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I 'Larded' an Audi....

103 replies

Brevilletron1 · 03/04/2024 22:45

And I have zero regrets.

A few days ago a mysterious car appeared and deposited itself across the verge/service road directly opposite both mine and my neighbours driveway exits.

Both exits are single car widths with concrete posts and brick walls.

This car being there removed half the width of the service road and meant a good deal of careful manoeuvring to avoid damaging anything.

We asked around the neighbours. Nobody knew anything about it.

We left a note advising of the difficulty parking there created for both houses.

Note was removed at some point.
Car remained for many hours.

DH (first time I've used that acronym since we ran off to Gretna on the 23rd December last year and told the family via video call from the safety and security of the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Day 😁)

was about to lose his temper and do something daft like letting the tyres down that surely would just make them hang around even longer

I may have been pre-menstrual/menopausal but I just got so fucking fed up with the damn inconvenience of a 365 point turn if someone else had parked legitimately on the road that I lost it.

I grabbed the lard from the fridge and walked round this Audi leaving a single thick line along the back windscreen along to the front and finished with a cock and balls on the front windscreen.

Then I went back in the house and waited.

Few hours later the door bangs so I answer it with my best resting bitch face and a "YES?"
( I kept DH out of the way as my nuclear option if I needed him) I'm probably more scary just without makeup and after a night shift.

A 30 something scruffy-looking oik in tracksuit busy talking on his phone to someone else stood there.

"Why you putting fucking shit on my car?"
I know it was you cos there was a shitty note on it"

So my brain confirmed that he HAD read the note and yet STILL continued to park there.

I told him to wipe it off and slammed my door.

I needed to go out about 5 minutes later and he was still parked there and as I got in my car and started reversing slowly he desperately screeches his car to completely block me in.

No problem, I've got time. I switch the engine off and turn my audio book up loud so it's blasting through the speakers and put my chair back and feet on the dash.

He lasts one minute thirty seconds before he drives off.

He hasn't been back.

I didn't break the law. I didn't damage his car.
I just caused him some inconvenience. Hopefully he will realise after several car washes...

Cos lard smears like an absolute fucker.

I just wanted to admit to it in secret.

I 'Larded' an Audi....
OP posts:
OutOfTheHouse · 04/04/2024 07:09

goldenretrievermum5 · 03/04/2024 22:51

Very much so. The level of immaturity on MN is crazy at the minute. Slightly understandable if it was blocking your driveway, not sitting on public property for goodness sake

Possibly a bit jealous of said Audi, OP?

I’m not going to pretend that that OP was acting like a grown up,here but why is it that whenever someone who owns a thing that has a tiny bit of status attached to it does something dickish other people cry jealousy?

Toogles · 04/04/2024 07:15

Why would anyone be jealous of an audi?

VestibuleVirgin · 04/04/2024 07:41

SiobhanSharpe · 03/04/2024 23:11

I drive an Audi and I heartily applaud your action OP. He deserved it.
And I always have lard in the fridge, it lasts forever and makes feather-light pastry.

I have to respectfully disagree; used some old lard to make pastry recently.
The smell that filled the kitchen was 🤢!
It's wonderful stuff, for both for cooking and car vandalism, but it doesn't last forever!

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namechange1986 · 04/04/2024 09:17

I just don't understand the hysteria. Confused

If the car was there for a few days then it's very frustrating. Your story sounds like it was there for several HOURS?

Weird as fuck overreaction.

RoseMoose · 04/04/2024 09:26

What an immature and nasty person you are.
Absolutely pathetic.

Sunquest · 04/04/2024 09:29

And everyone stood up and clapped.

Priminister · 04/04/2024 09:32

Sunquest · 04/04/2024 09:29

And everyone stood up and clapped.

Honestly, some of the self-congratulatory posts on this site, begging for backslaps for engaging in petty behaviour in the hope of getting nominated for classics.

Utterly embarrassing.

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 04/04/2024 09:37

As someone who gets blocked in every single day, with people “I’m just going to be a minute”
I am in awe.

I get blocked in, I get blocked out. It’s rage inducing that people think it’s ok.

my favourite story is the time someone was sat in my driveway. They were there for about 20 mins looking at their phone so I put my shoes on. Unlocked the car, the lights come on so that should have been their cue to leave.
car owner didn’t move
get in the car, start it up.
car owner didn’t move
i drive at them
nothing, still staring at their phone.
lightly beep them

they shit themselves. And are all sorry waves and move

I just reverse back into my spot.

seriously, why sit in someone’s drive. Why block a drive. I just don’t get it. They are always sorry when I ask them to move. Yet virtually every hour someone does it.

crackofdoom · 04/04/2024 09:38

The four cock rings.

Madam, I salute you and your lard.

Soubriquet · 04/04/2024 09:40

Definitely not recommended here but we got blocked in once. Dh went out and said we needed the driveway clear and got a load of verbal abuse. He did the typical “come at me bro” body moment too. So dh held up one finger, went into the house and came out with a baseball bat.

The twat deflated and moved his car

namechange1986 · 04/04/2024 09:43

She wasn't blocked in! It was awkward but she could get out. That is absolutely not the same as a car parked which stops you leaving.

Honestly cannot believe people are finding this funny. You can't resort to vandalism because you have to do a few extra turns on your way out.

VenusClapTrap · 04/04/2024 09:44

I’m normally very reasonable and mature, but selfish parking (and dog poo bags) turn me in a petty raging monster, so I applaud you op. I’ve never gone beyond the quiet seethe.

Dearg · 04/04/2024 09:47

HellonHeels · 03/04/2024 23:21

The BMW is Old Skool Twat. Audi is Nouveau Twat 😂

I can get with this. As a BMW driver.

WarriorN · 04/04/2024 09:48

For some reason I thought this was about larding the tyres and pushing it off somehow ....

Never heard of it but don't blame you!

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 04/04/2024 09:50

Brilliant, OP. I enjoyed that. I love your turn of phrase and I'm impressed that you resolved the situation without resorting to e.g. letting tyres down. Good work!

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 04/04/2024 10:45

namechange1986 · 04/04/2024 09:43

She wasn't blocked in! It was awkward but she could get out. That is absolutely not the same as a car parked which stops you leaving.

Honestly cannot believe people are finding this funny. You can't resort to vandalism because you have to do a few extra turns on your way out.

I can believe it, it's pathetic. If you can manoeuvre out then you're not blocked in. I get that it's a bit inconvenient but it didn't warrant this.

What if that driver escalates this? Stupid and dangerous.

user1497787065 · 04/04/2024 10:52

Not the point I know but lard is an essential for Yorkshire pudding tins.

CamoPenguin · 04/04/2024 11:33

Sunquest · 04/04/2024 09:29

And everyone stood up and clapped.

The neighbours were out cheering with their pots and pans, a la lockdown. 😁

CormorantStrikesBack · 04/04/2024 11:37

Priminister · 04/04/2024 09:32

Honestly, some of the self-congratulatory posts on this site, begging for backslaps for engaging in petty behaviour in the hope of getting nominated for classics.

Utterly embarrassing.

I thought they were being sarcastic 🤷‍♀️. I might be wrong!

Sunquest · 04/04/2024 11:38

You were not wrong.

Pedallleur · 04/04/2024 11:42

goldenretrievermum5 · 03/04/2024 22:51

Very much so. The level of immaturity on MN is crazy at the minute. Slightly understandable if it was blocking your driveway, not sitting on public property for goodness sake

Possibly a bit jealous of said Audi, OP?

bet it was a black A3, 10 years old, smelling of weed.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 04/04/2024 11:43

user1497787065 · 04/04/2024 10:52

Not the point I know but lard is an essential for Yorkshire pudding tins.

You might not like Audis but that is quite harsh... Grin

RainbowZebraWarrior · 04/04/2024 11:43

This is v, v weird. Especially the chair back and feet up on the dashboard with the audio book blaring part.

singingthypraises · 04/04/2024 11:44

I'm more confused by the idea that Gretna is in the highlands... it's way down at all the borders. Though as I type this I realise maybe you drove up to honeymoon in the highlands afterwards, which sounds absolutely lovely! Hope the Audi guy thinks again in future and also hope he doesn't try and do anything to your car or home as he knows where you stay.

singingthypraises · 04/04/2024 11:45

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe I will now forever call Audis that! Grin