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AIBU?

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It's a parking one...sort of

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MissesBloom · 25/11/2018 19:19

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.

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Fluckle · 02/12/2018 13:03

I love the 'dashboard gallery' idea of displaying previous artististry.

I'd be tempted to shred them all into really tiny bits, mix with a large handful of glitter and put the lot in a Christmas card to them. Seasons greetings and all that

LakieLady · 02/12/2018 13:14

*Although - someone parked a white transit van outside our house for the 6 week school holidays meaning we couldn’t park or wash our cars.

Someone spray painted a massive penis on the side grin*

Of course you could park and wash your cars - just not outside your house, because (speaking slowly for the hard of thinking) you ... do ... NOT ... own ... the ... road.

And to find criminal damage amusing is just childish. Have you any idea how much it costs to have a van resprayed? Or how hard it is to appear a respectable tradesman when some cunt has sprayed a cock on the side of your van?

It's a good job the van owner didn't get the police involved. They'd probably have thought you were the culprit, what with it being outside YOUR house.

lovetherisingsun · 02/12/2018 13:15

I had a stroppy woman come out and do the same to me. I wasn't parked overhanging her drive (it was raised curb anyway, so she was illegally parking on her own drive), but she didn't like the fact it was outside her house. It's not your bloody road you morons! (not you OP, the people who think they own the non-desginated, public space outside their homes).

MrDonut · 02/12/2018 13:21

Draw a giant penis in the space with chalk and write, "I may be a knob, but I have feelings"?

PermanentlyFrizzyHairBall · 02/12/2018 13:31

I actually think just because it's legal to park doesn't mean it's considerate. Fir example leaving your car for two weeks down a residential road you don't live on with limited parking because it has easy access to the airport makes you a dick.

In your case however you literally did nothing wrong, it's not a disabled spot they don't need both cars exactly in front of their home! (I wonder where they're visitors park if their cars are on front of their house - or maybe they don't get many callers!)

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MissesBloom · 02/12/2018 13:31

HAHA MrDonut that is brilliant! My friend and her dm are still trying to think up a revenge plan, and her dm has promised to make sure she utilises 'their' parking space every time she visits which hopefully will be 4 or 5 times a week!

I've calmed down a little now, but have to admit I strongly considered the glitter bomb mentioned upthread, until I realised without going back round there I cant get their door number, as it's a brand new street.

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MissesBloom · 02/12/2018 13:33

Oh and apparently they have a driveway and a garage so could have easily parked both cars. Plus on the day in question they decided not to use their drive or garage and park right up to mine to make a point

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MissesBloom · 02/12/2018 13:36

I just think, how can you complain unless you can honestly say you've never parked in front of someone elses home? At some point you have to!

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smackbangwhollop · 02/12/2018 13:47

Please do what HouseOfGoldandBones said to do and report back. Some humans are selfish beyond reason.

LakieLady · 02/12/2018 13:47

Where I live, the streets are quite narrow, so it's only possible to park on one side. Most of the houses have drives, a lot also have garages. The garages seem to be mostly used for storage, and most of the drives only have room for one car, but most of the houses have at least 2 vehicles, often more. Because of the narrowness, there is effectively only one on-street space for every 2 houses.

Despite all this, I don't think anyone has any issues with parking. Those who don't use their drives accept that sometimes they have to park a fair walk away. It's accepted that sometimes people who don't live in our road park here, and that sometimes people from this road have to park in other roads.

Almost everyone is perfectly reasonable, apart from a woman along the road who seems to think that vans shouldn't be allowed and my NDN, who hates people parking outside his house. He parks in his drive if he can't park outside his house, but rushes out and moves his car onto the road the minute the space outside his house becomes free. Neither of them kick up a fuss though, although van-hating woman will moan at any van driver that's opposite her house overnight.

I really don't understand how anyone can object to people parking in the street where they live.

KarmaStar · 02/12/2018 14:09

How childish can they get?that's awful.op.
Mind,there's a family next to my pil who keep a car outside their house,fully taxed and insured and it is there purely to prevent anyone parking outside their house.they never,ever use it.

Aaaahfuck · 02/12/2018 14:21

I live in a terrace no one on the street seems over protective of theil Street in front of their house. This seems mad to me. Buy a house with a drive in a cheaper earea if you are that bothered!

LuluBellaBlue · 02/12/2018 16:29

I had very similar once, not as artist notes and they’d helpfully GLUED them onto my car and slashed two of my tyres.....!!

Governoress86 · 02/12/2018 16:40

Your not near me are you. I have issues with my next door neighbour. My partner has a car and I passed my test a few months ago and got myself a small car as my partners is a big car. I parked outside my neighbours house where there is no restrictions or allocated parking bays and my neighbours grandson parked touching my bumper and his grandma then damaged mine and my partners cars.

My neighbour phoned the council and police and they keep telling her no one has designated parking on our street and that it's first come first served.

Then last week I parked outside her house for 10 mins as I was just running in and out and when I went to get in my car she came to the window hurling abuse at me because I was parked there.

The mind boggles with people it really does.

We are moving soon because of them and the abuse, to a house with a drive so we have no issues then.

Frouby · 02/12/2018 18:20

I would be tempted to buy a banger, stick tax and insurance on it and park it there forever and a day.

We had this with the people across the road at our old house. Their visitors would regularly park directly outside our house. But they would come and knock and ask me to move if I parked in 'their' space. Then their gobshite son and his girlfriend came over and told me I had to stop parking in their dads space as he got really upset over it. I pointed out they were actually parked in the space directly outside my house as they were stood lecturing me! They argued that was OK as they were visitors. I said it was fine as I dont own the road but that neither did their dad. Twats.

It just so happened that a week later the lads that worked with DH pulled up at the exact moment the dad was leaving to take his wife to work. They used to pull into my ndns drive (he liked us to use it as he was slowly renovating the property and wanted it to look lived in) as dh pulled out then they all went in dhs car.

Guess where they parked for about 6 weeks, from 6am to 5pm. It did put a stop to stupid demands.

Pinkprincess1978 · 02/12/2018 18:33

If it is a new estate then the roads might not be adopted therefore the home owners may be paying the up keep and not tax payers. However she seemed to accept that you were visiting a neighbour so should have been more accepting.

We live on a new build and parking is a nightmare for residents and visitors made worse by our location making us a desirable place to park. Except people block access to droves and park on pavements (there there really isn't room to park) meaning parents with buggies or wheelchair users can't safely get off the estate.

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MissesBloom · 02/12/2018 19:27

@Pinkprincess1978 yep understand that, but surely my friend who lives opposite doesnt make any payments toward the road or parking, and its not a private road.

@Governoress86 we are in Hertfordshire (south east). Sorry to hear you're having to move. Some people can just go batshit over parking spaces. I'm very lucky to have a driveway. I dont normally get involved in parking arguments but my God if this was my road I'd have definitely nipped this nonsense in the bud. I just don't want to cause any issues for my friend.

@LuluBellaBlue youd think that slashing your tyres would be the stupidest idea, given that it means you then cant move the vehicle. Did you report it to the police?

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MissesBloom · 02/12/2018 19:27

But sure*

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Governoress86 · 02/12/2018 19:33

MissesBloom - I'm not in Hertfordshire. It is pathetic when people get pissy over parking. I don't care if someone parks in front of my house.

What takes the piss with my neighbour they go around telling all the neighbours that her grandson has to park outside their house because he has small children and it's not fair for them to walk from the car in the rain from down the road, so no one else is allowed to park there. However they will happily do it to everyone else who has children.

I actually don't mind moving, its a new build estate and its nicer than where I am.

babybrain86 · 04/12/2018 09:00

My dad lives in a cul-de-sac, I always park over his driveway but I turn around at the end of the road first, so it's easier when I'm leaving. His grumpy neighbour almost always comes out and tells me off for having the absolute cheek to turn my car around outside his house - how very selfish of me 😂😂
A few years ago my mum lived next door to a completely awful old couple. My mum was as taken seriously ill one day and we phoned an ambulance, the old man went off his nut screaming and shouting at the paramedics because they parked about a centimetre or so across their driveway, he threatened to call the police - the paramedic very kindly offered to dial for him!!

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