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Alphabet Street...join us for some parking drama!

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originalcatlady · 30/01/2020 20:49

Started a new thread on the off chance () that something funny might happen in my street later. Maybe around 10pm...

Diagram below for the handful of people in the country that haven't printed it off yet...

Alphabet Street...join us for some parking drama!
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Cheeringmeup · 31/01/2020 09:21

@TomeOfSomething
As requested!
This is how I got my head around the parking, drives and movements on the first morning Grin
Really should have been working...

Alphabet Street...join us for some parking drama!
TossACoinToYourWitcher · 31/01/2020 09:21

I honestly didn't believe people like this existed until a few months ago when I was visiting my in-laws and witnessed my wanker FIL rip into a young lad who had dared to park on the public road outside of FIL's house when visiting one of the neighbours.

originalcatlady · 31/01/2020 09:33

C, who is actually a very good driver, has just spent a disproportionate amount of time levelling up to be right behind B. Let's hope A has visitors.

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ETDidntCall · 31/01/2020 09:38

@Cheeringmeup Spectacular! I love an in depth diagram on a parking thread Grin

MaggieFS · 31/01/2020 09:42

Nice one C!

DartmoorDoughnut · 31/01/2020 09:44

Good job C Grin

Ineedanap90 · 31/01/2020 09:48

Just caught up... Well done C wonder is pink dressing gown will come out to have a pop at C for being too close.. I pray they say 'but am I touching'.. Poor Mr B he was probably opening the blinds early as ended up sleeping on the sofa last night.

Lweji · 31/01/2020 09:48

You say that B and C are friends?

TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup · 31/01/2020 09:52

Aren't B and C more like passive aggressive frenemies ?

CowCuddler · 31/01/2020 09:56

Parking is a constant issue in our street. Drives me insane. I fear I may end up as batshit as B one day. 2 sets of new neighbours with 5 cars between them arrived in one weekend, all on street parking. Really upset things.
I have to say I have a bit of sympathy for those with no driveways, but no one in my street would dare voice grievances out loud as we all know it's a public road, free for anyone to use.

onalongsabbatical · 31/01/2020 09:58

OP think you and the Ks should take up competitive pink-dressing-gowning. I suggest these little Versace numbers, perfect for putting out the recycling...

Alphabet Street...join us for some parking drama!
ChoccyJules · 31/01/2020 10:16

I also assumed Mr B had spent the night on the sofa.

originalcatlady · 31/01/2020 10:18

I've heard B&C saying they've text each other and B talks to her DC but they would never discuss parking and they are definitely passive aggressive on this issue.

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mogloveseggs · 31/01/2020 10:32

Fab thread!

sneakythecat49 · 31/01/2020 10:33

This is getting ridiculous, I'm getting nothing done. Even a bath takes longer now.

I'm thinking about printing off the diagram and putting letters on coloured counters so they can be moved around as and when people arrive 🤔

sunshinesupermum · 31/01/2020 10:42

sneakythecat49 you could market it as a board game!

StuckBetweenDarknessAndLight · 31/01/2020 10:43

Phew, just caught up on last night and this morning's shenanigans.
What happened to the Ks last night?

originalcatlady · 31/01/2020 10:47

I think they had a drink and came home in a taxi early hours.

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WatchingTVagain · 31/01/2020 10:56

OP can you not set up some kind of time lapse video on your phone to video all maneuvers and then speed it up. I imagine it set to the Benny Hill soundtrack Grin

kellogslove · 31/01/2020 10:59

My old terraced street used to be like this. My dad and I both had cars when we lived there and either of us hardly ever parked outside our house. Lots of people had 2 cars plus it is fairly near to the town centre and for a short while near a building site so it was absolutely chaos most of the time.
When I had to park my car a little further down the street I often used to return to a note on it telling me not to park there... which obviously made me want to park there more!

On the other side though, on the day of my dad's funeral (I had been moved out a few years by this point) my mum politely stood on the door waiting for the funeral car to arrive and trying to keep the space free. A women proceeded to park there and my mum politely explained that she was waiting for the funeral car and would she mind finding somewhere else to park she got a rant about it's not her space and she pays her road tax etc. Etc.
My mum explained that she completely understood that but to have a bit of compassion for this one day... she eventually moved on with a massive huff and an eye roll...

mrsBtheparker · 31/01/2020 11:00

you could market it as a board game!

Are there no really clever MNers who could produce and interactive map then OP could keep it updated?
We once offered our drive to a woman looking for parking to go to the Chapel plant sale, it's a wide drive at least 2x2 cars though we've had 6 small cars on it. All we asked is that she left us space to drive back onto the drive, on our return she was parked slap bang in the middle of the front of the drive, we then had to look for somewhere to park til she returned!

whataballbag · 31/01/2020 11:05

I really want to come to your house and block b in

LakieLady · 31/01/2020 11:09

It's contagious, I tell you!

We're a street of semis. Approx half the houses have a drive, and even with a drive, there is room for another car to park in front of each house, without encroaching beyond the boundary of the adjoining house, if they are a) sensible and b) considerate. Which is good, because nearly all the houses have more than one car and parking is tight.

Having posted last night about how we never have parking issues, some fuckwit has parked with the mid-point of their car dead level with the boundary between us and the NDNs, taking up 2 spaces! I think they may be a visitor, as I don't recognise the car, or possibly from the street opposite, which has far more difficulty with parking.

But if it turns out to be Air BNB guests from across the road (they built a detached annexe in their garden and rent it out for £85 a night!) there could be a considerable degree of pissed-offness in our (normally) quietly friendly road.

Neighbours are getting fed up with all the extra comings and goings, their security light illuminating half the street till it looks like Wembley for a night match and, horror of horrors, they leave their bins out on the grass verge instead of putting them down the side of the house. (My nice, but slighly nutty, NDN had Words, and they bought a wooden bin store for them, but the fucking thing keeps blowing open and clattering in the night, which now bugs me, and I may have to have a Word of my own with them).

So, I'm now simultaneously channelling OP by keeping a close watch on the parking situation AND the van man, by parking a gnat's cock from the bumper of the forriner car. (Didn't want to park on the drive, the front grass is fearful slippery and the drive so narrow I can't get out of the car without stepping on it).

weezypops · 31/01/2020 11:13

I reckon Mr B spend the night in the sofa last night!

weezypops · 31/01/2020 11:13

ON the sofa!

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