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to park on a residential street when the works car park is full and this woman was rude

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ljwales · 10/04/2015 17:42

Sometimes if I start at 10 the car park at work is full, so unless I want to walk miles I have to either park in a pub car park or a residential street. I don't use the pub as it is private and I know they get annoyed. So I used the residential street.

Was only there until 4:30 today. After a busy day just as I was getting in the car a woman came out of her house and started telling me off, "I'm fed up with you lot parking here" and launched into a rant about the company I work for and they should move as there are vans coming and going all day. Firstly it is a road that although busy at night, if I leave by 4ish there are usually a few more spaces and the road has no parking restrictions. Secondly about the company, we moved there last year and took over a business that had gone into liquidation so granted it is much busier now there is a successful business there but she did choose to live by a functioning warehouse so don't think she has a leg to stand on

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VivaLeBeaver · 10/04/2015 17:44

Annoying for her but you're not wrong parking there. If it's that much of a problem she needs to go to the council about residents parking.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 10/04/2015 17:45

Ignore her, it's a public highway and you can park where you like as long as you're not impeding her getting onto her property.

Smile and ignore.

merrymouse · 10/04/2015 17:46

Smile and wave, smile and wave.

gamerwidow · 10/04/2015 17:47

I do the same at my work. If you're parked legally then it's fair game.

Fleecyleesy · 10/04/2015 17:52

I'd just have politely told her to contact the council if she wishes to complain.

Hillingdon · 10/04/2015 17:54

people dont own the street (although you think some do!). My DH once asked the neighbours to not park outside his house - and we didnt have a car!

motherinferior · 10/04/2015 17:56

Well, she's got as much right to be annoyed as the pub owners do, in all honesty. She doesn't have the right to stop you but she is probably as pissed-off as I get with everyone who fills up our street.

ilovesooty · 10/04/2015 18:00

I'm not allowed to use our work car park and surrounding streets are now mostly residents only. I pay the pub round the corner a small amount to park there and benefit from their cctv monitoring too. Would this be something you would consider?

TenerifeSea · 10/04/2015 18:15

YANBU but you'll get irate MNers telling you otherwise.

HairyMcMary · 10/04/2015 18:24

Except that the pub car par is private land, owned by the pub, and the pub relies on parking space to make a living, and the road is not private land, is not owned by the woman and the OP has paid her road tax.

We all park outside other people's houses, don't we? When we are out and about in urban and suburban areas, or villages?

keepsmiling2015 · 10/04/2015 18:28

I had the same problem with a man who got so irate at me parking outside his house.

It was public parking so no discs or residential passes required. I had every right to park there and told him so. If he had a problem he should contact the council.

I understand how they can be pissed off but if you're legally parked you have every right yo be there.

TeddTess · 10/04/2015 18:29

smile and walk on. she does not own the road or the space outside her house, her property boundary is the front wall.
i had this at uni, some guy screaming at me about parking in front of his house many moons ago. "what gave me the right to park in front of his house etc" I just pointed at my road tax disc and walked on.

came back to a slashed front tyre one day though.

Brambles34 · 10/04/2015 18:29

I work at a hospital and when they privatised the car parks, all staff permits were removed! I have no choice but to park in a residential street about a mile away. It's a super wide road and the houses are million pound houses each with a driveway that could fit about 6 cars.... I regularly get arsey notes on my windscreen telling me that I'm breaking the law and could go to prison! Certainly gave my police man husband a giggle!!

Collaborate · 10/04/2015 18:32

Funny how people who expect their road to be maintained at public expense don't then think the public should be allowed to use it.

ilovechristmas1 · 10/04/2015 18:32

my friend does this,anybody that dare parks outside her house (legal parking) she goes out and moans at them

ive tried to reason with her and she admits its not her land but she still does it,she has her own large drive so it dosent prevent her from parking by her own house

just smile and say nothing,that will annoy her

MendipsMary · 10/04/2015 18:33

I live in a road of terraced houses which is off a very busy shopping area which is also full of offices, bars and restaurants. Workers from the surrounding area all park in my road and it is a massive pain in the arse when you've a boot full of shopping, a toddler and a newborn and can't park anywhere near your own house!

BUT - we knew the situation when we moved here and wouldn't dream of having a go at anyone for parking here. It's the price we pay for living where we do. I don't even say anything to the selfish bastards people who take up 2 parking spaces by not pulling up closer to the car in front. I'd have a breakdown if I allowed myself to care about it.

So, take no notice. You pay your car tax so can park there. Tell her to apply to the council for 'Residents Only' parking

PrincessOfChina · 10/04/2015 18:38

She was wrong. However, I live on a road which is used by local workers to park and as per the previous poster it's a pain in the ass when you can't get parked even close to your own house because of it. BUT, we knew about it etc etc.

However, I have been known to pop out and ask people to park more considerately - for example, there are 3 spaces outside our house (drop keen either side) and several regulars have a habit of parking so they take up two of the spaces. I think I'm perfectly reasonable to point out their crap parking abilities. They wouldn't like it if I did it so they couldn't park for work.

TheChandler · 10/04/2015 18:44

YANBU. I don't really but this "you taxpaying bastards annoyingly going to your jobs". Either buy a country estate, live miles from anywhere or stop harassing people using public roads.

My favourite example of this actually happened in Austria (its obviously an international phenomenon). We had parked outside opposite a b&b on an empty, wide, residential street which was far enough from the centre not to have parking restrictions. On returning to my car, we were accosted by a screaming, mad eyed woman who indicated the road outside her property was hers. It was clearly public. We just looked at her as if she was mad, and pretended not to speak German. My memory of her is of a demented screaming medusa.

oldbrownboot · 10/04/2015 18:59

YANBU. My brother lives near a station where loads of people park in side streets. He once had to park round the corner from where his house was and someone put what looked like human faeces under the bonnet - presumably because they thought he was a commuter who'd parked in 'their' space. People are unbelievable!! We live in a road near 2 schools and people constantly park outside our house. There is coming and going all the time and when there are school trips with a late finish/ early start we get woken up (excited kids are NOISY). But we don't own the road (something I have to remind my DH of constantly) and knew the situation when we bought the house. If people like me in this situation don't like it, they can move to a house with a drive.

FryOneFatManic · 10/04/2015 19:33

I used to live on a street of terraced houses with on-street parking. It was considered a good day if I could park near the house, let alone outside it.

But that's what comes with living in a terrace. If you want your own parking you move to a house with parking space included, as we did.

Indantherene · 10/04/2015 19:39

The problem comes though when the residents have had enough and campaign for- and get - residents parking. Then all the cars move down to the next road. Then they complain, and so it goes on. That's what is happening near us.

madreloco · 10/04/2015 19:45

Well, she's got as much right to be annoyed as the pub owners do, in all honesty

Nope. Not even remotely. One is a private car park on their own land, one is public road where anyone can park.

If people parking on your road pisses you off, buy a house with private parking.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/04/2015 19:57

When I lived in a flat in the middle of a city, I used to consider it a bonus if I managed to get parked within a 10 minute walk of my flat.

I really don't understand why people get arsey about other people parking outside their house. It's even more silly when they live next to a station or a school or round the corner from the high street and clearly should have expected to have people parking there.

I do get annoyed about the absolutely awful car abandonment parking at the top of my street though, and the absolute idiots who drop their high school kids off. There's a station nearby and a high school and a big office building so I do actually expect people to park there. I just wish they'd park legally and sensibly. It's often treacherous trying to cross the road to get DS2 to school because people park on the corners and drive far too fast down the stretch of road). Or they simply stop in the middle of the junction (or along the double yellows further up, blocking the whole street up) while some 17 year olds take ages getting out to go to school. There is loads of space further up the road (we never get commuters or school parking outside our house), but people choose to drive and park dangerously rather than extend their (or their children's) walk by a whole minute.

Naty1 · 10/04/2015 21:23

Yanbu
But we live near a school where the intake has doubled in last 2 yrs so its much busier than when we moved here.
They have the space to extend but apparently no space to let parent drive in to pick up dc.
Then started complaining there was too much traffic in the area and suggested a ridiculous 1 way system.
The school coach parks right outside leaving engine on as it cant drive down the cul-de-sac. Coach windows level with bedroom windows and quite noisy with engine on. (They also often block the road as park there even if there are cars opposite.
Of course due to expansion there will be more dc driven as intake area is larger. Its not a problem people parking on the street so much as the number of times weve retuned to find driveway blocked (garage)
I do think business' newd to consider where their employees can park.
At my work the bosses had parking only the other parking was like £10 a day or more.
Same with hospitals, our 1 took on the a&e i think, but doesnt have anywhere near enough parking, then they wonder why people miss appts. You shouldnt have to take an extra 2 hours off work - or really expect patients to park on residental streets so they cant park.
Bit concerned as im booked to give birth there. Not only that its not great people arriving for a&e cant park that would be very stressful.

dangerrabbit · 10/04/2015 21:26

YANBU

People should petition for residents parking if they don't want random people parking there.

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