This reminds me of a incident I had with mine over the winter. I live in a small town and after work in the afternoon I needed to go to the grocery store to pick things up. I always park on the side of the building where less people park. I left a decent space between me and the next car down and there were a number of spots open on the drivers side of me. An old piece of crap full sized pickup decided to pull into the open space on my passenger side. He had about a 1 foot space to get his door open and get out. I did misjudge the space I had left but it would have been fine for the average car. I kept my eye on him as he got out and he managed not to ding my car. The funny thing was he stood there and watched me as I started up my car and backed out, I guess he didn't want me knocking any of the rust off his truck in case I scuffed it backing out.
Dean.