A Whole Foods parker dangerously swooped in and snagged this front parking spot from another driver already reversing in.

Bay Area resident and Redditor /u/Colbymg shared headshaking dashcam footage from this Redwood City Whole Foods parking lot from earlier last week (Nov 26, 2024) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing an inconsiderate driver in a Subaru Outback dangerously undercutting and stealing the parking spot from another driver in a Genesis SUV already reversing in.

Check out /u/Colbymg’s dashcam footage below.

[oc] Who’s the biggest Idiot?
byu/colbymg inIdiotsInCars

As /u/Colbymg’s dashcam footage shows, he’s driving in front of this Redwood City Whole Foods when he pauses to let a driver in a black Genesis SUV reverse into a front parking spot.

The driver in the Genesis took longer than normal; I counted more than 20 seconds from the time she angled into reverse until her parking spot was snagged from under her.

To be fair, five of those seconds were waiting for a pedestrian holding coffee to pass in front of them so the driver could drive even more forward for a better angle.

Then, a driver in a Subaru Outback, either not knowing the Genesis driver was reversing or maliciously getting the spot just to be a jerk, signals left and parks head first into the spot the Genesis was reversing into.

Stunned and with no recourse, the Genesis driver drives off to find a parking spot elsewhere.

“That Subaru driver has some balls. It took the black SUV 10 years to try and back into that spot, holy s***,” /u/thatgirl21 commented.

“If I were the subie driver I wouldn’t even think they were trying to back in, not at that angle. Not sure what the black SUV thought they were doing, lol” /u/citznfish added.

“I see an idiot and a master thief,” /u/ItsMeLukasB replied.

“Pro tip when going into a spot: put your blinker on to indicate you’re trying to park. Also don’t be that Subaru driver, that was one ballsy yet risky thing to do during the holidays,” /u/BigE1263 added.

I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt to the Subaru driver but, especially in parking lots, you have to be more aware than ever and exercise a greater deal of patience around cars darting in and out in close proximity.

Then again, as pointed out by others, you also have to be cautiously decisive, too. Waiting too long in one spot, blocking others, might be misinterpreted, as this situation played out, as another maneuver altogether.

Overall, it’s the holidays, we have to have more patience with each other, especially behind the wheel.