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Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁

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DailyMaui · 21/04/2022 19:50

So they have closed the road I live on to resurface it. It will be closed for the next two nights. We’ve had multiple letters from the council, there have been signs up for at least a month and yesterday they painted NO PARKING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY all over the road.

8 cars are still parked there with 15 minutes to go until resurfacing begins. One of the cars is right outside my house and when I saw them out the window, I tried to explain to the two women (looking like they were off for an evening in town) that they were probably not going to be able to get their car until morning but they told me to fuck off!

The road is lorry central, a guy is taking pictures of the remaining cars… it’s all go here.

Anyone know what they do? Do they just resurface round the cars? Tow them away? Do they get brutal? There’s a fair few annoyed looking men in hi-vis walking up and down! Should I get wine and a comfy viewing position?

😉

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DinosaursEatMan · 22/04/2022 20:36

DH has just come in and enquired about the lack of dinner preparations, have spent a happy five minutes explaining fuck off car and we are now enjoying vodka and crisps. Great start to the weekend.

IDontDrinkTea · 22/04/2022 20:36

Is it mean I can’t stop giggling at the idea of people coming back to their car and it’s just… gone 😂 Like do they leave a post it note or something behind to say where it’s gone to?!

PriamFarrl · 22/04/2022 20:36

Is there a near by MNer who can run up to the parked cars and wave while OP takes pictures?

ScrambledSmegs · 22/04/2022 20:35

I think Roger posted his message with 20 minutes in the full knowledge that no one would heed him but he'd still look like a good citizen.

Well played Roger. Well played.

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DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 20:34

Nocutenamesleft · 22/04/2022 20:25

If you’re lying and there was no street called wibbly wobbly. I will come find you. Understand?!?

if it is true. Fucking a class!!!!! Wibbly wobbly street and blubber road

you could name a whole estate off of wobbly body parts!!!

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oh it is real all right - look at the fucking MESS they made by renaming it.

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 22/04/2022 20:34

Ooh, this reminds me of being at university and my flatmates and I sitting in the window all day watching big furniture being winched up and into a flat opposite through the window.

We cooked in shifts so could run back if something exciting happened!

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DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 20:31

Second car GONE

no one has been listening to Riger on Facebook have they?

this one’s alarm is going off non stop

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
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HippoRaine · 22/04/2022 20:30

Your diagrams make me so so happy OP. I bloody love a trundle wheel

CorsicaDreaming · 22/04/2022 20:30

Take care @JeffThePilot - Covid is officially an absolute arse.

Nocutenamesleft · 22/04/2022 20:30

DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 15:16

Yes. Terrible.

At least Wobbly Bottom Farm is still there and hasn't been renamed something like "Goats So Simple" Cheese haven.

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Oh my god

wobbly bottom farm

thats it. I’m buying a house there!

Nocutenamesleft · 22/04/2022 20:27

Joke. Obviously wouldn’t come find you

but the dog the size of a donkey sounds like the best! Plus gin and tonic? Do you need said friend to come and help the salacious gossip!?
we could make tea for the builders and get first hand gossip?!?!

Nocutenamesleft · 22/04/2022 20:25

DailyMaui · 21/04/2022 23:23

They changed Dead Street. They changed Wibbly Wobbly Lane. They have no soul. None.

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If you’re lying and there was no street called wibbly wobbly. I will come find you. Understand?!?

if it is true. Fucking a class!!!!! Wibbly wobbly street and blubber road

you could name a whole estate off of wobbly body parts!!!

CorsicaDreaming · 22/04/2022 20:24

DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 19:39

less than twenty minutes to go and eleven cars (that I can see) are parked on the side of the road that HAS NOT BEEN DONE YET.

Also my brother is here. Which is like an echo of another parking thread. Except he's not single and looks like he'd mug you.

I bet your brother's loving you right now 🤣

PinkBackpack · 22/04/2022 20:21

DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 20:17

First car GONE

someone needs to update roger.

Auntypine · 22/04/2022 20:20

The happy hi-vis man with the trundle wheel in your diagram is just glorious.

Anxietyepisodein321 · 22/04/2022 20:20

Can you go for a walk and see if you can spot the car on another street so then we know if FYW's car is in the impound or not? There's so many of the locals on this thread you could have a giant game of car hide and seek 😅

BruceAndNosh · 22/04/2022 20:19

DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 20:17

First car GONE

I think you mean First car FUCKED OFF

BruceAndNosh · 22/04/2022 20:18

For Fucks sake @MNHQ.
Couldn't you have sorted the tiny weeny image problem by tonight.
The OP has done a stellar colour coded diagram.and it's the size of a postage stamp.

Stravaig · 22/04/2022 20:18

I'm a little worried by how happy your parking diagrams make me 🤣

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DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 20:17

First car GONE

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
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Anxietyepisodein321 · 22/04/2022 20:17

Excellent diagram, OP!

NavaniKholinRocks · 22/04/2022 20:16

PreVerbalGerbil · 22/04/2022 17:40

I heard a rumour that wobbly bottom has upped sticks too. Most unimpressed, tho my backside would probs be less wobbly without their pesto cheese!

The proliferation of locals on this thread is fab, a viper trail around town sounds great. Sadly I am in the less cultured side, though our local shop is near ducks and is by far the most superior in H town!

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I heard that the cheese maker owners had sold up and moved to Wales. Although happily they intend to still make their cheese even if it’s not local anymore. No idea on whether the new owners will make cheese…

also loving the proportion of locals on this thread! I always felt like this was quite a mumsnetty-town 😄

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DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 20:10

All opposite my house: there are more on the rest of the road but it’s long and curved so I cannot see them without leaving the house. Which I did to check but only that.

here’s the man taking pics of the cars …

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
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JeffThePilot · 22/04/2022 20:09

I was all set to pour a glass of wine and settle in tonight, but Covid has hit me with a vengeance. So, Night Nurse and a bag of wotsits it is. Waiting for the update 😊

PinkBackpack · 22/04/2022 20:08

@DailyMaui are they opposite your house again? or does puppy need a walk?