Move your car. We don't want folk like you round 'ere
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kiethton said:
I'm not too far away, could always divert the Kent drive through the road in a few weeks....
Would be good if you could. You can stop by there before heading towards lamborghini sevenoaks (on the other side of town 5 min drive away). Theres a lot of tasty cars that way. 
MikeOxlong said:
What is it with old people and thinking they have some god given right to tell everyone what to do?
f
k you, I'm coming up to 60 in a year or two and I don't consider myself old. While you're at it, get your post off my computer, I don't want your type posting round here. 
I used to have this problem when parking at uni, all the students would use the road (I say all, more like a handful who didn't want to pay £7 to park all day and had a bonce). It was the nearest non-restricted residential road to the buildings, and there was always little notes from residents telling us to F-off in big red letters.
Always amused me. Surely they should be lobbying their council or whatever to extend the restrictions zone?
Always amused me. Surely they should be lobbying their council or whatever to extend the restrictions zone?
jagracer said:
MikeOxlong said:
What is it with old people and thinking they have some god given right to tell everyone what to do?
fk you, I'm coming up to 60 in a year or two and I don't consider myself old. While you're at it, get your post off my computer, I don't want your type posting round here. 
I'm coming up to 56 this year and still not hit the 'grumpy' age.Can you tell me when it kicked in for you
If it helps anyone to feel better and that sometimes we do 'win' I had a similar situation with an area I moved to:
All almost exactly as the OP stated except there are no parking restrictions and the old git said to me he did not want to see a car parked out of his window (even though it was the other side of the street). However, I was driving a complete pile of a car at the time so I informed him of my opinion with a carefully considered "Yeah, whatever" with as much indifference as I could muster while he was still in full rant and walked off to the house I was living in.
The next day I returned from work and found his precious space and the ones either side were freshly filled with his car and van and another van which did not move for a few days.
Amusingly a day or so after they did move I had a week of holiday so parked in front of his house and left the car there.
Yeah, I can play silly b*ggers too you grumpy old git, I'm quite good at it too.
Tw@t!
Sometimes owning a heap for a car has an upside!
All almost exactly as the OP stated except there are no parking restrictions and the old git said to me he did not want to see a car parked out of his window (even though it was the other side of the street). However, I was driving a complete pile of a car at the time so I informed him of my opinion with a carefully considered "Yeah, whatever" with as much indifference as I could muster while he was still in full rant and walked off to the house I was living in.
The next day I returned from work and found his precious space and the ones either side were freshly filled with his car and van and another van which did not move for a few days.
Amusingly a day or so after they did move I had a week of holiday so parked in front of his house and left the car there.
Yeah, I can play silly b*ggers too you grumpy old git, I'm quite good at it too.
Tw@t!
Sometimes owning a heap for a car has an upside!
He definitely sounds like he's got a bee up his bum and went about it all wrong, but I can kinda see the OPs antagonists point of view.
The road doesn't belong to him but it is "his" road, he has to live there and put up with people who can't be arsed to park in the town centre cluttering up his road.
I'm sure OP and wife are lovely people, but when I was in the old farts shoes I had people parking up in "my" road to avoid a few quid parking at the carpark only 50 yards away, come back form shopping, empty litter from car onto the floor and have a piss in the hedge!
Ok so that didn't happen all time but it gets a bit tiresome after a while.
What he should be doing is speaking to the neighbours and council and having residents only parking enforcement all week long put in place.
For those that live is busy cities dropping the motor off outside some random house, provided its technically legal, is fine.
For suburbanites it can be tantamount to killing thier cat!
Perhaps just use the carpark next time.
The road doesn't belong to him but it is "his" road, he has to live there and put up with people who can't be arsed to park in the town centre cluttering up his road.
I'm sure OP and wife are lovely people, but when I was in the old farts shoes I had people parking up in "my" road to avoid a few quid parking at the carpark only 50 yards away, come back form shopping, empty litter from car onto the floor and have a piss in the hedge!
Ok so that didn't happen all time but it gets a bit tiresome after a while.
What he should be doing is speaking to the neighbours and council and having residents only parking enforcement all week long put in place.
For those that live is busy cities dropping the motor off outside some random house, provided its technically legal, is fine.
For suburbanites it can be tantamount to killing thier cat!
Perhaps just use the carpark next time.
I'm guessing that Soleoak Drive is part of what a friend's father describes as the Greengrocer Belt.
Namely that a hundred years ago or so, the family had a builder's yard, or a few shops they did reasonably well out of.
From the profits of such enterprise, their descendants now live in a four-bedroom house in Sevenoaks, and somehow think they're above everyone else.
Namely that a hundred years ago or so, the family had a builder's yard, or a few shops they did reasonably well out of.
From the profits of such enterprise, their descendants now live in a four-bedroom house in Sevenoaks, and somehow think they're above everyone else.
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