In a car park recently, I returned to my car to collect something and a guy had parked a Jeep next to it, very close, and was sat inside it. I had gone in backwards - always do - and he forwards, so he was sat right next to me as I opened the driver's door.

Without opening his window, he shouted "Mind my f@*$ing paintwork!" although I had not made contact.

So I got into the car, drove out and back into the space such that there was now less than two inches between the car doors, climbed across to the passenger side and got out. My car has no transmission tunnel; I know it's a huge thing on a Jeep and he was not a small guy.

While we are ranting, what about the women (it's always women, sorry to those like mrs jonm who put the guys to shame) who drive in the middle of the road and won't move over to give you equal room as you meet them in a narrow street, or between parked cars. It's not a bus, you are still four feet from the kerb!