feel for you Noel. It annoys me when that happens.
I park over 2 spaces, furthest away from the main door, but still paranoid that i'll get door-dinged or trolley-bashed a la Nanaki.
People have no regard for other cars nearby and seem to have less sense and awareness every day
I was watching a woman help her two young daughters out from the back of her hatchback car (was a car with the folding driver seat) from the drivers side of the car, directly onto the busy main road with several cars passing....
I mean she didnt bother to use the passenger side, which would have let her children get out safely on to the pavement, but held her driver door open to let her 2 kids climb out, forcing other cars to swerve to avoid hitting her door as well as endangering her kids when they got out the car.
the thing that gets me is that these 2 kids will now think it is ok to get out a car straight onto a main road....