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Gather in for real-time parking wars

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CatHugger · 08/11/2025 12:25

A house down the road is having some work done and the workmen have parked their van blocking the access road to 40-odd garages. I nicely asked them to move it this morning so I could get out, which they did without and hassle. I came back and they were there again! On-street parking is a nightmare and there were no other spaces so I've blocked them in. I'm several houses down and am in now until 2-ish. There is technically another exit but it's a right pain to get to, so they can try doing a 100-point turn if they like...

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Catwalking · 08/11/2025 16:33

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 16:28

Goodness, really?

very similar name to op!

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Yeah sorry, pure coincidence 😊.
afraid Cat can b short for Catherine 🤭

AnnoyedAsAllHeck · 08/11/2025 16:29

CatHugger · 08/11/2025 12:45

Here's the diagram.

LOVING the descriptions! The nasty metal sticky-out thing sounds particularly fun to navigate.

The garages on that back road are for the residents in the houses out front?
The driver is an idjit.

I just hope he cannot get you towed.

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 16:28

Catwalking · 08/11/2025 16:11

this is my fav thread ever 😻😻😻

Goodness, really?

very similar name to op!

Friendlygingercat · 08/11/2025 16:25

Love a thread about badly parked cars. A while back the bin men left my big green gardening bin 4 houses along. There was scarcely room to get it past because of three selfish drivers parked on the pavement. Anyone with a buggy or a wheelchair would have to have gone in the road to get around. It was dark and I had my keys in my hand ...

SassyCow · 08/11/2025 16:19

🍿

Catwalking · 08/11/2025 16:11

this is my fav thread ever 😻😻😻

raymanrules · 08/11/2025 16:06

And to find out what happens next 🤣🤣

Gather in for real-time parking wars
BlaBlaWhatever · 08/11/2025 15:45

@crackofdoom
not even talking about the appalling parking that occurs every time there's an amateur football match on the local playing field. If you're here for exercise why's it so difficult to park your car considerately and walk an extra 50 metres?

I feel your pain.... there is a sports hall at the end of our street and if you walk 100 yards through the alley you arrive at the main town car park with room for 500+ cars.... but no, if I have the misfortune to arrive home after 6 p.m. when keep fit starts I have to park right up at the top of the street instead of outside our house because all the keep-fit women have parked on our street rather than use the car park. Then I have to remember to go out and move the car down when they have pissed off home.
It was chaos this morning when I walked down in to town .... obviously some sports competition going on and cars were parked all over the pavements.... don't they realise that if one of them broke a leg the ambulance wouldn't be able to get through?!

LizzyEm · 08/11/2025 15:39

Andylion · 08/11/2025 15:29

I will now make every effort to fit "arseholio" into my vocabulary. Bonus points (to myself, yes, I am a sad creature) if I can use "arseholier than thou" somewhere.

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Ooh that's a good one.

Arseholio is from beavis and butthead I think, I can't take credit for it 😂

PuppyMonkey · 08/11/2025 15:30

Bad form starting a thread like this and then going out imho.

Andylion · 08/11/2025 15:29

LizzyEm · 08/11/2025 13:09

But why couldn't you just leave a note with your door number and move when asked?

Why be an arsehole about it? And rope others in to block the other end?

Pointless arseholio bollocks in my opinion.

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I will now make every effort to fit "arseholio" into my vocabulary. Bonus points (to myself, yes, I am a sad creature) if I can use "arseholier than thou" somewhere.

murasaki · 08/11/2025 15:26

The drawing is positively Lowry-esque, well done, OP.

GabriellaMontez · 08/11/2025 15:22

CatHugger · 08/11/2025 13:05

I could but I'm feeling like being an arse about it today. I told them nicely that it's the access road for all the house' garages and they clearly couldn't care less. It's a big renovation and I don't want this going on for weeks so making a point today to nip it in the bud.

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This is the right thing to do.

Otherwise you'll have to request permission every time you have to pop out for the next however long.

Id prefer to be thought badly of and be able to go out without asking.

NeverKnowinglyUnderstated · 08/11/2025 15:18

Tell me you're a petty busybody, op, without telling me you're a petty busybody.....

Christ, do people really think and live their lives like this nonsense?

CollaterlieSistersSister · 08/11/2025 15:16

I don’t think this thread has gone the way OP thought it would.

SlothMama14 · 08/11/2025 14:59

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 14:57

If a neighbour had asked this of me on a lovely Saturday afternoon, I’d have raised an eyebrow and ignored

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This is why I rather have someone lick my eyeballs than join our street WA group. Who has the time or inclination to engage in such petty nonsense?

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 14:57

ilucgaiaw · 08/11/2025 14:53

I'd have got people on the WhatsApp group to start driving out every 15 minutes or so. So parking behind the van, knocking, insisting he moves the van and then driving out wherever. Then if he parks again, the next one drives out or back in again or whatever. Until he moves the fucking van.

If a neighbour had asked this of me on a lovely Saturday afternoon, I’d have raised an eyebrow and ignored

IsThisTheWaytoSlamMyPillow · 08/11/2025 14:57

LizzyEm · 08/11/2025 12:58

They haven't done anything wrong as far as I can see? They move when asked. YOU have blocked THEM in.

Why wouldn't you just leave a note in your windscreen with your door number and move when asked instead of carrying on like an arsehole?

What if they need to move for someone to get out of their garage and they don't know which house your car belongs to?

Are you the builder 😅

Laserwho · 08/11/2025 14:55

I really hope the van has gone using the other exit and left OP blocking the exit looking like a total idiot.

ilucgaiaw · 08/11/2025 14:53

I'd have got people on the WhatsApp group to start driving out every 15 minutes or so. So parking behind the van, knocking, insisting he moves the van and then driving out wherever. Then if he parks again, the next one drives out or back in again or whatever. Until he moves the fucking van.

Pancakeflipper · 08/11/2025 14:48

I ❤️ @CatHugger

I am sooooo fucking fed up of inconsiderate parking.

Our neighbour's son is brining home the works van and for some reason thinks it should spend the night blocking our driveway and not his. Wanker.

I need updates on the van and location of all cats.

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400rider · 08/11/2025 14:46

“Are your builders parked over people's driveways, and would you consider that acceptable if it happened to you? It's perfectly possible for these workmen to do their job without blocking the road. They just CBA.”

They haven’t got much choice- they totally block myself and my immediate neighbour, but do not block anyones dropped kerb . They are trying to be as considerate as possible, even making sure they don’t block the road vision for the lollipop lady, after she asked them not to park on her side of the road at end of school. Not one neighbour has muttered a complaint and actually do ask how it’s going rather ‘how much longer?’

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 14:46

PsychoHotSauce · 08/11/2025 14:44

Use your eyes and your brain instead of troll hunting, especially about such a recent and sensitive topic. OP lives close to the dead end. Hardly anyone would drive that far down.

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Well it’s all about to fizzle out anyway

PsychoHotSauce · 08/11/2025 14:44

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 14:11

On your thread a couple of days ago, this access road is only used by 4 neighbours.

now 40?

Use your eyes and your brain instead of troll hunting, especially about such a recent and sensitive topic. OP lives close to the dead end. Hardly anyone would drive that far down.

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