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Parking thread - Genuinely not sure if IABU

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Rhayader · 01/03/2017 10:52

Dropping off DC1 at nursery today it was extremely busy - DC1 has been going to this nursery for almost 3 years and it's never been this busy.

The nursery is in a little business park where there are offices for building companies or other non-shop businesses. The yellow unit is a unit that does have customers visiting the site, probably around 2 an hour and they leave their parking spaces free for customers. There is a little private road that is in between the units and the parking spaces that loops round to the main A road.

The diagram shows a colour for the unit and a colour for each of the parking spaces, you can see that they are empty.

I am usually car 1 or 2 at the drop off but today because it was ridiculously busy I was car 5 (the blue car). I actually waited for a few minutes but none of the cars 1-4 were moving, two of them had people sat in the car on their phones (so i thought they might be about to drive off), we were about to be late so instead of waiting for slot 1 or 2 I quickly parked as car 5 and ran in to drop of DC1. This took maybe 2 minutes - just a drop and run.

When i came out a man had come out of the yellow unit and he started to shout at me about how i cant park in front of his unit and how it's a road and you cant park on a road. I said that I was sorry but there were no spaces free and I was only 2 minutes.

He pointed to some of the blue and orange free spaces and said i should have parked there. I asked if it would be better if i parked in one of the yellow spaces and he said no because they are private and I should park in one of the other units spaces. I said that they were private too and that there are no markings that prohibit parking where I parked.

I then quickly put DC2 in the car seat and drove off.

I'm not sure if this will happen again as its not happened in 3 years of parking here but WIBU to park there?

Parking thread - Genuinely not sure if IABU
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Gladiatorsready · 01/03/2017 11:50

YANBU agrre with others that you were probably the straw. LOVE the diagram.

TheProblemOfSusan · 01/03/2017 11:51

That looks like legal parking to me though I would be inclined to ask in the nursery next time you have chance to double check. Agree with PP that the yellow unit man had obviously got a bee in his bonnet about it and you might have been the last straw that morning. But I don't think you did anything wrong based on the diagram.

Oh, the diagram. Such a beautiful diagram. Glorious. Beyond rubies, that diagram. If we had parking diagram Oscars you would win.

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 01/03/2017 11:53

I would have parked in the same place at you TBH. It doesn't look as though you were actually blocking anybody from anything. I would have thought it worse to use one of the blue or orange spaces (or yellow spaces), if they are clearly marked as private.

Anyway though, diagram wise. Do you give lessons on how to produce something like that? Mine would be a photo of a felt tip drawing Blush. Not that there's anything wrong with a decent felt tip diagram.

youngestisapsycho · 01/03/2017 11:54

I think you know it wasn't an issue and just wanted to show off your amazing diagram making skills! Wink

ElvishArchdruid · 01/03/2017 11:54

Parking diagram hero!

Just for the effort you put in to the diagram, which must have been longer than you parked in that space, YADNBU! A new standard of parking diagram, I doubt will ever be beaten.

Did you end it with, '... and a good day to you Sir?' If you did you win MN for 2 days not 1!

1frenchfoodie · 01/03/2017 11:56

Brilliant diagram. Parking looks legal to me in the absence of signs etc.

Angry guy sounds as though he got out of the wrong side of bed given the 2 parking spaces for his customers were free. I'm guessing his customers prefer to park right in front of his shop and can do so given there are no restrictions i.e. for exactly the reasons you are able to park there.

Original poster
Rhayader · 01/03/2017 12:02

SantasLittleMonkeyButler I make a lot of presentations for my job and generally end up adding shapes in powerpoint. That's all I did here. Draw a line i need drag into position. This is a pretty rough diagram, things not lining up properly on the bays, and yellow lines not aligned.

So for example, for the parking bays i drew one line, copy, paste, paste. Drag into position, then highlight all 3 and copy, paste, paste, paste. Then you have all the bays. You can right click on elements of the diagram and "send to back" or "send to front" if they are overlapping with things you don't want them to.

You can turn several elements into one element by right clicking and selecting "group" this is pretty useful too.

1frenchfoodie I've never actually seen anyone park in front of his unit before, but I have seen people in his bays. It's not the kind of business that accepts walk in traffic so the only thing that must annoy him is blocking the view (there isn't one) or light (more likely). The units all have floor to ceiling windows that are mirrored so I cant see in but they can see out.

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Mamadothehump · 01/03/2017 12:03

Doesn't sound like YWBUto me and that diagram HAS to be the best one on MN I have ever seen!! Bravo op

Noodoodle · 01/03/2017 12:04

Hmmm, I probably would've parked in the yellow actual space rather than where you did (unless it says for customers only or you get ticketed or something) but he's still being awkward.

Kudos for the diagram though, did it take longer to daw than typing the post?? And loving the labelled "angry man".

HappyFlappy · 01/03/2017 12:08

loving the labelled "angry man".

Attention to detail - it makes all the difference.

JaniceBattersby · 01/03/2017 12:11

I think mn hq need to introduce a new topic. Diagram school. OP could be the teacher.

It should be mandatory before posting any AIBU thread with parking in the title.

5moreminutes · 01/03/2017 12:12

People saying he's "paid for the space" through renting the unit - how is that actually enforceable if it isn't communicated to the public in some way? If he's paid for the space he's bought the emperor's new clothes surely?

CotswoldStrife · 01/03/2017 12:13

Going slightly against the flow of opinion here but that doesn't look like a marked parking space so no, you shouldn't have parked there.

Mummyoflittledragon · 01/03/2017 12:15

If you park in front of the units, how can they make or take deliveries? If they can't, he does have a point. The way he went about it sounds unpleasant. I'd have a chat with the nursery. See what they suggest. It sounds as though it's poorly situated unfortunately.

1ris · 01/03/2017 12:15

Love your diagram but I need to come back to read the thread as I'm supposed to be working.

SasBel · 01/03/2017 12:15

Brava! Excellent diagram. YANBU. Angry man was BU. Agree with PP, ask nursery for advice.

Cuppaoftea · 01/03/2017 12:16

YWNBU but I would have kept it to 'very sorry', put my toddler in the car and driven off. Nursery drop off and pick up time must get very annoying for the businesses located there, the units closer to the nursery look like they constantly have parents cars in front of their entrances/windows?

Sounds like the nursery need to issue some guidance to parents on parking . . . and ask them not to sit in their car on their phones when they've dropped their children off with accesd being so restricted.

RhodaBorrocks · 01/03/2017 12:18

I think we have reached peak diagram. Star Star Star

JungleInTheRumble · 01/03/2017 12:19

I clicked on this for the diagram and was not disappointed...

If there was nothing saying you couldn't park there then why not? Maybe I missed it but are cars 1 - 4 in marked out spaces? If not then why should angry man have any more rights to the road than green and red unit (who presumably always have cars in front of them at drop off time)?

Original poster
Rhayader · 01/03/2017 12:21

JungleInTheRumble mummyoflittledragon

There are no markings at all other than the ones on the diagram. So 1-4 are not in marked spaces and nor is 5.

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Man10 · 01/03/2017 12:21

Going slightly against the flow of opinion here but that doesn't look like a marked parking space so no, you shouldn't have parked there

There's no rule that says you can only park in marked spaces. For example, you can at certain times park on a single yellow line, even though there's no marked space.

In general, no markings on a public road means you are allowed to park.

Inthesleeplessnightgarden · 01/03/2017 12:31

Loving the diagram.
It definitely blows mine of yesterday out of the water. You may take the trophy 🏆🏆🏆. StarStarStar🥇🥇🥇

Mummyoflittledragon · 01/03/2017 12:38

You didn't answer my question. Can they take or make deliveries with the cars parked in front?

1bighappyfamily · 01/03/2017 12:40

Anyone else feeling sorry for yesterday's OP and her felt tip diagram. We thought that was good and Rhayader pulls THIS out. Fabulous. Well done.

Original poster
Rhayader · 01/03/2017 12:41

Mummyoflittledragon

Sorry, it's not really a business that would have many deliveries, they sell a service not products, but there would have been enough room behind my car easily if they were was a delivery - also there would have been space in one of their bays.

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