Dropping off DC1 at nursery today it was extremely busy - DC1 has been going to this nursery for almost 3 years and it's never been this busy.
The nursery is in a little business park where there are offices for building companies or other non-shop businesses. The yellow unit is a unit that does have customers visiting the site, probably around 2 an hour and they leave their parking spaces free for customers. There is a little private road that is in between the units and the parking spaces that loops round to the main A road.
The diagram shows a colour for the unit and a colour for each of the parking spaces, you can see that they are empty.
I am usually car 1 or 2 at the drop off but today because it was ridiculously busy I was car 5 (the blue car). I actually waited for a few minutes but none of the cars 1-4 were moving, two of them had people sat in the car on their phones (so i thought they might be about to drive off), we were about to be late so instead of waiting for slot 1 or 2 I quickly parked as car 5 and ran in to drop of DC1. This took maybe 2 minutes - just a drop and run.
When i came out a man had come out of the yellow unit and he started to shout at me about how i cant park in front of his unit and how it's a road and you cant park on a road. I said that I was sorry but there were no spaces free and I was only 2 minutes.
He pointed to some of the blue and orange free spaces and said i should have parked there. I asked if it would be better if i parked in one of the yellow spaces and he said no because they are private and I should park in one of the other units spaces. I said that they were private too and that there are no markings that prohibit parking where I parked.
I then quickly put DC2 in the car seat and drove off.
I'm not sure if this will happen again as its not happened in 3 years of parking here but WIBU to park there?
AIBU?
Parking thread - Genuinely not sure if IABU
Rhayader · 01/03/2017 10:52
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for your diagram, possibly the best I've seen to date.
And in my opinion YANBU; it sounds like today was an unusual situation and hopefully won't happen again soon. I agree with PP that you might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, and perhaps expect a comment in the next nursery newsletter. Does the Nursery give any advice on how to manage drop offs WRT the other businesses in the business park?
Excellent diagram 
. No advice really. I now know I will never be able to start a parking thread, the standard of diagrams is far too high.
Sod whatever you're asking about, that diagram??!
BEST PARKING DIAGRAM EVER
Nothing else to add
"Competitive parking diagrams" is going to be a thing now, isn't it!
YWNBU, he was being a knob.
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