Gather in for real-time parking wars

Imagine seeing your mum do this?

I mean, where to start….

Get the PCSOs involved. Better using them than blocking vehicles in on public highways.

Not rtft yet but just had to say I loved this diagram. Absolutely awesome 😂

Ditto.

I have a driveway with dropped kerb (installed by a previous owner with permission from the council) which goes into the parking bay which was there prior to the garage and driveway being added.

The parking bay extends in front of our terraced block of three. There's another longer terrace that goes at right angles to ours - no access to a road at all.

I've had issues in the past with people using the parking bay area right in front of my garage, blocking me out - a real problem when my disabled husband was still alive. It meant that I had to abandon my car in the middle of the road - thereby blocking people if someone was parked on the other side of the road - help DH into the house, sprint back to car and then drive around looking for a space.

My experience of this had made me less than sympathetic to folk who cause inconvenience for others.

The exception would be when people ask nicely or the one a few months ago when window installers who had blocked me out said that they would move as soon as they saw me. They were very polite and had windows etc to carry up to a terraced house off the side path, so I told them that it was fine - I parked elsewhere and told them I'd happily wait until they'd finished the job for the day.

Had they been arsey, I'd have done my damnedest to block them in.

100 point turn = very bad driver or very dramatic!

Hands down one of the most tragic and depressing posts I’ve read. How some people live their lives astounds me.

I asked for cats to be added - apologies - they already had been.

And that I LOVE the notion of a tortoise cam that allows neighbours to rescue said beastie when it manages to get itself tipped over! I love the mental image of its little legs waving slowly in the air whilst it awaits its rescuers 😂

I just needed to say a ‘hooray!’ For the marvellous diagrams!

Waiting for the AIBU about how long builders have taken cos they had to keep moving their van 🤦🏻‍♂️

Well they need to park somewhere surely. If they moved it before, just ask them to move it again.

It’s pathetic the whole street community being excited about ‘wars’ when you could just ask them to move. They’re just doing a job.

As long as you realise all your immediate neighbours are quietly seething at ten weeks of noise and disruption, although being British they'll never admit it.

Had he already moved by the time you left at 2.45?

And it wasnt a parking war. The van guy had no idea, he just used an exit. All that happened was op getting all huffy over nothing

The exit closest to the garages wasn't blocked. There's an exit right there. Most people would use the exit right next to the garages, OP was just being inconsiderate. She's already said the on street parking was full, where else was the van supposed to go? And like i said before the exit near the garages was useable, the van guy proved that.

Exactly
I imagine the van driver really gave this very little thought. Just unwrapped the chains and left. No biggie

I’m with you OP. Inconsiderate arseholes need to be inconvenienced as much as possible.

So you weren't blocked in. The van man exited perfectly fine using the other exit. Blocked in means no way out, when actually there was this whole time. Pointless post. A van would be bigger than your car yet van man used the other exit perfectly fine 🤣 check your driving skills

There’s something a bit…. Tragic about this post

We have stickers @CatHugger !!!
DC orders them off Etsy for me. They're about 7cm in diameter and circular and fit on a car's maker badge nicely. They say "I park like a knob/twat/c*t". I always start with the knob one if doing a vehicle in my neighbourhood and work upwards to c*t if they're a bit slow to get the idea that parking in our road (and blocking it) rather than on their own driveway two roads away isn't appreciated.
I'm disabled so use the drop off/pick up only area at our local supermarket a lot but it's always being used by the I'm only taking 5 minutes/getting lunch/getting fags/using the atm types who can't be arsed to use a proper parking space because it takes longer. So while I'm waiting for DP to collect me from shopping I sticker cars!
They never notice so I always wonder how long they drive around before they notice. DP has seen a few when stopped in traffic locally. This week I've stickered 3 vehicles including a Deliveroo moped parked at a jaunty angle in the middle of the pick up area at the supermarket about 6' from the actual motorcycle parking area.

Cheering you on OP for taking a stand! I live in a similar set up. The difference in mine is there are shops at the front, and houses at the back (one of which is mine) and our access road is blocked all the time by thoughtless arseholes nipping in to get something even though there are double yellows across the entrance. We don’t have any other entrance/exit we can use in these instances. The people taking issue with you on this thread and making it out it’s no big deal - if this was your set up I bet you wouldn’t be quick to judge the OP. Access roads should be kept clear at all times. They are not parking spots. I dread the day there is an emergency in one of the houses at the back of ours and the emergency services can’t get down the access road because Pete has popped in to the shops to pick up his 4 pack of Stella. One of my neighbours takes no shit if she can’t get in or out of the road. She sits on her horn until someone comes scurrying. If she can’t get in she will block the blocker and casually saunter off inside. You don’t mess with her!

Just partaken of this delightful thread.
Observations; you say your drawing skills do not extend to dogs, but I respectfully suggest they don't really extend to tortoises (looks like a VW Beetle) or rabbits (thought it was a butterfly!) either. The cats, though, are top notch. 👌

There are some argumentative cunts with stop watches on this thread.

If the nasty pointy metal thing is the heavy looking thing at the bottom of the wall, what's the thin sticky out thing that casts a shadow above it? Can't make it out. Or am I wrong and that's the sticky out metal thing? Confused.

I'd like the ongoing saga. Van man is definitely a pain in the buttocks. As @CatHugger says, he can just park like everyone else.

Cheering you on OP! Guessing there won't be any action today, being Sunday. An opportunity to practice drawing various pets, perhaps? Any neighbours with parrots, chickens, reptiles? 😂

So the driver was already gone when you went to move your car yesterday at 2.45pm?

Thanks OP - I have enjoyed this thread today - especially the bit about the tortoise cam ! I hope van driver(?VD- maybe not!) parks more considerately going forwards…but am not optimistic 😉