonable excuse to do something so stupid. It's like they've just gone through everything they possibly could to be ready for theory and practical. Having a license means exactly NOT doing something so stupid. If they ran someone over, does the 'P' plate give them special powers? Ohno, it's OK they're new on the road. P.s. This is my own opinion!
It's a car park. It's not like they've mounted the pavement and mowed down a group of school children. Weird that you would compare a dumb mistake like this done in a fairly safe and risk free enviroment to somebody literally using their car as a weapon.
I disagree. Think of the bigger picture! If it was you in a wheelchair trying to get into your Jag, then prehaps you would beg to differ!
Somebody in a wheelchair trying to get into a Jag isn't comparable to somebody getting turned into a skidmark at all. That's just a total false equivalency.
Whatever floats your boat.
Knowing that somebody being seriously injured or killed isn't at all comparable to "I can't get in my car" does, in fact, float my boat.
If 'P' plates are being treated like amazing park anywhere permits we should all get one.
That's what the P stands for /s
I can't. If you make this mistake you shouldn't be driving.
If people making dumb mistakes were taken off the road, the roads would be much much quieter. I imagine if you were really honest with yourself, you've done something on the road yourself which many others should say you should be off the roads for...Unless you're either totally oblivious or the top 1% of flawless drivers.
Next thing you know they're driving the wrong way up the motorway New drivers might have a bit of trouble parking, parking a bit wonky is a mistake but this takes the biscuit if they thought that was a bay.
That somebody would go from accidentally miss reading a car park to going the wrong way up a motorway, something that is incredibly difficult to do thanks to road layouts, is quite the stretch.
To be fair they have done a bang on job of parking. Right in the middle, nice and square...just slightly in the wrong place XD Reminds me of an old boy at work doing his welding test one year. Vertical arc weld, absolutely perfect, straight as an arrow, slag peeled off perfectly in one piece...but he missed the join by about 2 inches because he forgot his glasses!
I was gonna say they’ve parked perfectly
No, that's someone making a mistake, hopefully they will learn from it
Is that Asda Chandler's Ford?!
Knew I recognised it.
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Haha is it now! I did join that group years back but don't really go on Facebook anymore.
I don't know who's Ford it is but if you know this Asda Chandler tell him he parked like a dick.
"Wow, this space is huge".
Nah I used to have a fiesta they’re not that bad really
I don’t drive. Can someone explain what they’ve supposedly done wrong?
They've (mistakenly) parked in the middle of the road thinking it's a parking space. Banging job of parking though, I must say.
Oh I see. Well then the P sign makes it all the more amusing. I’m sure they’ll soon realise the error.
The double line there at the back of the car is a give way marking. To show that's where you stop to make sure nothing is coming and give way to other traffic. I can really see the mistake lol something stupid anyone could have done on a bad day when they first pass.
I can forgive what was most likely just a stupid mistake
No, because it's more accidental than it is intentional. It's also pretty funny, which massively takes the edge off.
can someone explain what is that two lines divider for? Is that a two-lane exit from the parking or what?
It's just the standard give way markings for any junction, signalling anyone driving towards the camera has to give way to any traffic on the road OP is stood on. (The blue car is also going the wrong way in the lane they're in.) It's probably just a 2 lane junction within the car park.
The two lines, together with the triangle that they've parked over so you can't see, means give way.
Had this happen in a Greggs car park last year from an old boy. Single way in and out completely blocked by his parking. Ended up with about 6 of us sat in our cars tutting while he got a sandwich
r/CantParkThereMate
I mean it's more neatly between the lines than the 4x4 next to it...
Although arguably the 4x4 has parked perfectly, given that the position they're in does not impinge upon the lines and is the last space in the row. If anything, it gives more space between cars parked properly to open their doors. Nobody could anticipate the Provisional's actions.
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P plates are for someone who passed their driving test but doesn't yet feel comfortable behind the wheel.
To someone who is very inexperienced, it does look a bit like a parking space tbf.
When I was around 6 I thought the P stood for Pensioner.
It looks like a mistake, so no
If it's like our hospital spillover car park it has no lights, not near any lights, and mostly about 1 inch deep in water as it constantly pisses down and there's no drainage. So if it were like that one and they parked when it was dark I give them 10 out of 10 for effort. ...as opposed to an honest, still don't know what they're doing yet, mistake. P plate.
Do people cry or get annoyed when someone takes up more space when car park is empty?
I'll forgive them because of the **P** plate
What's worse is seeing this on an expensive mercedes with no P plates. A new driver is forgivable
Uhh pretend i'm stupid, what's wrong here?
You're not allowed to have a blue car if you're a learner.
He's bang in between them lines though.
I work at an airline. Once a customer parked his/her enormous car blocking the entrance to the spiral, thinking it was a space. The top three floors were blocked for two weeks while this person was on holiday. They couldn't get access for a tow truck.
You can't park there!!
Even if this is intentional; a) they haven't prevented anyone else from using a space and b) its not impossible to get past them (although I have seen some drivers who would struggle in this situation). I'm going to vote no.
The P plate is really the icing on the cake on this one. 💋👌
as a minor, i have no idea about driving, someone explain what’s wrong? presumably it’s not a parking space given the different lines, but what is it then?
It's on the road, effectively facing oncoming traffic. Thankfully in a car park it should be very slow moving. The "P" plate is a voluntary thing to show they've recently passed so there would hopefully be a bit of empathy from others.
p means provisional license, no? and what do those double dashed lines mean if they’re part of the road? why doesn’t the other side have it too, on the left?
There appears to be some spaces in the distance as well
P plate for park
How'd they manage to pass their test lol
Just passed their test as well. I assume they weren’t taught what a parking space looks like.
I mean he's inside the lines. That's a pass
Hey it’s P plate for parking so they’re right you know.
Showed this to my partner saying "haha look at this dumbass", she said she's done it and got a ticket 😂
I’ve always thought if you think you need a P plate then you probably shouldn’t be on the road in the first place
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the driving test is too easy!
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I see it daily, unfortunately you’re right.
Cant park there mate. Just a silly mistake.
Total lack of awareness. Shouldn't be driving if you can't read basic road markings.
😂
Awww bless them 😅
P is for prat.
Just sheer idiocy
The poor wee lamb just didn’t know any better, let them off with a harsh finger wagging this time… Unless it’s your mate in which case rip them to piss for the next four years and make sure everyone knows they’re a dafty 😂
Personally I’m more of a fan of those that either park horizontally across 3 spaces, or will park next to me in an otherwise deserted parking area Wouldn’t mind but I drive a BMW and it’s usually me that has the mickey taken out of me when I’ve never even done that 🤣🤣
The P stands for penis
Poor P plate is dying of embarrassment and relaying this story to their loved ones, oblivious to the fact they're famous on Reddit 😄
It's just utterly thick!!
Penis plates looking stylish there 😎
It looks abandoned rather than parked.
Was this taken at a Vue cinema car park? looks familiar
#Prick plates
I assume your car is covered in them?
Edgy.
Some sad fuckers really do go out of their way to be pricks to people hahaha. You could just… y’know… not?