Help I’m turning into a curtain twitcher
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For some reason I’m looking more and more out the windows and getting annoyed that people are parking in the road outside my house.
They have every right to park there, there are no restrictions so it’s all fair game.
I never used to be like this, but for some reason I’ve started becoming a curtain twitcher. Any ways to deal with it?
They have every right to park there, there are no restrictions so it’s all fair game.
I never used to be like this, but for some reason I’ve started becoming a curtain twitcher. Any ways to deal with it?
I do understand where you're coming from.
I live in a close shaped like a 'Y'. Mine and across the road are the only houses on the 'downstroke', there's 40 other houses spread across the 'U'.
Everyone has plenty of parking. Every house has a single garage and two driveway spaces at minimum, most have a double garage plus two, some single garage plus three.
Yet, despite this, the folks who have sheddy station cars don't want to park them outside their house, so they park them along the road outside my house. Which both looks s
t, but also genuinely restricts visibility turning into/out of the close as they make it single lane and the 'downstroke' is curved.
The actual trades all park their vans on their drive, covered by Ring cameras.
My office looks out over the area they park. I give them stty looks through the window. They don't see me, but it makes me feel better! 
I live in a close shaped like a 'Y'. Mine and across the road are the only houses on the 'downstroke', there's 40 other houses spread across the 'U'.
Everyone has plenty of parking. Every house has a single garage and two driveway spaces at minimum, most have a double garage plus two, some single garage plus three.
Yet, despite this, the folks who have sheddy station cars don't want to park them outside their house, so they park them along the road outside my house. Which both looks s
t, but also genuinely restricts visibility turning into/out of the close as they make it single lane and the 'downstroke' is curved.The actual trades all park their vans on their drive, covered by Ring cameras.
My office looks out over the area they park. I give them s
tty looks through the window. They don't see me, but it makes me feel better! You working from home?
I’ve become a twitcher since WFH.
We get parents parking in our street during the morning and evening school run to avoid congestion in the school car park. There are signs saying ‘Access only’, but nobody cares.
Some of them bring food for their little darlings (posh secondary school) during the afternoon run. This gets eaten whilst they’re in the car and packaging thrown out before driving off.
Grrrr.
I’ve become a twitcher since WFH.
We get parents parking in our street during the morning and evening school run to avoid congestion in the school car park. There are signs saying ‘Access only’, but nobody cares.
Some of them bring food for their little darlings (posh secondary school) during the afternoon run. This gets eaten whilst they’re in the car and packaging thrown out before driving off.
Grrrr.
Glassman said:
We have a neighbour who does that. He has a two-car drive (three at a squeeze) but early hours he backs out and parks on the street in front of the house. By evening time, it's back on the drive.
Maybe he gets woken up by doors slamming, people talking loudly as they get in/out of the car, obnoxiously loud revving, etc?I went to war after I discovered that Network Rail vans parking on the grass outside our home actually made it rather dangerous to pull out onto a fast main road. One of them told me fairly aggressively they were their first and I'd never stop.
The conversation led to a high-level complaint and the route director became involved, who told them to stop parking there. They ignored him, and I had a great hobby for a few weeks of sending him numberplates for people who could not follow the rules.
Eventually, they got fed up, replaced the grass, and the council put in some bollards. While I no longer get to bug Network Rail I do take great comfort that the clown who told me I'd never win - now parks elsewhere.
The conversation led to a high-level complaint and the route director became involved, who told them to stop parking there. They ignored him, and I had a great hobby for a few weeks of sending him numberplates for people who could not follow the rules.
Eventually, they got fed up, replaced the grass, and the council put in some bollards. While I no longer get to bug Network Rail I do take great comfort that the clown who told me I'd never win - now parks elsewhere.
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