Road rage occurs every single day on our roads and is a dangerous, sometimes deadly reaction to bad or careless driving. It's fair to say shonky drivers are pretty high up on the list of life's most serious bugbears and they're capable of causing the red mist to descend very rapidly. So it stands to reason that people who park selfishly and badly also spark extreme reactions..
One person has shared a picture of a car they saw outside their gym which had parked in a shockingly bad way - right in the middle of the car park and outside of any marked or designated parking spaces. The picture, understandably, provoked an outpouring of bewilderment, shock and indignation from others.
The snap, which was shared to Reddit and titled 'Whose parking job was this then?', shows a warehouse-style gym in Cheltenham and is taken from opposite the gym so that the car park is also in view. There is a vehicle parked to the right in a space, surrounded by white road markings and two others directly outside the fence by the gym, both within yellow markings. However right in the centre of the car park, just before the arrow on the road showing the way out, a driver has simply left their black BMW, seemingly without a care.
After the image was posted, others took to the site to share their thoughts, with most being utterly stunned: "Vanity and arrogance my friend. And there seem to be more and more of them about since Covid I've noticed," said one. Another agreed with them and said they had also seen more egocentric acts of late. "I've noticed more selfish behaviour in recent years. Able bodied people parking in disabled bays at the gym I use is my pet peeve. We're talking about sted heads in their 20s here. It's shameful that people have stopped giving a s*** about anybody else."
A third speculated that there had been a rise in this kind of anti-social behaviour because no one stopped them: "Among the other reasons for this stain on society being more common, I think the lack of enforcement from doing something wrong lets people live like they're in a computer game with no real repercussions," they said. "Everyone is so scare (sic) of offending someone nowadays that they don't say anything."
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It was a popular viewpoint as another stated: "I think it's this. I believe the vast majority of us only need to be told once or twice the acceptable responsible way to act in public and that's that we're good to go.
"But then there's people like Dips*** Mcicantparkalot here who clearly need a policeman or traffic warden to be a regular occurrence in their life for them to not act feral. Covid gave them a lovely echo chamber to reinforce their selfish ways and nothing has shoved them back into being a normal person yet."
Others took a more lighthearted view and joked: "This is where the sat nav said he had reached his destination." Another quipped: "I'd argue that's abandoned not parked haha." Some very generous users of the site thought there could be a more innocent and logical explanation for it: "TBF it looks like potentially there was a car parked between him and the one in the spot judging by the gap but still a d*** move."
They were backed up by someone who had witnessed the car park being full: "I can almost guarantee this is what happened. Every time I have been past this car park it is full with cars making their own spaces because there arent (sic) enough for the gym," they wrote. However the original poster assured them it was 7.30am and the car park was certainly not, nor had it been full.
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