Everyone loves a parking AIBU!

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The street I live on has unrestricted parking and is near shops and a train station - people often park on my street to avoid paying at nearby car parks for shoppers and station. If the spaces are full on my street, there is no other unrestricted parking for about half a mile.

I have a baby who hates travelling in the car seat. After a number of occasions when I've returned home in the car with a screaming baby to find nowhere to park, AIBU to start 'reserving' myself a parking space with my wheelie bin when I'm out in car for short periods?

It's not relevant to the parking issue but I actually think YABU to take the car on any 30 min errand. Especially when you have a pram to help with any carrying and a baby who hates the car. Isn't it just easier to walk?

Of course you can't reserve the parking space. Have the council already agreed to the dropped kerb? Round here they have introduced big restrictions on when and how new ones are allowed because of the way it robs the street of any on road parking and the road safety issues of people backing across the pavement into traffic.

And I think you'll find that if you pop out that someone may/will park across your dropped kerb. As long as they don't block you in there's not a lot you can do.

Unless you have double yellow lines painted across the entrance

I actually think YABU to take the car on any 30 min errand...Isn't it just easier to walk?

Really? The errand may have been ten miles away.

So, the 30 minute errand I just made this morning, to a village 8 miles away with only one bus daily and no pavement along the lanes leading to it, shouldn't have involved my car?

I've seen many people put a couple of chairs out and a chain blocking off parking for themselves like this and it does work - simply because people are too lazy to get out and man handle the chairs and the chain - and because the spaces are outside peoples houses they probably think they might be 'spoken to' about parking outside the houses. I'd be tempted to try it and see what happens!

Sigh. But the OP doesn't live 8 miles from the next village with only one bus, does she? She lives very close to the train station and surrounded by shops. I just think in her position it would be easier to walk.

I drive as little as possible as it's really not worth risk of DS screaming himself blue + the parking headache. This particular errand wasn't feasible on foot.

If you're having it fixed in a few weeks anyway I don't really see why you felt the need to post.

In any case, it's a public road, you don't own it
so I'd say yabu to try and stop other people from using a section of it that just happens to
be close to your house.

Just trying to kill time during the nightfeeds redbttuonhole plus wondering if I could be audacious enough to block a space out while I took DS to a hospital appointment this morning. Decided that I didn't have that much cheek.

Will report back on whether I find somewhere to park when we get home!

^angelos02 Wed 29-Oct-14 04:22:50
YANBU. I'd pay for parking rather than park outside someone's home but then I wasn't brought up by vermin.^

If theres an empty spot on the road in a legal parking space, and near where i want to be - i'm parking there.
'brought up by vermin'?

Like other posters say above, you never park anywhere outside another persons house? Do you ever drive to a friends house? what do you do when you cant park outside their house??? go home??
i call..... blox

Well there was nowhere when I got home - ended up parked on yellow line across road then dashed out and moved car when a space opened up. Hopefully only a few weeks of this to endure!

i was interested in what you said about blocking off 'your' (in quotes, cos its not yours but hey..) space. These are from London based sites and while

this is from
www.richmond.gov.uk/parking_suspensions_and_dispensations#unauthorisedspaceholdingandblocking (this is about parking bays)

^Unauthorised space holding and blocking
It is an offence to hold a parking space within a Community Parking Zone by blocking it off with cones or other objects

block a parking space, for example with a skip or building materials, without a license.
Both of these actions are considered to be an obstruction of the highway.

You can report an obstruction online. Please help us find the problem by including the nearest property name or number, street name, and town.^

and this is interesting from
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/article/12549/crackdown_on_builders_who_block_the_highway

^Builders who take up residents parking spaces with piles of building materials or cause traffic jams by using grab lorries to empty skips are to be targeted in a new crackdown on highway obstructions.

The council is stepping up enforcement action against builders who cause problems for local residents.^

Ha ha, love it Angels! My mother will be delighted to hear that I was brought up by vermin for parking legally on a public highway. Priceless twattery!

"Brought up by vermin". What an idiot.

Dusts down penguin & settles in.

Oh, YANBU!

Sorry OP, re-read, YABU to reserve a spot. I understand your frustration & it doesn't seem fair, but you can't go reserving spaces. Sorry.

Just remember if you place something in the road which shouldn't be there, like a bus and a car drives into it you could be handed a very large bill for the damage,