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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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ScrambledSmegs · 22/04/2022 13:54

This thread is actually better than the time the truck carrying the portakabin got stuck on the bridge down my road. Hours it was there, bloody hours.

<happy sigh>

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 22/04/2022 13:53

@viques
If my experience living there is anything to go by
.....

St Evenage is the patron Saint of dodgy tradesmen and coke heads do that could actually fit really well tbh. Grin

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 22/04/2022 13:49

NoisyBrain · 22/04/2022 13:45

@RozHuntleysLeftHand I think I might live very close to you. I remember wondering why they'd left some bits half done!

Poets corner??

The one beginning with C?

NoisyBrain · 22/04/2022 13:45

@RozHuntleysLeftHand I think I might live very close to you. I remember wondering why they'd left some bits half done!

pussycatlickinglollyices · 22/04/2022 13:44

BruceAndNosh · 22/04/2022 13:38

St Retford is the patron saint of football and cricket fans.
St Reatham is the patron saint of upwardly mobile Millennials

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St Oke is the patron saint of Ducks and Pottery.🦆Brew

knittingaddict · 22/04/2022 13:44

I think we're all dizzy with excitement because there's finally a thread which is 100% true. Can hardly believe that I get to put my cynicism away for a whole 16 pages.

Campervangirl · 22/04/2022 13:43

@DailyMaui
Best thread ever!
Love that your dog thinks it has its own room 😂

BruceAndNosh · 22/04/2022 13:38

viques · 22/04/2022 12:16

I wonder what St Evenage is the patron saint of? Judging by some of the posts on here I reckon she is the patron saint of measuring things accurately and cutting once. She was probably martyred by being hit on the head too many times by a very low wall cupboard that her builder told her was a perfect height for a woman to reach.

St Retford is the patron saint of football and cricket fans.
St Reatham is the patron saint of upwardly mobile Millennials

CrowAndArrow · 22/04/2022 13:37

Perfect thread ! Was round your way last weekend. Jimmy Carr.

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DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 13:36

When the possible dead child’s bone reappeared the other day I tossed it into the undergrowth. Do I?

get the bone and take a picture
bury the bone again
leave the bone where it is
get the garden blessed/exorcised just in case, you never know…

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DailyMaui · 22/04/2022 13:31

pussycatlickinglollyices · 22/04/2022 13:11

Maybe FUCKING SEAN works for MN now...?🤔😹

No have NO idea how funny this is to me
😂😂😂

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RozHuntleysLeftHand · 22/04/2022 13:23

Vipers of H unite!!

We had our cul de sac done last year and the did half of it then fucked off and left it for ages.
At least yours is getting done quickly!

TimBoothseyes · 22/04/2022 13:21

pussycatlickinglollyices · 22/04/2022 13:11

Maybe FUCKING SEAN works for MN now...?🤔😹

More likely Fuck Off lady does. 🤔

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 22/04/2022 13:20

Saints be praised its back!!

I'm child free tonight was planning on settling in with vodka and nachos and enjoying the hedgehog love and parking drama!
<Over invested>

Terfydactyl · 22/04/2022 13:19

NothingIsWrong · 22/04/2022 10:16

I did a summer as a chain man (although I am a lady), setting out on building sites and I tell you back then (25 years ago) it's a wonder anything was ever built where it was supposed to be. These days it's all done with computerised kit for getting it millimetre perfect, and honestly some of it is very impressive.

I moved a whole building once with a crane and the new foundations were perfect, exactly where they were supposed to be to pick up the feet of the building being moved (prefab type on little feet, like a portakbin but BIGGER).

I'd like to agree, but a huuuuge machine has been moved from one building to another, (took three flat bed trucks) in its component parts, and despite a computer, a cutout to size and some very brainy people in charge, when finally put back together the business end was outside.

Then I went on holiday so I dont know if it's still partly outside. I mean the weather's been good and it's a company known to be lackadaisical.
The workers were filled with mirth though. It really was funny.
Allegedly the cutout hadnt been fully unfolded.

Skinterior · 22/04/2022 13:14

This sort of thing?

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
Mochudubh · 22/04/2022 13:14

This. 60 inches for £6.99.

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
SophieSoSo · 22/04/2022 13:12

pussycatlickinglollyices · 22/04/2022 13:11

Maybe FUCKING SEAN works for MN now...?🤔😹

😂😂

Neilsfavouritechilli · 22/04/2022 13:12

Woo hoo we're back!!!

pussycatlickinglollyices · 22/04/2022 13:11

Maybe FUCKING SEAN works for MN now...?🤔😹

Mochudubh · 22/04/2022 13:11

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 22/04/2022 12:38

Soft toy viper is actually genius!

Or one of those 3 foot (or 1m) rubber snake things. I saw them in Home Bargains the other day for about 60 shillings.

PinkBackpack · 22/04/2022 13:10

Hmm. I don't have a soft toy viper. Let me have a think what I could get away with as its not always me on the till.

Comefromaway · 22/04/2022 13:09

Yay!!!!

PriamFarrl · 22/04/2022 13:09

Saints be praised, it’s back.

TeenPlusCat · 22/04/2022 13:08

Yea - it's back!

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