[Closed] Rantette: Notes on cars

If she's not in then steal the bins and hide them.

and when she comes over ranting for har bins back just deny all knowledge of the note and smile sweetly.

No aggro, no proof and a warm glow of a job well done

Street is a free for all.
Unless it's a culdesac type thing with garages and parking spaces that's clearly not the road, when there potentially could be some allocation.

I'd move the wheelie bins out of the way and leave a note on them that says "Please show consideration to your neighbours and only put wheelie bins out on bin collection day, and in a place that doesn't cause obstruction"

edit: and leave the car where it is and take the bus each day for a week 😈

That would be the red rag to a bull as far as I'm concerned!
I'd write one back saying that I've asked the council about their ownership of the stretch of road in front of their house, and the council expressed considerable surprise on hearing this, as they were under the impression that the road belonged to the local authority, or something to that effect, and attach it to the wheely bins that I'd leave blocking their gateway.
Petty and juvenile, perhaps, but that attitude pisses me off, when no-one is being inconvenienced. 😈

And have a jobbie in their bin.

and park in the space allocated to your house

Is the street marked out?

We had this at our old house with traffic cones. One day I so fedup with people doing this so I drove over and parked on them (4x4)

luffy105 - Member
If she's not in then steal the bins and hide them.

and when she comes over ranting for har bins back just deny all knowledge of the note and smile sweetly.

No aggro, no proof and a warm glow of a job well done

I think I'd do this, just to get the chance to find out who it was and have a chat about it.

I used to lift share with a colleague of mine and he'd drive to the end of my road and park up. After a few occasions of doing this, he got back to his car one day to find someone had poured golden syrup all over the driver's side door handle....!

He parked outside our house once (normally all the school run mums park on the opposite side of the road completely clogging the road up). We got back to my house early (work Xmas do that evening, so had been let out early) and it was school kicking out time. The school run mums had carried on parking on the other side of the road and caused a real bottle neck adjacent to his car (they could barely squeeze their Q7's through the gap!). But, he was the one that got the dirty looks and muttered commnents about his parking, even though his car had been there since about 7am that morning!

I've done it! "Next time take up 2 spaces" in the work car park.

I wonder if the recipient was brave enough to start an anonymous internet thread about it...

I tried driving to Leamington, cycling to the station and catching the train the rest of the way to work - parked in a side street, in front of a house but not blocking a drive. On the second day, on return to the car, I found notes sellotaped to front, rear and driver's side windows asking me to be considerate to the residents. Mixed emotions, really - on one hand, it's small-minded little Englishness of a massively irritating nature, but on the other, it's not that far from Warwick Castle, so they must get it all the time. Did think about parking back there/popping notes through letterboxes/complaining to the council/getting Jeremy Vine involved, but at the end of the day, my car would be at their mercy all day long - they don't have to cause any damage, it'd take them thirty seconds and cause no damage just to let a tyre down every day. I figured, if it bothers them that much, they can have their side street.

Are parking spaces real? Something I've always wondered about. My driving cop pal tells me that the spaces outside properties are known as 'frontages'. As I understand it, the idea of a "parking space": an area bounded by a kerb, on a roadway- is purely a notional one.

Is this correct?

The person who lives a couple of houses away sometimes has a visitor who drives up on to the verge using my neighbour's drive and parks half outside his house and half outside our house, thus preventing both of us from parking outside our houses. When they leave they use my drive to get back on the road

imo there are bigger problems in the world but it really grips the neighbour's shit he has gone out and given the parker some grief and moaned to me about it as well.

If you know who it is, just pop over one evening and have a chat with her explaining sweetly and nicely that you have some visitors hence why you'd parked your car where you did. You have no intention of making a habit of it though.

Then empty her wheelie bins over her front lawn.

I was just going to say- wheel the bins two streets away and leave them there.

I thought... When parking against someones garden wall where there is a pavement then you have to have the owners permission?

We have parking problems. We have a bigger/longer wall than most in our street. Due to this neighbours visitors park along it, leaving their neighbours wall free. We have a Navara not a small thing so end up parking against neighbours wall sometimes blocking them in as it over hangs a foot. We even have a neighbour opposite who has 2 spaces and still parks against our wall, we are waiting for him to do it again so we can park our cars in his spaces and ride to work for the week. 😆

We wouldn't mind if it wasn't possible for them to park there cars against the neighbours wall or even in the spaces for visitors. Or even if they parked to one side of the wall, rather than slap bang in the middle.

Personally I would never park against someones wall if there were spaces free elsewhere, and if I was asked to move I would. I've lived in an area where parking is a nightmare so am very considerate.

Leave car where it is as its blocked in by her wheelie bins and you wouldnt dream of moving them.

Best ive had is a neighbour complaining that i cant park across the top of a drive. Its my drive you arse.

A David Thorne type reply would be entertaining http://27bslash6.com/

"You own a [s]car[/s] house not the road"?

retaliate;

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Aah the joys of parking wars! Some twunt had again managed to park on site last night because the dizzy bint who has access "just nipped out" and didn't put the bollard back up.
It got locked on site last night by dizzy woman and again by me when I arrived.
Q sheepish looking young lad approaching 3 miserable builder types to ask if he could get his girlfriends car out.
Told him to do one. Gave us some sob story about how he'd never done it before etc and that he was flying to Spain later blah blah.
It was pointed out to him that he/she had parked directly next to one of the signs saying private parking you will be clamped etc etc
What would you lot have done...

The aggressive approach will only escalate things. Good neighbours are worth their weight in gold; who knows, if she's on your side she might even report someone breaking into your house and stealing your bikes.

Knock on her door and politely introduce yourself - that will put her on the back foot straight away. Point out that you weren't aware that individual houses had parking spaces allocated on the public highway. Don't mention her stupidity with the wheelie bins. Once you've finished discussing the parking, bring up the subject of her barking dog. Be incredibly polite but firm and insistent. Give her an ultimatum and a date and explain that if she doesn't resolve the barking, you will take it up with the local authority. Then go home and write down everything you discussed.

We have a farm nearby with a dog that barks all night; I went round and politely discussed it with the farmer, who has a reputation for being aggressive. Despite my fears, he was perfectly reasonable about it and the barking has stopped. It's amazing what a civilised meeting can achieve.

I'm not sure I should add the url in case anyone at work inadvertently clicks it, but if you google "you park like a [c word that would get me banned no matter how I try and write it]" there are some beauties on there. [b]Warning[/b], there is liberal use of the c-word in text on the site for anyone at work.

We have a farm nearby with a dog that barks all night; I went round and politely discussed it with the farmer, who has a reputation for being aggressive. Despite my fears, he was perfectly reasonable about it and the barking has stopped. It's amazing what a civilised meeting can achieve.

you realise he probably shot the dog?

@milkie

I didn't really understand most of your post, as I don't really get what the parking against walls thing was all about - if we're talking about parking on the road, I don't know what relevance the walls have, if we're talking about parking off the road, on the pavement, by a wall then that might be a different kettle of fish. I was, however, interested in how you reconcile this statement:

I've lived in an area where parking is a nightmare so am very considerate.

with this one:

We have a Navara not a small thing so end up parking against neighbours wall sometimes blocking them in as it over hangs a foot

Your definition of considerate parking (unless I've massively misunderstood) is somewhat different from mine....

Streets have no allocated parking spaces, they're public areas. Park where you like as long as you don't block access.

If I were you I'd avoid retaliating because these things can easily escalate which just becomes and pain in the arse, would wait till you see them, ask if it was them and then explain why you parked there and that you're sorry it bothered them but people can park anywhere they find a space.

You could just park consideratly?

Its not worth waring with folk who do this as they are showing themselves to be fools who think they can control the road outside this property and they cannot. The bins thing is just petty and shows that rational conversation will not happen.

I tend to speak once and explain it is a road, say I only do it when necessary and ask them not to do it again.
It rarely works tbh as no matter what you do they think it is unreasonable to park legally where they object.
My neighbours shouted at me when I asked them to move their car parked on double yellows on a dropped curve so i could get out - I was being an arsehole apparently as they had children -No idea why this mattered either

I had this at my old house - used to park on the street outside someone's house occasionally (she always parked at the back of her house and lived alone). She came out one day and had a real go at me, complaining it spoiled her view (of the road and the house opposite), demanded to know who my employer was (I assume she thought my car was a company car and wanted to complain to them). I politely told her that I owned my own business but she could give me a call if she wanted and went on to explain that it is a public road and I had the right to park where I wanted as and when I wished. So, just to stop me, she started parking there instead - leaving her allocated space at the back of the house empty and blocking her view by her car rather than mine 😆

Ohh, and at the end of the rant at me (and clearly flustered by my being very polite at all times) she told me to rot in hell. She is in her 80s.... 😯

As this thread is now about PARKING and not NOTES (re. the subject), I googled DD's words (omitting the last one) and I laughed at:

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hahaha, there is one house in our street who have to park outside their house (tactical parking of one car in a 2 car spece etc)

Asking people to move their cars and saying residents parking only along with various other strange behaviour etc (public road) everyone else doesn't care where their cars are parked and find all this very funny, howevr it's now come to the point no one speaks to them and I feel almost a little sorry for them as they obviously have some issues.

Attempted annexation of the public highway, its always hilarious. Although sort of understandable.

However I seem to recall that attempting to reserve the queen's highway by putting cones, wheelie bins etc. is an offence under the RTA, and isnt it some offence to leave your bin out when its not bin day? Byelaws and stuff.

I am always amused by people who put "No turning" signs outside their driveways/gates when they live up a dead end side street or access road. It just seems like such an uncharitable thing to do: "You have made a mistake and turned down a dead end road. You will now incur my wrath shoud you choose to extracate yourself using my gate (which is voluminous) instead of reversing 500m down a singletrack road!" W@nkers.
My friend has such a neighbour and I have on occasion turned/reversed into his driveway for no reason other than my own amusement. No I'm not proud.

Sometime I turn in those people's driveways just for the hell of it. 😀

I had a small problem with a new neighbour blocking me in our culdesac, I had to call round a handfull of times to get her to shift her car. So I waited until she parked into the space then pulled my van round and blocked her in for 24hrs.
Shes never done it since.

Nobeer had the answer a while back!

People really do get a bit irrational over parking.

Near my office it can be a real issue. The office is in mixed residential / commercial area of Glasgow, most of the houses are converted tenements with no allocated parking. So every morning people turning up to work and park in the residents "spaces" - its a big office so this has an impact on most of the surrounding streets. 95% of people have absolutely no issues but people have had the cars scratched or the windscreen wipers stolen for parking in a specific "space"

Others attempt to guard their spaces with cones (no doubt stolen!) or the occasional "Residents only" parking sign.

Personally I just park a couple of streets further away to save any aggrovation

Cut the base of the wheely bins out so when they move them for bin day all their rubbish falls out the bottom.

I am always amused by people who put "No turning" signs outside their driveways/gates when they live up a dead end side street or access road. It just seems like such an uncharitable thing to do: "You have made a mistake and turned down a dead end road. You will now incur my wrath shoud you choose to extracate yourself using my gate (which is voluminous) instead of reversing 500m down a singletrack road!" W@nkers.
My friend has such a neighbour and I have on occasion turned/reversed into his driveway for no reason other than my own amusement. No I'm not proud.

Spot on I'd have done the same

Someone on our street let their dog roam free in the street. I saw it take a dump on the verge in front of the house, next to where I park my car with the owners nowhere to be seen.

Should I have
a) Left a note on the dog
b) Left a note on the dog's owner's car
c) Marched the dog back to it's owner's house and asked them to clean up the offending pile

[i]I did c and I haven't seen the dog out front since[/i]

In our old house we had someone leave a note on our car a few days after we moved in as when had "parked in someones space" in front of their house since there was a skip in our drive and someone else had parked in the space infont of our own house.

How illegal would it be to put a skip in front of someone else's house?

My friend has such a neighbour and I have on occasion turned/reversed into his driveway for no reason other than my own amusement.

How illegal would it be to put a skip in front of someone else's house?

Sorry, was that a sensible answer?

For the OP. Surely the answer is, if at all possible, to avoid using your car until the bins have been moved.

As you need permission from your council to site a skip on a highway the skip deliverers wouldn't drop it without the relevant paperwork. And I think it would be hard to get permission to put it outside another property without the owners' consent.

Maybe a delivery of a ton of topsoil would be better then!

[i]Dear Topsoil Delivery Person,

I will be out when you arrive but please just leave the load in the middle of the drive.

Yours Sincerely
A. Nonymous[/i]

When I had just moved in to our house someone blocked our drive and our car in the garage. Pressumably as they couldnt see the car they thought it wasnt there. The old guy who lived there before us never used his car so assumed it was something people on my street did.

It was 10pm and wasnt going out so wasnt too fussed. But without wanting to knock on every door in the street I decided to leave a polite note on the screen. It was polite. I never complained. Just said we were new to the street and would be usining the garage from now and please dont block the kerb.

Next morning I get an irate neighbour banging on the door and shouting at me for leaving a note. Apparently I was the one in the wrong- go figure.

Havent spoke to her since 7 years ago. Which is a shame as its quite a tight knit close. But her whole family are a bunch of t!ts anyway.

This is what someone did over xmas when a bloke parked his mini digger in a floor we were about to screed over the xmas break-

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Dear Topsoil Delivery Person,

8)

My mate had a cracker of a note put on his car last year up in Jesmond. He's a student so doesn't really use his car other than trips home and to Morrisons but due to permit issues he leaves his car down the road sometimes for a week or two without moving it. The note said.

"Congratulations, you are currently first place in the running for Jesmond's most inconsiderate parker. All you have to continue to do in order to win this prestigious title is to continue to leave your car outside other residents homes for weeks on end.

Kind Regards,

Disgruntled Resident"

We live on the edge of a controlled parking zone so a number of residents within the zone but without passes use our road and others to park on.

Longest we had a car outside our house was 8 weeks without moving. Leaving a note on the window was pointless. Leaving a note through the window became increasingly attractive.

There was a complete shed of a dutch Type 4 camper outside for 6 weeks until the council put an 'abandoned vehicle' note on it.

No one minds a bit of too and fro on parking but effectively abandoning a car outside anyone's house is taking the mickey a bit.

I'm not agreeing with him abandoning the car there to be fair I'd be pretty pissed off if it was outside mine. I did appreciate the approach taken by the resident though rather than a snotty aggressive note.

Johndoh - Looks as though they may have had a little inspiration! Which is rather upsetting tbh 🙁

I'm tempted to stick a note on a car at work. The carpark does not have any marked spaces but most people seem to park in a sensible fashion, apart form Mr D. Head in his sports car. He always parks right near the entrance and in the way of all other car park user. It must save his little legs at least 30 seconds every day parking closer to his office.

At the of end last year a neighbour sat in their car for about half an hour blasting their horn because a car was parked on the street in front of their terraced house.

It amazes me that people expect by right to leave their private property on public land.

One thing that confuses me is that, in my street, people with drives park in the road, surely putting your car on the drive, where some other numpty is less likely to drive into it, is a good idea?

It amazes me that people expect by right to leave their private property on public land.

I think you have to have a 'tax disc' on it to leave it on the public highway ?

One thing that confuses me is that, in my street, people with drives park in the road, surely putting your car on the drive, where some other numpty is less likely to drive into it, is a good idea?

This happens in my street. Every resident has a space or garage, yet loads park outside their space or garage to stop non-residents parking in the street 😕

The last bad snow (early april) a few on our street got caught out and had to leave our cars at the bottom of the hill. As soon as the plough passed I took about 90 mins to clear a space outside (yes just for me) so I could nip down and drive back as I'd basically dumped my car the night before and knew it'd be a pain to get past

In the 5 minutes I was gone hadn't a woman parked up and was getting out ready to go for a walk?

"Me - I've just spent the last 90 minutes clearing a space for my car. If you want to make a space for yourself here's my shovel"

"*giggle* I wondered why there was just the one space!"

"Me - 😐 "

At least I didn't [url= http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin05.asp ]shoot her (no 3)[/url] though.

We had something similar. Terrace housing and for the most part people park outside there house. If you can't, no bother, I don't own the street.

Street was full so wife parks at the bottom of the road were there is about 50m of wall/street so your not in front of anyone's house.

Letter the next day on the car as 2ft of the bumper was in fornt of a house, 2ft!! Still space for them to park and terrace house so not blocking access.

Wife was really upset so pop over. Was not sure what I was going to say but explain it would be wise not to leave a note on the car again. no one in.

Need to vent steam so park our seldom used second car right in front of there house and leave it there for the next 2 weeks. Numerous letters on the window just ignored. Eventually they came to my door and asked me to move the car. Childish and I'm not proud but made me giggle.

Every resident has a space or garage, yet loads park outside their space or garage to stop non-residents parking in the street

This was attached to my Van the other day in deepest darkest Surrey. The van isn't even no where near her house, and its parked on the unlit side of the street, the other side is empty. Worst thing is she called my lovely van "horrid" how very middle class!!!
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why on earth didn't you simply move your car, move her wheelie bins to her gateway and filled them to the brim with cold water.

OP:Do you have a spare anvil or two? When your friendly neighbour is out relocate the wheelie bins to the front of their house and then weight them down a bit.

To be fair if you park on a path you are a pratt

At least you're not in Moscow. There are next to no car park in Moscow yet everyone drives to prove their wealth. This lead to cars being parked in every available spot. Several people have been shot as punishment for parking in someone elses regular spot on a public road 😯

If i didnt park on the path (there is about another 5ft of path to go past) i would block the road

I think you have to have a 'tax disc' on it to leave it on the public highway ?

Said "tax disc" doesn't give you any parking rights.

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Said "tax disc" doesn't give you any parking rights.

Umm, I'm pretty sure it does actually, just no more particular rights to park (legally) on the highway outside any particular address than anyone else's tax disc does...

Umm, I'm pretty sure it does actually, just no more particular rights to park (legally) on the highway outside any particular address than anyone else's tax disc does...

I think we're saying the same thing - it doesn't give you the right to a parking space.

has no one suggested weeing in her wheelie bins?

Why not be a decent chap, return them to her garden then padlock them in place for a couple of weeks in case they escape again?

it doesn't give you the right to a parking space.

Perhaps not, but the Road Traffic Act does I'd wager. However,

Are parking spaces real?

When parking against someones garden wall where there is a pavement then you have to have the owners permission?

"Parking spaces" in this context are not real. Property owners have no claim to the road outside their house, unless clearly marked as such. The presence or absence of someone's garden wall and / or pavement is irrelevant. It's not "their" road or "their" parking space; it's not a parking space at all, it's a public highway where parking is not restricted.

If I park outside someone's house and they object, the likelihood of me moving it is proportional to the politeness of their request.

We had something similar. Terrace housing and for the most part people park outside there house. If you can't, no bother, I don't own the street.

Pretty much the same as me. The big problem is that everyone has to park *exactly* outside their own house, which means between every car there's a gap almost-but-not-quite large enough to get another car into. If they all parked 'normally' there'd be room for another half dozen. Doesn't help either that two houses now have "disabled" bays demarked; one's a sensible size and the other inexplicably is large enough to house one of those smaller buses. I don't really care if one of the neighbours parks in front of my house, but I do get vexed when I've to park somewhere in the next time zone because people leave four yards between each car.

Never got to the stage of writing a note but I got seriously angry when we had a dump of a campervan parked directly outside our house from March to October without moving eventually it ran out of road tax, I reported it and it disappeared at the same time next doors car was also parked outside our house without moving. Turns out he'd spent a short stint inside. Both gone now much happier.

No issue with people parking outside my house if they are actually using the car and I can occassionally park!

Dont really get rude notes, it isn't going to have the desired outcome. A friend who parked his car in a neighbouring estate whilst working ended up getting it badly keyed after a month....he didn't park there again

It's not just car parking that attracts the passive/aggressive note:

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One is begged to ask one particular question... 😉

We had someone dump a van across the entrance to our drive one night.
Turned out they were moving in and didn't want to leave it anywhere else.
Trouble was I had been out in the car and was a little pissed that I was blocked out.
Short blast of the horn and then reasonably explaining why they should bloody move got it sorted.
Still don't think they could see what was wrong though.
Apart from that doesn't bother me if people park on the grass outside our house. Annoys the hell out of one of the old gits on the road though as it makes it muddy.

I would retaliate with an all out consultation on residential parking permits, costing everyone money. They won't like that. Caution. could backfire.

I would ignore it completely and never engage in any sort of communication. Park where you like and if she does it again just move the bin. What is the point in any discourse, she's obviously completely up herself.

One is begged to ask one particular question

Would that be "how did you manage to create a daughter in a godful way?"?

One thing that confuses me is that, in my street, people with drives park in the road, surely putting your car on the drive, where some other numpty is less likely to drive into it, is a good idea?

This happens on my street, everybody has a drive but a load of 'em park half on the path/road, on a corner too making it a big slalom and a pain in the arse if there's another car coming. Really boils my piss, worst offender is a National Windscreens van who insists on parking fully on the path while his drive sits empty making pedestrians walk on the road. ****. My first task after winning the lottery will be too smash my own van down the side of every single one of 'em.

...a National Windscreens van who insists on parking fully on the path...

Tbh it really annoys me when people part-park on pavements because they fear wing mirror damage. Funny how the vehicles in question are never worth **** all.

The incredibly rude, butch lesbian a few doors up from us screams at anyone unlucky enough to park in 'her' space (public road outside her terraced house). I had to park there a few months after we moved in as the neighbour was in 'our' space. Within ten minutes she was hammering at the door and telling my wife to shift that f'ing car.

She's a Grade-A cock.

My mates neighbour started parking his van outside my mates house instead of his own so he didn't block the light out of his living room.

This upset my mate so he parked his tractor complete with trailer outside the van owners house- he took the hint and now parks with more consideration.

Would that be "how did you manage to create a daughter in a godful way?"?