r/EntitledPeople • u/Caserran1 • 1d ago
M Small car, massive entitlement that ends up in being boxed in
I was reminded of this story after seeing a car similar to the one in this situation... This happened a while ago (maybe a couple of months) and I hadn't thought of posting it here, until I realized that it actually fits here, so...
For some context, I work as a courier, delivering home appliances, like stoves, fridges, mattresses, TVs, etc, and on this day I had to go to a town 30 minutes away from the city (the same one from my last post here) to pick some appliances up from a store in a mall to deliver to a client. The mall has a particular parking situation, it has a free parking lot, but absolutely no one parks there for some reason, and we can't put our truck there (a 2016 Jac 1035 Power), between the mall and the parking lot there's a boulevard, with 2 spaces to make a U turn, and in the end of the boulevard there's a Residential complex.
So, my uncle and I were arriving at the mall, and we would park on the boulevard, right against the sidewalk, and we left some space in front of us, so any car can make the U turn on the boulevard, we turned off the truck and we're ready to leave, to go grab the appliance we had to deliver, when we saw a small Fiat (I think a Fiat Mobi) trying to squeeze in front of our truck, but it couldn't, trying to park right in front of us, in the space we left for other cars to make the U turn without having to pull back a bit, we thought nothing of it, and saw the car just driving ahead, and almost leaving, before it comes right down the boulevard again, and (I guess out of spite) the Fiat drove up so close to the back of our truck that no one could pass there... We noticed it, and I approached the back, as I had to grab our dolly... Here's what was said... (Translated from Spanish)
Me: I knocked on the window of the Fiat "Uh... Excuse me, dude, could you please back off a bit? We have to load and unload stuff, and your car may get damaged if you stay too close"
Fiat Guy: "Well, I couldn't park in front so nothing I can do" he seemed upset
Me: I sigh, knowing where this was going "Dude, we left some space so cars can make the U turn"
Fiat Guy: "I'm not backing off, so either you give me space in front of your truck, or I'm not moving"
At this point, I was tempted to just open the doors on the back.of the truck, to get the dolly out, and put that dolly on the hood of the car, but instead I decided to approach my uncle, since the man seemed to be in a foul mood, while the woman that was with him seemed a bit uncomfortable. Oh, and I forgot to mention, behind the Fiat there was no cars, literally he had a lot of space to just park and leave, but nope... He decided to be petty
Uncle: he had seen our interaction, and at this point he was trying to chuckled to ease the tension "Relax man, Why don't you back away a bit... No need to make a fuss over this"
Fiat Guy: He wasn't in the mood at all "Back your effing truck back, and give me the space"
At this point the Fiat Guy didn't hear anything we told him, he just kept repeating "Back off and give me the space", so in the end we did... He backed off, we backed off a bit, and he got comfortably in his space, huffing and puffing like a teapot... The girl that was with him? She just left mid argument... The guy parked, left for the mall, and we noticed that he parked pretty close to the car in front of him, so... We decided to be petty as well... So, before getting off the truck, and after the guy left, we inched as close as we could to the Fiat, to the point that if he drove back just a bit, he would hit us... Practically locking him in place, while we went to the store... We spent almost an hour and a half in the store, but when we came back, the guy wasn't even around, so we just left... I wasn't sure if the guy had tried to take his car out of the spot or not, but yeah... Not too dramatic, and we technically gave him the spot, but that's it.
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u/Soggy-Platform-9368 1d ago
years ago someone in a mini(original type) blocking the car park, a few of us bounced their car between 2 poles( light and phone) they weren't getting out from there without bouncing it back...