Another gripe: people who fail to consider how their parking affects the cars around them. I'm not referring to the obvious asshole who parks crooked, over the line taking two spaces with his tail sticking out into the parking lot. That's a class all its own. What I am referring to is the person who has plenty of room to park, say at the curb in a residential community, and instead decides to park at the absolute extreme end of the open area, thereby created a massive visual obstacle for another car that is already there.
Right in front of my house is a perfect example of this as it happens to me regularly:
My house is an end-of-group townhome. Our parking spaces are recessed, that is off the main road, perpendicular to the front of the house. Since we are on the end, my space is next to the curb, which comes out the length of the space then goes to the left to follow the roadway. There is a street light at the corner in the grass. The entire length of the curb that runs along the street is open unrestricted parking, so that is where most guests in the neighborhood park. Generally speaking, if all of the cars park with the nose their cars even with or behind the streetlight, everything is copacetic. However, if they pull forward, even sometimes up to the absolute end of the that portion of the curb, they effectively blind me of any oncoming traffic from my left as I'm trying to pull out of my space. I should add, I'm talking about MAYBE a 4 foot cushion past the street light before my space begins. They really aren't conserving or opening up any more space by doing this.
So many times, people pull up and INSIST on pulling their cars as far past the light as they possibly can, and I have lost count of the times I've *almost* been smashed by oncoming traffic THAT I CAN'T SEE no matter how slowly I try to pull from my space. It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to look and assess viewing angles when you pull up. It's pretty goddamn obvious that if you park there, you're obstructing my view.
It just make me so damn mad because they really wouldn't be inconveniencing themselves if they just fucking parked from the street light back.