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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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CatHugger · 08/11/2025 13:56

ItsNeverNoReason · 08/11/2025 13:54

I nicely asked them to move it this morning so I could get out, which they did without and hassle.
so why not just ask them nicely to move again, why create the drama?

This morning I was leaving, so could park in the access road, find him and ask him to move. When I came back, I was on a busy main road with nowhere to stop without blocking traffic. And TBH, why should I and everyone else have to keep asking him to move? He shouldn't be parked there.

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ExitPursuedByABare · 08/11/2025 13:56

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Anewuser · 08/11/2025 13:56

3hairspastfreckle · 08/11/2025 13:54

Instead of blocking him, Id take it in turns to knock and ask him to move his van every time someone wanta to go out then in again. Really get the point across about how inconvenient his chosen parking place is.
Edit to add: take turns doing it every 20-30 mins until he gives up and parks elsewhere.
Where is house owners car? Could he park there

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Ooh, I like that.

Take it in turns, every 3-4 minutes. He’d eventually get the hint.

LizzyEm · 08/11/2025 13:55

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 13:47

One of the more dull parking “war” threads I have come across in a long time

Yes, it's hardly a war, is it 😂

3hairspastfreckle · 08/11/2025 13:54

Instead of blocking him, Id take it in turns to knock and ask him to move his van every time someone wanta to go out then in again. Really get the point across about how inconvenient his chosen parking place is.
Edit to add: take turns doing it every 20-30 mins until he gives up and parks elsewhere.
Where is house owners car? Could he park there

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CatHugger · 08/11/2025 13:54

TheatricalLife · 08/11/2025 13:50

I'd just go and speak to him properly personally rather than the long and convoluted route of WhatsApp messaging outrage, plans of how to piss them off, blocking in, hanging around waiting for drama to unfold🤷‍♀️
He's not going to be arsed you've blocked him in, he's at work.

I did go and speak to him nicely, let him know this was the access road to everyone's garages and asked him to move. He did, then came straight back again 🤷‍♀️

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ItsNeverNoReason · 08/11/2025 13:54

I nicely asked them to move it this morning so I could get out, which they did without and hassle.
so why not just ask them nicely to move again, why create the drama?

LizzyEm · 08/11/2025 13:53

BruceAndNosh · 08/11/2025 13:45

Van man has now been blocked into position A and will be quite happy to stay there until the end of his work day

😂😂😂👌

jetlag92 · 08/11/2025 13:51

Is it anything noisy? If so, they shouldn't be there anyway after 1pm.

Jzp · 08/11/2025 13:51

crackofdoom · 08/11/2025 13:26

Meh. I'm a tradesperson, and if I have to stop on some double yellows with my hazards on for 5 minutes, yeet my ladders into the property, drive off, park 20 minutes away and carry the rest of my stuff back down the hill to avoid inconveniencing people (looking at you Fowey and St Ives 👀) then I'll do so.

Men do this. Tradesmen. Because they're more important than everyone else, clearly. Every time there's a thread about women I the trades on here it's "Ooh ooh, I don't think you can do that, you're not as strong as a man". Well if men are so fucking physically superior they can carry their stuff from the nearest proper parking spot, can't they 🙄.

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?

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This….All of it, especially the football stuff.
meanwhile, I’m supposed to be cleaning all the upstairs of my house and now I’ve settled down for an afternoon of reading about a parking war.
its the drama Mick..I love it!!!

agent765 · 08/11/2025 13:50

If all the neighbours are being involved, can one of them close to the renovation house put their car in the garage so the van can be parked close by but out of the way?

Maybe a neighbour who doesn't use their car as much as others.

You never know when your own house (or other neighbours) will need work and will be in that position. Karma and all that.

TheatricalLife · 08/11/2025 13:50

I'd just go and speak to him properly personally rather than the long and convoluted route of WhatsApp messaging outrage, plans of how to piss them off, blocking in, hanging around waiting for drama to unfold🤷‍♀️
He's not going to be arsed you've blocked him in, he's at work.

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 13:49

CatHugger · 08/11/2025 12:56

The neighbours WhatsApp group has gotten involved. There is talk of someone moving their car to block the other end.

So everyone with a garage would be blocked then

no one has any Saturday afternoon plans that involve using their car on the entire street?

Delphiniumandlupins · 08/11/2025 13:49

BruceAndNosh · 08/11/2025 13:44

The owner of the renovation house needs to find a space in the road before van man arrives then vacate it for van man.

This seems the obvious solution.

Andsomemore · 08/11/2025 13:47

One of the more dull parking “war” threads I have come across in a long time

Misla · 08/11/2025 13:46

CatHugger · 08/11/2025 13:11

No, it's one we have with our immediate neighbours for putting the bins out, cat sitting etc. (there are many cats, not shown on the diagram though).

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(there are many cats, not shown on the diagram though)

Pls remedy this

BruceAndNosh · 08/11/2025 13:45

Van man has now been blocked into position A and will be quite happy to stay there until the end of his work day

BruceAndNosh · 08/11/2025 13:44

The owner of the renovation house needs to find a space in the road before van man arrives then vacate it for van man.

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CatHugger · 08/11/2025 13:40

I'm not blocking the neighbours in or out. The van is still there blocking everyone.

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ahoyshipmate · 08/11/2025 13:38

PegDope · 08/11/2025 12:35

Am here for the diagram

Was thinking about going out but will stay for a bit

EchoedSilence · 08/11/2025 13:37

So you thought you would be an arsehole because you wanted to create a parking thread on MN.

AlohaRose · 08/11/2025 13:36

OP, I think you are bored and just trying to create some parking wars drama here. If only your immediate neighbours are in the WhatsApp group, how are the owners of all 40 garages back there going to realise that it is your car which is blocking the entrance/exit? Or is it somehow okay for everyone else to have to do a 10 minute detour and access from some supposedly busy main road with a stiff gate?

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CatHugger · 08/11/2025 13:34

Getting out isn't really an issue. Getting in is. There's nowhere to stop, get out to find the van owner and wait for them to reverse out onto a main road. Unless a parking space is free, of course. People are coming and going all day so van man could park further away and then move closer if he wanted to be considerate. The main entrance to the access road isn't a parking space.

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Imisscoffee2021 · 08/11/2025 13:31

Looking at your diagram if there are cars parked outside the renovation house as back to back with just the gap in front of that access road to the garage theybare parked in, I don't see an issue. They have a job to do and are clearly aware of rhe ball ache of it all and access issues so are trying to get it done fast.

A van is a moveable object, as you experienced you asked and they happily moved it, it's mere minutes of slight inconvenience. The only actual blockage now is your car parked blocking that access road, while theirs is available to move anytime as they're in and out and aware that they need to move it. If they'd been arrogant arseholes who huffed and puffed about moving it then fair play, but seems a bit petty atm.

ThrowAway987654321 · 08/11/2025 13:29

Can't the van just reverse back?