to post this note on an actor's car?

[ellabelle]

Background: I live down a narrow road, only 11 terraced house, on-road parking, very close to the train station. It's hard getting a space at best of times as a resident, let alone when people park down it to avoid paying station car park. I have seen this actor park his big black jeep down the road several times. And, well, this time as his trotted off looking all pleased with himself I posted this note on his car. He has starred in a major TV show and adverts am sure he can afford £4.70.

I suspect that goad hunting isnt allowed either.

Hi OP welcome to MN! I "know" you, and you me, from a couple of other places. I can be a bit of a mixed up cunt

YABU for not telling us who the actor is. If it is someone akin to the orange one maybe everyone else will change their minds about whether he should make use of the free all day parking on your road.

OP, tell us who the actor is! You know you want to...

OP is out hunting down actors/bankers/royalty and moving them on. She will then hunt down anyone over 80 or who works in care and direct them to the nearest available space.

It's a public service she is providing and she deserves applause not ridicule!

I am hoping that he keeps the note.

Then if his car is damaged, he can blame the weird eye rolling note writer. Did you sign it OP?

YABextremelyOdd

Your writing is terrible, but apart from that I think you have taken the wrong line. It would have been better to have appealed to human nature, along the lines of "by parking here you are restricting the residents" or whatever the reason is.
You are being unreasonable for bringing money into the equation. You do not know the circumstances.
However, if you are really bothered, lobby your local authority to have your road made into a residents only, with permit, area?

I'm totally distracted by the idea of leaving notes for David Tennant. .. Trust me, they would not be criticising his parking choices. ..

But being pxxxxxoff isnt going to change anything. Nor will writing rude notes to someone that is perfectly entitled to do so, whoever they may be.
You have to learn to accept I am afraid.

I have in my mind's eye Johnny Vegas.

Rude & entitled, you don't own the road & as has already been said - a lot of actors are far from rich, so YABVVU

Oohhhh I used to get so cross with people parking in my street when lived in a terrace with not enough space and too many bloody cars !! So I sympathse. But I wouldn't have cared if they were actors or anyone else - I'd have been just as annoyed. But I did appreciate that I had to do my chuntering sotto voce and to myself.

And eventually I moved to somewhere with off-street parking and got smug.

I did want to ask AIBU about my extremely flatulent in-laws next...

Your note is really rude. There was no need to call him out on his occupation. Your point would have come across far better if you'd have made the point that residents struggle to park as cars such as his are taking the residents space rather than paying for the station car park.

YABU to write that note and make a big deal about him being an actor. YANBU for being annoyed that people are taking the car parking spaces rather than paying for the station car park.

YABU to write that note and make a big deal about him being an actor. YANBU for being annoyed that people are taking the car parking spaces rather than paying for the station car park.

This, definitely. If the road is so bad OP then I'd look into getting the other residents on board with petitioning the council for permitted parking.

Do it ellabelle You make me laugh.

David Tennant was filming Broadchurch at my place of work earlier this week. Just saying.

I hope he parked properly; respectful of people who can't afford car parking fees, Blue

Well, Molly, I'm wondering now. Perhaps I should have confronted him in mid-scene. "Oi! Tennant, you beardy thespy git! Did you leave your big black jeep in the space which Ella likes to leave vacant for 82 year old Elsie?"

I'm not saying that the actor was in the wrong on this occasion and I don't wish to tar all professional actors with the same brush (in fact I know former/semi professional actors who are very considerate) BUT

In my experience the acting profession does have more than it's fair share of entitled twats. I am involved in an am-dram group and here's what has happened when rubbing shoulders with professionals.

One individual quite famous apparently but I'm no good with faces asked me in a rude and abrupt manner where the theatre manager had said that he could park. I wasn't there when he spoke to the manager so how was I supposed to know!!

Visiting professional company left rubbish on tables in a room which was about to be used for a meeting despite availability of bins.

Another professional company wanted a drink but tea urn wasn't switched on and kettle not large enough so they took ours without asking and made out like our chairman was in the wrong for wanting it back.

Two professional entertainers hired to do evening entertainment at a hotel before staying the night plonked themselves at a table reserved for other guests (one of whom was autistic and became very distressed as a result).

YANBU for being upset.

YABU for not telling us who he is.

Of course yabu. It's the public highway, it's safe and legal and if he's paid his tax and insurance, he's not doing anythign wrong. He doesn't know there are lunatics in the road who labour under the delusion they own the public highway outside their house and he has no idea that the correct thing to do is to put the wishes of some random woman he's never met, above his wish to use the public highway in a way he's perfectly entitled to do. Tell you what, if you don't want other road users to park there, get together with your neighbours to apply to the council to make it a private road and pay for the maintenance yourself, don't expect tax-payers to do it for you.

Your sense of entitlement is gob-smacking.

I bet it's Hugh Bonneville.

The answer to any internet question about mystery actors is always Hugh Bonneville.

OTT and agressive.