Wibu to have scratched this car?

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Taking dtwins out in our double stroller, cars parked right on the pavement , can't walk on the road, too much traffic. Was I unreasonable to force my pram though, scratching one of the bigger cars in the process?

Out of interest, how do MNHQ know a troll user is genuine, if they don't even have a proper username?? The fact OP is called user645849204730 surely means they could have joined up just to post this?

Ummmmmm.......

SOUPDRAGON - is this you or someone making out that they are you?

YANBU - my understanding is that you didn't get your key out and deliberately key the car as a punishment for their inconsideration, you just damaged the car in the act of being a pedestrian wheeling your pushchair along the pavement (which is for pedestrians and NOT cars). I'm rather alarmed at the support for the entitled car owner who obviously doesn't understand the rules of the road.

People parking partially on the pavement isn't an issue IMO. It's those who park on the pavement (which is not a car parking space, it's worth remembering) and leave so little room that they've blocked the path of those who should be able to reasonable assume they have use of the pavement. If a person has parked in such a way that a wheelchair or buggy can't get past, they're a twat. And if they've parked like that because otherwise there's no room for cars or busses to get past, they should be finding somewhere else to park rather than creating an obstruction.

Definitely not unreasonable. If someone parks on the pavement they take the risk that people will need to get past and their car might get scratched. I am not going to risk the life of myself or my children because of some selfish arsehole

But If it's not done on purpose how is it done accidentally? Generally people still park straight (what I've seen), so either you're scratching the whole side deeply, which is a bit OTT but where I live there are so many dropped curbs and not that much traffic, so I could easily walk the other side without danger etc and ease, but that's just my situation.or you can get through and decide to have a bit of retribution because it was an annoyance.

I think you were U OP. I had a year or so with a double buggy and live on and around narrow roads. Yes, sometimes I had to walk round, and sometimes I had to cross over or go a different way entirely.

I'm also a company car driver, car is very much a tool for doing the job rather than a perk. I have to pay to make good damaged bodywork or paint work that happened outside work. Other people's scratches on my last car cost me £600, although I could always manage to manoeuvre my buggy round my car harmlessly.

I had to pay £50 out of my salary every month for a year. That's a lot on top of 2 x childcare.

Lunar - I'm trying very hard to think of a road round me that doesn't have a dropped kerb. Yes, it may be a case of retracing steps or having a little foresight and crossing over prior to the obstruction.

I don't believe I lack empathy but maybe I do in others eyes.
I just think people are unnecessarily vindictive when they feel they are wronged, regardless of whether tardy parking was an oversight of the consequences or not.

The only part of my area that restricts parking are the bus stops and schools... They've tried the re-routing of the buses, it didn't work as the elderly, disabled, people with young children had to walk further.

But if the cars parked on the road: ambulances, fire engines, police vans, buses, refuse trucks, delivery trucks... Basically anything bigger than a 4x4 will get stuck.

There isn't anything people can do, seeing as the council took the decision to narrow the road so the pavements could be wider... It's very rare that there's a car in your way completely.

Interesting first post, OP.

I've often wondered what is considered an acceptable first post...

I use a mobility scooter most of the time, and in our rural town, the pavements are often (mostly!) really narrow, and the dropped kerbs are few and far between (and badly planned).

If I'm unable to get past a badly parked car in the first 500 yards after leaving my house, then I have to go back home and start again going in the opposite direction and take a detour of a good mile before I get to the (wrong end of the) shops.

It is not safe to cross the road just outside my house, it's a complicated junction with no islands, with a main road coming down a steep hill round a corner, down which motorists speed at as much as 70mph (much screeching of brakes). Not to mention lack of dropped kerbs.

My detour takes me along the A303 where there is no pavement. I avoid it at this time of year.

I take great pleasure in taking photos of the occasional badly parked cars which block my way, and leaving a note telling the driver that he should look at www.parkedlikeacunt

I'm with you (sort of) OP - if I can't get my pushchair through easily, I won't particularly take care about it as they shouldn't have parked on the pavement bit i wouldn't set out to scratch it.

On our road people parlike on the pavement on a blind bend - I am not taking my pushchair onto the road when I can't see the oncoming traffic! Especially as the dick that does it parks there in preference to their bloody driveway!

park not parlike!

For fucks sack, taking a terminally ill disabled person on more medicine than stocked in boots and a tracheostomy out takes enough planning before hand thank you very much.

I'll stick with squeezing through the gap thank you, rather than back tracking or going out of my way. The try colours of some posters are really shining through on this thread. I'm guessing we should have just sat at home waiting for him to die.

YANBU. I wouldn't risk my child's safety to protect the car of some dickhead who thinks it's ok to block the pavement without a thought for pedestrians. I've experienced block pavements both with a buggy and as a carer pushing people in wheelchairs. I wouldn't deliberately scratch a car but if that was a consequence of having to squeeze past and there was no safe alternative then so be it. Not sure why the OP is supposed to give more consideration to a stranger's hunk of metal than that stranger gave to actual people.

If it was purposeful, yabu, but from what I can see it was not your fault you accidentally scratched their car. You could leave a note of apology but really, there wasn't much you could do - walking into the road with a pram is surely not expected?

Surely you are just being a goady drama llama here? On the street I love on we HAVE to park on the pavement to make the road wide enough for emergency vehicles to get through. If you scratchet my car I be so furious, how entitled can ne person be?!?!?

Forget unreasonable .. You were a knob but you know this and felt the need to gloat about your entitled knobness... Delightful creature that you are let's hope your don't breed this delightfulness into your kids.

No one HAS to park on the pavement. Find another place to park where you will not be causing obstruction to other traffic or pedestrians. Or accept that your car may well be scratched or wing mirrors damaged.

Just because a street has plenty of dropped kerbs doesn't mean a thing. Have you ever looked at them properly? I can't use lots of them on my mobility scooter as they're still too high and could break it if I tried bumping down.

Yes YABU. You are stooping to their level.

Take a photo and report them to the police. That's what we do around these parts.

I once had to walk down the middle of the road with my twin newborns in a double pram because arseholes decided that although there were parking bays on either side, they weren't big enough so they would park up on the kerb.

While I can't really condone what you did I can't condemn it either!

Have done it, will probably do it again, feel no remorse for it. Bollocks to them if they want to park like a prick. I'm not pushing my kids into a busy main road to avoid scratching a fucking car.

Forget unreasonable .. You were a knob but you know this and felt the need to gloat about your entitled knobness

No she wasn't a knob. The knob was the person who blocked the pavement. Plus those of you who place a higher value on a fucking car than you do on a woman and two children.
Un-fucking-believable!