Call That Parked?

I was going to post a shot of
Squirrel brushing her teeth -- why she insists on sitting on the cistern I have no idea.

But I had such a laugh winding up this idiot I had to use one of the shots I took to do it.

We arrived at the shop and the car park was about 1/3rd full, but this idiot was parked across the disabled bay.
I say 'parked', but he was actually waiting for two blokes who were in the shop.
If he could lip read he may have understood that I thought he was a tool.
When SWMBO was getting out of the car I mentioned the fact that it was shocking the way he was blocking the disabled bay.
It may have been in quite a loud voice that he heard through his open window because after she had gone into the shop he slowly moved forward to this point ..... as another car was trying to leave whose driver had no idea what he was up to and ended up stationary on the wrong side of the road as another car turned in. They managed to avoid a collision but it was clear neither was very pleased with the tool in the van.
Neither was the person in the car he was now blocking in (out of sight behind him in this shot) with the reversing lights on waiting to come out.
So he slowly moved back to this position where he waited making life very hard for everyone going both in and out.

That is when I got out, opened the boot and went and took a couple of pictures (just to wind him up).
I knew he wouldn't get out to come over to me - he was too damned lazy to find a parking space so there was no way he was going to expend energy opening a door and putting one foot in front of the other.

Of course, I did get the tirade of sweary words (I don't think me laughing at him helped his blood pressure).

The lady in the next car wound her window down as I was getting back in my car and asked if I was okay.
That gave me another laugh.
She said at first she thought that he was shouting abuse at her (was Asian and in a nice expensive car) but I assured her it was me he was swearing at and I was enjoying winding him up.

After his 2 passengers came back (and one of them got in the back ....... illegal and stupid for safety reasons .... which didn't surprise me) he drove off while all the time shouting out the window at me.

Tool. 


EDIT
I forgot to mention that my car windows were open halfway this morning (meaning the inside was as frozen as the outside).
Everything was okay and nothing had been touched but I was at a loss as to how they opened - so after dropping Squirrel off at nursery, I headed to the local dealership and threw the conundrum at them.
It may be some wee control unit (it isn't unknown in older cars - but mine is only 2 years) ...... or -- it could be that I had managed to activate the 'window comfort' setting which is controlled by the key fob. I had never heard of such a thing. Apparently very few people have and nobody uses it. May next question was 'why is it there then'. Their collective answer was shrugged shoulders all round.

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