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?

I got a passive aggressive wanky note in a car park on holiday and I was so cross and upset that I couldn't reply back and tell them they were wrong
Of you dh constantly parks in an annoying way then that is understandable but a printed one - eurgh

I've always wanted to (and probably will when I'm old and channelling Catherine Tate's Nan) have post-its in my handbag with 'pig parker' written on that I can just distribute as and when...
Anyway, surely he can't park too close to other cars or nobody will be able to move. And what does this neighbour think white lines are for?

Dp sorry
Maybe the note wasn't for her? It could have been on someone else's car and they took it off and put it on the nearest one?

Oh god. I saw this and thought don't respond, don't respond. Then I saw where you were.

Yes you get a ticket in Cambridge for not being totally in the space.

And yes you have to leave enough space to get out in case an overzealous note-writing (or typing) fucker blocks you in and you get a ticket from the overzealous ticket guys who stalk cars whose parking has nearly expired whether they're stuck in the space or not!!

LRD I was not challenging you about Cambridge - I was just pointing out the rules do vary by council.

At any rate tell her that her failure to draw a diagram has been noted. That is almost as bad as the wanky note.

Sorry, carol.

I've made sure she's aware she fucked up, pax. Very sure.

I suppose she could park in the same spot again hoping for a repeat?

Parking is tight down our road. We have a row of 4 terraced houses, with room for one outside each (no driveways or garages). It irks me somewhat to come home and find two people parked fine, and some other twat has parked in the middle of the remaining two spaces.

She's let you down, she's let the whole of Mumsnet down but worst of all, she's let herself down.

The note is wankery of the highest order.

I know, paddy.

pax - that's an idea! Or I could myself.

There are times when our on the street parking is rather fraught: it's a residential street in the town centre. Due to dropped kerbs there is space for three cars opposite our house - providing one car parks up to the drop at one end and the one at the far end of the space also gets as close as possible to the drop - although there are no parking bays marked. 99% of the time everybody parks so that three cars fit in. however, I have been known to put a similar (not preprinted) note on an unfamiliar car which has taken up a space and a half by not parking up to the dropped kerbs one end. Although I use the word "please" rather than "polite note". It' is considerate to avoid taking up extra space where space is at a premium: like not putting your shopping bags on the seat next to you in a full bus.

Hide behind a bin so you can send a description of the note writer, too.

We don't have bins on the street! What do you take us for? This is a salubrious area I'll have you know.

(Actually, we also had an issue with a bin-note-writer a while back, but I know who that is and he's moved away. He considered bins left out on streets to be Not In Keeping. My very posh neighbour told him to fuck off.)

The whole car needs to be inside the lines in Manchester too

Bloody hell, do rich people not need bins? Perhaps they hand their rubbish to their servants as gifts?

Oh, I don't think bin man was rich. Just snobby. But yes, definitely too posh to have actual evidence of rubbish.

I wish I had the front to put notes on some of the cars in my road as very few people seem to be able to park! One pavement (opposite) is narrow and the other (my side is as wide as the road). Why do idiots think it's ok to park with two wheels on the pavement opposite but when they park on my side have all four on the road meaning it's a struggle to get past?! Oh and of course take up enough space for two cars meaning the rest of us can't park?

I'm too much of a coward to leave a not though, polite or not!

Notes on cars annoy me so much! My ds's gf has had two on her car since we moved here (Feb), and she hasnt been driving all that long. The first was sellotaped - SELLOTAPED - to her windscreen saying its a residents only parking (it isn't) and not for her to park and swan off into town all day (she wasn't, she was either here or at school just down the road). The second was we think the same person but much nicer (I think they realised she was a visitor here when we made space for her on our drive) asking her to park either more to the front or back of the space so two cars could park there, and it was placed under her wiper and had a smiley face at the bottom.

I picture your note leaver has a pile of them by their front door, and just pops them on to any 'new' car that parks near them, just so everyone knows the (their) rules.

Problem with bins in Cambridge is people do things like this with them. Yes, that's a man busking in a bin. Outside Kings' College.

neela - that's so rude!

zebra - the bin busker! Yes! Seen them in several cities.

Euw at bin busking! That bin doesn't look very clean :(

I do sometimes put notes on cars but only when people park over the end of my dropped kerb which means I have to do 56 point turns to get the blasted car out. I write them by hand and don't ever say they're polite

Probably he parked normally, a car around him moved and someone else parked dickish and it made DP look the same. Are you in Lancashire btw? I was a visitors permitter because I was in a flat and the WHOLE BUILDING was allowed 1 permit and my life was hell because I was a resident but everyone thought I was an arse. There's usually a limit to 1-2 visitor permits per house and I have a friend who uses one for work also because it would cost £12 per day to park for the length of her work or a 25 min walk x

FeministDragon
(Although actually one would hope all dragons are feminist, really...)
Good. Grief. Multiple bin-buskers? Quelle horreur. Though possibly it's less awful in locations where they aren't exacerbating the issues you get with people desperately trying to navigate huge crowds on a narrow pavement. (Things being worse on Kings' Parade since advent of horrible chronphage thingy on what used to be the bank ...)