To be annoyed someone is pushing my wing mirror in?

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Incredibly trivial problem alert!

At home I park ever so slightly on the pavement - but it's a wide pavement and there's definitely room for people, prams, wheelchairs and even scooters to pass. And yet someone keeps tucking in my wing mirror. AIBU to think it's a bit rude to touch someone else's car?

lol, the responses just made me giggle.

It's more rude to park on the pavement

At home I park ever so slightly on the pavement illegally

Fixed that for you!

You say the road isn't very wide but, unless there are markings allowing you to park on the pavement, you can not do this. If it is a real problem have you tried to get "pavement parking" allowed?

Is there room for someone who is blind with a guide dog? Or are they going to walk into it. If you really have to park on the pavement fold it in yourself.

I would suspect a 'helpful' neighbour with far too much time on their hands. I would def just push it in myself. Then you know it hasn't been slammed in. Slamming it in might set off the alarm so they probably wouldn't do that.

Now that I know inconsiderate parkers are irritated by this, I'm going to take great delight in doing it as often as I can.

Are you certain it's not an automatic feature of your car? Long shot I know.

I have neighbours who park 'just' on the pavement. In a street with kids on bikes, prams, elderly and frail people who need to walk side by side to go out, etc.

Damn right I push wing mirrors in as I past the inconsiderate twats. They're lucky that's all I do.

Don't park on the pavement. The pavement is not for cars. It's REALLY simple.

People park like that in my area too, as you said the pavements are wide and the road isn't! It's common around here to park half on pavement half on road.

However in some cases I have not been able to get past cars with a buggy and its annoyed me (always the same damn car, which winds me up more). So it could be people with a wider buggy, double or large mobility scooter.

Glad to see you taking it on the chin op.

Your right doing it yourself means it won't get slammed

Victorian street here. Narrow roads and pavements. One side parks on road but everyone tucks in wing mirrors. Other side has to park up on pavement otherwise buses couldn't get past. They tuck in wing mirrors too. If we didn't, people couldn't get past nor could buses or emergency vehicles, at least not without damaging our mirrors.

Lots to pavement parkers here. I actually got into a very sweaty shouting match with one just after having DS. His argument was that the pavement was very wide so there was plenty of room. Which was true.... If it weren't for the huge overhanging bushes on the other side which I would have had to walk through. Unless there are specific markings to park in the pavement then don't park on the pavement. And yes, I regularly turn people's wing mirrors in. Would you prefer I just barged into them with the pram?

Ever so slightly weird. I would never interfere with someone's wing mirror no matter where it's parked. I pavement park if the road is narrow.

It's not illegal to park on the pavement in most places. However., it is illegal to drive on the pavement. You can't park on the pavement without driving onto it. So it is illegal.

I tuck peoples wing mirrors in if there is not enough room to pass. two children with disabilities/additional needs makes walking along tricky even when we thread through one after another. if there is reaonable room we are a bit more careful.

here though you can be killed walking in the road as people drive with complete disregard for life and limb and the pavements are in places quite narrow.

I have to walk four kids to school every morning, two on scooters, one just turned two year old who insists on walking falling over all the way to school.

We are not narrow. We generally use the entire pavement. I'd push your wing mirror in to avoid it taking one of my children's heads off.

I forgot the pram I also have to push while juggling my menagerie.

Lets see have you ever seen a child ride or scoot or even walk into a wing mirror - thought not. Then you have disabled people - people with poor vision etc etc

you are parked on a pavement at least do it in the safest way possible even though IT IS ILLEGAL unless there is a local by law and even then you should do it safely.

Just tuck it in yourself and stop making a mountain out of a molehill

Wing mirrors used to be a nightmare for me, when my eldest was young. She's got ADHD and other stuff and would run along and not expect to numb into something.

A wing mirror is at a child's head height and wheelchair handle height. I've walked my dog (on the inside) and taken my Mum out in her chair, at the same time, getting around cars/bins can be a PITA.

It's obviously making someone's life difficult, so tuck it in yourself.

Pavements are for people not vehicles, however wide they are.

You're lucky someone is only tucking in your wing mirror and not scraping down the side of the car.

If the road isn't wide enough to park on, then park somewhere else.

if we didnt park on our pavement here emergency service couldnt get through-not saying its right or wrong but id rather inconvenience pedestrians than emergency services

Where do people that say 'park somewhere else' actually expect people to park in residential area's with no garage or driveway?? In someone elses street? Perhaps then forcing those residents to park in someone elses street too? Vicious circle!
A vicious circle that even new developments are not helping with. I think even 1 bed properties should all have 2 spaces each.

sniffle, you park your vehicle on the road or a designated space - the pavement is for pedestrians or access. You're lucky is just your wing mirror that's been moved for you.

It is illegal to park on a pavement in London

London is must not making it illegal, everywhere else is should not meaning it is not illegal.

Exeter has its own Act of Parliament that states it is illegal there.

It comes down to obstruction of the pavement. When my son did "mini police" as part of his school program they ticketed cars which wouldn't allow a wheelchair past. If there was room for a double wide buggy they wouldn't ticket. And yes, they had a tape measure with them.

I don't park on the pavement but live on a narrow road and people often put my road side wing mirror in if they have a big vehicle. I really appreciate them doing this rather than taking it off