My very own CF parking thread!!

[Hiphopopotamus]

My anger at the situation is ever so slightly mitigated by the fact that I get my very first parking thread!

My DH and I are heading out this morning. We’re picking up our niece to take her out for the day. She has a fairly chaotic home and for us it’s important that when we say we’re doing something with her we follow through, as other adults in her life let her down a lot.

So...we go to get the car out of our driveway. We have gates across the drive so it might not be obvious that there is a car there. However, directly outside it is a dropped kerb, and it is our drive. I open the gates to get the car out this morning, and a car is parked right across it! It’s impossible to manoeuvre around it and we’re properly blocked in.

What do we do? We have no way of knowing who the car belongs to - it could belong to anyone on a fairly big street. It feels early to knock on doors on a Saturday morning (I have no problem waking up the CF, but I would feel bad waking up the innocent! ) but we genuinely have no idea what to do. We’re already going to be late for DN as we were supposed to leave 45 minutes ago.

@tomatostottie or you could RTFT

Glad it's sorted if it happens again definitely call 101. We live in a townhouse with a garage in a Mews - we've had people park directly outside the garage blocking us in. 101 check dvla and then try to contact registered keeper before towing.

My husband once borrowed my mum's car in the evening, and accidentally parked it slightly over our neighbours' driveway, blocking them in.

We were woken up at 6am the following morning by my mum, very very unimpressed - the neighbour had phoned the police, who got my mum's details (as the car's owner) from the DVLA, and the police rang my mum, who rang us!

We were of course v apologetic and the neighbour was fine about it afterwards

This is just to say that the police can and should deal with it.

6.00 wouldn't be too early if you needed to get your car out!
Of course it would be too bloody early to bang on RANDOM DOORS without having a clue who you were looking for! You'd be sent to the far side of fuck if you did that to me when I was sleeping, at the least.

Amazes me that people park over someone's drive. Hope he was suitably apologetic. Does he live on the street or visiting ?

I would get in touch with your council next week and see if they will paint you a white H bar. It might help in future.

I hope he was contrite and apologetic and didn't behave like a smarmy git.

Is he one of your neighbours or just a guest of a neighbour?

I hope you took a diagram with you to the neighbours’ OP as it is conspicuously absent from the thread......grumble mutter grumble.....

Why did the car owner think he was justified in doing this OP?

Also those saying 101 are right, its not a civil matter, if you are blocked in the police will help. Its if you are are blocked out they don't get involved.

@AdobeWanKenobi
I did read the fucking thread.
Unfortunately I cross-posted. While I was posting a reply someone phoned - I got distracted. Finished the post 20 minutes later and posted then realized the OP was on her way.

Some people use RTFT as read the full thread!

Some people use RTFT as read the full thread!
Really? I thought the F was for fucking... oh dear. Some people are obviously way more polite than me.

Shamelessly posting as I want to know the reason the driver blocked a clearly marked drive ...

tomatostottie I have always read it as 'read the fucking thread' too! Oops.

FWIW I use RTFT as ‘Read The Full Thread’ so not swearing at anyone.

Hoping the CF was very apologetic!

@sunshinesupermum I used to read it as that and then realised it wasn't quite that rude 😂

Glad you're on your way! Thanks god it wasn't a proper emergency. Is having an illegally parked vehicle towed at owner's expense not a thing there? Where I am its unlikely a car would last in a spot like that very long, even without a person calling on it. That's how the tow company makes a lot of its money.

Always thought RTFT means full not f*

Op. Hope the CF Parker was indeed mortified and apologetic. (In this instance, do mean f...)

@rubyroot I used to read it as that and then realised it wasn't quite that rude 😂

It is when I use it

So what was his excuse reason?

And was he a neighbour or a visitor?

RTFT

Does not mean Read the Full Thread.

But if that makes you feel better...

Being inconvenienced yourself doesn't give you the right to disturb an entire street. I'm a bit shocked that some people think it's ok to set off car alarms and hoot horns all over the place, never mind the crazy suggestion that it's ok to be ringing doorbells at 6am. If you wake DS at 6 then he's up for the morning, so then I'm up for the morning when he might have slept in until 7 or even 7.30. I don't even have a car, I'd be extremely angry with the person making all that noise to deliberately wake up the street (because that's what you're doing).

Various builders and delivery men pull up and wander off quite frequently leaving their vans/ trucks across our drive (yellow line as well as dropped kerb). We have family who use it and a garage that they can't see into to know there's no car, so it does mildly aggravate me. I wouldn't mind as much if there wasn't always plenty of kerb parking available, so it's completely unnecessary if they'd just take a half second to park.

Glad you got out OK and were considerate of others OP. What's was the CPF's (Cheeky Parking Fucker's) excuse?

Leaning on the car horn usually gets a lot of attention.

Like a pp I’ve called the police before in a situation like this. They called the car owner and then called me back to say that she was going to move it but she was steaming angry.

Why the fuck should she have been angry? It was her own stupid fault.

Why the fuck should she have been angry? It was her own stupid fault.

Who knows. She was a stupid cow who thought blocking someone in was fine and now she was going to have to find a parking space.