They put their BIN in my parking bay!!!

[hungryhippo90]

Ok so our area are a bit mad about parking bays,
The local residents committee have just instructed a parking warden to operate in the area because people going to town, the train station or hospital often park in our spaces.
Some of the neighbours are really het up about their parking spaces. I use my (1) bay and keep to it.
One neighbour has 2 spaces, the other side also have 2 spaces. Plus there’s a visitor bay.
So all in all, there’s an empty space each side of my car.
I got into my car this morning, one bins just in my bay. Doesn’t really affect me cos I can get around it.
I took DD to an early morning club, I come back and there’s another bin in my fucking bay, only now I can’t get in.

To be honest, I pulled up and put the bin in their bay.... whilst they watched out of the window. I don’t usuallh get so het up about this kind of stuff, but to be honest our neighbours are all a bit “funny”

Bins need to be hidden in the back garden until the morning they’re taken out, the neighbours told me off for using the visitors bay that we share (they wanted the 3rd permananently- their argument is they both drive and may want visitors (we both also drive! But only have one bay. So we gave up second car as to not cause problems by stealing visitor bay all the time!)

The other side have a tiny car which they often park between their 2 bays. It’s their bay so they can do as they like.

My point is just, to be so funny about their own spaces, then to use mine as a place for their bins has aggravated me.

I’m honestly starting to feel like I’m surrounded by arseholes.

Did you use a Ferrero Rocher box for the diagram?

Fishface "I’d drag their buns down the road"

given the nature of parking threads, I thought you really meant that, I'm weeping with laughter!!

Haha. That’s quite funny that he moaned about it!
To be fair I just don’t think it mattered to him, in other ways he’s been very generous so I don’t know what happened, before we moved in he had expensive carpets put down and he’s offered to pay 50% towards the cost of putting engineered wood in the kitchen and turf in the garden which seems very nice of him (won’t take him up on that offer as it’s a decorative choice on my part- intend on being here for another 5 years then moving to the states so we’re here for quite a while!)

It's POWER!

Actually I don't know what it is. I live with bay parking and have no problems but since I've been home this week I've notice one white car that uses the second half of my space (it fits two cars lengthways) during the day. I haven't had to get out yet but I felt absolutely filled with rage the first time I saw it!

How dare they piggyback my space when there is a visitor space halfway down the lot!!!?

I set myself a time limit before I went out and everything. It was so sad 😂

Malmö- a bank card. It was the closest straight edge to hand 😊

Sobey- it’s weird, I grant you that. I’ve never heard of people actually welcoming the parking vultures to work in their area.... imagine having a few pals over for dinner- you get ONE visitor permit... what do you do if entertaining a group? Sorry you’ll have to get public transport? -parking rules 24/7 apparently.
One word for it.....BONKERS!

Arkangel- 🤬 this is how I would feel. It’s hpw I felt as I was dragging bin to it’s owners bay.

Some people are just so fucking cheeky..I'm off work at the moment and have just realised the fuckin postman/woman have been stomping over my garden..I've just this minute told one (had to tell another on Monday) and he just stood there with his mouth open when I said there were purposely planted plants where he was stomping.

Ok I know they look like weeds and messy but surely that doesn't give you the right to stomp over someones garden ? They dont do it to my neighbours at all

That's madness! I think I would write them a letter to say that If they do it again you'll be reporting ... just for fun

rolling- “Dear Neighbour, it has come to my attention that your bin is in my parking space,
You would understand my shock, as parking is such an issue in our area that we now have a parking management working in the area, that your bin was not only in my space, but without the relevant permits.

I am disgusted by your obvious disregard for the rules, I have taken photographical evidence of your (naked) misplaced bin.

If this happens again, I will be reporting to the parking management company.

Sincerely, your neighbour upset and hungry hippo”

any good? I wish I had the guts to send it!

Don't get me started on posties...

Oh I could do better, I wish I could write something so over the top it would make my neighbour almost confused as to whether I was serious!

Ask them politely not to do it again and if they do run over the bin by “accident “ ..

When you live somewhere with shared facilities or joint parking areas etc (even when there is private allocations within it) there will always be some level of annoyance about these kind of things.

Personally, I think it's important, especially with occasional issues, to not be too stressed about them and give people the benefit of the doubt. It's not always clear whose bin is whose and visitors don't always understand how the system works etc etc.

OP - it was easy to move the bin. If it had been a car, that wouldn't have been an option.

If something continued to happen, I would drop a polite and friendly note through the door - I would say that I had noticed this had happened and was sure there was just some kind of misunderstanding and what you would like to happen. Say that if they want to talk about it, you are quite happy to....and sign off in a friendly way.

Being positive and friendly is so important. When you have to live near people and cannot totally avoid each other or the cars and bins of each other, why generate bad feeling or animosity or allow feuds to build over bins etc. In most cases, a friendly note or a quick chat will sort it.

Also, just a bit of flexibility is also good when there are communal facilities. If you have 2 spaces and don't need 2, telling a neighbour that if they know they have a visitor coming, feel free to ask if the space will be free to use on the odd occasion. How about offering to bring a neighbours bin in when bringing in your own - helps deal with issue of them being left in wrong place and is just a friendly gesture too.

At the same time, it's also good to not be taken for a ride and let cheeky fuckery take over. Not talking about a one-off, but on going abuse of shared facilities needs calling - again, in a friendly way.

And what if someone continues to abuse the facilities despite friendly requests - well, get the management company involved, and if it goes beyond that, assess just how important this issue is to you and if you can't live with it, then move. It will very rarely come to this.

In my view most of these things occur through people over reacting to a bit of thoughtlessness. And then people retaliate. So don't over react but take a deep breath and maintain perspective.

Oh now you see with that diagram it's possible to see exactly how U they are, and how NOT U you are!!
Excellent work.

But they are shitheads - they've deliberately blocked YOUR space, when the visitor space and each of their second spaces are empty. That's an aggressive move, in my book, and would result in my hiring a skip and parking it in the visitor bay for quite some time. Possibly even buying a skip (if I could afford one). Obviously this would then escalate to full on parking war, but you know, it would be worth it. Especially if the skip happened to just overlap into no. 10's parking bay...

@Arkangel oh dear do you have Postie issues ?

Mine actually wore a dirt path in my grass where he cut through. I put something in the way and he climbed over it. Two of my neighbours have long front gardens and they manage to walk down their drives and back up again so I dont get why I dont get the same consideration

Put your bins in their parking space. Keep doing this until they stop putting their bins in yours.

Is it definitely a visitor parking bay?

Seems odd that the others have 2 bays.

I'd be checking that out if not already.

YES! Always.

Wherever I live I seem to have an issue with a postman or woman either driving like idiots not ringing the bell and just saying I wasn't in or posties walking where they shouldn't or in this house JUST CLOSING THE DARN GATE JEEEEEEESUS.

It's all relatively trivial but still.

I'd leave a note that next time, I'd leave the bins in front of their door. Or on their cars.

Or would park on or across their bays.

In the last house we lived in a neighbor from 3 doors up used to put her bins behind our car.
Was a strange lay out there was basically a car park to the back of our houses and she kept her bin there. She would wheel it out on our parking space right behind our car. So every other week i would have to move it out the way. So glad i don't live there anymore. Was ok until she piled bin bags up too that split uggh

I think I'd have parked in one of their spare spaces. What could they have possibly said?

Yanbu. Nice diagram.

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