My First Parking Thread- all out war has been declared.

[Casschops]

I live on a street which is all terraced property and houses are very old so the street is narrow as people didn't have cars then. None of us have drives and we do not have front gardens so our doors open straight out onto the street.
We park wherever on the street and this is not about parking outside our own property this is out and out war people!
The parking etiquette is that on one side (mine) we park with all four tyres on the floor and on the other side they park with two tyres on the kerb and two on the road. It has been like this forever.
The council have agrees that this is the most reasonable and practicable way as my side affords access for wheelchair and pushchair users etc so we don't need feedback from that point of view.
My neighbour on the opposite (Pat) side has some plant pots outside her house ( she us on the two wheels on the kerb side) and parks her car on our side of the street which is fine by me as I wouldn't want to wreck my tyres.
A neighbour on my side who is opposite her (Syd) has parked their car directly outside Pat's house and leaving her with the need to climb over the plants to get out! 🤦‍♀️
There has also been a mystery complainer they all think its Syd and Pat has been told that she has to move her plants ( forgot to say that she is in a back to back terraced where we have yards).
She had a chat with the council and they agreed that she would be perfectly entitled to park her car on her side with four tyres on the road as this would then afford access to the pavement in front of her house. She has done this and this now means that you cannot get down the other end of the street without using a very inaccessible access road. We now have two cars parked with four tyres down and its causing fucking mayhem as nobody is breaking the law!
I can't take the dog out without somebody chewing my ear off about it and although it is inconvenient AIBU to tell them all that I don't give a shit. I just find the whole thing so childish....on both sides. She is loitering outside her house now, looking for a conflab, she is drumming up support via the Monday dog walking group who pass our houses and she is going door to door. She is like a politician. I can't hide my smile its like some shit storyline in a soap opera.😁

For the love of god I need you to JOIN THE WATSAPP GROUP!

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Can we all stop saying plant pots please? It is pot plants not plant pots!

If they are pots containing plants, they are plant pots.

Pot plants are plants which are in a pot.

It is the pots (designed for plants)which are significant here - so plant pots.

I'll keep you company schadenfreude, I have and so we should last a while

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Repeat: Pat is out on the street. With her work headset on.

please can someone just "trip over Pat's pots" and "sprain their ankle" & then threaten a no win / no fee solicitor I KNO MY RITES

I've just caught up .... excellent diagram. I have coffee. Tell me more

She is out talking to herself her boss about putting something in the post, she keeps signalling to Khalid to help her shift the large plants that have appeared round the car. Khalid is not biting.

This is fantastic! Thanks OP

You defo need to join the street WhatsApp group. All mine do is moan about the communal electricity bills. Yours will be way more exciting - clearly!
Looking forward to the next exciting update of Pat-gate.

Glad Khalid is standing firm, good man

Khalid is a stalwart. Just off to take the dog out....

My productivity has taken a nosedive because of this thread. But it's so worth it.

Hold steady Kahlid. Hold steady.

I would have nicked the pots by now . What a selfish cah.

You have a duty to join the WhatsApp group, it's vital to the operation . I really need to be getting some work done, but I'm fascinated now what Pat's going to do next.

No. The pots need to stay! Where else are the neighbourhood cats supposed to poop in an urban jungle! The human parkers are an irrelevance.

#teampatspots

Come on OP, we need an update. It's been twenty whole minutes now and I need to take the dog for a walk - you must have had time to speak to dog-walking Khalid and join the whatsapp group.

The development of back to backs in Leeds is fascinating. They used to build one up one down in a square round the courtyard with the back of the house going straight up. So then later you could build around a new courtyard and attach the houses on one side to the existing houses. If that makes sense. Those were very unsanitary areas though! A lot of the surviving back to back terraces are just ordinary roads now not courtyard layouts.

There is one random back to back house on the end of a terrace in Leeds where the second half either didn't get built or was denolished. It looks very odd - tall and thin with no windows in back wall and roof like a lean to not pitched. It also used to be painted blue...

And yes, some people do have front doors that open straight into the front room! We have friends who have that (and they also have designated half on haven't parking spaces with official signs etc). Not a back to back though.

This thread got hilarious since I first saw it yesterday!

Get yer sen on that WhatsApp group.

Khalid is having a chat with Judith when she gets back from work with regard to my WhatsApp request. Dog walking summary is this... She is still four tyres down on the two tyre side...Khalid has retreated for R and R(lunch).
Billy has nipped to the Co-Op probably for popcorn and a delivery driver is stuck although the triffids have shifted.
The delivery driver is wandering up and down the street knocking on doors. Goodness knows who shifted the post mebbe it was Pat. He has knocked on next door to Pat and is having a word.

I will provide notes to all employers to explain lack of productivity.