To expect that the pavement is to walk on!!

[weirdbird]

Cause the car driver that tried to park on top of me today seemed to think otherwise, am I really being un-reasonable, I was walking to school pushing the pram and had to literally run out of the way as a car decided to park where I was walking, and then the guy had the nerve to tell me to watch out, I am fuming, steam practically coming out my ears the pavement is for people to walk on the road is for cars, if drivers want to park on the pavement they should watch out for pedestrians not expect pedestrians to expect to get run over, I am lucky I looked around when I did as he pulled up behind me as well.

Really really wanted to RANT, but knew I would say to much in front of little ears that would repeat things, if I said a word.

I know exactly what you mean.
Where I live the people seem to think the pavement is a car park......I cross the road about 20 times with the pushchair just to get to the bottom of my road
I think they'd soon have something to say if my pushchair scratched their car!

Did you say anything?

Nope cause I would have said too much if you know what I mean!

Did you get his reg number? I'd report the tosser to the police. Parking on the pavement is annoying but parking on the pavement while you're walking on it with a pram!?

I know what you mean...your mouth goes faster than your brain and you end up firing out abuse LOL.
It's funny how after a situation you can think of so many things you should've said or done

I think that unless there are certain road markings then it is actually illegal to park on the pavement isn't it?
i might be wrong though

You can get a ticket for parking on the pavement so he was definetly in the wrong, never mind nearly running you over.

Oooh dear. I'd have had to respond forcefully in such a situation. There would have been a spectacle.

I am a police Officer.
I book people if they park on the pavement and there isn't enough room for a pushchair/ wheelchair to get through.
When lo's werre in pram if a car was parke on the pavemnt outsied a house i used to knock on their front door and get them to come out and move it.

There was room to get past once he had parked, its outside a parade of shops and they all park on the pavement, it was his attitude that I was somehow in the wrong for walking where he wanted to park that really p'ed me off, and yes I can never think of the right thing to say at the time and then come home and can think of all the things I "should" have said...

I felt like this the other day. I don't normally get that worked up about it, but this woman was sitting in her car, could see that I couldn't get past and made no effort to move or apologise and so I was fuming. DD, can I take you up our school, please!

I think people should be booked for parking on the pavements full stop ( regardless if there is room to squeeze past in a buggy) as PAVEMENTS ARE FOR PEDESTRIANS !! I used to have a stack of little cards which said this when I lived on a street where pavement parking was a problem and I used to put the cards on the offenders' windscreens.It is yet another sign of the rule of the 'god car' that has taken over society. Once inside their cars people seem to think they have a right to drive and park where they like and at whichever speed suits them.
I am not afraid to have a go at the BT workmen who regularly park all over the pavement near where I live. I have to walk in the road or on a muddy verge and I don't see why I should do either.Other serial offenders with the same selfish mentality are those who seem to think it is ok to park/wait in the cycle lane !!

Not unreasonable at all, I'd have given him a right mouthful. When I looked after my sisters little boy and had the double buggy for him and dd, the amount of times I had to walk the buggy in the road because some t**t had taken up the entire pavement with their gas guzzler!! We also have the mums from the dd's school who seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to park their car right on the local lollipop man's crossing, despite space elsewhere, making it a dicing with death situation to cross with the lollipop man!! Grggghh!!