parking outside your house
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I'm in the "if it's not illegal, there's no point getting worked up about it" brigade, even though I have street parking now which annoys me sometimes. However, once parking annoyed me beyond reason at my old house. Narrow cul-de-sac, if anyone parked on the road it would be on one side only to allow cars to drive down.
However, a taxi driver that used a neighbours taxi would park his car opposite my house, on the other side of the road, such that it made parking for me outside impossible without being a t
t to neighbours or causing folk further down to slalom.
Before any thoughts of being reasonable, I got a paint pen and wrote "stop parking like a wker" across their windscreen. Was totally spoiling for an argument when they came back, but by the time they did I was in bed and only got woken up when they had revved their engine for 5 minutes and screeched off as soon as I got to my front door. They had also written across my (then) gf's car in lipstick "don't write on my car". Queue girlfriend getting upset and me feeling like a wker.
Never did park there again though...
However, a taxi driver that used a neighbours taxi would park his car opposite my house, on the other side of the road, such that it made parking for me outside impossible without being a t
t to neighbours or causing folk further down to slalom. Before any thoughts of being reasonable, I got a paint pen and wrote "stop parking like a w
ker" across their windscreen. Was totally spoiling for an argument when they came back, but by the time they did I was in bed and only got woken up when they had revved their engine for 5 minutes and screeched off as soon as I got to my front door. They had also written across my (then) gf's car in lipstick "don't write on my car". Queue girlfriend getting upset and me feeling like a wker. Never did park there again though...
I used to have to park on the street at our old house. Fortunately, we have a yard at the front of our current house with plenty of space for our cars. It could be annoying when parking at the old place though. The problems I had included:
1. Being approached by an old man as I parked on the street opposite his house. I wasn't blocking a driveway and was parking legally. He got angry with me, shouted and said he was calling the police.
2. Being approached by another old man who lived in a house near the one above. Despite being nowhere near his driveway entrance, I was apparently blocking it. He swore at me and got angry. I just ignored him.
3. Another approach by an old man down nowhere near the two above. He wanted to know why I parked on the street near his house and not near mine. Again, I wasn't blocking him in and his house was set back from the road anyway. I couldn't park on my street as it was yellow lined. I explained this to him and he moaned at me and walked off. Interestingly, he has sold his garden plot and has now built a house on the land. It looks a right mess next to the other houses, but this is ok?
4. Being approached by a youngish chap when parking on a completely different street to the above. He came over as I was parking and told me I had to move because it was residents only and I would be clamped. It wasn't and I didn't get clamped.
5. Reading a note someone had put on another vehicle. A green Golf was parked on the street near a house that is home to three cars and a truck. The truck is parked badly on their drive meaning that they litter the street outside with their cars. Someone had parked in one of 'their' spots and they had written a big note about how the area was for use by residents only. Again, it was a public street.
All of the above happened at my old house which had the yellow lined street outside. People still parked outside our house and sometimes blocked the pavement. We never left them a note about it though.
It's all quite pathetic really.
1. Being approached by an old man as I parked on the street opposite his house. I wasn't blocking a driveway and was parking legally. He got angry with me, shouted and said he was calling the police.
2. Being approached by another old man who lived in a house near the one above. Despite being nowhere near his driveway entrance, I was apparently blocking it. He swore at me and got angry. I just ignored him.
3. Another approach by an old man down nowhere near the two above. He wanted to know why I parked on the street near his house and not near mine. Again, I wasn't blocking him in and his house was set back from the road anyway. I couldn't park on my street as it was yellow lined. I explained this to him and he moaned at me and walked off. Interestingly, he has sold his garden plot and has now built a house on the land. It looks a right mess next to the other houses, but this is ok?
4. Being approached by a youngish chap when parking on a completely different street to the above. He came over as I was parking and told me I had to move because it was residents only and I would be clamped. It wasn't and I didn't get clamped.
5. Reading a note someone had put on another vehicle. A green Golf was parked on the street near a house that is home to three cars and a truck. The truck is parked badly on their drive meaning that they litter the street outside with their cars. Someone had parked in one of 'their' spots and they had written a big note about how the area was for use by residents only. Again, it was a public street.
All of the above happened at my old house which had the yellow lined street outside. People still parked outside our house and sometimes blocked the pavement. We never left them a note about it though.
It's all quite pathetic really.
when I was living with my parents we were having some building work done and I couldn't park my car in the drive, couldn't park outside my house as it was double yellows, so I had to park it around the corner, the street is free to park on, you just need to park in one of the designated bays. so parked it their on a sunday evening and didn't use it for 2 weeks, took the train to work and didn't need it for the that weekend.
When I went to pick up the car the weekend after, a old woman came out of the house I had parked outside and started having a go at me, telling me it was her space and i've ruined the outside of her house with my car blah blah blah. Now considering it had 3 parking spaces outside, it was easily wide enough for an in and out driveway, but they had decided not to. I just said it 'live with it' and drove off.
At my current place, i have a parking space outside my door on a private road that just looks like a normal road, only 4 houses have access to it. I share my space with a business that is in the same building as me, they have it during working hours, i get it in the evenings and on the weekends. When i first moved in, i noticed people from a house share across the way kept parking in it, they had 2 spaces but there are 4 of them and they each have a car, so one was using my space. As I was leaving once, I asked one of them if they knew who's car it was parked there, she responded with 'mine, would you like me to move it?' I replied 'No it's ok, could you just not park here in the future'. She stopped parking there but one of here house mates started parking their.
I annoyed me for a bit, but i never left a note or said anything else to anyone, then i thought about it. I have to park my car around the corner anyway because i share the space during business hours, the bays go really quick here because i'm close to a train station and because i don't drive to work moving it each morning wouldn't work. So I don't bother with it, i see it as a positive to have a car parked outside my door when i'm not there.
When I went to pick up the car the weekend after, a old woman came out of the house I had parked outside and started having a go at me, telling me it was her space and i've ruined the outside of her house with my car blah blah blah. Now considering it had 3 parking spaces outside, it was easily wide enough for an in and out driveway, but they had decided not to. I just said it 'live with it' and drove off.
At my current place, i have a parking space outside my door on a private road that just looks like a normal road, only 4 houses have access to it. I share my space with a business that is in the same building as me, they have it during working hours, i get it in the evenings and on the weekends. When i first moved in, i noticed people from a house share across the way kept parking in it, they had 2 spaces but there are 4 of them and they each have a car, so one was using my space. As I was leaving once, I asked one of them if they knew who's car it was parked there, she responded with 'mine, would you like me to move it?' I replied 'No it's ok, could you just not park here in the future'. She stopped parking there but one of here house mates started parking their.
I annoyed me for a bit, but i never left a note or said anything else to anyone, then i thought about it. I have to park my car around the corner anyway because i share the space during business hours, the bays go really quick here because i'm close to a train station and because i don't drive to work moving it each morning wouldn't work. So I don't bother with it, i see it as a positive to have a car parked outside my door when i'm not there.
Our road all have driveways. Slob next door likes to park his Zafira outside our house instead of on his drive. As the car is tall I can't see through it or over it when pulling out of the drive.
The Mrs pulled out once and nearly collected a cyclist on the bonnet despite being cautious.
His laziness Makes It more dangerous for us and other road users. There's a bend a few houses up so cars appear round it with about two seconds notice.
The Mrs pulled out once and nearly collected a cyclist on the bonnet despite being cautious.
His laziness Makes It more dangerous for us and other road users. There's a bend a few houses up so cars appear round it with about two seconds notice.
Paul Dishman said:
If he'd left it unlocked you could have rolled it out of the way.
Yes really still have a photo of the taxi plate as the copper told me to report it to the council, I didn't want to much aggro so left it, he had locked his car, complete and utter idiot, some mother do have em.Carl
Sensibleboy said:
Our road all have driveways. Slob next door likes to park his Zafira outside our house instead of on his drive. As the car is tall I can't see through it or over it when pulling out of the drive.
The Mrs pulled out once and nearly collected a cyclist on the bonnet despite being cautious.
His laziness Makes It more dangerous for us and other road users. There's a bend a few houses up so cars appear round it with about two seconds notice.
What a total stroker. I used to have some bellend park on the verge in front of my house, as he was visiting the house opposite and was too lazy and/or stupid to park 50 yards up the road where there was a space. I had the same issues as your missus trying to get out of my drive.The Mrs pulled out once and nearly collected a cyclist on the bonnet despite being cautious.
His laziness Makes It more dangerous for us and other road users. There's a bend a few houses up so cars appear round it with about two seconds notice.
I don't care if people park outside here - but sometimes they have a knack of putting 2 cars into an area which would take 3 or even 4 if they weren't so fking ignorant.
So last week I reversed into a space approx 10" longer than my car using "bump radar". Back, back, back, tink - OK, forward, forward, tink - and back - back - OK!
Thanks neighbours...
king ignorant.So last week I reversed into a space approx 10" longer than my car using "bump radar". Back, back, back, tink - OK, forward, forward, tink - and back - back - OK!
Thanks neighbours...
405dogvan said:
I don't care if people park outside here - but sometimes they have a knack of putting 2 cars into an area which would take 3 or even 4 if they weren't so fking ignorant.
So last week I reversed into a space approx 10" longer than my car using "bump radar". Back, back, back, tink - OK, forward, forward, tink - and back - back - OK!
Thanks neighbours...
Used to have that issue too. You would see three cars in the space for five.king ignorant.So last week I reversed into a space approx 10" longer than my car using "bump radar". Back, back, back, tink - OK, forward, forward, tink - and back - back - OK!
Thanks neighbours...
Jaldi said:
dave123456 said:
recently moved..chap over the road is clearly riled by my parking outside his house, sandwiches my car in, moves his car the moment I vacate the spot...
why do people think they own the road outside their house? or do they?!
I sandwiched someone in when they parked in front of my drive. A bit petty perhaps but it made me laugh ...why do people think they own the road outside their house? or do they?!
I read somewhere (Reddit or Tumblr, probably) about an American chap with one of those ridiculous huge pickups, reversed off his drive and smashed right into the side of one of those little Scion things that was parked over his drive, with his towbar.
His argument was that not only was his truck too big to see such a tiny car, but that it shouldn't have been there in the first place. I would have to agree.
His argument was that not only was his truck too big to see such a tiny car, but that it shouldn't have been there in the first place. I would have to agree.
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