To ask if people on your road (or you) leave bins out to reserve parking spaces

[Lemonsaretheonlyfruit]

Following on from the dropped kerb thread. There are now 2/3 people who do this regularly. I find it so rude and self entitled. I don't have an issue as a one off ie building works / elderly relative visiting/ removals etc etc.. but I am talking about people who put the bins out when they drive to work in the morning and don't expect anyone to park there all day so they can when they get home.

Admittedly there are people who use our road to park on all day (council is currently consulting on permits) so it can be hard. However I do find it quite amazing that people think it's ok to do this? I do move them if I can't find a space elsewhere but still!

I would really love to hear from some one who does this to hear why you think it's ok to do this every day.

Yes and no.

Slightly different for me as me (and next door) own the space in front of our house (which appears to look like a pavement cum parking bay). In summer we both put out bins there to prevent tourists parking on our land as they invariably end up blocking drives.

On the “normal” road? Absolutely not. Anyone is free to park provided they do so carefully and courteously.

No. Everyone has a garage and a drive so it's not really necessary.

Ha! If people did that then the bins would be filled to overflowing when they got home!

No. I had neighbours who did it in a previous house though. They were rude in plenty of other ways so it wasn’t really a surprise.

On the road we used to live on, yes, funny how they found their way back onto the pavement.

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Only in winter.

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That Tumblr is genius

@mathanxiety

You can understand Chicagoans' desire to keep their spaces having cleared all the snow!

That is hilarious.

It's an offence to do so under the Highways Act. You aren't allowed the block the road so they could get fined for doing so. I'd print out the bloody law and stick it on their frigging bins and let them crap themselves it was the council. Definitely a CF thing to do.

I did last week. I had a tyre fitter coming to replace a punctured tyre and needed him to be able to park next to my car.

Otherwise. Never.

Cheeky bitch round the corner owns cones which she puts out to reserve the space outside her house. But that's just one thing in a line of entitled behaviour.

@mathanxiety they are brilliant!!!

I mean I do move the CF's bins if I really need the parking space. I did it this week with my 13 year old DD in the car, also partly to show her that you shouldn't let CFs get away with this sort of shit. She was secretly hoping bin lady would turn up at the same time and there would be 'beef'

Only if parking outside the property is necessary, such as for removal vans.

I’ve never seen it done. If someone parks right outside my house, I sick it up and park somewhere else.

I work at a hospital with not enough staff parking. I rely on people not minding that I park outside their house.

Only when bringing a family member home from hospital and they could barely move.

No, but if someone did wouldn’t people just move the bins and park there anyway?
A bin doesn’t ‘reserve’ a parking space in my mind.

It also annoys me as we all have to live together as a community. I am in London zone 2 and everything is a bit crowded. I live around the corner from a row of shops (grocery, local businesses etc) and recently voted against parking permits for my road as I think it's really important people have got somewhere to park whilst they are using the shops and supporting independent shops.

@Pinkypurple35 I do.. but my neighbour is a good example. She won't move them in case bin lady kicks off. If she feels like that then others must do too.

No because it's a cuntish thing to do (bar the odd exception). And we're not in an episode of Bread showing my age now

I’d probably just keep moving them like you have done, and also like a PP said if anyone did that near where I lived it would get filled with rubbish immediately as we have the hated ‘slim bins’.

I just move the bins out the way and park there. It makes me hugely angry, this.

Admittedly, I used to do it a lot and people on my road used to do it all the time. I’m all for not getting to park outside my house if my space is taken by someone who owns one car or someone with mobility issues etc, but not for those with 2+ cars. All of my neighbours owned 2+ cars and it would ALWAYS be one of their cars parked in my space meaning I had to park way down the road as everyone else parks in front of their house (as you would expect). If you want more than one car then fine, but don’t clog up the road with them/ don’t expect to park both right by your house.

I did it once, as we had removal vans coming. We stuck a note on it, and asked neighbours when we saw them. Unfort someone decided to leave us 2ft less space by moving a bin, and the removal company had to carry all our stuff 500m further away.

I put chairs out on my wedding day with a big sign asking if people would mind leaving the space free for the wedding car (somebody wrote 'no worries - congratulations!' underneath ) That's the only time I've ever done it. It's never been a thing on any street I've ever lived on barring the odd removal van/funeral car etc