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AIBU?

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To leave a note on a car....

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WhoahThere · 01/08/2011 13:00

Got back to my car after taking dd swimming, to find that someone had parked diagonally, and so close that I could barely open the back door. I was in a mother and child space so a bit annoying that they were well over the line, particularly as there were plenty of other spaces around.

So I managed to manoeuvre dd in, then left a note under the next door car's wipe saying: 'Nice parking! You made it really easy to get my baby into the car - thanks very much and have a great day!'

I am not in any way the mother and baby space police by the way - not bothered at all, but one was available so I used it....

I don't think I was BU at all - what do you reckon?!

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grumpypants · 02/08/2011 09:21

I would have read the note, seen the space on the other side, and thought you were a twat. Sorry. I would also have shared the story, with much amusement.
No idea why this has made such a big impression on you.
Plus, very passive aggressive (again) comment to the poster asking why you didn't use the other door.

diddl · 02/08/2011 10:10

OP-you seriously never thought to get in the other side??!!

ragged · 02/08/2011 10:14

Slightly eejit behaviour on both sides, if I'm honest. If you had time & energy to write a shirty note then sounds like you weren't that inconvenienced(?).

I have a stupidly wide piece of crap car that takes ages to park carefully, I always feel like a plonker gently wiggling it around to fit straight into a standard size space.

Lainey1981 · 02/08/2011 11:56

My dp parked the car practicallg diagonally at Ikea once. We came back to a note simply stating " nice parking" i thought it was funny.
Yanbu

kenobi · 02/08/2011 12:30

If you had time & energy to write a shirty note then sounds like you weren't that inconvenienced(?)

Sorry, but that doesn't follow - being inconvenienced does not relate to time and energy. I was hugely inconvenienced when clampers clamped my car in my own parking space, and I certainly found the time and energy to write a letter disputing the clamping. And won.

In fact I think the more inconvenienced you are, the more likely to spend energy on it.

archieleach · 02/08/2011 14:35

I saw someone leaving a note on my winscreen once but as I approached they ran off. I found a dent in the car. And the note said,

"You may think I am leaving my name and address, I am not"

ensure · 02/08/2011 15:11

It's a bit passive aggressive leaving a sarcastic note. Next time just set fire to the car, that's what I do.

kenobi · 02/08/2011 15:31

ensure, is that all? You should then follow them home, massacre them all and then sow salt into the ground to ensure the weeping and wailing of the womenfolk for generations to come.

Lightweight.

ensure · 03/08/2011 18:03

Look kenobi, let's not get into a whole massacre whole family/not massacre whole family debate on mumsnet again. They get so tedious.

ChaoticAngeltheInnocentOne · 03/08/2011 19:06

The OP probably could have used the other side but why should she have to? It only takes a couple of minutes to write a note so not a big waste of time.

Btw if you're going to massacre them all wouldn't there be no womenfolk left to weep and wail

sam84uk · 03/08/2011 19:18

YANBU I had a similar experience to this last year however I was still in the car when a silly woman blocked me in. Wish I'd have left her a note myself now, I posted about it www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1027389-To-have-snitched-on-someone-today-resulting-in-them-getting/AllOnOnePage

kazmus · 03/08/2011 19:34

if you leave the note in lip balm on the windscreen its much more fulfilling!:)

crystalglasses · 03/08/2011 19:41

Car spaces are invariably too narrow for 4x4s, making it difficult for a normal sized car door to be opened on the passenger side.

befuzzled · 04/08/2011 09:02

Have you considered that the driver might have been an old person? Not sure appropriate to be calling people wankers and fannys when you know nothing about them or why they parked like that. For instance, I was once arriving at a carpark to go to the doctors with ds1. I has been up all night with him throwing up. As we arrived he said he needed to be sick again and had the runs and was screaming to go upstairs to the toilet. He was embarrassed about having to b sick/pop himself in the carpark. Luckily there was a parent space free so I tore into it put there was a pillar on his side. I was 8m pregnant and he couldn't walk so I had to back out and put it closer to the car on the other side (it's passenger side, normal space). I them had to climb out the other side, wedge myself in to his side and get him out and stagger upstairs to toilets (didn't make it) and doctors. When I returned after about 45 mins, carrying a 6 year old, in agony from SPD, covered in sick and poo (had left change of clothes in car in panic), someone, the other car presumably as other side was a post, had written "I'm going to kill you you fucking whore" on a note and put it on my windscreen. Just what I needed.

Extreme example and I am sure most people that do this to you are just self entitled wankers but you don't really know why they had to park the way they did. I personally think notes bring you down to their level. Just get your car and move on.

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