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Mildly amusing parking thread (with diagram!)

35 replies

GreenTinsel · 28/03/2026 16:38

I've been at home all day, doing chores etc, and there is a mildly amusing parking situation. Slow burn, unlikely to be any exciting updates.

Opposite my flat is a row of 7 parking spaces, closely bounded by a spiky hedge. There are numbered spaces for various flats, and one visitor space in the middle. People are generally very good about using their own space, if there's a trades van in the 'wrong' space for a while, people don't mind.

This morning at 11.30am I noticed there was an estate car (red rectangle) parked longways across 3 spaces. I have lived here more than 20 years and never seen anyone park like that before.

Some of the other spaces were/are empty, so it wasn't immediately an issue, but still quite weird.

At 3.45pm I saw that a car (yellow rectangle) had been parked longways next to it. Very closely. You certainly couldn't open the driver's door, which is on the side away from the hedge, and a slim person might be able to get in the passenger side, but they would get quite well poked by the spiky hedge.

At the moment red car could get out by reversing carefully towards the van. I'm very tempted to ask my neighbour who owns the van if he wants to move it one space over, into the visitor space.

Red car might be abandoned, or the owner might be away for the weekend, or I may look out tomorrow morning and find that they've both gone. But I thought the MN parking watchers might enjoy it.

Mildly amusing parking thread (with diagram!)
OP posts:
Catzpyjamas · 28/03/2026 23:48

Loving the diagram!

whyschoolwhy · 29/03/2026 00:41

Excellent diagram but isn’t that nine spaces?

StaySpicy · 29/03/2026 02:25

Diagram confused me because you said 7 spaces but drew 9!

I hope tomorrow brings some parking fun for you to watch!

GreenTinsel · 29/03/2026 11:52

Must have made a typo with 7, I just looked out of the window and there are 9.

Our current score is
Red ✔️
Yellow ❌️
Black van ❌️

OP posts:
Emmz1510 · 29/03/2026 16:08

I would guess the yellow car is trying to annoy/trap the red car for such dickhead parking

NotTonightDeidre · 29/03/2026 16:42

I'm here for that diagram OP! Excellent work. Any further developments?

MaggieFS · 29/03/2026 16:43

Not enough good parking threads these days. What happened?

Newthreadnewme11 · 29/03/2026 16:46

Haha love this. I need an update!

GreenTinsel · 29/03/2026 22:02

Sorry to report there is no interesting conclusion, as red has gone and yellow is parked normally in their own space.

OP posts:
littlefireseverywhere · 30/03/2026 11:53

Boring ending but such a wonderful diagram!

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