To think you shouldn’t leave notes on cars when you don’t know the full story!?

[Scottishmum1984]

This is awful! www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-mum-shock-after-stranger-19127878

You must be the “mum” OP!

What a fuss over very little.

I have probably left 200 notes on cars. We used to live round the corner from a school and people would park across the bottom of our wheelchair ramp, totally blocking both our exit and the entire lane, quite regularly.

The police across the way would have them towed - I opted for a note. The note generally said: You are blocking a thoroughfare and a wheelchair ramp. Please do not park here.

I think that's reasonable. This note is not reasonable.

And puzzled why if her mum had severe walking difficulties did she leave her baby with her?

To walk round Sainsbury's... I couldn't work that out either!

Way more unreasonable to link a shonky website which has way more advertising than news

Baby was presumably in a pushchair? My mum has a blue badge and she often sits for a bit as soon as we get from car to supermarket. At least we did. She hasn’t been to a shop since March.

I left one on a car yesterday.
Disney dad parks across the road and takes up two spaces, doesn't live here and whilst it's free parking on Sunday, so within his rights to park there, was stopping another resident or two from parking.
You park like a cunt, in big red letters.
His face was a picture, he looked a right knob too.
Drove an audi so was obviously a wanker too.

Bit of a non story, the mum was massively unreasonable to go to the news with her note and a sad face.

My dad had a blue badge but used to like to go and do a bit of shopping on his own in Sainsbury's as he could lean on the trolley a bit as he went round and it helped his walking.

I think the grandmother had the baby in the pushchair as it gave her something to lean on whilst walking. My Nan used to like pushing the pushchair when she had hip problems as she said it was better than using the wheeler she had been given by physiotherapy.

I think the note was silly on this occasion, but I don't think leaving notes on cars is always bad, I would love to speak to some of the dickheads who park blocking my drive, but I can't always wait hours for them to return so I have to leave a note instead. What makes it more annoying is that there are always spaces a few metres up the road, but they block my car in!

I have a normally lovely friend who has lost the plot somewhat since her son was born. She's appointed herself chief parking inspector and will challenge anyone she sees parking in a P&C space without a baby (baby, not child). I've told her to stop but she won't, she's fixated on it. Now she's embarrassing to go out with.

I did use to live near a school and would regularly leave notes on cars that blocked my drive. Even blocked them in on one occasion 🤣

Of course she did not "go to the papers'. The papers will have picked it up from Facebook.

"Moral of this story is shove your note where the sun don’t shine!''

That's not much of a moral is it.

It's like something out of Viz

Oh and for the record i am an occasional note leaver. About once every 3/4 years i get angry enough to leave a note.

Not news. Not awful

slow news day

Who had the panic attack and who needs hip replacement surgery? Very confusing.

Gotta love the self important parking police. I parked in a disabled spot with a blue badge and got out to open the boot. A daft wee man came up and started frothing at me for parking in a ‘handicapped’(hate the word) spot, I don’t have a wheelchair, I don’t look sick , I’m selfish, I’m stupid blah blah...when he ran out of steam I just said ‘Don’t be a judgemental dick all your life Eh?’ I then reached past him to help my mum manoeuvre my dads wheelchair to the car so we could get him in and the chair into the boot. As we did he was still standing there so I told him ‘customer service is that way you silly dick!’

Love the people who are saying this ‘isn’t news’ but are clicking on the link then discussing it here

@user1471517900 don’t even go there! Someone got really crabby with my comment about that! 😆

It is awful, what a cheek. I do not understand people even noticing who or where other drivers park. The person who left the note obviously has too much time on their hands. However, the woman did nothing wrong, she was collecting her child from Sainsbury's as well as her mum so was entitled to park there.

However the world is full of strange people minding the business of others; it hardly warrants a newspaper article but at the same time I hope the note writer reads it.

(Why she said, "So today I drive to..." and, "I go to...", rather than, "Today I drove.." and "I went to", is another matter.)

It's hardly a news worthy incident.

Someone left a note on your car. Big wow. Rip it up and get on with your life knowing you weren't in the wrong.

People have left shitty notes on ambulances for fuck sake. Some people are knobs, just ignore them.

After I divorced my weasely ex, he made a great thing of offering me a lift back in his newly purchased ginormous car. When we got there, someone had left an irate note on it complaining that he'd scraped their door and they had his reg.no. Ruined his moment in a very satisfying way.

I will leave a note if someone's parked stupidly enough. Like the massive expensive car parked longways across 3 spaces in a busy supermarket carpark on Christmas eve, presumably to stop anyone scratching the precious car. Left a note saying 'you park like a prick, merry Christmas'. I was still faffing with my music when he got back to the car (no emergency, just loads of shopping), gave me the middle finger when he caught my eye and I gave him a sarcastic smile and then deliberately blocked me in when I tried to leave... So it got me nowhere but it temporarily soothed my rage at selfish fucking parkers.