AIBU parking thread

[TastingTheRainbow]

Parking thread with a difference in that I am the one that parked inconsiderately and am now blocked in BUT I have a reason.

I am a midwife and was called out to an (unplanned and unexpected) home birth early this morning. Midwife 1 arrived before me and parked across the drive of the person giving birth. I arrived second and parked behind midwife 1 therefore blocking the neighbours drive.

Neighbours drive was empty so not blocking any car in and as it’s a typical new build estate there was no where else to park except miles away and when carrying heavy oxygen tanks etc. that’s not possible. Not very considerate granted but from what I understand it’s not illegal to block an empty driveway and in an emergency situation acceptable. I put a note in the windscreen explaining midwife on emergency call and left my phone number to call if it needs moving.

Have come out now and a car has parked behind me blocking both me and midwife 1 in (as I’m blocking her).

Not had a phone call from anyone asking me to move and have knocked on the house that the drive belongs to and there is no answer.

AIBU to think that while it’s annoying when you’re drive is blocked if you’re neighbour needs emergency attendance AND there is a note explaining this that you just put up with the inconvenience for a short time and don’t stop 2 midwives from attending to their other patients now.

Ps. If the house is owned by a mumnetter and you’re blocking in a black corsa, please let us out.

In the diagram OP's car goes across part of the second half of the double drive and mentioned she's blocked it - she doesn't say until after I'd posted my comment that the neighbour could still have got in, something that would have been relevant to include in the opening post. The neighbour's an awkward arsehole but the OP was saying I'd missed a point that she'd not yet made

Wow. If I were the neighbour you could park on my empty drive! Emergency personnel trumps the neighbour as far as I'm concerned.

There again, there has been so much in the news in the last year or two or people leaving notes on ambulances for blocking them that I just despair at what the world has come to.

The neighbour is an arse. Hope they get a roasting from the police.

Is it just your cat who hates everybody?
Or is it you, too?
Is there a reason why you lack empathy? If so I apologise in advance. But if not, why don’t you just shut up about some hypothetical situation (nobody parked across yourdrive, so you didn’t have to walk far) .. the neighbour in the OP’s scenario may well be fit as a lop and just an arsehole.

They’re being a twat for the sake of it.

Really hope you manage to get all this sorted OP

I doubt the neighbour realised how close you are to each other, and why should he?

I bet I could get out if your space!

Those seem like the type of people who would moan if an ambulance blocked their drive.
Hopefully the police will have words about a medical emergency and common sense.

@MyCatHatesEverybody it's clear to me in the diagram! Not sure why you can't see it?

How long did you leave your car?

Sounds most peculiar!

diz29 she unexpectedly went into labour not knowing she was pregnant, she didn’t arrange a home birth

@diz29 The OP has been around on MN for a long while and has spoken of being a midwife many times. If you don't believe her then report to MNHQ but don't troll hunt.

If you were to find yourself unexpectedly in labour, wouldn’t you call an ambulance?

Oh - the post has gone now - quick work @MNHQ!

Could you not have moved the woman who has just given births car forward a bit then the 1st midwife would get out then you?

Probably the same kind of person who puts angry notes on an ambulance.

I'd have been tempted to go into the building site and asked if a few strong men could come out and bump the neighbour's car back a few inches.

@MyCatHatesEverybody re-read it and then look at the diagram again!

It sounds unusual that midwives would be sent out instead of an ambulance but perhaps an ambulance would have taken longer.
The midwives had emergency equipment such as oxygen (and possibly carry more birth-based equipment than an ambulance; just wondering, I don't know).

The risk would be, I guess, if this lady didn't know she was pregnant, that she might not be in labour but have some other emergency.
Might depend a bit on whether this is her first child.
Also, are we sure this is happening in the UK? May be different elsewhere.

Like a previous poster, though, if this is all genuine, I would think there are potential confidentiality issues.

Surely you just get the patients car moved and then you all go? Or you get the chaps in the building site to move one of their vehicles?

It's entirely possible that the car blocking you in arrived in the dark and didn't look at/see your note.

I am unconvinced you couldn't park nearby - if you had to make a second trip with the oxygen then so be it. The woman already had a midwife with her.

The OP has been around on MN for a long while and has spoken of being a midwife many times.

Didn't see this before posting.
Looks like my "if this is all genuine" is redundant