I have a parking thread! With a note!

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Some wanker left this on DP's car.

I will acknowledge, members of the MN jury, that I did not see the car as DP parked it, and therefore cannot provide the all-important diagram (hard stare at DP). But, DP assures me it was in the lines, not taking up a larger space than needed, and basically not parked like a dick. However, today there were about forty zillion 'visitor's permit' cars in the zone we're allowed to park in, plus some illegally parked, and so ours ended up parked further away from home than usual. We reckon whoever has these just hands them out to any cars he (for so I am presuming, with my bitter feminazi heart) sees that he doesn't recognise.

Now, is it me, or is this wankery? And isn't anything that needs to announce it is a 'polite note' therefore, by definition, not a polite note? Also, he's wrong ... the whole car needs to be in the lines. I know, cos I've had a ticket before.

But let's admit it, there must be MNers who secretly wish they had the front to print out actual notes, right?

Oh dear, I must be a sad loser since I have printed out notes asking people to desist from parking across my drive. I'm just so sick of it.

The content is pretty silly in the context you describe but clearly some people do park really stupidly and after a while it really can give you the rage.

I don't think its that bad to be honest.

maybe he/she had ran out of 'park properly you wanker!' preprinted notes and only had the polite notice ones left?

I live in a parking permit zone and often see 'cunty parking' so I'm going to use the note as a template. Cunty parking is where you leave a space slightly smaller than a smart car in front of you and behind you so that you effectively take up the space of two or three cars.

My parking thread had diagrams and photos

Def wanky note though . I bet the bloke person sits behind their curtains wearing a hat and hi viz jacket just waiting for someone to park 'Inconsiderately'

I think it's quite polite - no doubt they've put up with plenty of parking issues to go this far. I wouldn't categorise it as wankery

they do MatildaTheCat, it gives me the rage and I dont even drive! but just lately I have been having problems with my back of late and I am even having to plan where I walk and cross the roads so I am on a flat surface constantly. one day last week some ignorant sod had parked completely across the pavement, the raised bit of the pavement for wheelchairs/prams/people like me. spent the rest of the walk wishing he'd get infested with camel fleas!

yes its a bit passive aggressive OP but im guessing its one of those things where you, well your other half, just had the misfortune to end up being that one person in a long line of 20/30 they'd dealt with that day/week. i'd let it go.

Of course it's a wanky note. There is no law against parking with a huge space either side of you if you so choose. And I admit it's annoying (if indeed that's what the OP's DP has done), what kind of wanker prints a note to tell someone?

I bet even if she'd parked so close you couldn't get a fag paper between her car and the one behind, she'd still have got a note. I bet he leaves notes on all cars that don't belong to his immediate neighbours.

I have a bloke on my street who painted his own white lines around his car and the neighbours so they would park according to his rules

It's a polite note.

AwaywiththePixies - we're all with you re the camel fleas for anyone else who parks on pavements, in bus stops and on zig zag lines.

It's not a wanky note. The issue here is that wankers don't realise that they're wankers and just need to be reminded. Unfortunately, it seems, the OP's DP, got caught up in some wankery, but the note doesn't fall under the heading of wankery.

Scholes what? not even with the hazards on and 'only for 2 minutes'????

I have a bloke on my street who painted his own white lines around his car and the neighbours so they would park according to his rules

I will introduce him to mystery note man, once I discover his identity. They'll get on beautifully.

Brian - you know what my response is!

I so thought this was going to be about the car near me today after someone had posted an A4 note on EVERY window with stop parking like a selfish Twat...

Wonders if pictish lives in my road.

Or are there 2 inconsiderate neighbour's daughter who cannot park for toffee?

Crappy parking gives me the rage- get this sometimes in front of my house when there is not quite enough room left to get a car in. If you are at the end of the bay, park right at the end, FFS!

I always want to counter such a polite notice with my own. I'd put "Rude notice: Fuck off".

Yeah, "Polite notice" really means "I'm British so I'm going to write a passive aggressive note which barely contains my seething rage and is not really very polite at all".

Though that one isn't tooo bad, I suppose. (I would have appealed the parking ticket you got, BTW, I've only ever come across "the tyres have to be inside the lines" rules, not the whole car)

Also, he's wrong ... the whole car needs to be in the lines. I know, cos I've had a ticket before
That depends - Yes in Cambridge, no in Norfolk and Lambeth.

carol, I'm in Cambridge.

Since I had the ticket not two streets away, I do actually know. Really.

pax - oh yes, me too! I always want right of reply.

Without seeing the way it was parked we can't judge. I 100% agree with the note though. Some people need the room of a double decker bus to park at Ka. We have room for 5 cars by us and the same idiots park so you can only get 3 cars in.

It's disappointing, isn't it, rainbow? She should have taken a picture.

But I maintain that even if the note referred to a car parked across three spaces with a wheel on the kerb, the appropriate and British thing to do is leave a scribbled note with something like 'you park like a cunt'. Not this bullshit.

I also have idiot neighbours who insist on parking about a mile from the kerb (DH thinks it's so she doesn't scratch her BMW wheels), opposite our drive, making it very hard to manoeuvre in and out of our drive. They also park right up on our side of the road right next to our drive. I did leave a PA note once when it was edging over the drive, and they haven't been quite as bad at that since

I thought the note was polite! But it depends how your dh parked

I dunno how she parked. I know she tells me it was fine. I do also know there's space for three cars there, and there were two other cars on either side of her, so I can't think it can have been that bad.