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A parking thread, sort of.

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sashh · 26/09/2023 03:38

So I don't sleep well, I'm often awake in the early ours and I come on here.

Because of where my computer is, I face the road, which is actually a quiet cul-de-sac.

For about a week now a car has come down the road at about 1 am and parks in the turning space and then the driver walks off.

later it disappears.

Yesterday, mid morning, a woman walked down the road and drove it off.

The car is taxed and has an MOT.

So wise and amusing women of MN please what do you think is happening?

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NOTANUM · 26/09/2023 03:43

Same driver dropping and collecting?

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sashh · 26/09/2023 03:45

Nope, different. Well I've only seen it collected once, that was a woman, the person parking is male (the time I saw him).

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NOTANUM · 26/09/2023 03:47

Okay - can I have two guesses? (I can’t sleep!)

  • couple who do shifts and don’t want to use their driveway to wake the other/neighbours
  • care workers who use a pool car.

I’m curious so please find out for me! 😉

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sashh · 26/09/2023 04:02

Yeah I wondered about shift work, I was hoping for some spy conspiracy. Not sure how I can find out without looking like a complete nutter.

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Flatandhappy · 26/09/2023 04:06

Gosh I just have a bad mind, my first thought was some kind of drug delivery! Car sharing makes much more sense.

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sashh · 26/09/2023 04:16

Drug delivery?

It's not to us (neighbours) we all have health conditions and get deliveries from the same pharmacy, none of us need anything illegal.

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GwenniMcKinney · 26/09/2023 04:42

Where does the driver walk off to?, did the women come from the same direction the man walked towards?

Flatandhappy · 26/09/2023 04:43

I’ve obviously watched too many of those films where someone leaves something dodgy in a locker and it’s collected by someone else 😂

WaltzingWaters · 26/09/2023 04:46

Flatandhappy · 26/09/2023 04:06

Gosh I just have a bad mind, my first thought was some kind of drug delivery! Car sharing makes much more sense.

That was my thought too!

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sashh · 26/09/2023 05:36

GwenniMcKinney · 26/09/2023 04:42

Where does the driver walk off to?, did the women come from the same direction the man walked towards?

Yes the same direction, but it is a cul-de-sac so if they didn't they would have to go through someone's house.

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Famdram · 26/09/2023 05:49

Is the parking bad around your way, especially late night, as that would point even more to shift work/car pool? Almost impossible finding parking in a busy area when everyone else is in bed so unlikely to move.

OrderOfTheKookaburra · 26/09/2023 05:57

They both love the car, and although have now broken up, they have joint custody it the car.....

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sashh · 26/09/2023 06:22

Parking isn't that bad, not everyone around here has a car and most that do have a drive or have converted their front garden to a parking space.

@OrderOfTheKookaburra That's a possibility.

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sashh · 26/09/2023 10:15

OK the plot thickens.

The woman came back for the car a few mins ago and had a conversation with the relative of one of my neighbours, so it's possible she is part of that family.

BUT the neighbour the relative is visiting has a drive but no car, so why didn't they park on the drive.

Boy I have to get a life.

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NOTANUM · 26/09/2023 14:55

Can you ask your neighbour?

ChalkMyDrive · 26/09/2023 15:02

I'll tell you why someone kept parking outside my parents' house and then walking away from the car. Because they were banned from driving due to drink driving so their neighbours saw this chap was walking when going to work, I assume they thought he was getting a bus or a train whereas he was just collecting his car from outside my parents' house!

It came out one night at the pub when someone pointed him out and said he has lost his license for drink driving and a neighbour on our street recognised him and dobbed him into the police. My parents were questioned about it by the police. 1980s. No local facebook back then asking whose car is this?

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sashh · 27/09/2023 01:18

@NOTANUM Not really she's 95 and doesn't answer the door, she has carers several times a day.

The car is there at the moment, I think it is her family which is fine, they are lovely people.

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