I once got a parking ticket for parking like that in an end bay. I got it cancelled on the grounds that the end parking bay was smaller than all the other bays and the way the car in the next space had parked (right up to the edge of the line) meant I had not choice but to straddle the line. Plus I have a permit to park in all council off-street car parks due to my job, and as I was I work business that helped sway it. 
Even if you park like that you still get some brainless idiot cosying right up to you. I always try and park next to a hatched area if possible. I personally wouldn't straddle 2 spaces in a supermarket car park, as I have seen people try to squeeze their cars into the remaining 3/4 space, and whilst it might be tempting to do so in a non busy car park, what's to say it won't get busy. A few years back on a quick trip to the pet store, and a couple other shops, I pulled into the car park - there was a car was parked over 2 bays - not a problem, plenty of other spaces, but after running a few errands I returned to the car park to find it had filled up and the car taking up 2 bays was drawing very angry looks from those attempting to find a space. Someone gave him a right mouthful when he nonchalantly walked back to his car. Made himself look an arrogant t**t.
But it's high time car parking spaces were revised to reflect the burgeoning waistlines of modern cars.
I wouldn't dare park like that in a 'normal' car park.
This is a little country car park out of the way that I use when I'm waiting to give my sons a lift home.
I do generally go in between the lines but as the place was completely empty that morning I got a bit lazy with lining the car up.
Aside from that I generally park like yourself and indeed as per your last reply to my wittering I also am quite happy to park some distance away from where the sheep park and walk the rest of the way even if the weather is terrible!
How do you know it's not going to deprive someone of a parking space? If you know that there is no chance that the car park is going to fill up then you have as much of a chance knowing where no other car will park. The fact is you don't know if the car park is going to fill up.
Not sure why you're bringing speeding into it, it is a bit like asking why we don't all drive electric cars.
Yes my brother can afford to fix his cars and the fact that his car was damaged was the worst part for him. It was a Bugatti EB110 by the way so parts are not exactly off the shelf.
I don't think that anyone getting their cars damaged is a joke as was said earlier(not by you) but aren't you more lightly to get your car damaged by just driving it as in stone chips and the like than getting it damaged while parked?
Well I personally can quite easily tell when a car park is likely to fill up and when it isn't as I generally work around the mass hordes that work 9-5 during the week then descent like locusts on supermarkets and shopping mall car parks at precisely 11AM at weekends all wearing their black North Face coats in their SUV's and headed for the nearest place that serves trendy paper coffee cups that they can walk around pretending to be sipping whilst 'looking cool'.
A little bit of forethought and you know when to avoid busy times.
I go on strike if i'm asked to go anywhere busy as I hate crowds.
I chose speeding as it's another example of anti social driving.
Don't get me started on so called 'green' electric cars. They're just as polluting as anything else, the pollution is just moved down the road a little bit.
And don't get me started on middle lane hoggers, or people in modern cars with power steering that still insist on cutting corners by huge amounts as they're too lazy to steer a wheel when turning into side roads, or people that cut into your braking distance gap when you're trying to leave a bit of a safety margin to reduce the chance of you rear ending the vehicle in front because you can't see past their fat arsed SUV, and they're probably not reading the road themselves due to fiddling with their gadgets rather than watching the road ahead (and the double bonus is that you're less likely to get stone chips from their huge tyres flicking up poorly laid tarmac chippings)...
nah, as ever, I'm totally out of touch with the rest of society, I'll leave it there and go sit in the corner now, i've bored everyone and myself quite enough.
