Hi there! I (F19) am finally trying to get my driver’s license. Yes, I know I‘m kinda old to only be getting it now, but that’s for another time. Anyway, my final test is next week, and so I went around driving with my mother to get some practice in. We drove around for a bit and practiced some maneuvers before working on parallel parking.
My mother told me to try parking behind this car that was parked over by the curb. So, I did. It was a bit tricky at first, but I mostly got it figured out when I tried again. We would have probably been finished there, but then a woman came out and started yelling at me. She told me that I couldn’t practice around her car, what if I had hit it, etc. She yelled and said that her car was one hundred thousand dollars and she would call the cops on my mother and I. I wasn’t particularly close to her car, and my mother had been standing outside the vehicle to make sure I didn’t make any big mistakes. I was practically paralyzed with fear at the wheel, so my mother did her best to deescalate the situation while the lady continued yelling as she drove off.
In hindsight, maybe I should have tried to ask the owner of the car for her permission before I parked behind her? I’m not sure, my driving instructor never had me ask or anything before, and it was fine. I think I can understand where the lady was coming from, though. I’m feeling really upset about the whole situation, and I hate making people mad. AITH?
NTA as it is customary to use parked cars to practice parallel parking. Just a random unfortunate encounter with a woman who was on her way home from something that maybe gave her a bad mood.
Should have told her where to go. Or let her call the police to give them a laugh.
NTA – You didn’t break any laws nor cause an real risk. The woman was an ass.
NTA. That lady was the asshole though. If her car is worth so much she might as well walk everywhere so it doesn’t get a scratch or a ding on it.
NTA.
If she’s so desperate not to have her car driven around, maybe she shouldn’t have parked it on a public road.
I mean you didn’t hit it. If you had, different story. But you don’t need permission to park behind someone. Good luck calling the cops to report someone parking behind you. NTA.
NTA. How did the woman know you were practicing? Why did she come out initially?
LOL, was this at her private home or on a public street? No way are you not allowed to parallel park on a public street, she had no right yelling at you. If she’s worried about her car, she should have parked somewhere far away from others and walked. You’re NTA but she’s major TA.
F that woman and her 100k car. I woulda just hit her with a “but did you die?!”
You can practice on any public Street, she was just in her feelings.
NTA. You didn’t break any laws
NTA. Everyone has to learn and if it’s a public street you’re good!
NTA
Got mine at 27
When practicing vertical parking you generally don’t even get close to another person’s car, and even then, if you hit, that’s why you have insurance
I would practice in a parking lot with cones or something but screw that lady
NTA
Do not ask permission, the road is for everyone and she has insurance. Glad she’s upholding the stereotype of ass hats who buy expensive cars.