To have left this note on a car earlier?

[JandT]

It said 'Thank you for your inconsiderate and selfish parking'.

I'd parked in Mum and Baby section, the 'space' next to my car wasn't a parking space anymore (although in their defence it hasn't had the paint taken off, it's just they built a trolley park over it so it wasn't really big enough for a car)and they parked so close to my car that although I could get in on my side, I couldn't even walk down the other side, let alone get my sleeping 4 month old in. I had to park the pushchair in front of the car, move the car, then get baby and pushchair in.

I've never left a note on anyone's windscreen before but I was so annoyed! They had even parked at an angle as it was the only way they could get out.

Grrr..

That's sad - but then again, it might be that it was time for your lovely elderly neighbour to hand over the car keys. Shame about the tone of the note though

Probably better to leave a note (passive-aggressive or otherwise) than to do what this guy did: 83-year-old driver banned. Though I can understand his frustration.

i had a note left once (well on my brothers car when he took me home) my ds is disabled so parked in blue badge holder space opposite my house when he went back to the car there was a horrendously rude note saying basically never park here again it is our space (from the people whose house it is outside) and saying they didnt care what was wrong with my ds and that if their stepdad couldnt park there ever again because of me they would sort me out!

in the op's case though she was right to put a note

That looks like an ugly scene exexpat

Our elderly neighbour was a perfectly able driver as are many 80 year olds. He is more capable than most 20 year olds I know.

I'm not saying the OPs case is comparable BTW

There is a car in the car park at work which is always parked spectacularly badly. Takes up 2 spaces every day. It doesn't bother me as it isn't our car park (we share an office block with 2 other organisations) but I always notice it. No shitty notes left but I've often wondered what the driver's colleagues think.

Why is a note PA and bad parking not? Well bad parking might well be a mistake, a note can't be.

when i was very pregnant i actually had to ask someone else (ie a stranger) to reverse my car out of its space in tesco car park. only other possibility was to climb in the boot and go in that way!!!! cars parked very close on both sides.

Whenever we have an incling that the neighbours at the end of the cul de sac are having visitors my dh parks on the road outside our house and not on our drive. This is since they parked across our drive blocking both vehicles in. When my dh put a polite note on the windscreen saying by all means park outside our house but pull down so that you are not across the drive, the said neighbour, who has both a double drive and garage, took offence and demanded to know why dh had "offended" his visitors!
Hence my dh now prevents any argument by his skillfully parking ensuring that several spaces are taken by his van:)

Which makes him just as much a crap parker as the original people.

YABU to go to Bluewater [shudder]!

Most overused phrase on Mumsnet: Passive Aggressive (nearly always used out of context too.)