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to ignore this note on my car?

38 replies

buildersteaplease · 01/07/2015 23:50

I recently moved to a new house where I have a drive big enough for one car. Last week I bought a new car as my current rustbucket is finally going to scrapheap heaven. Over the past week I've been driving the new car and the old one has sat on the drive. I've been parking down the road (suburb where most of the houses have drives and theres plenty of on street parking for the few houses that don't).

Then I remembered that my insurance on the new car has that the car is parked off road when at home. So last night I swapped the cars over. Came home from work today to find a note on my old car from someone in the neighbourhood telling me not to 'take up parking on the road' but to park my old car over my drive. I hadnt done this as it blocks the pavement and would make it difficult for the house opposite to get their car off their drive. I'm not parked directly outside someone's house but on a section of the road where no houses overlook. My old car will be gone in a few days anyway (when I sort out a scrapmerchant).

Normally this wouldn't phase me but I recently became a single parent and having moved to a new area am feeling a little vulnerable living alone with my DC. Don't want to piss the locals off in case there's retribution but at the same time I dont think i've done anything wrong.

Wibu to ignore the note?

OP posts:
lushilaoshi · 02/07/2015 10:35

Oh people are so pathetic. Ignore.

Clutterbugsmum · 02/07/2015 10:41

If you can't find a scrapmerchant you could try your local fire brigade they sometimes take old cars to practice on.

SandInMySandwiches · 02/07/2015 11:17

I can't stand this sort of shit. Who the hell do they think they are? Vandalising your property too? OP, you have done nothing wrong. Please don't bow to this. You can bet they are the sorts who have fuck-all going on in their lives and twitch their curtains all bloody day.

SistersofPercy · 02/07/2015 11:17

The newspaper would be final step. I'd leave it there now until the tax ran out and then send it to scrap.

SylvaniansAtEase · 02/07/2015 11:29

Sorry but they'd have shot themselves in the foot with the newspaper if it were me.

Note on the bonnet:

'To the person who left a note on my car and presumably also added newspaper to the windscreen after it. This car is taxed and insured, and can legally be parked here until Kingdom Come. I WAS going to be sending it to scrap next week. However, seeing as you clearly enjoy decorating other people's property, I'll be generous and leave it for you to enjoy for another week :) The car will now be scrapped after I see it has remained untouched, and un-noted, for two weeks clear. Enjoy restraining yourself :) :) :) '

PennilynLott · 02/07/2015 11:50

Lovely use of smileys

Hissy · 02/07/2015 13:31

Sylvanian wins the internet with that post

ADORE the PA smilies...

do it OP Grin

dixiechick1975 · 02/07/2015 13:54

I've never scrapped a car or been to a scap yard. The thought of driving miles to one (I they are near industrial estate because a dog escaped from one and bit a teenage girl on the leg) How do you get home afterwards?

So the one call and they collect it appealed to me.

Bet the fireman would give you a lift home if you donated it though.

Have to say i'd be tempted to leave it too now.

IsItMeOr · 02/07/2015 14:29

YANBU.

We ignored a note put on our windscreen when parked legally in a residents-only parking space, with our residents' parking permit.

A few days later, we came to use the car (in an emergency) to find that some kind soul had slashed a tyre. In a cul de sac, with no through pedestrian traffic.

However, you have the upper hand here, as you presumably do not care what happens to your car. So I think Sylvanian might just have the answer...

Topseyt · 02/07/2015 14:36

Dixie, many scrap merchants will come and collect the car for a small fee. If it is a local merchant the fee will not be large.

Often they will pay in cash (ours did), and you can deduct the fee from what you get.

I paid a local merchant about £20 to collect my old car. I still got about £150 for it in cash. Far better than paying the local council to come and remove it. You pay the fee and get nothing in return that way.

Tuskerfull · 02/07/2015 14:39

Wow. Forget about annoying the neighbours, this would give me the rage at them instead!

I had a note left on my car asking me to "park more considerately," completely ignoring the fact that I had to park across the dividing line of two bays because of the massive bloody van doing the same thing next to me. I notice the cowards didn't leave a note for the van driver. It still gives me the rage years later, because I didn't know which neighbour it was and couldn't confront them.

I would definitely go with Sylvanian's suggestion.

bikeandrun · 02/07/2015 14:45

Put your old car on ebay, mine had a completely knackered clutch and was beyond economic repair, got £400 cash offer the next day a nice man came and took it away on a low loader, possibly could have got more but insurance had run out and no where legal to park it.

eurochick · 02/07/2015 14:47

I'd leave a note saying:

  1. The car is taxed, insured and legally parked on a public road.
  2. I'm new to the area. Thanks for the lovely welcome!
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