It's a parking one...sort of

[MissesBloom]

Parked my car at a mates, round the corner from her at the end of her road.

No parking restrictions, plenty of space to park up and down the street. Parked outside someones house (as far forward as I could so as not to take up the whole front of their house).

Left my husbands car there overnight as me and friend went to a xmas do and dh refused to drop me due to footie being on. Came back today to find these delightful notes stuck on the car with sellotape. The giant colourful penis is on huge poster paper and was stuck all over the windscreen.

Literally have no idea what I did wrong (other than staying too long for their liking). They dont own the road or the spaces, but clearly are fuming over it.

Wibu to go over this evening with a huge poster of my own, perhaps a giant fanjo with a xmas hat on could tape it to their front door maybe?

I wonder if they never park outside other peoples homes? I mean clearly it's unfair according to them. Its mental...I've had people park outside my home for over 2 weeks before, but they aren't my spaces so of course i would never complain.

@ivykaty44 you sound like a right judgy nob - I'm not the one threatening legal action cause I can't handle my behaviour being criticised.

What morons some people are!

I dared to park outside a current neighbour’s house on ‘his’ bit of road, he came out to watch me park, just stood there gormlessly staring, so I asked him if it was ok for me to park there (obviously expecting him to go “oh yes, of course”, then scuttle off, but instead he had the cheek to say “I’d rather you park elsewhere as I’d like to park one of my cars here”. Cf of the highest degree! I said I’d be parking there for a bit but would move when another space became available, again expecting him to laugh at his ridiculous stance. He went “mmm”, shot me a dirty look, shot my car an evil more filthy look, then scuttled back indoors.

I stayed there for a few hours, then moved, not because I respected “his” boundary, but because I was concerned his rough, chav scum mates would attack my car, as he has that look about him.

30 seconds after I left, another car zoomed in and parked there for the next few days. I saw this as I was parking further up the street at the time. I also saw his huge meaty moonface like thunder scowl at the next parking offender. Hahahahaa!!

huge meaty moonface

Wtf is wrong with people? I lived in london before and parking was a nightmare, but everyone knew this. If you got a space relatively near your home you were winning at life!

Where I am now it's just assumed you can 'own the spaces' outside. My neighbour parks on the road opposite my drive (outside her home), and the road is narrow. I struggle to get on and off the drive so end up having to pull off down to the dead end part of my road and turn around to get back out of our street. Whenever she sees me she shrugs, rolls her eyes and mouths TURN AROUND AT THE BOTTOM AND COME BACK UP! As if I cant work it out for myself. What makes me laugh the most is that she has 3 vehicles in her household, 2 of which are whopping great pickup trucks. You just get on with it though. We have to coexist somehow.

Our cul de sac regularly gets CF parkers who then order cabs to the airport from our addresses and it’s an absolute annoyance, as while it’s not restricted parking, there truly isn’t enough space to accommodate them here, and frankly there are better places to park if people are too cheap to pay for long stay or take public transport to an airport to avoid paying parking fees.

We’ve had people leave cars for 6 months or more in the past literally right in front of someone’s home. Twice now we have had badly parked cars on our tiny street which blocked access for the bin lorry & on both occasions none of us were able to have rubbish collected for over a month. I don’t care what people say about paying road tax, that’s really, really not on and anyone should be able to see it’s a huge inconvenience for the residents. Plus God forbid anyone needed emergency services such as a large fire engine during that time that access was blocked to large vehicles!

That said, I’m sure you parked considerately. But as it’s such an issue where we are, we have a useful street WhatsApp going and let everyone know if we have guests who are parking up on the street so people don’t panic that it’s a random airport parker such as we’ve had in the past.

Some of my neighbours are rather militant & have cameras to work out whether people leave with cases & approach people parking with cases. They try to point them to better areas to leave their cars for extended periods. Often these people just don’t realise they are going to be so drastically inconveniencing residents due to the limited space and they do often move their cars when this is pointed out. We are looking at gettting the road privatised as it’s totally unsuitable to be used as a general parking area. For a day or so though it’s not a biggie, especially for a guest of a resident!

Sorry you’ve had a bad time of it though- it doesn’t sound like you’re one of these people from what you’ve said. Perhaps there are some similar challenges happening and that’s why they are so fervently ‘artistic’ with their notes?

Possibly that sounds awful. I dont agree that they dont realise what an inconvenience they are. If you're going on holiday most people either take a taxi, park at the airport or ask a friend. You dont park on a small residential street and prevent others from using the space for up to 2 weeks! Imo that's incredibly selfish.

I tried to park as far forward as possible to leave them as much space as I could. I was visiting a resident who didnt have a space for me to use (she just has a driveway) and I actually text her to ask where the most suitable place to park would be. She suggested there, guessing she probably wont suggest there again now .

Tbh if the note had been polite and reasonable I'd probably take notice more and avoid parking there. They could have also approached me and explained. I just think there are better ways to get what you want.

Can see why your situation is frustrating though, it's so unfair

Yep, most people would never dream of doing it - and it’s not even cheap to get a taxi from here- £40 round trip which seems counterintuitive! It’s a huge problem around here as those who do it not so surprisingly tend not to be the most thoughtful - the airport police are thankfully stepping up in some cases and towing / leaving police stickers which will hopefully start deterring.

AtlasShrugged but you are being judgy and possibly you don’t realise you’re a knob when you’re own behaviour is reciprocated

but you are being judgy and possibly you don’t realise you’re a knob when you’re own behaviour is reciprocated Somebody has an opinion on another person's behaviour- shocker.

Some people are just bitter, nasty and entitled. One of my daughter's support workers parks on the road opposite my house - not every day, only once or twice a week. The neighbour who "owns" this piece of pavement has had a go at her on more than one occasion because apparently it blocks his view when he's trying to drive out. I've even taken photos to prove that her little car is on no way obscuring his line of sight - in fact there's a ruddy hedge that obscures it more than any car would.

I have no idea why this nasty little git would want to ruin what was a perfectly friendly neighbourly relationship. I won't give them the time of day now.

Park there again and put the picture of the giant knob inside your car on the side window facing their house. That way, not only will they be annoyed by your car being there but also everytime they look out of the window to see if its been moved yet they will see the giant knob staring back at them.

What a - - - -!! You knob

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My DP gets the rage when someone parks outside our house. He'd never leave a note covered in willies though. I just laugh at him as I've been on Mumsnet long enough to know "the rules"

To be fair, he only rages cos it is really hard to get off our drive because next door have a whopping great works van parked outside theirs so we can't fully see to the left and, as we're the last house on the row, the blind-corner-humped-bridge on the right that local dickheads fly over at eleventy billion miles an hour means that cars parked outside our house restricts our view quite a bit!

I'm lucky to have a drive way, however, the house opposite have a driveway for about 5 cars, has maybe 1-2 cars on daily, they have care workers visit numerous times a day for their OAP parents, and they always park on the road opposite my drive so if i need to get out I have to practically do a 3 point turn to get off my drive, it's frustrating but I understand why they are there and would never dream of saying something, I just don't understand why they don't park on the drive, it's closer to the house too 🤷‍♀️

Next time you go, walk around there when you can see them watching out of the window and feign a dramatic fall on the pavement outside. Hobble over to their front door, bang on it and demand compensation for their failure to properly maintain their pavement.

When they tell you that the pavement isn't part of their property and that it belongs to the council and not to them, suddenly recover and skip away, calling out merrily how happy you are that you can safely park on the road past the pavement in future then, now they've kindly confirmed that they don't own it and it's public property for anybody's use.

So many excellent ideas for revenge I will most certainly re stick the dick pics to the inside of the car and park there again. Might add another sign saying "put these up to save you the bother!" And "same time next weekend?"

What you did correctly was not drink and drive.

atlasshrugger it’s not an opinion on someone else’s behaviour to make a rude personal attack and suggest they are a knob. Perhaps learn the difference

He cycles the last 5 miles as it’s quicker and healthier. His behaviour reduces further congestion of car traffic, pollution - which is killing 40k people in this country each year, it saves parking in an already congested town for other that might not actually be able to use other methods of transport.

I have no idea who the 3 cars belong to parked outside my house, neither do I care, there are no restrictions on parking and anyone can store there car on the road.

it’s not an opinion on someone else’s behaviour to make a rude personal attack and suggest they are a knob. Perhaps learn the difference

Yes it is. Bassically someone complained to him about something he was doing and instead of taking it on the chin he threatens legal action cause he doesn't like it. Text book wanker behaviour. Text book cyclist behaviour. Just my opinion.

He cycles the last 5 miles because it's quicker and healthier his decision, no one else's problem. Cyclists cause mayhem on the roads anyway.

I'm not saying he can't park there because evidently he can, and we all park in residential areas that aren't our own, but the way this guy has gone about it shows him to be a tosser.

The family are clearly drawing self portraits.

There's some tosser on my street who leaves their gigantic caravan parked on the road for months at a time, don't even think it's moved in over a year. It takes up 3 car spaces on a road with several terraced houses (ie no driveways). Annoyingly the house where the caravan parks in front of (presume they own it) is one of the few houses with a drive, so they could park it on their drive and their car on the road but instead insist on using up 3x the space with their fucking caravan. That's rude imo, not illegal obviously but rude and inconsiderate for your neighbours.

and then there's the 2x disabled spots which have never EVER had anyone ever park there. EVER. Just seems like such a waste of empty fucking space ugh

Yes I know iabu, it's just frustrating

If you know who's done it, you can always glitter bomb them. Not particularly environmentally friendly but they can always use the glitter to give the next willy drawings a pejazzle.

www.glitterbombpeopleyouhate.co.uk

I’m sure this has been said but...IT’s THE ROAD!!!! I love parking outside my house, but anyone doing so is entitled to. Unless they are blocking a drive, or there are parking restrictions, people don’t have right to get cross about it.

I can’t get over those notes! How stupid of them made me laugh at their pure belief they have rights over the road. Permits where we live due to a college near by but still can’t get a space have to park few streets away sometimes and carry shopping and toddler back but we don’t have a drive so can’t object

It's a public road, without parking restrictions, they can sod off

Most parking on the road is outside someone's house!!