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Original poster

a parking one with a note from neighbour

490 replies

KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 13:42

This is the letter left on DP's van yesterday. We live at 215, attached to 213, then there's a road and then 211 where note writer lives.

I'm having to sit on my hands so I don't write a response. AIBU to think this is a bit passive aggressive or AIBU to park van there?

[Message from MNHQ: We've had to remove the attached letter as it was a bit too identiyfing. We realise the rest of the thread will make little sense now to anyone new to the thread, but we're leaving it up so the OP can continue to discuss with those already on board].

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paniniswapx3 · 04/06/2016 22:09

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Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:10

I'm patronising?! Mrs 'you should have more consideration for her this could be distressing blah blah fucking blah'

If you feel patronised, that's your problem.

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:11

Actually was that u or magnum? Both of your posts just blend into one mass of bullshit.

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:12

Doesn't matter, you both went on about the address like op had shot a fucking puppy or something.

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KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 22:13

The van is no louder than a car, we've never had complaints about the van starting up. There is a car park but it belongs to the stables and the nature reserve and is locked around 6.30 pm until the morning, 8 ish I think. I didn't say the van wouldn't fit on the drive, I did say that it won't fit on the drive with the other cars on it. He parked in what we all thought was a reasonable place i.e not blocking the traffic, not parking on the pavement, not blocking neighbour's drive, not ruining one of the bits of grass verge at the front of the house. I'm considerate to all that. I did not for a minute think that someone could be so pissed off with seeing 6" of white van protruding over their 6'ft fence at the side if their house, on a side road. Of course we will do our best not to deliberately piss someone off, my mum and i have both been round to reiterate that's it's a temporary thing for 2-3 weeks max and it might on the odd occasion be the only place to park. Next week it won't be there at all, DP is away, we could be leaving at the weekend but she's told us, not asked, that under no circumstances can it be parked there, if it is, she'll report us

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cherrytree63 · 04/06/2016 22:13

The neighbour obviously isn't a MNetter....she'd have penguin bollards up in the blink of an eye if she was in the know Grin

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:15

Op don't give it any more thought, as long as you try the best you can to stay out of their way evidently sometimes it can't be avoided and that is just tough on them.

Chippednailvarnishing · 04/06/2016 22:15

In all likely hood there isn't anything she could report you for, so I'd carry on. Is she on glue?

Ahh Penguin bollards, takes me to a happy place!

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:15

What's she going to report you for? And who to?

OneMagnumisneverenough · 04/06/2016 22:15

I did say that it won't fit on the drive with the other cars on it.

Bollocks

poster KinkyAfro Sat 04-Jun-16 13:44:24
I should have said we're staying with mum until our new house is ready, we already have 2 cars on drive, van is too big to fit through

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KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 22:16

And I don't know where Wolverhampton came from, we in Manchester Grin

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KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 22:17

May I suggest you read the post after that Magnum and stop picking and choosing the parts that suit

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Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:17

No, just your self richeous attitude, magnum.

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KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 22:18

You might make threads up Magnum but I don't, I'm not gaining anything by doing so

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PreciousVagine · 04/06/2016 22:19

Oh, why do people never follow through when they announce they are flouncing from a thread?

Anyway, who will she report you to? The six inch sky block police?

Ceic · 04/06/2016 22:19

Sounds to me like you should carry on as you were before then. Park the van there - it's legal to do so. Let her report it. What are the police going to do? Knock on your door and ask you to move it, at the most, I bet.

I think you've been as considerate to all the neighbours as you can be - choosing to keep most of your vehicles on the drive and park the last one with causing obstruction or blocking the pavement.

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:19

Kinky did she say who she would report to/ what she would report? As your husband isn't breaking the law by all accounts?

OneMagnumisneverenough · 04/06/2016 22:20

Hmm okay, well I'll read the bit where I apologised to you for asking more than once why you wouldn't just park on the drive and then someone saying you'd answered that in the first post so me going back to the first post and realising I'd missed you saying it didn't fit through the gap onto to find out that that was bollocks.

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:21

Sorry dp Blush I've just married you off mumsnet style

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KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 22:21

What's she going to report you for? And who to? Magnum and Panini I think

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Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:22

Sorry kinky I meant the neighbour

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KinkyAfro · 04/06/2016 22:22

Its ok Querty, we getting married in a month 😁

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Mumsnottheword · 04/06/2016 22:22

OP is not being unreasonable
Neighbours are not being unreasonable to ask, but it is a public road and they should accept that OP is entitled to park there and is not bring unneighbourly because he has no convenient alternative

imo!

Querty12345 · 04/06/2016 22:23

As in who is the neighbour going to report you to if you don't comply with the law ........... That they made up