A parking one!

[holidaysareoverated]

We have put in a new driveway and the council have dropped the kerb outside. However, they have failed to remove the markings that there used to be a parking space there. The markings are a bit of a mess as the old markings are there alongside the guides the council have put there to show where they are moving the parking space to.

A young girl has come along, parked her car, put her headphones in and walked off in the direction of the town centre. I didn't have time to run out and stop her and the headphones meant shouting after her wouldn't have done any good.

Would I be unreasonable to request that the council send a warden out to give her a ticket?

There is no way that she could have missed that she was parking across our drive. It's large and has a big car parked on it. There were 2 parking spaces there and our drive is bang in the middle... she has parked her small Fiesta in the middle too. So right over the dropped kerb with no attempt to leave any room for access. Had it still been a parking space she would be effectively stopping another car from being able to park there. If she had parked at the beginning or end of the bay we could have still got off our driveway.

So What would you do?

[Cherrysoup]

Top right Start new thread. Don’t resurrect zombie threads from 5 years ago!

[Ionlywantwantsbest]

I didn’t know how

[KillingOksana]

@Ionlywantwantsbest you need to start your own thread. Not post on a zombie thread.

[Ionlywantwantsbest]

Please reply. She will also be going away with my 8 year old nephew and 12 year old niece...

[Ionlywantwantsbest]

My parents want to take my what will be 5 year old daughter away on holiday with what will be her 6 year old niece when it happens for 2 weeks. I think it will be the best thing ever for her but Mam thinks she will miss her 2much I don’t. We have been separated since she has been 18 months old she spend 3/4 nights a week with me shift depending and isn’t dependent on her mother because it is the norm... what are your opinions? Take into account the child’s fun first before anxieties please

[MagpieCursedTea]

Now watch the OP get fined for graffiti

[Collaborate]

OP - You're not the first person to have this happen to them (apologies for the Daily Fail link)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649414/Furious-grandmother-stuck-home-council-workers-paint-parking-space-driveway.html

[DayLillie]

Or park your own car across the drive

No - she'll get a parking ticket, like the rest

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Or park your own car across the drive.

[pippop1]

Yellow chalk and draw criss-cross boxes over the spaces. Might work, until it rains.

[CoogerAndDark]

Well yes, they'll be in no hurry to change it, no skin off their arse if people keep getting tickets. Perhaps a small sign warning of the bay's being out of service. That way anyone who chances it has no excuse not to have realised.

[holidaysareoverated]

Wow! This thread is still rumbling on.

My Husband was at home yesterday and said that another couple of cars got tickets for parking across the drive. It didn't matter so much though as I had already taken the car out. I may have to get some chalk and write NO PARKING on the road as the council are in no hurry to alter the markings. I'm guessing at £80 a ticket they are relishing the confusion.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I was not way more scientific, if I am honest, Coogar - the site I googled was way more scientific.

[CoogerAndDark]

Lol Kittens

[KittensOnAPlane]

whats the saying "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink."

haha - found this one when searching for the right wording

Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity

[CoogerAndDark]

Meh, SDTG was way more scientific than me

[StormyLlewellyn]

Mince and mashed potatoes, shepherds pie!

[GraysAnalogy]

Ahhh I got it completely the wrong way round but oh well..

[CoogerAndDark]

Red sky at night, shepherds' delight. Red sky in morning, shepherd's warning.

[GraysAnalogy]

I don't know why I didn't say green, I've seen a pink sky quite a few times. What's the thing, pink sky at night shepherds delight?

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

It's OK, Exit - during sunset, the sky can be pink. It is rare, but sometimes when the conditions are right and there is
reflection of the light off clouds high up in the atmosphere we can see
some of the shorter wavelengths giving us those rare pinks and purples.

[GraysAnalogy]

Hahahha

[ExitPursuedByABear]

The sky isn't pink?

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I understand you are expressing an opinion, and I know what an opinion is, LilMissSunshine - I am saying it is an ill-informed, and therefore valueless opinion.

If your opinion is based on a complete refusal to take the facts given by the OP, then it can't carry any weight or command any respect.

[GraysAnalogy]

You can have an opinion but it doesn't mean its right.

I can have the opinion that the sky is pink but everyone knows I'm wrong