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AIBU?

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Original poster

to be furious at this school run parking nightmare woman?

327 replies

missced · 05/01/2017 15:54

So, excuse me while I try to calm down..... it has only just happened you see! Angry. Usual scenario,, busy residential street, school run parking at a premium. I always scrupulously avoid parking over residents driveway exits where there is a single dropped kerb. I have just been told off by some van driver's wife (house has four cars parked out front) for parking over part of their double dropped kerb. Their kerb is twice the size of everyone else's, no doubt to feed their car collecting fetish, but my point is, as I made politely to her, that I had left an exit for her. It just wasn't the one she wanted to use. I know tempers get inflamed at these times, but our local situation is terrible, and I try my best not to upset anyone. I used to live on the same road, it's a small community, and I don't want to be unreasonable but this woman was so condescending and entitled and told me off like a six year old with a toileting problem. If it was a question of access for pushchairs, wheelchairs or the blind it would be different. Why should she assume she can have two free spaces on the street outside her house when everyone else gets one? I am looking forward to tomorrow's parking battle Shock.

OP posts:
Mol1628 · 05/01/2017 16:12

YABU

EvansOvalPies · 05/01/2017 16:13

I have just been told off by some van driver's wife (house has four cars parked out front)

Some van driver's wife - that sounds a bit condescending all on it's own. Oh, and YABU, for the reasons others have pointed out.

CaptainHammer · 05/01/2017 16:13

Seriously? YABVU.

wevecomeonholidaybymistake · 05/01/2017 16:14

YABU. You don't park over a dropped kerb, I'm not surprised she was arsey with you.

NerrSnerr · 05/01/2017 16:14

I agree with the majority. You parked over her drive, you were wrong. They probably paid for the double dropped curb because of all the school parents parking over their drive all the while.

FaFoutis · 05/01/2017 16:14

Another YABU from me.

Lweji · 05/01/2017 16:16

YABU.

You should have apologised to her.

Soubriquet · 05/01/2017 16:16

Yep yabu

You can't park there

Witchend · 05/01/2017 16:17

I think you were quite lucky to be spoken to as if you were 6yo. You were wrong and could be tickets (has happened near our school where one of the dropped kerbs has bushes all along. You are still not allowed to park over)

Lweji · 05/01/2017 16:17

Also: car collecting fetish Grin

You don't know who owns the cars and what they're for.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 05/01/2017 16:18

Yup. You lost me at 'van driver's wife'. An argument should stand on its own merits, without relying on snobby personal insults.

EvansOvalPies · 05/01/2017 16:20

Lweji - yes, that was going to be my next comment, actually! Man drives the van (presumably for his business) woman has a car, probably a couple of adult children (or visitors) have cars too. Home owner has paid for dropped kerb facility to enable easy access for cars of the household.

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 05/01/2017 16:20

Yabu

AldrinJustice · 05/01/2017 16:20

YABU - I'm sure it's an ticketable offence in all boroughs but you don't park on dropped kerbs. I'd be yelling at you too if it was my house and if I remember correctly the homeowner would have to pay the council to drop the kerb outside their house if they were installing a new drive, the schools around my area are so unbelievably chock a block with stupidly and dangerously parked cars it pisses me off. Parents do not give a shit as long as they get a place close enough, park 10 mins down the road and walk up if there's no space!

SocksRock · 05/01/2017 16:21

Could have been her van and you made her late for work by parking so she couldn't get her van out. I would be equally livid if you parked over my dropped curb

handslikecowstits · 05/01/2017 16:21

Quite unreasonable of you.

I have a dropped kerb at the end of my drive. If you'd parked at the end of it, I'd have given you a trouser-based mouthful and not a single fuck would have been given.

wifeyhun · 05/01/2017 16:22

YABU you have a cheek!

EweAreHere · 05/01/2017 16:22

You were completely in the wrong, OP. Completely. You should not have been parked there.

DeathStare · 05/01/2017 16:23

This is a reverse surely?

Everyone knows that there is no sympathy for dropped-kerb-parkers on mumsnet.

EverythingEverywhere1234 · 05/01/2017 16:24

a van driver's wife Hmm well. Who is condescending here?
YABU. Hope that helps. You don't park over a dropped kerb.

dibbley · 05/01/2017 16:24

some van driver's wife Grin
you can't be serious op - nice try though

PotteringAlong · 05/01/2017 16:25

You were spoken to like a 6 year old because you failed to grasp a simple rule of the Highway Code. You don't block a dropped kerb. She was right here and you were wrong.

Runny · 05/01/2017 16:25

If it's such a small community, why don't you walk to the school instead of inconveniencing the residents by dumping your car outside someones house?

I don't know about anyone else but I'm thoroughly sick of entitled parents who think they can dump their cars wherever they like because their need to collect/drop off their children from school is far more important than the safety, courtesy and convenience of everyone else in the vicinity.

AuntieStella · 05/01/2017 16:25

Must be a reverse, as the only nightmare person in this is the one who parks over dropped kerbs.

VivienneWestwoodsKnickers · 05/01/2017 16:25

I bloody hate the school run parents at the school near my house - the paths get blocked, many of them double park in the road, they cover dropped kerbs, driveways, front doors, take up double the room they need to and the number of them that I see driving whilst using a mobile phone gives me the rage.

YABU. You should not have parked there.

Parents should generally park further away and teach their kids that the exercise is healthy, and that their parents have manners. This obsession with getting to park in front of the school gates is going to see a child run over on my tiny residential dead end street.