[Closed] Share your tales of parking madness

Can I get in first with the no such thing as road tax comment !!!

I wrote that especially for you. 😆

In a slightly different vein the Father in Law was once featured in an article on the Top Ten Worst Parkers in Manchester in the MEN once. It was obviously a picture that someone had submitted of his car parked on the Metrolink tramlines in the city centre. Queue lots of comments from people saying they hoped his car was run into and smashed etc. What the person had failed to take into account was the barriers that had been put up (you could even see them in the distance) as the line was closed for repairs, hence why he was parked there whilst working on it.

Our next door neighbour also gets a bit funny about parking. He's generally a pretty nice chap but my god he's nosy. I once mentioned that I was looking at bigger cars to replace my Fiesta and he started panicking asking where I would park it, and did I really need a car any bigger. His face when I then bought a van AND kept my Fiesta was priceless. Its worth mentioning at this point that our drive is long enough for 4 cars at a push so its not as though it would be parked in front of his house or anything.

He also once reported a car to the police as abandoned when someone had the cheek to park it outside his house for 18hrs!

I fell for that hook line and sinker!

Where I used to live, a grumpy git used to put really sticky signs on your window (left loads of residue) if you parked on "his" road.
Every day he used to pull his car out of the garage, not drive anywhere and just park it outside his house then put it back in the garage at the end of the day. One day he went on his holidays, the car stayed in the garage and he got burgled. Stupid stupid stupid.

Friends of mine kept 2 motorbikes in their house and just rolled them in and out along the front path... But if anyone parked in front of the path, there wasn't really space to get them out. So they left a wreck in the road outside to prevent that. Makes sense to me, if it wasn't for the motorbikes they'd probably have had cars anyway.

I'm kind of blocked in just now, if that car's still there when I leave the office I think I'll ram it. You've got to be pretty brave to park that close to a car as covered in scratches and dents as mine is tbh

My house is opposite a very popular chip shop and gets very busy between 5 and 9pm and, more often than not, people park across our drive as they are 'only going to be a minute' which, when it's busy isn't the case.
As I spend a lot of time in the garden I'd noticed a serial offender in a posh big X5. I'd asked him a few times to not park across our drive as, at the time, we had a poorly baby and might have needed to get out quickly. He was very offish and just told me he'd park where he likes so, one day when he'd parked across the drive again I got a couple of mates from around the corner to come and park either side of him, within about 2 inches room front and back. Imagine his surprise when he came out of the chip shop to find his car very, very blocked in.
He knocked on the door to ask if I knew who the 2 cars were. "Yes I do" said I."Could you get them moved?" he asked. "Sorry, the owners have just popped out, they'll only be a minute" I replied...25mins later my mates came back to move the cars. He's never parked there since but gives me death stares...ooh, scary!!

Liverpool council, before decriminalising traffic parking laws, the city centre was patroled by yellow hated trafic wardens employed by the police, and ok they where, and council traffic wardens that looked after pay to park bays on the streets,

So for a week working at a charity fitting it out, i parked on double yellow lines, after explaining to the traffic warden yellow hat ,what i was there for and he said leave a note with my badge number on and ill tell the office.

Final day,couldnt get fully on yellow lines so parked partly on the pay to park bay , same road just a white line box, walked out 15 mins later and had a parking ticket from the council traafic enforcement officer, he said i was doing the council out of funds by parking in the bay,thats why i got the ticket,i appealed and got no sence i had deprived the council of a parking fee it appears.

Visiting a freinds mum with him, neighbour threw bread all over car, so the birds would peck at roof and bonnet, he did it once to often someone threw a bread bag with a brick in threw his front window when he was out.

Worked at a elderly customers house old terraced street, street empty till about 17.30, then started filling up ,started loading tools into van, woman parked right behind me, she refused tomobve back a bit so i moved forward to get tools in, went back in house and had a cuppa with elderley couple, 5 mins latter, horn going outside, then a loud banging at door, it was this demented woman demanding i move my van as i was 2 foot into her personal parking space, and that her dad, boyfreind and police where on the way to teach me a lesson.They never did arive.

Years ago I lived in Wells in Somerset .We have a night time carnival circuit and roads for miles around get blocked for hours .I hope the sod who parked across my drive for hours one year had a foot pump in the boot !

We live in a little pretty village in the south downs directly opposite the primary school and next door but one to the church. In the week we had mums constantly parking across our drive for the drop off/pick up and at the weekend the red sock brigade and the christians did much the same.

That was until a couple of moths ago when the hideous fat woman who parked across our drive every morning disgorged her kids from her fatmobile directly into the path of a car going past. They are pretty chubby too so bounced off reasonably well - just a broken arm and broken collar bone. Apparently she wobbled into the head's office demanding what was going to do about the 'nightmare' in front of the school. To paraphrase, the head told her that it was lazy people like her that were effectively the problem and within 7 days the road 50yds either side of our house was slavered in yellow school no parking paint and the chubsters have to park in a nice safe spot down the road and actually walk the rest of the way. Happy days ! (apart from the broken bones bit obvs!).

Fulking hell. (Don't think there's a school in Fulking though but I was very proud of the pun)

This thread is really funny and depressing all at once, axe murdering parked cars and running over the caretaker being highlights.

I have gotten pretty snotty when people have parked across the backyard when I used to keep my car there (or when they parked so close to back gate I couldn't get my bin out on bin day. But front street has always been a FFA and I couldn't give a monkeys, I refuse to get drawn in, really can't understand people who do.

One thing is for sure, next time I'm house hunting I'll be chatting to a neighbour or two to find out if they have "parking wars".

The nursery our littlest used to go to had to repeatedly send out letters asking for parents to park considerately, last one had a quite specific list of dos and don'ts including:
don't park behind people who are trying to reverse out of their space (this happened to my mrs, she didn't report it so presumably it's a regular occurrence)
Take care driving across the pavement outside (lots of local school kids use it)
Don't block the entrance/exit

WTF do people need this shit pointing out to them - repeatedly?

oh and my current bugbear is people double parking while waiting to pick up a mate when there is a parking spot or side road a couple of meters away. No it's ok I'll just sit here blocking the road instead.

As an aggressive teenager, someone took offence to me parking in "their" spot. they parked so that their car was touching my bumper, presumably so I'd have to knock on the door and get a blocking. The thing is, mk2 fiestas had steel bumpers, so I just shunted the crappy astra backwards and drove off with mr angry stood in the road waving his fist. With hindsight I could have been done for leaving the scene of an accident, but it was the 90s, I was probably stoned and it just seemed very clever at the time.

i shouldn't but LOL @ Covert, i like that story.

I have issues with people parking over my drive often when i'm arriving home late from work, so in good spirit i park millimeters close to their bumper. That's nothing though, my next door neighbour's drive is constantly used as a communal parking space!!

[i]Fulking hell.[/i]

Fulking Hill, earlier;

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I've every sympathy with people who use their drive and get blocked in or out of it by nobbers.

been blocked almost daily for months.
not suer if they do it on purpose to specifically p155 off residents, or just to avoid paying for a parking permit that will let them park anywhere around town with no hassles. mixed use building, residential, offices and shops, and it's the shop staff (mostly, but occasionally customers) that do the blocking. surely it must p155 them of too when 10 people come home from work at 6pm and they have to move the car 10 times?

edit: and it's me that has to park illegally or block another entrance to go in the shop to get them to move their car. again.

people are strange.

saying that, the last 2 weeks has been totally clear. maybe someone "has had a word" ?

was just at the stage of printing myself a load of "www.iparklikeaxxxx.com" (xxxx = see you next tuesday), and "can I have a parking ticket plaese" stickers, to stick on the cars daily.

I've every sympathy with people who use their drive and get blocked in or out of it by nobbers.

Oh how the other half live

PS neighbour often gets blocked in and it amuses me no end 😈

We have an issue of parents parking at our school as well - the school has no pavement, so the gate opens directly onto a (one way) road.
Parents regularly park on the zig-zags, double yellows etc, blocking the view of cars incoming (especially if you are 4' tall and cannot see past the hulking people carrier or 4x4).

This was being discussed at the parent teacher council, with the police being brought in, more signage and a pupil campaign to take pictures of the offending cars.

Cue one of the parent council suddenly speaking up and asking what was she meant to do, I mean, she had to drop one 9 year old off AND could have a sleeping baby... Will none of us think about the sleeping child being left in a car?

She was not impressed when I pointed out our 9 year old walks a mile to school each day by himself, so her 9 year old was more than capable of the 100m walk from the local car park to school....

*sigh*

at my kids school its a one way street They still try to drive down it on th emornign to get about 75 metres closer. its carnage and rarely clears before 9:15.
Numerous kids are late due to this and the parents blame the roads

People are very lazy arent they

She was not impressed when I pointed out our 9 year old walks a mile to school each day by himself, so her 9 year old was more than capable of the 100m walk from the local car park to school....

How could you leave a 9 year old child unattended for 100 metres? Don't you know there are pedos lurking around every corner these days?

(Sadly I think this ridiculous media-fuelled paranoid mentality is actually a big factor in kids being driven absolutely everywhere 🙁 )

haha

mine's a one way street too. impressive how many try to be clever and drive 50m the wrong way just to save driving round 3 sides of a 100m x 100m block.

and the best bit...

when I've essentially blocked them (cars parked both sides), apparently from their gesticulations, it's *MY* fault for not moving all the way across into a spare parallel parking bay to let them past. Next time I get out and use words, since here in Germany, the use of 5 knuckle shuffle gesticulations when driving can mean a visit from the Polizei.

lazy f*****s

Did people fight over where to tie their horses?

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(Sadly I think this ridiculous media-fuelled paranoid mentality is actually a big factor in kids being driven absolutely everywhere )

Years ago I used to go once a week to a kebab shop which had a particularly small, awkward car park and really, nowhere else nearby. I had a big old truck at the time but I always made a point of parking properly.

One evening I arrived there and the last space was quite badly encroached upon by a clio, someoene clearly couldn't be arsed to park in the bay correctly. So I very carefully reversed my Hilux into the adjacent bay, taking care to stay inside the parking space. Went in and placed my order. After a few minutes the fat Belfast hood who was also in the kebab shop left and I watched with great amusement as he walked over to his car slowly realising he would have to climb in through the passenger door.

He stood there for a second before storming back to the kebab shop and asking who owned the "jeep".
I asked if there was a problem to which he replied
"[i]Well look at the way you're fin parked mate! I can't go nowhere"[/i].
I pointed out to him that I was in the parking space, he wasn't.
[i]"How am I supposed to get in my car?"[/i] ....
should have maybe thought of that while you were parking, would you like me to move?
[i]"No mate, go * yourself. You're a dick. A total ****in dick.[/i]
Oh how I laughed in his face and nearly wet myself watching his fat ass wriggle into the driver seat of his car. Took him about 5 minutes.

Is that St James's in the background?

A neighbour has a parking space next to mine. However, the space next to his is unused, so he parks in the middle of these two parking spaces. One bloody cold winter's day, with 2-3 inches of snow on the ground I was out fixing the heater on my Landy. I *really* didn't want to be, but needs must.

He came out, and saw that the toes of one of my feet was over the line in *his* parking space as I laid out on my back under the car. He never said a word and I forgot about it till the next day when he had decided to teach me a lesson and stop me putting my foot in his space by parking his car as close as possible to the line as he could without being in my space. This was an idea full of fail because he parked with the driver's side next to me. I simply parked my car somewhat nearish the line and then took the tram to work for a few days. I came home one day to find that he must have climbed over from the passenger side to move his car back to the middle of the 2 spaces.

On the other side I had a nice couple in their mid 80's. One day I came home to find that they had parked in my space by accident ( the bays are numbered ). I wasn't going to worry about it, so parked in the one part of the car park that definitely wasn't anyone else's space and wasn't in the way of anyone - the next morning I found the soggy remains of a nasty note on my windscreen for parking outside of a bay.

Very recently in Bower rd,Bristol I parked on the road nicely settled between two driveways outside a pair of semi detached houses. Now I was quoting a job in an adjacent school but the owners of said houses assumed I was another typical builder (scaffolder) parking to use the café nearby. They had parked cars either side of me to within an inch.
My caddy was pretty strong when it came to "easing the restriction" 😆
Dunno what they thought the outcome would be..

[quote=Torminalis ]I pay my road tax

I actually had that the other day from a chap who I'd asked not to park on the pavement. I went and checked the windscreen and pointed out he didn't have pavement tax.

I live up the road from a Church. Parking is non existent, compounded by double yellows having been put in a wee while back (apparently, it's a bone of contention). During the summer i was off work and pottering about at home when it became apparent there was a bloke putting his car in the end of my long driveway and making to head to the Church. As I was going out I managed to intercept him and he said "I'm really late and there seemed to be space" - w.t.f. So he had parked in a driveway because he was late. I pointed out that really that wasn't going to happen.

What you need is a few teenage kids coming of driving age, they'll soon hack your neighbours off, do you want to borrow two?

There's a school sports field over the road from me that they share with the local kids football club. This means that on Saturday mornings, the on road spaces all get used up by parents watching their kids at training. That's OK, it's a FFA road and they're as entitled to the spaces as I am.

A few weeks ago, I got back from my Sat morning ride to find all the space taken. Wanting to offload the bike into the garage I just parked across my driveway, blocking my wife in temporarily. Some bloke sat in a nearby car (it was a cold drizzly day and presumably he couldn't be bothered to watch his kids, prefering to read the paper in his car) disembarked with the speed of a US soldier leaving a landing craft on Omaha beach and charged to wards me shouting OY! OY! at me. Before informing me in 'aggressive' terms that I couldn't park there as it was blocking a driveway. I think he was mildly embarrassed as i thanked him profusely for his concern before going into my house.

In fairness, as with many others above there have been plenty of times where parents do just abandon cars without giving a toss about who they inconvenience, and we have had cause in the past to mention it to the football club, who I know have passed it on in parents newsletters. I know this because a mate is the club secretary so mentioning it to the club means mentioning it to him. So I'm sure this parent was protecting the image of the club, in his eyes. But a less mild mannered individual than me might well have seen the need to bop him in the nose at the second or third OY!

damn. spoke too soon.

Shop staff blocking the legal parking space next to my entrance, with a car parked in it (probably one of their customers illegally parking in one of the office parking bays).

One of those fat Minis (bit like its owner I expect - obese), parked mostly across my entrance. I could just squeeze between obese Mini and bike rack bollard to get in, but would have to tell* them to move it to get out, since it's a one-way street.

Oh and yes, funnily enough there was a Black BMW that thought it would be fine to take a short cut. Someone else blocked him in 🙂

* I've gone well past the point of asking. If it's blocking my entrance, I go to the door and shout "Move that Mini/BMW/Audi!" an point (then usually do a w****er symbol for good luck every time I walk past their shop window).

jimjam and cranberry, that's very childish. And a great game! Double points if you can get 2 cars, one either side. It's one of the many benefits of having a van with decent mirrors for reversing and back doors you can get in and out. 😀

Terraced street in chester, builder had left a set of ladders to keep a space for roofer to put ladders from roadway against wall to access roof,woman driver reversed over ladders as we watched, wheels each side of the ladders.

Hmmm. Seems to be quite a few school, church, shops stories here.
We live opposite a church, with a row of several takeaways about 50m away (wahoo) on a pedestrian bit set back from the street, with a primary school just up the road, also about 50m away.

It gets pretty chaotic here at times, but doesn't really affect us as we both work. The school run parents are the worst offenders. Apparently letters were sent out but it all got a bit aggressive and a teacher was threatened with violence for asking someone to park more considerately....

Wonder if you could get away with an old double decker or double wheel base Luton right outside the windows (terrace row) blocking out the sun 😆

Once parked in a space up Falkirk town centre, some nosey gimp came up and told me off for parking in a disabled space. Pointed out that it was actually a loading bay and was also a Sunday so the parking was a free for all.

it all got a bit aggressive and a teacher was threatened with violence for asking someone to park more considerately....

All these people who are getting their drives parked in front of, are these gravelled over front garden setups where there MAY be some confusion or proper drives with dropped kerbs, little Posts and a garage at the end of it.

I cannot fathom parking across a drive. It does not compute. Road outside a house fair game but across a drive?? It's a drive! What's going through people's heads when they park over a drive?

tthew

jimjam and cranberry, that's very childish. And a great game! Double points if you can get 2 cars, one either side. It's one of the many benefits of having a van with decent mirrors for reversing and back doors you can get in and out.

Not big or clever, but bloody good craic 😀

I suppose this tale is parking madness.
The bloke opposite our shop does not meet the requirements of having a disabled badge. He runs, climbs ladders and carries heavy loads.
So I phoned the relevant authorities to report him obviously using someone else's badge.
The man on the phone said they couldn't take action as his disability may not be visible. Such as I asked? He might be blind was their answer.I gave up at that point.

No, in my case, there's clearly a garage with a roller door, and one space outside, plus one adjacent space. And opposite is a small private car park with key operated barrier. (edit: and that adjacent space has a very clear no parking sign indicating that illegal parkers will be towed - although that may not be legal here?)

that's in a one way street, with metered parking both sides, with obvious gaps where entrances to private parking are located.

they are not confused whatsoever. they do it because they are fat lazy freeloaders.

I live opposite a school, its busy for 10 minutes with drop offs, most people are fine. However there was a couple of incidents with a certain individual once which I personally got 'involved' with, which resulted in an undercover police car watching over the school run for a few days.

I've also had to go out when folk park opposite with radio or phone speakers on really loud whilst waiting for children doing after school classes, like you cant hear yourself eating your tea loud. Cars generally have private plates trying to make an actual word.

Lovely bloke further up was threatened by a dad after asking a weekend footballing boy to not knock the mud off his shoes all over the blokes drive.

Same lovely bloke further up was threatened by another football dad after asking him to not rip the mesh fence down to avoid walking 30 m round to a gate.

Football moms and dads often totally bloke the entrance to a bridleway I ride to the local trail on, my lock on ends have a few different colours of paint on them.

I cannot fathom parking across a drive. It does not compute. Road outside a house fair game but across a drive?? It's a drive! What's going through people's heads when they park over a drive?

It's a pretty simple offence of causing an obstruction. Whether or not the presence of a dropped kerb is necessary is another matter.

Football moms and dads often totally bloke the entrance to a bridleway

Example of a typo that should be a real verb, especially when it comes to football dads 🙂

It's a pretty simple offence of causing an obstruction.

Just had a quick look up and the highway code rule 243 says
[i]DO NOT stop or park:
...
in front of an entrance to a property[/i]
Which is an advisory rather than a 'must not'

Football moms and dads often totally bloke the entrance to a bridleway
Example of a typo that should be a real verb, especially when it comes to football dads

I also use the BW to walk my dog on so will often be carrying bags of dog shit, a certain thought has often crossed my mind...

Why does adding a dropped kerb (or sometimes just knocking down your front wall) suddenly change that?

[i]dropped kerb [/i]

Try getting one put in (legally), and you'll find out why it's different.

There's a church near my Mum that has a fair bit of crazy parking going on, obviously Catholic guilt syndrome doesn't kick in when you're in a car. Good Christians - bad parkers.

Our house backs on to a primary school, with all the usual parking carnage outside. Our street is approximately 200 yards to the school and always has plenty of space to park at nine and three o clock, I have never ever seen a single parent park up and drop a kid off or do the two minute walk to the school with their kids, they all, without exception, park as close as humanly possible to the entrance.

Serves the bourgeois scum right for stealing the land from the oppressed masses

Enjoy!
😕

I live opposite a school, its busy for 10 minutes with drop offs, most people are fine. However there was a couple of incidents

I have now started photographing the incidents and sending them to the head who is compiling them with other parents now doing the same and sending to the police.

Enjoy!

Good grief.

I have to congratulate our local pub. It's got a pretty decent sized carpark and they arranged with the nearby school to allow the parents to park there on the dropoff/pickup times rather than trying to shoehorn everyone into the madness of the school gates.

That video was truely special

several parents seem to think that the zigzags by the zebra crossing aren't there for pedestrian safety, rather the place exclusively reserved for them to park.

I have to congratulate our local pub. It's got a pretty decent sized carpark and they arranged with the nearby school to allow the parents to park there on the dropoff/pickup times rather than trying to shoehorn everyone into the madness of the school gates.

Exactly the same situation at my youngest's school, but no one uses it as it would require them to walk a couple of hundred yards to the school and back so everyone still tries to park as near as physically possible to the gates.

The bloke opposite our shop does not meet the requirements of having a disabled badge. He runs, climbs ladders and carries heavy loads.
So I phoned the relevant authorities to report him obviously using someone else's badge.

That's hardly a comprehensive understanding of the badge scheme requirements you've demonstrated there, and as the person you spoke to rightly said (albeit using an unfortunate example) doesn't prove that they are "obviously" using someone else's badge at all. Quite apart from which, I know someone who has no disability whatsoever and quite legitimately has a badge on account of a family member's disability (they are the primary carer).

Breatheasy - we have the same arrangement with the Indian restaurant in Dunblane - less than a 100m walk away, with one minor road to cross.

Apparently that is still not close enough for some parents, every flipping day...

[quote=breatheeasy dijo]I have to congratulate our local pub. It's got a pretty decent sized carpark and they arranged with the nearby school to allow the parents to park there on the dropoff/pickup times rather than trying to shoehorn everyone into the madness of the school gates.

Our local pub recently installed gates to *stop* people using the car parks following one child running in front of a moving car and being knocked over 🙁

[i]That video was truely special [/i]
There's a full feature length version of that somewhere on YT.

I too am astonished at the number of parents who park to drop and collect, on the large, yellow, zigzag lines outside a school.
I once politely pointed out to a parent that they were parked on lines placed where they were, to protect pedestrians, especially and [b]including their own children[/b].

I received a look of complete and utter mystery, which for me, said it all.

, I know someone who has no disability whatsoever and quite legitimately has a badge on account of a family member's disability (they are the primary carer).

Which is fair enough, but they shouldn't really be using it when they're out without the person they're caring for.

we live on a narrow one way terraced street, next to a footy ground and a train station 10 mins away
it can get a bit hectic
i was approached by the insane ('just call me dorris day, everyone else does') old lady on the street about petitioning the council to get parking restrictions put on the street as one guy fixes up cars- and apparently his son thinks hes a gangster and stares threateningly? and another guy occasianally fits stereos for his mates
she will often come out and harrass any builder whos unloading or stopping in the street for more than a few minutes
weve got 2 young kids and it can be a pain, but its not that bad, yet every time I saw her shed say how tough we had it with 2 littleuns, she got more manic every time i saw her 'have i wrtten to the council?', 'hes got even more cars now,' 'the other one swore at me and well he's a muslim bastard anyway' and so on. eventually i just told her i wasnt bothered and she shouldnt let it get to her
she looked at me with disgust and stormed off and has never spoken to me again 🙂

the funny thing is she is 1 of only 2 houses on the street that has its own drive way, with ample space for her Micra?!?

I got a laugh on a saturday morning.

I live at the bottom of a narrow road leading to a quarry, im right on the corner.

Im out in my garage working on something and a golf pulls up and parks between my drive and the road end- blocking most of the junction.

I come out the garage as i assume its a delivery or a visitor. And a well dressed mid 50s couple gets out.

Dont know them, they aint deliverying and they get their little dog out the boot, preparing to go walk.

I suggested they probably shouldnt park there and get it both barrels about how this pair of ****s pay their taxes etc etc. i point out that i dont care where they park and its nothing to do with laws or taxes etc , just out of consideration for my neighbours and other users of the road you have now just blocked. Get told to mind my own business.

Im in the garage and i hear a tractor turn up the road as they do to go to the quarry...followed by a crunch as the trailer takes off the wing mirror and leaves a scrape up the side.

Mr townie comes back an hour or so later and comes right up to my garage accusing me of knocking his wing mirror off. Knowing it was a john deere green scrape up his car i just said- how many green cars do you see in my drive. I did tell you not to park there and it wasnt for my benifit. He was livid. No sympathy for the tit didnt tell him what happened just said been busy working in here mate, maybe next time youll take friendly advice.

[i]Which is fair enough, but they shouldn't really be using it when they're out without the person they're caring for.[/i]

I believe the rules allow the carer to use the car and badge if they are on business for the disabled person to whom the badge was granted.

However, in my case, I could never tolerate parking in a disabled parking slot, whether on business for said disabled person or not. Cos I'm not disabled. Well, I'm not physically disabled, at least.

People are odd in where they think they can park aren't they? Was out on a late pootle around the local trails last Sunday, getting back to the house and I notice a muddy lady ramblist stood at the top of the hill that leads down to the parking behind our house. Private parking area, all off street, one space for each car, under each house - the benefits of living in a steep sided valley up North.
As I spin up to turn into the hill I notice she starts to get a bit ...fidigity as a car tears up the hill (50m long its barely a car width wide and about 1/4) and tries to conceal the 4 other ramblists inside it who are trying not to look guilty as they'd parked there for the day.
She didn't appreciate when I quipped "good thing you didn't get spotted parking illegally by someone who lives here" the response of "it's not fair" was cut short with "that you won't pay to park like every other visitor?".
Suffice to say she got in the car and they all stared at me as I waved bye bye. Funnily enough they could have parked FOR FREE in the front of my house on the road and I'd have given not a toss. Oh well.

Drives are often one space so basically you lose one public space to gain one private space or vice versa if someone parks across it.

*and yes I'm one of them
**atleast understandable if not defensible

Our current nursery also has parking issues, we're friends with the owner and one of the stipulations when they opened was having a car park setup round the back as the road is busy, double yellows and the side street is very narrow. We are one of the few families that actually use the car park when picking up kids, most of the other parents park wholly on the pavement right outside the front door or block the side road, it's a 30second walk ffs, a tiny proportion of the time it takes to pick your kids up (compared to going inside, finding them, finding out how their day went and then actually strapping them into the car)

That video was truely special

No sympathy for the tit didnt tell him what happened just said been busy working in here mate, maybe next time youll take friendly advice.

The really annoying thing about all that is he will likely continue to think that you smashed his wing mirror off and completely fail to learn his lesson or understand how any of it was his fault. 🙁

They have never been back . That was 4-5 months ago now.

If you park on the road outside my garden wall/hedge it is almost 100% impossible to J turn or reverse onto my drive due to the extreme narrowness of our cul de sac. Because of this my neighbour with two cars parks his car inconsideratly across his own drive and standing further out so it affects/blocks everyone on the end of the cul de sac. I guess its like a soft-bully to try and turn other neighbours against me by his actions saying 'look at him'. He knows its difficult/the design so does a silent protest.

I'm in the throws of planning for my drive to be widened which will half said parking space as well. Madness.

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This was just abandoned in a street near me one morning.
Was a cul de sac too so blocking people

Surely that ^ just rolled out of the space opposite?

Ok, here are a couple of my old ones. I used to dump the car where ever.

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Not sure what's worse, showing photo's of your dodgy parking or admitting you had a Puma.. 😉

Where I work we have block in bays. People are allowed to double park provided they leave their name and mobile number visible and move their car by 16:30.

On Monday i sued one of the blocked in bays. 1625 I'm ready to go home so walk out to my car. It's blocked in, no problem I'll wait 5 minutes. 1630 - no sign of the owner of the blocking car. I give her a call - voicemail. Back into my car to listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage. 1645 - give her another call - voicemail. 17:00 - the same. 17:15 the driver of the car next to me comes out and manages to get his car past the blocker. I then start a 100 point turn to get out in the middle of which she calls back. I told her that saying sorry didn't really make it better then as my commute takes 2 hours at rush hour left it and headed for home.

I could report her and get her banned from that carpark but I won't - karma,

Glad I scratched that itch 8)

[i]Parking up and blocking a drive[/i]
Now gets you a £30 fine and a shot at asking for your car back, after it's been towed!

I believe the rules allow the carer to use the car and badge if they are on business for the disabled person to whom the badge was granted.

You believe wrongly.