"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:39:55 +0100, Steve Walker wrote:

One busy day, I had one have a right go at me for having my trailer
stick a couple of feet into the walkway, narrowing it to about 3 feet -
he just couldn't accept that if I'd stopped any further forward, no
vehicle would have been able to pass the front of my car and the whole
place would have simply locked solid and that I'd chosen the better of
two options.

Best to call their bluff, get back in and say where do you want me to
park? When it all clogs up take the time to expalin to the drivers
that are obstructed that you had left room but where told to park how
you are by the site operative. Of course all this friendly chat with
other drivers means your not unloading...

Also compalin about the layout to the council and site operator
(probably a private company). Frequently the layout of places misses
basic common sense facts, like not everyone can reverse a trailer
into a parking bay.

My local tip has bays marked at 45 degrees to the way you come in, so you
drive past a space and reverse into it. One day I was there and a guy in a
big 4x4 drove in sideways, across about 4 parking spaces, instead of
reversing into one of the bays. I was watching him carefully because he
nearly drove into the side of my car. The staff just stood there and did
nothing - not even a discrete word in his ear "would you like to park
properly in one of the bays so other people can park next to you". But when
someone else reversed into a bay next him, and had to straddle one of the
lines slightly in order to avoid his rear end, the staff gave *him* a
bollocking for not parking properly. Talk about double standards...