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to leave a note on this car?

28 replies

BerryMojito · 15/05/2011 00:17

Complicated explanation - I live on a private road and for the last couple of months there has been a car parked up against my front wall overnight several times a week. Mine is the last house along our road, it then becomes unpaved and is garages and gardens for the houses on the parallel road. I believe (know) that the owner of the car is visiting the house whose garage is next to my drive. Their garden runs alongside of mine.
This car is always parked right up against my wall on top of my lavender plants. Since it first appeared I have become increasingly annoyed and now HAVE to do something, but what? AIBU to leave a tactful/angry note on the windscreen?

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gillybean2 · 15/05/2011 09:52

Don't bother with a note, go and see the person they are visiting and ask if they know who's car it is and explain the problem...

We live on a private road. Apparently my neighbour a few doors down left a note on a car several times of someone who was visiting me. My visitor never mentioned it to me (I didn't realise she was parking in front of their house) or had been annoying my neighbours by doing so.
They eventually knocked on the door and yelled up a stink about it while she was parked there. I said how was I meant to know and if they'd simply come and spoken to me before I could have sorted it out much more amicably. The friend only then told me she'd had notes left on her car before.

My friend now parks opposite their house rather than directly in front of it. So if they come home and park in front of their house they block the road. Passive aggressive maybe, but if they hadn't been so unreasonable in how they dealt with it I'd have told her to park somewhere else completely by now. But she only visits once every couple of months for an hours at a time at most. If she was doing it a few times a week for a long period of time that'd be very different and I'd of course tell her to park elsewhere!

Would add that this same neighbours also yelled at me one time when she was parked in front on my house. Told me not to get all shirty as they'd had to have an ambulance come and so had moved her car to be in front of mine. I wasn't feeling at all shirty and having seen the ambulance leaving as I'd driven up the road was more concerned as to what had happened than her blocking my parking area. I understand she was under stress etc because of the incident that had meant they needed an ambulance. However if she had simply appologised and said sorry will move as soon as we can she'd have more friends for neighboours.

This same neighbour has a huge problem with parking though. Four cars outside their house and if her immediate neighbour parks so much as a couple of inches over the invisible boundary she makes them move!

So after all that waffle I do think you'd be better going and talking to the person they are visiting rather than just leaving notes.

BornThisWayBaby · 15/05/2011 14:48

whats with the leaving notes? go tell the fucker!

valiumredhead · 15/05/2011 15:56

Don't leave a note - go and politely ask them not to park there.

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