India, Bangladesh and Indonesia....ooooh yes that's a few people, maybe you do get up to 1/3. Sorry, didn't realise that. I mean, the Indians tried hard to kick English habits, and the Indonesians were Dutch....
An "upper class" car... worth less than half that of a new Ford Fiesta. Or is the Fiesta a higher echelon again? I'm still not sure what you're trying to describe using terms like "nice" and "upper class" referring to cars.
How would you describe the car? The type of car is the ONLY piece of information we can gather from seeing a badly parked vehicle. I'm really not sure why I can't refer to cars by their appearance.
LOL I know, right? That's one of the worst cases I've ever experienced. I really think I won't be able to leave the GT-Four unattended anywhere when the time comes. Not with people like that around. I think the term he was looking for was "luxury marque" but even that CLK is pushing it when it comes to that description.
I'd describe it as an entirely unremarkable old-ish Merc. "prestige marque" I'd accept, but given the fact that these days "prestige" marques are outselling "garden variety" marques, I'm not sure that's even valid any more. An "upper class" car I'd understand as something that an "upper class" individual would drive (though that's pretty ambiguous as well), or in which they would be driven - RR, Bentley, any number of exotics perhaps. Though oddly of the individuals I know who would fit into the category of the upper classes, just as many drive entirely unremarkable cars as ones that would stand out. The main piece of information from the picture you've posted is the parking itself - we know the driver to be an ass not because (s)he is driving a prestige/upper-class/nice car, but because of the way they've parked. The type of vehicle is entirely inconsequential. Granted, you say "coincidentally" it's an upper class car, however I'm getting heavy implications from that given your previous posts, as if you're trying to reinforce your point - perhaps my inference is incorrect. What I'm saying is, you don't have to drive a flashy/nice/etc car to be an ass, and you don't have to be an ass if you drive one of these cars. Case in point, I encountered two instances of horrific parking today, one was a fairly new Fiat 500 and the other was a rather old Vauxhall Astra van.
Yes, I admit I was implying my previous point. However, it was indeed a coincidence, hence my wording. Also a coincidence was that it's the only car parked like this in a busy car park. I totally agree, you don't have to drive a [insert word for good] car to be an ass. But my experience is that I often find those type of cars parked like that. One can only go from one's experience.
That isn't true at all. As educated human beings, we should be aware that a single humans experience actually isn't worth a dime. If I went around only forming opinions based on my personal experience alone, then I'd have an absolutely insane view of the world. Its more than likely that confirmation bias to mainly to blame for your opinion here.
Very true. It's like how we notice more people drive the same car as us when we buy a new car. We automatically drawn to things that are familiar. Also how we tend to notice Audi and BMW drivers with "broken" indicators.
I noticed the other day actually just how many new mercs and VW's I see locally. Then I remembered we have offices for both locally . Ill agree on the faulty or optional extra indicators though drives me nuts on roundabouts
I'm not the best and I'm not the worst, I normally try to park away from others as I've had some scrapes and dings on my car when coming back to it.......nobody ever sees a thing though do they. What always cracks us up is that even at 3am in an almost empty car park I can park as far away from the next car as possible but when we come back someone is parked tight on my door, are they lonely or something?
I see this all the time. Always Mercs and BMWs. Always parked right down the middle of two spaces. And I always park right next to them cause I can park properly
I don't think you can put it down to merc or bmw, I see as many Clio drivers who can't park, it's not the car it's the driver.
I always try to find "upper class" vehicles to park beside when parking because generally these guys will not smash your car with their door.... -starts running away from Mister_Tad looking behind both shoulders edit but seriously can't they just park at the back of the car park instead of taking up two spaces? or find just as nice vehicles to park next to? it's pretty damn obvious which ones care and which ones dgaf
Careful with that approach - lots of company cars are prestige marques, and that's one of the last things you want to park next to! I'd rather park next to a tidy and recently washed Fiesta than a Mercedes rep-mobile!
People like this A'hole really pisses me of this is a extremely narrow road with two way traffic and HGV's doing deliveries and he just dumps his car way of the kerb and goes in the shop
