to dislike lazy, inconsiderate parkers?

[agedknees]

Pick my dd up from The Trafford Centre (large shopping centre near Manchester) every Sunday evening. I take her to the train station so she can go back to uni (she works Sat and Sun.

Every week cars are parked on double yellow lines opposite the disabled parking bays. This makes it difficult for drivers in those bays to get their cars out of the parking spots.

Also makes it difficult to see pedestrians when other cars are reversing out of their spots.

If all the parking spots where taken, there might be some excuse but normally there are loads of parking spaces about a 5 minute walk away.
So people are parking illegally because they are lazy and inconsiderate.

Glad to get that off my chest.

AIBU.

No you're NBU. I also hate people who park over two spaces and in other inconsiderate and selfish ways.

not unreasonable. there are times when i would love to be a traffic warden

YANBU, I saw two people without children of any kind park in a mother and baby spot today. Hate it.

and people parking across a dropped kerb

and people who can't be arsed to park straight so even when you're perfectly straight within a space so you have to snap off fold back their wing mirrors just to open the door.

prettyfly - what, not even a puppy?

All the people who leave 1/2 a car's space between them and the car in front. In a controlled parking area there could be at least another 6 - 8 spaces every night and I could park in my own road.

I know Riven, There's one near us opposite a very well used walkway and in most cases it's just pushchairs, but there are a couple in wheelchairs who have to go a very long way round just to cross the road opposite their house

On our estate most of the corner dropped curbs are also someone's drive, so not only are they obstructing the pavement, obstructing crossing the road to wheelchairs (and pushchairs to a lesser extent), but they're parked on a frigging corner! grrr.

I meant a couple, rather than 2 people. Not that it matters. They ALWAYS have to go half way up the road, cross, and then go back again.

Not the same, but on the subject of dropped kerbs, can I add my bin men who like to leave the bin in the middle of the pavement, right in the middle of the dropped kerb!!!

YANBU - very annoying and unfortunately I also see this a lot too especially people parking on pavements so you can't get a pushchair or wheelchair past.

Yes! That used to drive me insane. EVERY SINGLE house on our walk to the local shop had at least one bin outside it, left right in the middle of the pavement (I'd say about 200 houses). AT least I could park the buggy, move the fucking thing, carry on. Fuck knows what someone in a wheelchair would have to do - go in the road presumably

Can we add people who just stop at the kerb, holding up an entire stream of traffic, so that a perfectly able bodied person doesn't have to walk an extra hundred yards?

I went to Dunelm Mill the other day. Parked up, walked past 6 disabled bays, all full. Wanna guess how many actually had disabled badges in?

One

Lazy fuckers. I mentioned it in the store and they were "Meh"

I hate people who pull over to let lazy passengers out right in front of you and don't indicate to warn you. Idiots!!!

jareth you must live on the same street as me.

But added to all the bins on the pavement there is also people parked up both sides of the road on the pavement meaning I have to actually walk down the road with my double buggy to get to the shop otherwise I just wouldn't get there with having to move all the bins and a lot of cars would get scratched.

Everything on this thread annoys the crap out of me too.

People who park enormous vans on corners so that everyone else has to inch out into the traffic without knowing if it is safe. Drives me mad! Someone always does it at the entrance to our close, but they park at an angle across the grass verge making it a totally blind corner out on to the main road. There are always spaces just around the corner but apparently that is too far.

We have very limited parking here, there are only a few spaces near the houses so if you can't get near them then there is a longish walk carrying shopping etc. Also most residents are elderly (I'm one of the 'youngsters' at 43!) so it is harder for them. So where do you think my inconsiderate neighbours parked their two big cars and a builder's van while they went on holiday for two weeks?

Can I add the people who own the car yard on our street and park their spare cars in the visitors spots.

People who leave 1.5m between each car so that there are not enough spaces for everyone else.

People who park in the drop off zone at tesco instead of parking and walking 15m.

Many many years ago, when I was a baby, my dad used to know the desk sergeant at the local police station, and he told dad about the day that a lorry driver came in to complain that a woman had torn him off a strip for parking his lorry on the pavement so that people with prams couldn't walk along it, but had to go out in the road - apparently this was something that happened all the time in this particular village, and the woman had finally lost patience with it.

As he was reporting this (not being terribly polite about the woman either), he saw her out of the station window - 'That's the rude old bat there!!' he said. Unfortunately it was the desk sergeant's wife!!

The worse is people who leave acres of space between their car and anything else, then complain when you park (normally) in front of them that 'you've parked so close I can't get out!'.

... ok, it's one person who does this, it's my neighbour and she thinks she shouldn't have to reverse if she's getting out of a space. Ever.

We have a white painted line or bar or whatever its called across our drive and a dropped kerb because we are near a rank of shops people still park across the brilliant white bloody obvious bloody white cant miss it bloody line

sorry

.. I could understand it - almost - if they didnt see the dropped kerb - but to not see the bloody white bloody obvious bloody cant miss

sorry again..

is just taking the piss - they will park there when there are four or five parking spaces next to the white line and therefore only a few feet further away from the shops which they dont want to walk - bless - they would rather block me in my drive and prevent anyone who genuinely cant walk from using my dropped kerb to cross with a wheelchair - or a pushchair or a shopping trolley or whatever.

Selfish selfish selfish - I have suggested to local authority to install a cannon and ball camera on the front of my property to catch the culprits but apparently it breaches data protection and there would have to be a bloody great sign warning them - and then we might get targeted and blah bloody blah.