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AIBU?

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to hide neighbours traffic cone? (On street parking thread)

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HortenMarket · 23/05/2014 10:46

Ok I don't want to get into a discussion about commuters parking in our road, which although annoying, is part of living where we do.

However parking in our road has become harder and harder as we are around the corner from a station and have no parking restrictions. Yes it can be frustrating but its a free country and people who pay car tax can park on public roads. A neighbour in our street has started putting a traffic cone out when she leaves so she can park there again on her return. She mainly works from home but goes out several times a day. Other neighbours and I often have to park quite a distance and trail our kids/shopping bags etc to our front door. It can be a pain especially if its raining etc.

WIBU to move her cone and park in 'her space' next time? I think its taking a massive liberty doing what she is and is probably not legal anyway (its a stolen police cone too…). If I move it should I put it in front of her door or hide it somewhere silly? I'm not generally into pissing neighbours off but we are moving soon…

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Iwillorderthefood · 23/05/2014 19:08

There is a couple near who does this. One day I had a fully laden car, plus two DC, one sleeping and I asked them to move their cone. I was already one street over as our street was completely full. They refused, I was livid. Keep moving the cone, the I have a right to park on the street outside brigade really irritate me.

morethanpotatoprints · 23/05/2014 19:10

YABU and none of your business.
If you weren't moving would you still be thinking of goading them.
We sometimes can't park outside our house and there is no alternative where we live apart from paying in a car park.
When they are closed at 3am when dh returns from work after driving sometimes 300 miles plus, its no fun.
Quite entertaining in the morning though when the drunks have keyed the car, left across the road from us.

Icimoi · 23/05/2014 20:28

Morethan, of course it's OP's business if a perfectly good parking space is unavailable because the neighbours leave cones there and she has to park much further away. Suppose they put those cones in another part of the road, would you think they were entitled to take up a whole parking space when they didn't need to use it, and make all their neighbours park further away? It's no different in relation to the space outside the neighbours' house.

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HortenMarket · 23/05/2014 20:48

I certainly don't expect to park outside our house at all. I do expect to be able to park in my street or at the very least the next one along. If I wasn't moving then I would most probably have to say something to her as it couldn't continue like this forever.

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TwoLeftSocks · 23/05/2014 20:49

I've always thought cones would look great with googly eyes.

Staywithme · 23/05/2014 20:53

This thread is too funny. Your neighbour isn't as bad/mad as mine. He ordered my very polite builders to move their van from outside my house as it was blocking his line of vision as he was leaving his drive. They were partly over MY drive and you could park another two cars between their van and HIS driveway. Strangely enough he didn't bother saying anything to my 'built like an weight lifter' electrician when he parked in the space between the two houses. It was funny to see him charge down the driveway, stop, look at the builder then go back to the house. He's a bully and particularly likes bullying women.

Staywithme · 23/05/2014 21:03

Sorry. Look at the big electrician then go back NOT the builder.

Bogeyface · 23/05/2014 21:05

I would take the cones and return them to the police station. If she has a go tell her that it is at the station so she should go there and ask for it back.

Bogeyface · 23/05/2014 21:06

Oh and make sure you tell her that you told them her address as the place you "found" it

mummymeister · 23/05/2014 22:07

make disguises for them - hats, dark glasses and dress them up. I would find this hilarious if I lived in your street. we lived in the middle of a town next to a 6th form college and just off the high street. one of our bonkers neighbours used to do this. the only thing that stopped him was the police. then he tried to paint a parking space size box outside his house, got into real trouble over this one. people are obsessed with parking right outside their door.

Bogeyface · 23/05/2014 22:25

mummy your "private" parking space painting reminded me, wasnt there a thread on here about someone who bought a house with a disabled spot outside that had been marked for the previous owners? He treated it as his own personal parking spot and was awful to the OP who used it for her disabled child (they had a blue badge) if "their" disabled spot was taken? He didnt have a blue badge as I recall.

He didnt get that a disabled space means anyone with a blue badge can use it and you certainly cant use it at all if you dont have a blue badge no matter whether it is outside your house or not! Or perhaps he did have a blue badge but was mobile where the OPs child was not.....cant remember now, but it was madness!

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 23/05/2014 22:29

morethanpotatoprints

Pick up your sour chin love, we're havin' a laff!

TalkinPeace · 23/05/2014 22:30

hang the cone upside down from the nearest lamp post
like farmers used to do with crows ....

WitchWay · 23/05/2014 22:37

I'd put it on her roof. And park in the space, naturally

ICanSeeTheSun · 23/05/2014 22:51

Play a treasure hunt game with the cone.

Draw a map and X marks the spot

morethanpotatoprints · 23/05/2014 23:06

Still

Sorry and apologies OP, just found this and hadn't realised.
Wrong end and stick

sashh · 24/05/2014 06:25

How quick does concrete set?

Fill the cone with concrete so she can't move it.

Or just hide random things under it like a tin of beans one day and a toilet roll the next.

Pilgit · 24/05/2014 06:51

No input on the issue at hand but if there is a real parking issue for residents the council may, if asked, implement a residents parking zone.

Southeastdweller · 24/05/2014 07:07

Keep on moving the cone to piss the sad Hyancinth Bucket wannabe off.

Not surprised you're in London (I am also).

wowfudge · 24/05/2014 07:31

I do love a good parking thread. The OP has no real interest in pushing for a residents' parking scheme if she's moving soon, but her neighbour is BU - what right has she to mark a space for herself with a cone? None at all. And as for parking in a way that leaves a space for her son at the weekend - that would annoy the hell out of me and I'd be knocking on her door every single time she did it and asking her to move up so another car can be parked.

The problem with these situations is that you get neighbour against neighbour instead of neighbours acting together to find a resolution. We used to live somewhere where there was a parking issue at certain times and it could be a real pain. In the end some residents campaigned (although IME a lot of those residents who complained were of the 'I must park directly outside my own house type') and involved various local councillors - they got EU funding for a scheme that was free to the residents. The funding paid for the signs, a parking warden and some admin time at the council offices to log and issue permits.

In this situation OP I'd stick the cone on her front doorstep with some bunting wrapped round it.

RandallFloyd · 24/05/2014 08:03

If it's only one cone then it's no problem.
They only take up about 10" of space.

We have a guy who sporadically turns up to work on a house in our street.
He has a cone but as he only has one people just park either side of it leaving him with a cone-sized space.

He can barely contain his fury

emms1981 · 24/05/2014 09:43

Could be worse. They could be using this ......

to hide neighbours traffic cone? (On street parking thread)

ilovemydoggy · 24/05/2014 09:55

We had this, rather than move the cone me and another ndn just used to park right up to the cones bumper touching it then the space was to small for her to get her in. Her face was a picture and on more than one occasion she tired to get it to the space we had hours of fun watching her do this. She aoon stopped.

Andrewofgg · 24/05/2014 10:33

Put it on the pavement and park where it was. Don't engage with her. Repeat until she gets the message.

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