It's a parking thread!

[KentMum2008]

It's not me who is potentially BU, and as yet the situation hasn't escalated, but it will....

We live in a small cul de sac, parking is an utter nightmare and consequently a few neighbours have had dropped kerbs installed. The neighbour opposite me had a dropped kerb installed today, but there's a brick wall across their garden and it's still turfed/covered with flowers in pots so until they've knocked that down they obviously can't park on their drive. The drive itself doesn't actually exist yet.

Another neighbour has just parked across the new dropped kerb. It was the last space at this end of the cul de sac. Said neighbour is 18, has just passed his driving test and works in a PRU. He lives with, and is a carer for, his disabled dad, who he takes out in the mornings, and brings home with him after work. I think he goes to a Day centre type place, but the dad is always with him in the car so he needs to park as close as possible. He's an absolute beaut of a young man, and wouldn't say boo to a goose.

Here's the issue. When Dropped Kerb lady comes home, she's going to flip that he's parked there. I heard her chatting away to the guys doing the work saying that she'll 'go to town' on anyone who parks there, even while the wall is still in place. I'm hovering in the kitchen because once she's back it's going to kick off, and poor lovely young neighbour won't know how to deal with her.

Is Dropped Kerb neighbour BU expecting people to leave the space free (and does the law regarding Dropped kerbs stand when there's not actually a drive in place?) or is Lovely Young Neighbour BU for parking there?

And AIBU for being absolutely ready to leap to his defence?! I'm pretty good in confrontational situations, rarely lose my rag etc and I'd like to think if it was my son and I wasn't able to help him out, someone else would be there, even if it was only for a bit of solidarity. The only other neighbour who is indoors is a really quiet woman, in 10 years of living here I've never heard her utter a word to anyone other than her cat and a hedgehog once.

Diagram attached, obvs. Not that it makes things much clearer but it's not a real parking thread without a diagram.

Is it just me that thinks every Parking thread needs a "Parking John"?

I think if you are disabled you can apply to have a disabled bay marked outside your house. Might be different for different councils though - worth looking up!

Cavemum I like giving people names based on their occupation. I think it's a south London thing because my dad (and all his family) always did it but my mum (who's from west London) doesn't.
Parking John, John the Fruit, Linda the Lunch....it helps you distinguish between people with the same names. Surnames are so passé

Incidentally I don't know any of the above mentioned people's surnames anyway....

My lovely FiL used to be a TV repair man before he retired. If my dad had known him before he died, he'd have called him Jim the Telly

I know a Mike the Bike, owns a bike shop.

My FIL is called Mark the Bastard, and he is.

Happy ending to a parking thread is lovely, bravo op.

Mango, you're lovely.

And I hope Parking John knows the local traffic warden(s) and sends them round.

But your diagram reminds me of my last dental x-ray!

I have a blue badge and once got a ticket for parking next to a dropped curb, even though I wasn't any kind of obstruction. It's to do with access for anybody. Including Wheelchairs/Prams & in some cases, Emergency Services. X

But if the dropped kerb was only put in for the purposes of a vehicle crossing I think the rules are different.

Also, I definitely need a Mike the Bike in my life

I really hope they are! I really dislike this woman just from what you've told me about her!!!

Was going to ask which LA you fall under (DB is a highways engineer-it's his job to approve DK etc) but I gather you're from London? We're oop North.

You sound lovely mango

My DH had a friend called BenFromTheCaffsBrother

And I have had a parking ticket for parking across a dropped kerb that led to absolutely nothing- no drive no path nothing

From London Super but moved out to the back of beyond semi rural Kent when DD was a baby.

Benfromthecaffsbrother is amazing.

Apparently BenFromTheCaff only did a few shifts there and now him and his brother are stuck for life!

I wonder what I would call me? Mango the Pre-School? Sounds a bit shite.

Mango the Toddler-wrangler is way better

I think it's a south London thing because my dad (and all his family) always did it

Is your DH's family from Wales? Us Welsh do it aswell.

You need to get business cards (& possibly a badge...) made with Mango The Toddler-Wrangler on OP. If only to ensure that others know your correct designation.

You are fab for helping your LYM out. Makes up for you moving away from the civilised world

Any chance Parking!John might know something about these kerb shenanigans? Do you think there's any chance they could be illegal kerbs?!

Boo to DKL & her insufferable smugness. Serve her right if her behaviour is the undoing of these squillions of ill-conceived kerbs...

I could be Schadenfreude the Child-Whisperer!*

( "If you don't behave yourself THIS MINUTE, you are going to be really sorry when I get you home . . . ")

*Or does that sound pervy?

I wish I had a lovely neighbour like you mango

My council won't paint the white lines until the driveway has been done and the regs have been followed.

You are also only allowed to use a contractor from their approved supplier list to do the driveway itself. They send you a list of about 4 firms and you can get as many quotes as you like from them but you can't use a firm not on the list.

God the pollen count is REALLY high today, that's why I have a tear in my eye............

@mangomay

Parking John is on annual leave.

I repeat, Parking John is on annual leave.

Selfish bastard.