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?

Coarse
Who on earth rattled your chains?
Is there any need for such unpleasantness?

I see your cuntishness is not just limited to your parking

She seems to have lost control of the English Language.

But she's a corporate lawyer so all bow down.

I could have been a a lawyer but my teachers said I was too clever and to aim higher. I did.

@Course I'd be happy to scrape down down the side of your Range Rover and when you complained give you a smack to boot.

Have a nice day.

Would you prefer that a pedestrian puts themselves in danger walking into the road, Coarse?

Of course you own a Range Rover. You couldn't possibly drive anything else with that attitude.

I'd be too concerned about damaging my buggy to try to squeeze through if I didn't think I could make it, so any damage I would theoretically cause would be a complete accident. I wouldn't lose sleep about it though, they chose to park illegally and put wheelchair users in danger, when actually there is plenty of space on the road.

I don't go through unless I know I can fit ds's wheelchair through (don't want that damaged) but if ds happens to kick it or scratch it as we go through, there is nothing I can do about that. And he will never be held responsible since he doesn't have the understanding.

Equip the buggy occupant with doc martens and have a secret code word for "kick hard".

Urgh, this gives me the rage.

We live near a GP surgery so our street is always clogged with cars parked in all sorts of weird spots. The other day I was forced to push DS in his stroller onto the road to get around a 4WD which was blocking the footpath. The driver (who I didn't realise was sitting in the 4WD) had the cheek to get out and start telling me off for being unsafe by pushing the stroller onto the road and not staying on the footpath!

I was too gobsmacked to respond

What I find really annoying is not the pavement parkers, as they often have no choice but to park at least partially on the pavement, but the developers who design new housing developments with ridiculously narrow roads and nowhere for cars to park.

When I go to visit a particular friend, for example, I have to park partly on the pavement, otherwise if I parked at the edge of the road it would then be too narrow for a larger vehicle (ambulance, fire engine) to get past me. Everyone parks on the pavement! The entire housing estate is like that. There is nowhere else to park.

I visit a friend in a built up area where the roads are very narrow so if cars were parked either side no one could drive down it. I have a large car so always park quite far away on a different street where the road isn't as narrow but I do understand why some of owners of the cars near my friend's park on the pavement as unthoughtful as it is.

coarse I realise it must be very disappointing, spending all that money on an expensive vehicle and then lacking the driving skill to park it. Must be small consolation to know even with all mod cons, like parking sensors, you're having to rely on the fact range rovers are built tough enough to take a fair bit of banging up and down pavements.

Perhaps you should leave 4wds to drivers with the experience required, and buy a fiat panda or something similar whilst you're at the learner stage.

I know it must be frustrating when you see people like me driving old beat up ones about and parallel parking on the road with ease, but it isn't fair on everyone else for you to keep resorting to the pavement because you are a crappy driver.

HTH

The picture I shared? I went for the gap. I had no other safe option. If I'd attempted to go down the I dropped kerb I'd have fallen out of my chair into the road. I always take pictures, every time, and send them to an organisation run by both the local county council and police (obviously not obscuring registrations like I have here). Also can be used as evidence in case I ever encounter prats like Coarse.

Come on, Coarse is obviously some bored kid trolling for a laugh. There's no way a top corporate lawyer (how convenient) with buckets of money is getting into arguments on Mumsnet ranting incoherently about beating up wheelchair users and mums of young babies for wanting to use pavements for their intended purpose.

If it is an adult then it's an actual literal sociopath.

Shouldn't you be in bed, Coarse? It's a school night.

Well coarse if you don't park like a weaselly chavvy cunt you won't have to worry will you. That's like parking on the end of a pier and hoping it won't get wet. You park so people struggle to get past and it's going to get scratched. I'm not walking in the road to save your paintwork. That's your problem. Rent a fucking garage.

Of course they could always try to attack me in front of my kids over a scratched car and I'd probably punch them in the throat tbh. And yes I would quite happily do it in front of them and tell them what cunts they are if challenged.

It seems that all coarse did was suggest that people shouldn't illegally damage cars because they disagree with the way someone's parked and people got quite nasty towards her.

I'd be happy to scrape down down the side of your Range Rover and when you complained give you a smack to boot.

[Hmm]

Corny how can you justify calling someone a 'Weasley chavvy cunt' for merely pointing out that his:her driving is inconsiderate and selfish and that accidental damage due to this behaviour isn't illegal. Coarse was the one inciting violence in the first place.

Coarse you are deeply unpleasant.

I can believe that Coarse is a corporate lawyer. I'm a property solicitor and have seen this sort of argumentative twattery many times.

I agree with you OP. The route to DS's school is busy road where people don't care about cycling on the pavement, followed by narrow road where people park on both pavements. I've tried telling people not to cycle on the pavement, they never seem to get it/care.

It seems that all coarse did was suggest that people shouldn't illegally damage cars because they disagree with the way someone's parked and people got quite nasty towards her.

No. They got shit for pointing out that criminal damage is illegal whilst simultaneously threatening to assault someone. Which also happens to be illegal.

Parking on the pavement t is allowed here. They are huge and there's marked bays. Still you get the odd arsehole (usually vans or larger cars) parking in the center of the pavements instead and blocking them. The pcso enjoy ticketing them, they told out mums group

Today's genius- had to go into road completely blind in wheelchair

I hope you gave them an earful! I don't see how people think this is OK!

No, just reported them with pic with reg visible

I hate the twats that do this. But what I really posted for was to say that I think cars parked on the pavement should be automatically crushed, especially big ones like range rovers.