Women, 4WDs and carparks....... a recipe for disaster!

[jlnewton]

Sitting in the carpark at Repco indro today, minding my own business waiting for my turn to get out. I had just bought a new rocker cover gasket for the gemini. A lady in a pajero 4wd, kids in the back starts reversing in front of me, back back, closer closer, I was thinking you aren't gonna make that...........bump! Just backed into me. Then tried to go forward a bit to correct and continue.!!!!! wtf!

Knock on her window, let her know what she had just done and I get, oh I didn't even see you........what do you want to do about it?......

So hard to keep in the anger..... Oh well, got some details, if they are dodgy have the rego plate......whatever happens I am not paying....

argh!

[NismoGirl]

I agree... women drivers, especially in 4WDs are my biggest pet hates. Women in camry's come a close second.

They just have no idea on the general concept of driving and it irritates the **** out of me. I sometimes wish that there were compulsory yearly driving tests for people, I guarantee most of those women would be sitting at home waiting for their husband to get home from work to drive them places.

HATE THEM?!!@!

I hope it wasn't in the GTR Jason? What car were you in?

I could understand her not seeing you if you were in the mini 4WD vs Mini isn't a good combination

[Mud]

in the GTR??? ARRRGGHH.

NOOO.

[Genesis®]

yes folks.. it was the GTR

[strutto]

Goes to show the level of consideration for others prevelant in todays society... An accident is an accident... Failing to notice you've had an accident (or trying to cover up the fact that you have had one) borders on mental instability...

Bad luck JL... Hope it all gets sorted

[Slide]

that farkin sucks

[The Dan]

My GF's mum drives a 4WD. She is the worst. She drives along, totally oblivious to EVERYTHING going on around her. On a few occasions we have seen her driving the same way we have, so we go up beside her and honk and wave and yell and crap like that. She just sits there, staring straight ahead. Has absolutely no idea. You could sit there for five minutes beside her with the horn constantly going and she won't know you are there still.

Plus...I have to get this off my chest.. The silly //ankers that drive the same way I do in the morning. They really pi55 me off. The sort of people that will need to turn left 500 metres ahead, they can see the line up of cars in the left lane waiting to also turn left, but they continue along in the right lane until they get right up to where they have to turn and realise, oh, I have to get in here somewhere so then they hold up everyone in the right lane for 2 minutes while they try to squeeze in.

Seriously, I need a bazooka.

[Charly]

Yep same thing happened to me a while ago. woman in a 4wd with the screaming kids in the back puts it in reverse backs into me (in a carpark) then drives off. Chased her down told her she backed into me then she proceeded to tell me that I was a liar. I was beyond angry at that stage...... And she was all "I'm sorry darl, I didn't see you" And import drivers are the menace?

Anyway, sorry to hear that jason.

[twoquik]

damn feel your pain jl

[666DAN]

At least you didn't have to drag them out of their car like I did during my hit-and-attempt-to-run incident...he even tried to tell me he was trying to park the car up the road then come back LOL yeah right!

I hate 4WD, Tarago's, any of the XE or XF wagons or any other vehicle that is prominantly owned by large people that bash their doors open in car parks with their excessive mass!

[666DAN]

Plus...I have to get this off my chest.. The silly //ankers that drive the same way I do in the morning. They really pi55 me off. The sort of people that will need to turn left 500 metres ahead, they can see the line up of cars in the left lane waiting to also turn left, but they continue along in the right lane until they get right up to where they have to turn and realise, oh, I have to get in here somewhere so then they hold up everyone in the right lane for 2 minutes while they try to squeeze in.

Seriously, I need a bazooka.

Welcome to my nightmare! That happened at the Browns Plains roadworks ALL the time..."hmmmm we have to merge into this lane, let's do it at the very front and cause more chaos instead of just joining the back of the line and allowing a normal flow of traffic!"

[jlnewton]

Cheers guys, looks like there are quite a few similar experiences out there. Just sux that you can't even park for 5 min without risk, oh well. Sux even more that I had the entire front bar and lip resprayed before xmas to get rid of all the stonechips! Its all quoted and lodged with insurance now, and it was a good opportunity to add some N1 slots to the front bar too, hehe. Its not all bad.....

[LiAm]

its a lot of the "rich-bitch" mums in the 4wd's that really annoy me i went to school at Gregory Terrace in the city and the number of mums in 4wd that douple park and triple park people when picking up there kids is huge....they just sit there not letting anyone pass. I had to pick my brother up from a dance and got parked in for about 15mins

[samantha_21]

Went up for a feed at Market Square at Sunnybank the other night. They have sections of the car park blocked off with bolted in witches hats and signage on the ground in big white writing - 'NO PARKING" - and guess what I see. A bloody lady asian driver in a new toyota prado pull up park ONTOP of the witches hats . . . (wheels totally squashing the hats) - totally ignoring the BIG WHITE WRITING and the huge orange witches hats! Man i felt like walking over and smacking her in the brain!! - But i guess that is Sunnybank and you get that alot!!

[Silver'sR33]

I just hate 4wd's full stop. Middle-aged women driving them do seem to be worse, but frankly unless you're a cattle-farmer from the Simpson Desert on a trip to the city, if you drive a 4wd you're a stupid, inconsiderate prick. Why are imports blamed for road accidents when any 4wd who hits someone often turns a minor accident into a fatality, yet there's no goddamn fallout. Little while ago I heard about a father walking his two children home from school. Cross the road, 4wd comes around a corner without looking, can't slow down in time, hits them. Father loses a leg, both his daughters dead. People who drive 4wds feel safe...at the expense of anyone else's safety. I might feel safer if I walked around with a loaded assault rifle, but that's not legal - so what's the difference?

Anyway, I feel your pain JL, I think I saw your car at Repco about 2 sundays ago, that carpark is quite large up near the repco entrance, is that where she hit you? she musta backed out a looooong way

[jlnewton]

Yup, the carpark was quite full so I was actually on the cash converters side. Go figure huh? And yeah, it was prolly me you saw up there, I tend to be quite a regular at repco.......damn cars

[The_Paladin]

Silversr33 you make some great points, specially about walking around with a gun.

if i wanted to drive a T80 tank down the road i would get arrested, some of the 4WD's are not much different and are quite the same in principle.

they'll be banned one day, they need a postmortem of an accident to say that the kid on the bike would have survived if the car was anything but a 4WD and for the parents to sue, go on ACA and start a successful campaign. then the governement will rush in panic ledgislation..........

[Bobjones]

How bad is the damage????

:goddam:

[jlnewton]

Its not that bad, just a nasty looking 30cm scratch on the front bar. Nothing that a good sanding back and a fresh coat of paint won't fix......

[Bobjones]

I really hate women in 4wd's...

I have seen one open her door on a new Ford XR6 turbo...I asked her to leave a note...her comment was...its only a car...

I left her rego and car description under the wiper!!!

That will **** her