I’m with you on the brown shoes and dark suit thing, if you’d said that earlier my response would have been very different, more of a “you should have reversed over the bonnet of his car” type of thing lol
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Looking at the pictures, the cars are both parked where they should not, and sticking out into the space needed to get onto the next bay. If an artic had lined up its trailer onto the bay, with the unit at an angle across the next bay, you would quite rightly complain.
Citycat, your mistake (understandably ) is that you approached this with a British attitude. The Dutch do not do subtle, apologetic or kind. You should have walked up to however is on the goods in desk, and stated in a no nonsense manner that there are a number of cars parked in the wrong place, and that they are in your way, and that untill they get moved, you can’t. Make it clear that the cars are where they should not be, and make it clear that this is not your fault, or problem to solve. The Dutch are a very direct people. Sorry is a word not often used in the Dutch vocabulary.
Used to work in Lee Mill for a well known company, office staff used to park in a similar fashion. IE: in a vehicle manoeuvring are, as predicted, trailer swing caught the back end of one of the cars.
Driver went in to explain what happened and change details etc. Insurance company of the driver came back and refused to pay, for the reason that the cars shouldn’t have been parked in a vehicle manoeuvring area when car parking was provided all be it slightly further away.
No idea what happened in the long run as i left before then but it did get me thinking on how many places people park their cars in the yard and whether the insurance company had a valid point!
Is that warehouse in Moerdijk?
Darktower:
Used to work in Lee Mill for a well known company, office staff used to park in a similar fashion. IE: in a vehicle manoeuvring are, as predicted, trailer swing caught the back end of one of the cars.
Driver went in to explain what happened and change details etc. Insurance company of the driver came back and refused to pay, for the reason that the cars shouldn’t have been parked in a vehicle manoeuvring area when car parking was provided all be it slightly further away.
No idea what happened in the long run as i left before then but it did get me thinking on how many places people park their cars in the yard and whether the insurance company had a valid point!
It’s certainly something for car drivers to think about, that even if they are not mainly at fault, they may be found to be contributorily negligent - and even if only in a small way, it will still mean the loss of their excess and NCD. It will be losers all round.
If you’re parked in any sort of marked maneouvering area set aside for a large vehicle, and especially if you give the driver a load of cocky attitude about driving skills when he asks you to make way, then there’s a very real risk that the insurer will argue that you contributed to any crash by inducing the driver to take a risk and work with reduced margins.
Darktower:
Used to work in Lee Mill for a well known company, office staff used to park in a similar fashion. IE: in a vehicle manoeuvring are, as predicted, trailer swing caught the back end of one of the cars.
Driver went in to explain what happened and change details etc. Insurance company of the driver came back and refused to pay, for the reason that the cars shouldn’t have been parked in a vehicle manoeuvring area when car parking was provided all be it slightly further away.
No idea what happened in the long run as i left before then but it did get me thinking on how many places people park their cars in the yard and whether the insurance company had a valid point!
I’m sensing coned-off areas.
Drempels:
Is that warehouse in Moerdijk?
I’ve been to a whorehouse in Moerdijk before. Does that count?
toonsy:
Drempels:
Is that warehouse in Moerdijk?I’ve been to a whorehouse in Moerdijk before. Does that count?
The one signposted off the roundabout bij Kanters? 
Citycat, your mistake (understandably ) is that you approached this with a British attitude. The Dutch do not do subtle, apologetic or kind. You should have walked up to however is on the goods in desk, and stated in a no nonsense manner that there are a number of cars parked in the wrong place, and that they are in your way, and that untill they get moved, you can’t. Make it clear that the cars are where they should not be, and make it clear that this is not your fault, or problem to solve. The Dutch are a very direct people. Sorry is a word not often used in the Dutch vocabulary.
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Yes, I get where you’re coming from. I was trying the polite but ‘direct’ approach but instead of taking the easy option of moving the car maybe to the next bay along just so it didn’t infringe on my maneuvre and we could both get on with our day, he just seemed intent on winding me up to the point where my tongue is only just starting to heal up from the biting I had to do. He even made hard work for himself by spending several minutes moving plastic bollards about instead of just shifting the car a few feet.
In the first week of my arrival into the Netherlands, I was handed this book by my wife and told to read it from cover to cover. I’m still having to refer to it from time to time.
Today was a big day in the Netherlands calander with the arrival of Sinterklaas and his Black Pete helpers, who are white people who have blacked up their faces like the Black & White Minstrels. If anybody has seen this event, you’ll know that the celebration of black slavery is the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the Dutch can’t understand why we should think this. They are just his xmas helpers.
citycat:
Citycat, your mistake (understandably ) is that you approached this with a British attitude. The Dutch do not do subtle, apologetic or kind. You should have walked up to however is on the goods in desk, and stated in a no nonsense manner that there are a number of cars parked in the wrong place, and that they are in your way, and that untill they get moved, you can’t. Make it clear that the cars are where they should not be, and make it clear that this is not your fault, or problem to solve. The Dutch are a very direct people. Sorry is a word not often used in the Dutch vocabulary.
Yes, I get where you’re coming from. I was trying the polite but ‘direct’ approach but instead of taking the easy option of moving the car maybe to the next bay along just so it didn’t infringe on my maneuvre and we could both get on with our day, he just seemed intent on winding me up to the point where my tongue is only just starting to heal up from the biting I had to do. He even made hard work for himself by spending several minutes moving plastic bollards about instead of just shifting the car a few feet.
In the first week of my arrival into the Netherlands, I was handed this book by my wife and told to read it from cover to cover. I’m still having to refer to it from time to time.
Today was a big day in the Netherlands calander with the arrival of Sinterklaas and his Black Pete helpers, who are white people who have blacked up their faces like the Black & White Minstrels. If anybody has seen this event, you’ll know that the celebration of black slavery is the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the Dutch can’t understand why we should think this. They are just his xmas helpers.
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Leave your British sensibilities at home then. If you want to live in NL, live there, don’t be like you walked from Calais. I spent a lot of my childhood there, I’m half Dutch, and we always had a moaner who hated NL in every class. They drove me crazy, always crying about something or other.
Holland isn’t Paradise, get over it.
Drempels:
citycat:
Citycat, your mistake (understandably ) is that you approached this with a British attitude. The Dutch do not do subtle, apologetic or kind. You should have walked up to however is on the goods in desk, and stated in a no nonsense manner that there are a number of cars parked in the wrong place, and that they are in your way, and that untill they get moved, you can’t. Make it clear that the cars are where they should not be, and make it clear that this is not your fault, or problem to solve. The Dutch are a very direct people. Sorry is a word not often used in the Dutch vocabulary.Yes, I get where you’re coming from. I was trying the polite but ‘direct’ approach but instead of taking the easy option of moving the car maybe to the next bay along just so it didn’t infringe on my maneuvre and we could both get on with our day, he just seemed intent on winding me up to the point where my tongue is only just starting to heal up from the biting I had to do. He even made hard work for himself by spending several minutes moving plastic bollards about instead of just shifting the car a few feet.
In the first week of my arrival into the Netherlands, I was handed this book by my wife and told to read it from cover to cover. I’m still having to refer to it from time to time.
Today was a big day in the Netherlands calander with the arrival of Sinterklaas and his Black Pete helpers, who are white people who have blacked up their faces like the Black & White Minstrels. If anybody has seen this event, you’ll know that the celebration of black slavery is the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the Dutch can’t understand why we should think this. They are just his xmas helpers.
Leave your British sensibilities at home then. If you want to live in NL, live there, don’t be like you walked from Calais. I spent a lot of my childhood there, I’m half Dutch, and we always had a moaner who hated NL in every class. They drove me crazy, always crying about something or other.
Holland isn’t Paradise, get over it.
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Blimey, who shook your tree? I never said I hate NL or that I am moaning about it. I enjoy life here. I just implied that the culture is a bit different and I’m still getting used to it.
Talk about touchy !
If it makes you feel better, we also have this book. We are just as strange too
Sorry, didn’t mean to be so grumpy.