Notes attached to car windscreens
Discussion
Mike335i said:
CS Garth said:
Any form of communication which is left under a windscreen wiper is generally the act of a total moron unless it is post collision details.
What if the note is to tell a moron they should stop parking on clearly marked private property? Our office shares 8 spaces with 2 other businesses. We have 4 marked spaces (which is nowhere near enough for our staff group, so we have a rota) and often we get chancers who think that they can just park in our spaces, often obnoxiously and sometimes even damaging cars nearby. I think a note is the least they could expect.
Other than the odd exception noted (thank you) above, notes on cars are the embodiment of little England for me - people who force their petty views on others but haven't got the balls to stand up and say something face to face.
Edited by CS Garth on Tuesday 18th July 09:27
Disastrous said:
An ex (or one of potentially hundreds of people) once wrote C U Next Tuesday on my Alfa bonnet with a marker pen.
Not a note in the traditional sense but I definitely read it.
My mate had C U Next Tuesday scratched into his 740i bonnet. He actually found it funny and left it there.Not a note in the traditional sense but I definitely read it.
Europa1 said:
CS Garth said:
Why not put up a sign saying unauthorised parking will be clamped and then seeing this through?
Because clamping on private land is not allowed.Edited by CS Garth on Tuesday 18th July 09:27
boyse7en said:
CS Garth said:
In which case ticket. The point being is notes in this situation are ineffectual so it needs to be taken up a notch.
A ticket? what, you mean like a piece of paper placed on the windscreen or under the wipers? That might work...
I have a couple:
-In the early nineties, I did a one-off job as a car park marshall at Oulton Park for the day. Came back to my (first) car, a Lada Riva at the end of the day. There must've been around 200 cars parked in the field, all with a piece of paper under the windscreen wiper, except mine???
Curiously, I took one off a neighbouring car and had a look. It was an advert for speed trap detectors. Cheeky f*****s.
-A few years ago, I was helping clean out my father-in-law's house as he'd recently passed away. We found an unopened jiffy bag with a large but fairly light object inside. Opened it up and it was a rear light cluster for a mk1 MX-5! No idea where it came from, father-in-law didn't even own a car. I didn't want it to go to waste, and I'd remembered seeing a mk1 MX-5 in one of the resident's bays outside, so I went and put it on the windscreen. Must've been a strange experience for the owner.
-In the early nineties, I did a one-off job as a car park marshall at Oulton Park for the day. Came back to my (first) car, a Lada Riva at the end of the day. There must've been around 200 cars parked in the field, all with a piece of paper under the windscreen wiper, except mine???
Curiously, I took one off a neighbouring car and had a look. It was an advert for speed trap detectors. Cheeky f*****s.
-A few years ago, I was helping clean out my father-in-law's house as he'd recently passed away. We found an unopened jiffy bag with a large but fairly light object inside. Opened it up and it was a rear light cluster for a mk1 MX-5! No idea where it came from, father-in-law didn't even own a car. I didn't want it to go to waste, and I'd remembered seeing a mk1 MX-5 in one of the resident's bays outside, so I went and put it on the windscreen. Must've been a strange experience for the owner.
CS Garth said:
In which case ticket. The point being is notes in this situation are ineffectual so it needs to be taken up a notch.
That is the problem though, we can't issue a ticket unless we pay to use a parking management company, which we won't due to this not being cost effective from the organisation's perspective. So (as an individual) I'm left with no other course of action other than to ask the individuals not to park there, often via polite notes explain that the parking spaces are reserved and parking there interferes with out work. Sometimes it works.
Resident car parking where I am, the space next to mine kept being used by a range rover, wasn't their space. A few notes where left by the girl who's space it was, but it kept parking there.
Eventually she lost her patience, and in capitals, over the windscreen wrote "this is not your space, stop parking here" in bright pink lipstick. They range never parked there again.
Residential parking is a constant barrage of notes, most weeks I see a note on a car. A local estate agent once told someone renting a flat that my space was their new renters by accident. She tore down my "allocated to flat x" sign and left about 10 notes on my car. I left her a note asking her to call me as it was my space, 2 days later I got a new note saying sorry and a box of chocolates! Not everyone is an ass!
Eventually she lost her patience, and in capitals, over the windscreen wrote "this is not your space, stop parking here" in bright pink lipstick. They range never parked there again.
Residential parking is a constant barrage of notes, most weeks I see a note on a car. A local estate agent once told someone renting a flat that my space was their new renters by accident. She tore down my "allocated to flat x" sign and left about 10 notes on my car. I left her a note asking her to call me as it was my space, 2 days later I got a new note saying sorry and a box of chocolates! Not everyone is an ass!
My old Mk 1 XR2 after it had broken one of a number of downpipes (knackered engine mount, excess movement, fatigue) was labelled "police aware" after I'd driven it home and parked it in front of my flat. I could have parked out the back or reversed it into the garage but I thought quickly whipping into the nearer space and shutting it off was the more polite thing to do. It was around the time of the Steven Lawrence enquiry so I added "of institutional racism" to the note and replaced it under the windscreen. It was gone later on (the note).
Got into Dagenham, late, one day and there was only one 'space' left. Trouble was it was rather encroached into by the car 'in' the adjacent space. I was in a company car so had zero qualms about squeezing in, even if it did mean that my less accurate neighbour had to enter their car via the passenger door. The note I found on my return reliably informed me that I was the "moran".
Sadly, I have no amusing tales on the subject.
Cheers, Jim
Got into Dagenham, late, one day and there was only one 'space' left. Trouble was it was rather encroached into by the car 'in' the adjacent space. I was in a company car so had zero qualms about squeezing in, even if it did mean that my less accurate neighbour had to enter their car via the passenger door. The note I found on my return reliably informed me that I was the "moran".
Sadly, I have no amusing tales on the subject.
Cheers, Jim
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