Odd things your neighbours do?

[amusingduck]

Roofless Toothless said:

There's a house just along the road to me, a nice old house, with no off street parking. The people who live there have assumed ownership of the street outside, and when they move their car, protect 'their' space with a great big traffic cone. Here it is, neatly tucked away and ready for use.

Looks like the cheeky buggers have assumed ownership of the local bus shelter too



What is that monstrosity?!

[Kev_Mk3]

cheesesliceking said:

Shouldn’t you be outside yelling at a cloud?

No fecking clouds either.

I've found a squirrel to shout at.

[Roofless Toothless]

techiedave said:

Do you think perhaps before they had that single storey shed like extension tacked on that they may have had off road parking at the side of their house.

I would think they are obstructing the highway by using the cone and are in breach of some law.
Personally I'd report it if it is a busy road

Edited by techiedave on Wednesday 16th January 11:30

The cottage is centuries old, lathe & plaster walls and so on. Quite a few of the houses in this part of the street have old shop fronts, dating back donkey's years, turned into residential when they built a nice little shopping precinct nearby in the sixties. I think the extension was probably once a shop, and could be older than motor cars are, actually!

I tell you what though, I had a walk past there earlier today and there is no sign of that cone anywhere. I may have got the message through!

[Roofless Toothless]

amusingduck said:

Looks like the cheeky buggers have assumed ownership of the local bus shelter too



What is that monstrosity?!

Has that horse got very short legs?

[snoopy25]

Roofless Toothless said:

There's a house just along the road to me, a nice old house, with no off street parking. The people who live there have assumed ownership of the street outside, and when they move their car, protect 'their' space with a great big traffic cone. Here it is, neatly tucked away and ready for use.





The other day I was about to pull into what I thought was an empty space to get out of the way of oncoming traffic - the road is narrow there - and I found out too late the space was occupied by this thumping great cone, leaving me high and dry with a bus bearing down on me.

I am now in the habit when passing by on foot, to move this cone out of the road and deposit it right in front of their front door. I wonder if they will get the message. I don't want to become an interfering neighbour, but why do people think that they can save themselves £30 or £40 thousand by buying a house with no off road parking, and then assume proprietary rights over the street outside their house? It is not only antisocial and unneighbourly, it is dangerous and illegal into the bargain.

I think I may have met these people, and they are part of the 'churchy' set locally. They keep religious images and posters on display in their front window. How about a bit of Christian charity towards their actual neighbours?

I feel strangely better for that rant.

Wasnt there a thread about bad parking where some one kept cutting the cone down an inch at a time until it was so small it looked rediculous?

[Frank7]

PositronicRay said:

Antony Moxey said:

To do what to the cone?

Some sort of made up cockermany rhimming sling. (My Glaswegian mate used to do this too "Mick Jagger=Lager" etc)

Edited by PositronicRay on Wednesday 16th January 11:21

To 86 something, or someone, is to throw it away, or get rid of, (if an object), or refuse service to, (if a person), okay, its an Americanism, my bad, oops!, in my defence I’m over there very often, and have a wide circle of ex-pat American friends here, so I hear it a lot.
Google it.
My 15 y.o. Arsenal supporting English grandson, talking of a West Ham player, said, “They should 86 him, and go for Ibrahimović”, some chance of that.
Does your Glaswegian mate say lager as lagger?
And not for nothing, but it’s cockamamie, meaning implausible.
HTH.

[The Mad Monk]

geeks said:

You could try a passive aggressive note taped to the cone with something about how god encourages good relations with ones neighbor and stealing being a sin

God is also quite keen on words being written correctly.

[KrazyIvan]

Roofless Toothless said:

amusingduck said:

Looks like the cheeky buggers have assumed ownership of the local bus shelter too



What is that monstrosity?!

Has that horse got very short legs?

well spotted.

As for the cone, just put it in your boot next time your passing, then at the next set of road works you see, put it in line with the others, after all where do you suppose it came from!

[davidc1]

Grahamdub said:

Our neighbour rents out her spare rooms. However, we live on a new build estate, so parking is limited at the best of times. Her lodgers also seem incapable of parking considerately, so their 2 cars take up 4-5 spaces, leaving none for anyone else. By the time we, or she, get them parking properly, they move on. This is made slightly more annoying by her advertising her rooms as with parking, so in effect we are losing the communal visitors parking and she is getting paid for the privilege.

i feel your pain. had the same. only sorted recently with double yellows , which has f*cked it for everyone now....

[nonsequitur]

Roofless Toothless said:

amusingduck said:

Looks like the cheeky buggers have assumed ownership of the local bus shelter too



What is that monstrosity?!

Has that horse got very short legs?

Or a long neck.

[Robbo 27]

nonsequitur said:

Or a long neck.

Or a Mafia warning.

[PositronicRay]

davidc1 said:

Grahamdub said:

Our neighbour rents out her spare rooms. However, we live on a new build estate, so parking is limited at the best of times. Her lodgers also seem incapable of parking considerately, so their 2 cars take up 4-5 spaces, leaving none for anyone else. By the time we, or she, get them parking properly, they move on. This is made slightly more annoying by her advertising her rooms as with parking, so in effect we are losing the communal visitors parking and she is getting paid for the privilege.

i feel your pain. had the same. only sorted recently with double yellows , which has f*cked it for everyone now....

A new build estate with double yellows, how unusual.

[nonsequitur]

Robbo 27 said:

nonsequitur said:

Or a long neck.

Or a Mafia warning.

Luca Brasi sleeps in the hedges.

[njw1]

aka_kerrly said:

NDA said:

The young couple who moved in next to me have made a sex tape.

They don't know about it yet.

err....

......Link...?

[anonymous-user]

PositronicRay said:

A new build estate with double yellows, how unusual.

We have some on our estate, mainly because people are stupid. The parking got so bad that bin lorries regularly couldn't get past. The same people then moan on the local fb group that their bins aren't being collected

[elanfan]

njw1 said:

aka_kerrly said:

NDA said:

The young couple who moved in next to me have made a sex tape.

They don't know about it yet.

err....

......Link...?

Whoooosh and woooooosh again.

[Jag_NE]

Old Man Fred said:

I live on a new build estate and each house has space for at least 2 cars on the drive, but both my neighbours park one car on the drive and one in a visitors space, presumably because they cant be arsed to move cars around.

One of them though, decides if 'his' space is taken he parks literally outside his front door blocking the path for pedestrians (not far from a school) and makes it really awkward for the house opposite to get out of his drive. Some people have no thought for anyone else these days

I have a similar experience. Neighbour opposite has designated space to the side of their house, plus a garage. Instead of using it, they park on the pavement, pretty much blocking it. Saves them about 5 seconds of walking. Also directly opposite my drive on a narrow street. We have to execute text book exits off the drive which isn’t the end of the world but our untrained guests usually have a chew on getting off our drive. They are chavvy people so I don’t waste any time trying to reason with them.

[Robbo 27]

Arrived at the supermarket, neighbour was just going through the doors with her 5 year old daughter, said Hi and got on with my shopping. Saw her a few times round the store, the little girl was very much in control and making all the choices, the large shopping trolley was piled high.

I bagged up my shopping and saw them walking out empty handed. 'No shopping?' I asked.

'Emily just likes to play at shopping, and it passes an hour.'

[Sycamore]

Robbo 27 said:

Arrived at the supermarket, neighbour was just going through the doors with her 5 year old daughter, said Hi and got on with my shopping. Saw her a few times round the store, the little girl was very much in control and making all the choices, the large shopping trolley was piled high.

I bagged up my shopping and saw them walking out empty handed. 'No shopping?' I asked.

'Emily just likes to play at shopping, and it passes an hour.'

You need to move house immediately.

[FerdiZ28]

Robbo 27 said:

Arrived at the supermarket, neighbour was just going through the doors with her 5 year old daughter, said Hi and got on with my shopping. Saw her a few times round the store, the little girl was very much in control and making all the choices, the large shopping trolley was piled high.

I bagged up my shopping and saw them walking out empty handed. 'No shopping?' I asked.

'Emily just likes to play at shopping, and it passes an hour.'

This annoys me and makes me chuckle at the same time.

I get two images - the overworked and underpaid shelf worker who is a little bit depressed having to restock a whole trolley, as well as other targets and tasks they have to do. Unfair.

The other image is the semi-retired, weathered and grizzly old chap who is just doing it for beer money, coming across the fully laden trolley populated by random items from every aisle in the store, mumbling WHY? when he comes across the thing for the fourth time in as many weeks.