The pavement is for pedestrians?

[MarcelineTheVampire]

This has bothered me for a while but complete lack of sleep deprivation has turned me into a raging bull.

I don't drive (medical condition so 'learn to drive' wouldn't be the best advice) and so walk a lot.

Now, I have sympathy that parking your car is sometimes limited and that a lot of the time you need to park in awkward places and car slightly on the curb. However, it sends me into a rage when inconsiderate cockwombles park near enough their entire car on the path meaning you can barely squeeze by.

I can't get my pushchair past them most of the time which is annoying, on quieter roads I do just go on the road around it swearing or slightly on the persons front lawn (not ideal I know but needs must) but today I was walking down a busy road with a wall and/or spiky bushes on the other side and several people had parked this way. I was on he verge of writing a note, they made me that mad I was going to be one of those people and write a bloody NOTE!!! Instead I'm writing an aggressive post on mumsnet to vent.

AIBU to think that the pavement is for pedestrians?

A woman on my street parks on the pavement blocking it completely. I send my kids onto her lovely manicured lawns instead of the road. When she complains I point out she parks like an arsehole.

I have the double whammy on my road of pavement parkers and then pavement cyclists. I'm a ball of incandescent fury by the time I've gone 50 metres. And I'm able bodied - if I were in a wheelchair I'd be fucked.

Pavement Parkers are twats but I am especially fed up to fuck of Cyclists on pavements. They are so dangerous bombing around everywhere. Apparently, some twat a few years ago made us a cycling city. More like a knocking pedestrians down on the pavement city.

I want a mini stinger in my bag for when the asshats are racing towards us.

And there is a special place in hell for the pavement cyclist wankers who have the self-entitled fuckwittery to ring their bells as they're coming up behind me on the pavement, presumably because they think I, a pedestrian, should move off the pavement. I don't - I just keep going like I can't hear them.

Can I add to this cyclists who DING their bell at you as they whoosh along on the pavement to tell you to get out of the way. Fuckers. (Nothing against all cyclists, I cycle pretty much everywhere. But I am not a fucker)

Cross post hassled

Not sure what's worse, dinging bell cyclists who expect you to move, or silent cyclists who expect you to move AND be psychic.

There's a parking-prat around here who not only parks well onto the pavement, but then compounds the felony by turning their steering to full lock, so that the pavement-side wheel narrows the gap even more.

Agree with both parking and cyclists. Red lipstick used to be my friend when I had to walk on a particularly bad road for parked cars at night in my student days.

It makes me cross too. Funnily enough I don't often see it in London, but where my aunt lives in Hampshire.... I often wonder how the hell partially sighted and blind people manage.

Bishop, I thought you lived near me for a second.

Double yellows on the dropped kerb is prime parking space here. The bigger the vehicle the better so as much oncoming traffic is obscured as possible.

It's really frustrating. My wheel chair using friend regularly has to add 10 minutes or more to her journey because of idiots like this.

Yep, had a couple of fuckwits parked on grass verge/pavement earlier and couldn't get past on my mobility scooter, Had to go back to dropped curb at other end of pavement and cross over, then cross back once I had passed the cars. It happens a lot. I'm thinking of writing up a pad of post it notes with a few choice words to stick on their windscreens.

Silent cyclists are worse IMHO. I can live with a dinging bell to tell me they are there.

Yanbu. I never noticed people doing this much before but since I had a baby I find it bloody annoying having to walk in the road because some inconsiderate arsehole has parked on the pavement. Even worse for wheelchair users that can't even go around if there's no dropped kerb.

God YANBUX100000000.

It was a huge wake up call for me when I had my first baby and was pushing a buggy, I had no idea how completely shit pavements were for wheelchair users and it still makes me really angry.

And huge yes to cyclists too. A whole frigging family of cyclists recently dinged at me while speeding up behind me, they were on the pavement because a small section of the cycle lane was being resurfaced, and I kid you not, they were all ringing their bells as they approached a huge, red sign saying CYCLISTS DISMOUNT. Once I'd dived out of the way with buggy and toddler I literally almost gave chase! What entitled arseholes.

I feel a bit lost being almost 100% pedestrian/public transport user. Drivers obv love their cars and are the sort of default road users, and cyclists are well organised and have loads of high profile campaigning to make things more bike friendly (no objection to this really, except that I notice that often round me extra space for cycling cuts into space for people on foot, rather than space for cars ), but pedestrians are just a bit nowhere.

I get that too, Francis.
Cloudy scary not having directional hearing.

cloudy bloody

A few months ago I was walking home (on the pavement of course) and heard a horn beeping.
Two lads on a scrambler bike sped past me, the pillion passenger turning round and grinning.
And I thought the cyclists were bad enough.

I've booted a car parked on the pavement before

I'd quite like to install old school bond style retractable spikes to the sides of my buggy to get the bastards.

I draw a big cock on any car that blocks me on the pavement with the marker I keep in the pushchair. On the windscreen.

@Youremywifenow that's GENIUS!!! To be fair my pushchair days are over but my bugbear is adults and child cyclists (not the kids' fault - just doing as parent says) cycling on oavement then weaving in between cars turning into junctions so they come out from the rear of turning cars, inside junction lines and you then have to slam on your brakes because you don't see them until they're right in front of you!!!!

Wait, so is it actually legal to cycle on the pavement? I thought it was properly against the law for adults, unless accompanying a child. Posts above are making me wonder...

I nearly got taken out earlier this week by a fucking RICKSHAW speeding madly along the pavement in central London, driver cackling like this was the greatest joke in the world.