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to be pissed off at this note left on my car - I want to reply but DH says don't

209 replies

CalmaLlamaDown · 15/02/2012 21:44

Few weeks ago neighbours left a note on my car saying don't park opposite our house as we have a newborn baby and it makes it difficult. I am not totally sure what they mean as they have 2 cars and 2 side by side spaces on their drive.

Anyway, no big deal to us, we have avoided parking there since. Now today we are parked further down the road and get another note saying they think we reported them to the police for damaging our car and that it wasn't them.

I want to send a note back saying I don have the foggiest what they are on about but DH says leave it as might end going back and forth etc. If we don't reply will they think it was us that reported them? I want to tell them to bog off to be honest.

Any ideas for a suitably polite response?

OP posts:

PurplePidjin · 16/02/2012 09:41

lou33, why not just stack the cones neatly outside their front door every time? The council have regulations on stuff like that, but you need special permission. You're not allowed to bagsie a parking space on a road

PurplePidjin · 16/02/2012 09:43

Oh and where did the cones come from? Did they nick a few from the council/a roadwork company?

areyoumad · 16/02/2012 09:54

I think the newborn baby bit is an excuse, but they can't really write "we are rubbish at reversing out bloody huge estate cars and nearly or definately hit yours or someone elses car, so there fore in interests of our insurance payments not going through the roof could you possibly for your own safety park somewhere else.

I also agree with popping round and taking a bottle of won in raffle will never ever drink wine, saying hello I'm blah, I got this note, I didn't report you, hows the baby, and enjoy the wine

limitedperiodonly · 16/02/2012 09:56

The people advising you to welcome these loons to your neighbourhood with cake and baby clothes are more generous souls than me .

Don't go over there.

Do leave a note on your own windscreen saying: 'This windscreen wiper is live. Lift it at your peril.'

Quenelle · 16/02/2012 09:59

I would go and knock and introduce myself. Take a bunch of daffs as a housewarming present.

areyoumad · 16/02/2012 10:02

limitedperiodonly Your suggestion is far funnier than mine

GetOrfMoiiLand · 16/02/2012 10:06

Oh for crying out loud - they sound batty.

Just ignore the daft beggars and park where you like. They are obviously virgos control freaks if they need to PRINT notes to put on cars.

DamselInDisarray · 16/02/2012 10:07

Our road is kind of narrow and it is dififcult and sometimes impossible to get out of our drive if someone parks directly opposite it. The problem could very easily be removed by knocking down some of our wall and widening the drive (as several of our neighbours have done with theirs). We rent, so we can't do this (and the landlord certainly isn't going to). We just have to put up with it. We certainly don't go putting notes on cars about it. That's just odd.

I would laugh if someone put a note on my car saying 'this is not an ncp car park' when I'd parked on a public road. And I'd resolve to park there more often.

GetOrfMoiiLand · 16/02/2012 10:13

I would laugh if someone put a note on my car saying 'this is not an ncp car park' when I'd parked on a public road. And I'd resolve to park there more often.

I agree. Why the people think that they own the street outside their house? ANYONE can park there.

lurkinginthebackground · 16/02/2012 10:13

I would also go around with flowers/cake some token gift and explain that you haven't reported them to the police.
I would also avoid parking opposite their drive. can you park outside your own house?

Where I live all houses have garages and drives. The lunatics on the corner had their drive widened to fit several cars on, they also erected a 6 foot wall. It all looks very nice except it means that noone can see whilst pulling out or into our cul de sac. Added to this they always park one car on the street bang on the corner and we live on a very sttep windy hill. Its great fun when it snows as you are pulling out almost blind and I long for the day when someone takes their car out. Hehe!

GetOrfMoiiLand · 16/02/2012 10:15

WHY would you take flowers round to strangers who have twice left snippy notes on your car? Just because they have had a baby and can't drive properly?

ragged · 16/02/2012 10:22

I would knock gently on their door in normal waking ours & attempt a friendly chat with them. I would bite my tongue about their looney behaviour; as a rule I find it better to be friendly (distant but friendly) to loonies rather than blank or harsh or towards them.

BonzoDooDah · 16/02/2012 10:58

Marking place to see what the barking mad PFB parents say when you do the adult thing and talk to them (be brave).

BonzoDooDah · 16/02/2012 11:01

GetOrf on a road near us there is an 'official' sign saying 'DO Not Park Here'. Mum checked and it is not a private road (as it appears) but a public one - so the sign is completely illegal.

Mum and I now make a point of using that as our parking place in preference to anywhere else nearby

2rebecca · 16/02/2012 11:04

If they have a drive I don't understand their problem. I don't have a drive and get a bit annoyed if someone parks outside our house but accept it's a public road and I don't own that bit. They sound nutty. A public road is a public road.

GetOrfMoiiLand · 16/02/2012 11:13

I used to live right next to a beach in a tourist area - couldn't park outside my house during the summer months and tourists parked there. I wouldn't have dreamed have moaning about it - it is a public road.

Iggly · 16/02/2012 11:14

Knock on the door and give them a note telling them to get lost.

DamselInDisarray · 16/02/2012 13:43

On the evening I moved into a previous house, my crazy neighbours knocked on my door to inform me that I had parked in 'their space'. I just started at them blankly. They were very odd generally.

Groovee · 16/02/2012 13:52

I'd knock on the door and ask why they're leaving notes on your car.

TheCunningStunt · 16/02/2012 13:56

Did you go round op??

hanaka88 · 16/02/2012 14:11

Did you knock?

poorbuthappy · 16/02/2012 14:31

Marking place.

oldmum42 · 16/02/2012 14:35

Oh dear. Lots of problem neighbour "red flags" in your posts OP! So, they are new to the street, and have been posting notes on the legally parked cars of at least 2 other people living on the street (you and whoever it was who reported them to the police). I would be a bit concerned TBH that this is a pattern of behaviour that's well established (wonder why they moved house, maybe they had issues with neighbours previously). Tread carefully! I agree, knock on door and have a chat, but no flowers or gifts - he may see that as an admission of guilt or conformation that he was right to leave notes!

Agincourt · 16/02/2012 14:36

I had a neighbour who used to do this too and they are better off ignored in all honesty.

holidaywoe · 16/02/2012 14:42

I would go round and might even go the flowers route, as though I do agree that the behaviour is a little odd I often find that going in on a charm offensive can work wonders. Certainly does when dealing with irate parents at work!!

So have you been?

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