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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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FleeceNavidadfromtheSheep · 21/04/2022 22:49

Ooh, my dream is to own a pick up truck, beloved of site agents.

GoofyIsACow · 21/04/2022 22:48

Bravo OP… really, excellent thread all round!

BoredZelda · 21/04/2022 22:46

I’d be the layer of the tar because I love the smell. I also have the hard hat/hi vis/boots. And the licence to drive the truck.

MrsBungle · 21/04/2022 22:46

The diagram, updated diagram and photos really are A* 👏👏👏 I was about to put my phone down and go to sleep before I opened this thread and now I’m going to have to wait for fuck off woman’s return.

noodlezoodle · 21/04/2022 22:45

OP I think @mnhq need to give you an award. Not only do you have the maiden parking thread on the new site, but it's an absolute cracker - 'Fuck Off' women, towing, boss dog, baby steps measuring man, plague pit and lung potion. Thank you for this outstanding public service.

Also in case anyone is in a similar warm wine predicament, you can wrap the bottle in a wet paper towel and stick it in the freezer - decently chilled in ten minutes.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 21/04/2022 22:44

Or it could be a shallow grave
Lets not let common sense and raised ironworks get in the way here .
Shallow grave all the way !

a1poshpaws · 21/04/2022 22:43

Fuck Off's car lifted! I can go to bed happy now!

amusedbush · 21/04/2022 22:42

I thought I was invisible in the dark but NAY because my phone doth shine up at my face making me look like a road resurfacing obsessed ghost.

I lol'd Grin

I also have a dog with his own bedroom. What's worse is he's a little 7kg loaf and his room is bigger than mine! He quickly claimed the spare room when we moved in to this house and now he's a complete diva; as soon as the clock strikes 10pm, he whines at me until I put him to bed with fresh water and a snack. He has a box of toys in there and a full sized human bed, complete with his own special bedding with bumblebees on it Hmm

FleeceNavidadfromtheSheep · 21/04/2022 22:39

Little hard to see in the photo but they may be raising the ironwork on a manhole - so it will be at the same level of the new rod surface. Or it could be a shallow grave Wink

SlatsandFlaps · 21/04/2022 22:38

@WhereWasThatFrom You do realise it's not Friday night, don't you!?! 😆

SnottyLottie · 21/04/2022 22:38

God, I’m so dense, I actually googled St. Evanege thinking it was a real place. Google corrected it and it still took me a good minute to figure it out 😆

Booklover3 · 21/04/2022 22:34

Serves fuck off woman right really!

Fulmine · 21/04/2022 22:34

You realise you are going to have to stay up till the small hours to report on reactions of drivers when they come back to collect their cars? Especially the Fuck Off women.

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DailyMaui · 21/04/2022 22:33

Ok this lot are way down a hole after their “planing.”

Have they found a body? I only say this as I dug out a massive hole for a trampoline in my back garden and the number of bones I found…. I kept digging and waiting for the skull, which thankfully never came. I did however find what some doctor friend drunkenly said “may” have been a child’s femur, a China doll’s leg, lots of rotted fabric and an intact bottle with the words “lung tonic” down the side.

A road near me was called “dead street” as everyone died of the plague there back in the day. They sadly changed the name to something more salubrious and there are known to be plague pits around:

Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁
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Springbunbun · 21/04/2022 22:30

Love that the car got towed 😂

RB68 · 21/04/2022 22:29

I reckon baby pins man has either lost his roller measurer or been demoted for improper use of said measurer

Sandra2010 · 21/04/2022 22:29

I want to be the one who leans on a shovel offering wise advice.

FleeceNavidadfromtheSheep · 21/04/2022 22:28

And for all you local council tax payers, it'll be costing around £100-£150 for each towed vehicle.

TulipsHere · 21/04/2022 22:26

Using own feet!

Wehadabetamax · 21/04/2022 22:26

2018SoFarSoGreat · 21/04/2022 22:22

Loving this thread, thank you kindly, OP, but while we all wait for FUCK OFF WOMEN I need to ask: how the heck do you refresh on this new fresh hell that is MN? I cannot see a refresh button, so have resorted to all sorts of shenanigans including getting out, going elsewhere, coming back in. Tis tedious to say the least. Any advice welcomed.

I just use the refresh button on my browser (chrome) or pull down on my phone. I've always done this, I didn't even know MN had it's own refresh button before.

TulipsHere · 21/04/2022 22:25

@DailyMaui

Ok I’m very interested to hear more.

Me and the more “fragile” teen have been discussing what job we’d like to do in road resurfacing:
digger who clears the road of debris
digger who receives debris (why a digger?)
scraper
driver of lorry who collects the scraper’s scrapings
buffer
people with spades
person with wheelie measuring thing
person with mad long extension cable
the fat controller (there really is one)
tow wynch driver.
tar dropper person
roller person

I’d quite like roller person.

You forgot measurer of road using own feet!
Cotherstone · 21/04/2022 22:24

DailyMaui · 21/04/2022 22:22

I reckon you could hear them from St Evenage…

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How funny! We’re on a street T H S right in town!

RagzRebooted · 21/04/2022 22:24

Cluckycluck · 21/04/2022 22:18

I'd go roller or wheelie measurer. I used to love those wheelie measurer things at school.

Ooh yes, those were great. Imagine having a job where you get to legitimately use one!

Fab thread OP, very excited for you!

FleeceNavidadfromtheSheep · 21/04/2022 22:23

Proffers thanks and technical advice* - the 'scraping' is called planing, as in 'plane and resurface' aka PRS.

*I look after the money, but I do have my own hi-vis jacket and trousers and hard hat and steel toe cap boots just in case

BlackeyedSusan · 21/04/2022 22:23

Fat Controller. [bossy]