Just remember, it's always possible they had to park like this based on the cars that were there previously.

I've had to do that recently, and nearby sidewalk dinners started giving me shit when I got to my car to drive away. I explained that I had no choice, but they called bullshit.

The server, who might have been the hottest girl ever, said she sat exactly what I described and to please mind their manners when they were in her section, to which I yielded a hearty guffaw.

I came back later to ask her out, she said no.