Was I BU (or rude) with this note on a car?

[Parkingnotes]

We live close to a town centre where you have to pay for parking, also nearby is a sixth form college without parking, and two doctors surgeries without adequate parking. This results in people using our street as a car park - fine, nothing we can do as it is a public street without any restrictions.
However I do object to people parking on the pavement. It's unnecessary and means people with pushchairs/wheelchairs have to walk in the road. I often put notes on cars which I feel are parked particularly poorly.
Today I came home to find two cars parked on the street both halfway on the pavement, one of right outside my gate. I put the following note on both "Pavements are for people. Please park your car on the road! Thank you."
Polite and to the point, I think. Someone clearly took offence as they scrawled on the back of the note "HOW RUDE!" - I found it on the ground outside my gate, they may have thrown it in the garden and it blown away. Either way, not only a terrible parker but also a litterer!
Am I rude?

Oh that’s a shame parking. Your note wasn’t rude. Extremely restrained I think.

I think you were pretty restrained OP. Some bellend on my street insists on parking his whole car on the pavement, a bloody cat couldn’t even get past. It’s a wide road too, just no need for it.

Seeing as we’re imagining how random people would feel coming back from the doctors and seeing the note....

..I was walking up to my local corner shop one day, and some idiot had parked right across the path, I had to walk into a busy road to get past. I was so annoyed and thinking about what would happen if someone in a wheel chair came along. Well, on my way back from the shop, dickhead hadn’t moved his car, and there, in a motorised wheelchair, was a man, stuck on the path. He wasn’t able to get round, there was no drop curb for his chair, he was stuck there. I went and banged on the owners door, A man came out and I, possibly with a little anger in my voice, explained the situation whilst he moved his car without a word to me, or th guy in the chair.

How do you think the man in the wheelchair felt?

People drive up the pavement in our village. They’re so important, they simply can’t wait for the traffic coming the other way along the narrow road. They drive up and along the pavement so they can all pass each other. If you happen to be walking your primary school aged children along the pavement you simply have to wait and let these very important people pass. Possible giving them a cheery wave as they pass not a foot from your young children. Or a mouthful of abuse, you know, whatever you feel is best at the time.

Planetsweet - what are you on about?!!

There’s no point in what the OP is doing. Leaving an anonymous note on a car won’t have any positive outcome. It just serves to piss people off. Does it stop these cars coming back day after day and parking in the same way? Nope.

Pouring her efforts into a constructive task as mentioned would be a far better use of time (which apparently the OP has done)

I wasn’t “making” anything up and I’ve no clue what your dig about wasting doctors time is about either. Projecting your issues into others perhaps....!