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.😁

Any street parking thread now just makes me think of Alphabet street & so rainypuddles

Alphabet Street was fab, and I often think about the rainy puddles. I miss her thread.

And the poems on this are fantastic.

Advertise contact free collection of Pat's pot plants on Freecycle.

I live in a back to back terrace OP and I am very very south - nearly on the beach!!

Pat needs to get a grip and start parking properly again.

Why does Plant pot Pat think she's in the right ?
I honestly couldn't obstruct traffic even if I felt I was in the right which is what she's doing .
Hanging baskets or window baskets or even better move to a house with parking and a garden you can't have it both ways .

Oh sooo funny when you don't live there 😁. Thanks for the laugh. I am new to mumsnet and just learning the language!

Ok I have the solution.

Everyone gets big plant pots. Everyone parks 4 wheels on the road.

Then when Pat can’t walk or drive down the street maybe she will realise what a fucking idiot she is.

@EggyPegg

#TeamSyd

You could create a phonics book out if this.

Pat's pots are a pain.
'Move your pots Pat' said Syd 'I can not park'.
Pat would not.
Syd was cross

Moving on to Stage 3 At night Pat put her pots on the road. Syd and Stan put them on Pat's car. Pat was livid. Pat said a bad thing. Mum said "Go in, Biff"

Totally meaningless post alert!
To me, pot plants are kept in the house.
Plant pots can be either in or out.
Wanders off aimlessly

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

It is neither. It is Pat plants.

Runningoutofnamestochange
Any street parking thread now just makes me think of Alphabet street & so rainypuddles

I was thinking about Mrs. B the other day, wondering how things were going in Alphabet Street.

@burritofan

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

It is neither. It is Pat plants.

Pat will have her own thread with MNers telling her to get a penguin bollard up asap!!

Stage 5
Pat came out.
She was fuming.
The pots were gone!
Khalid said Syd done it.
Poor Pat doesn’t have a pot to piss in 😕

I love the street WhatsApp! What was said on the WhatsApp...? I need more info.

@burritofan

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

It is neither. It is Pat plants.

Or, should it be: plants which are in pots, belonging to Pat.

Can you all not have a communal alley at the backs with pots etc?

There isn't a back.

Back-to-backs are called that because they share a back wall - one is directly built onto the back of the other.

Mum said "Go in, Biff"

Biff said "Is that a bad word, Mummy"
Mummy said "Go inside, Biff"
Mummy was very very cross.
Mummy said Very Bad Swears to Pat.
She told Pat she would get her heads in her hands to play with.
Syd and Stan left.
They left very quietly.
Syd and Stan weresmiling.

Plants in pots are potted plants. Pot plants are marijuana, whether in a pot or in the ground. (When I first came on MN I thought everyone was a weed-toking hippie.)

I loved be the way a new character Stan has emerged. So much alliteration!

Yabu for no diagram

But I think I'm #TeamSyd. Pat needs to move the plant pots

I'm also at the amount of people who can't grasp terraces that don't have a backyard and I'm a southerner.

I do feel for Pat - the pot plants probably bring her great joy but they've gotta go.

I don't suppose there's enough room on the street to just not park outside Pats?

Bin the bloody plant pots, selfish cow.

As someone who has lived on a street with similar set up (terraced houses with door that lead directly onto the street), the one with the plant pots causing an obstruction on a pavement is the unreasonable one. You cannot put stuff outside your house on the pavement. It's not part of your property. If you really want plants then it's got to be a window box (which look fab!) and high positioned hanging baskets if you really, really must.

@jambeforeclottedcream YABU, for not reading the full thread

A pretty epic diagram is above, ladders and fire engines an all

Burley in Leeds has lots of back to back houses if you want to see what they're like. A lot of buy to let people buy them as they're cheap but near enough for uni students.