to fantasize about kicking the bumpers of every car parked half on the pavement

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I walk to DD1's preschool along a busy, narrow B road. It seems that almost every time I go that way there is at least one car parked half on, half off the narrow pavement. Often such that I have to go onto the road with a pushchair and walking preschooler to get around the car. Or sometimes we just about squeeze past on the pavement, scraping along the wall

The road is narrow enough that other cars still have to go past in single file, so parking this way does not make it any easier for other motorists, just harder for pedestrians, especially ones with wide pushchairs or wheelchairs.

Every time I see a car like this, a brief thought goes through my mind of kicking the bumper as I go past, or knocking the wing mirror. I would never actually do it, but AIBU to fantasize?

YANBU, it's a pet hate of mine. Totally inconsiderate

I fantasize about scraping the pushchair down the sides of them

YANBU

YANBU.

Similar circumstances in our street and, back in my pushchair days, it used to really annoy me. Actually, it still annoys me but it just doesn't affect me as such.

Such selfishness from car owners really should result in some kind inconvenience for them, but alas they seem to get off scot-free.

yanbu
my mother once printed stickers (on computer adress labels, so paper + minimal damage) with something like inconsiderate idiot illegally parked in red ink. one sticker bang on the screen for maximum effect...
(didn't really work, though, judging by the many inconsiderate idiots...

Yanbu.

Especially on bin day when the pavement is entirely blocked by half parked cars and bins and you have take a fucking detour.

YABU to complain on here instead of to your local MP and the police, if you actually want something done about it.

YANBU, try letting the air of their tyres!

email your local council

YANBU

I once had an argument with a family member about this, apparently traffic flow plus minimising risk of damage to car were more important than risking death to babies and children. I wish I was exaggerating but the roads some people do this on are lethal.

I fantasised about fitting the buggy with Boudica inspired revolving blades at handle height - and possibly axle level too. Do you think there would be a market?

Haha!

Wondering what the council or MP would actually do as people do it all over the place!!

mistlethrush, you can put me down for one of those :)

YABU to fantasize about it.

having said that I once kicked the rusty wheel arch of the fecker who used to park on the only safe place to cross on our street. I was a little tipsy. To this day I am grateful that I failed in my mission to knock a chunk out of the bodywork and that I wasn't caught; imagine the shame of being charged with criminal damage, as a 30-ish yo mother in a fairly responsible job

I think that they would have to probably be marketed as bag hooks or similar so that they weren't 'automatically' assumed to have been added to a buggy simply to key the cars parking on the pavements... but of course if they 'accidentally' were to scrape along because the car had parked on the pavement and therefore there was insufficient room to get past, you could hardly be blamed for having some hooks to help with shopping....

i get my minor revenge on these people by flicking in thier wing mirrors so i don't accidently knock them off... i take joy in imagining them having to get out / lean over to put the mirror back out hehe

childish and silly but hey ho

It would be a real shame if you were to accidentally scratch the shiny paintwork.

I do kick them sometimes or ram accidentally on purpose with buggy, then run

True, it would be just DREADFUL if you were to accidentally scrape 2 panels with a rogue bit of sticky out pushchair. I guess that's the risk they take?

Yanbu, I do this too.

I hate it too, plus you can always count on their to be a pile of dog poo on the narrow gap they leave.

It used to make me more angry when i faced this when pushing my first husband's wheelchair. He only lived to 32 so we really didn't have time in our short life together to be careful passing these cars. I feel absolutely no shame in saying that a great many of them ended up scratched.

Put me down for some of those mistlethrush
Between that and the selfish gits who park as close to the school gates as possible I come back from the school run in a real mood sometimes.

Iwantbrie - I'm going to do a second set that are attachable to handbags for similarly non-damaging purposes

I complained to the council about the cars outside DD1s school, exchanged a few emails, nice bloke said he and the 'friends' he had in the police (obviously a man of influence ) would visit the school and see what could be done.

Did absolutely fuck all.

I think they went round outside school run times to avoid awkward confrontations

The three cars worst for it though (one who has all four wheels on the pavement) are all dads.

They get out and gossip together while everyone else has to walk round.

The road is narrow enough that other cars still have to go past in single file, so parking this way does not make it any easier for other motorists

It probably makes it easier for emergency vehicles to get through though.

YANBU. Who are these selfish fuckers? If the road is too narrow, find somewhere else to park.