More trouble with pretentious retired women

Here we go again, Limerick's biggest attitude problem... No, it's not teenagers, it's retired women who think their station in life is superior to those proles around them. They particularly like causing aggravation on the UL campus, as they seem to regard students as the lowest of the low. This is ironic, as, firstly, UL is private property, not their playground for bad parking and lack of consideration for others (I will get to this presently, the reason for my desire to put fingers to keyboard), so students have every right to be there, and they do not. Secondly, a lot of these women probably do not have any qualifications, let alone qualifications to match their target of distaste (and they probably got their driving licences when the government just handed them out in the 1960s as well!), so their superiority is curiously misplaced. Now we get to the encounter in question. I am cycling (this makes me double-damned as scum, of course) in the main entrance, along the cycle path UL has kindly recently added, and I find a red A class Merc blocking my path. It is parked hard up against the pavement, yet still projects 3 feet outside the cycle lane into the traffic. The cycle lane in UL is on the right hand side of the road, so I have two options to surmount this obstacle; one, go up onto the pavement; two, veer out into the path of oncoming traffic. The former seems by far the safest, but Big Hair And Glasses No. 1 in the Merc has the window open and is talking to Big Hair And Glasses No. 2, who is blocking the pavement and making no effort to leave me any space. I have to unclip my SPD pedals at this stage, as I have come to a complete stop. They continue to ignore the problem. A number of cars are leaving UL, so I can't go around the outside and risk a head-on collision with a car. I inform Big Hair And Glasses No. 2 that they are blocking the cycle lane. I am ignored. The traffic clears, and I decide to just go to work (yes, Big Hair women, we work in UL, rather than drinking and lazing around all day, as you probably have decided we do, did you know that researchers only get 20 days holidays a year? Bet you didn't). I now wonder if perhaps I should have tried to reason with them, but I know there would have been no point. The complete disregard shown for other road users is indicative of a blatant lack of compassion and consideration, so I fear that any attempts to enlighten them would have been worthless, and a waste of my time. Such a shame that we can no longer depend on our elders for a good example. As a footnote, it is also ironic that someone should feel so superior because she is in a Merc, when you consider how an A class is the cheapest Merc available, and so many "more ordinary" cars are much more expensive and better specified. She also probably claps between movements in concerts in the ULCH...