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.😁

Well the username PlantPotPat is not available - I do hope she turns up here to tell us why she's right

Best thread I have read in ages. Do keep is up to date with he goings on.

i think youve posted on the wrong thread @sneakysnoopysniper

Pat is in the wrong.

@justbrutallyhonest

Eh?

Pat needs to be careful if someone tripped over her plant pots especially in the dark she could be liable.

Indeed - it's pretty antisocial.

Loads here in Leeds, I used to live in a couple when renting as young professional

We’re going to need a search party for @Casschops soon!

This has made me laugh this morning. Car parking is an issue in some areas but people are also mega entitled about their right to park their car outside their home. We live on a pedestrian terrace with a back lane only (just) wide enough to park on one side and a bit of a nightmare to manoeuvre in. I’ve been blocked into my yard on more than one occasion by people making deliveries but it’s part and parcel of living somewhere like this and if the street is blocked in same way on my way home then I just have to park somewhere else. If it’s blocked on way out I just have to wait a few minutes. It’s worth the minor inconvenience for the house and having no road out front where the garden is.
If Pat had no car and wanted to have flowerpots instead I’d say she’s surely as much right to use the pavement for that but since she has a car then agree with the majority that the pots have to go. Honestly council probably should put double yellow lines up one side as well. I’ve lost count of the near misses I’ve seen on the way to kids school with people parked on the pavements. It’s really not very safe and people are largely oblivious to how dangerous cars are to pedestrians even when moving fairly slowly.

Has OP been kidnapped/buried under plant pot?

OMG.
I think Pat is being pathetic. She needs to move her poxy plant pots!
It is what it is! It’s as mild street. She can’t have them there, end of!

**21:53Justbrutallyhonest

I have my own drive that at a push you can get 4 cars on, a front garden and live on a relatively quiet wide road that if you park a car opposite each other all tyres on the road, there’s still room to get a medium size lorry through....... just saying if that helps

What have I missed, how does that help anyone?

Loving this thread, I thought back to backs had yards and ginnels or whatever they are called.(My knowledge of the north tends to be based on Corrie).
I am always happy to be educated however.

If it has a yard it’s not a back to back.

It’s a terrace.

Back to backs aren't just a British thing, my in-laws live in one in southern Italy. Most of the houses in those little streets you see on TV (like the one in the photo) will be back to backs, and lots have plant pots outside the door!

It's on. It's on like fat pat's thong.

what happened to op?

@GabsAlot

what happened to op?

Kidnapped and held hostage by the Monday Dog Walking Club Paramilitaries.

You have typed this 3 times up to this point and somebody has already corrected you.

Have I? Sorry.

I blame idiocy.

OP has been granted access to the community WhatsApp and has disappeared down a rabbit hole of minor irritations and spleen- venting, never to be seen again.

On a side note I didn't apply to the village FB page for years and then when I did I found out that a group had been having a good old moan and gossip about me a couple of years earlier because of some work I had done on the house. I'd have been devastated at the time; in this one regard I'm feeling sorry for Pat. She probably feels persecuted.

This is excellent fun! 😂😂😂

But what's happened to the OP?