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

362 replies

Casschops · 09/11/2020 15:02

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.😁

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jambeforeclottedcream · 09/11/2020 22:30

I can't see the diagram 🙈🙈🙈 I love a good parking diagram

Fromage · 09/11/2020 22:31

@CuriousaboutSamphire

Wait. Absent a diagram:

Pat is using 2 plant pots to keep her front door car free.

A neighbour, annoyed at this space blocking, has parked his car as though the pots are not there.

To make exiting from her house less Horse of the Year Show Pat is now parking her car outside her house - but all 4 wheels on the road.

So now rather than blocking the pavement she is blocking the road.

Has anyone called those people we like to still call traffic wardens?

She's a total twonk!

"To make exiting from her house less Horse of the Year Show...."

GrinGrinGrin

ivykaty44 · 09/11/2020 22:33

Pat needs to move abroad and become an expat

MaggieFS · 09/11/2020 22:39

Petty Pat needs to push her pot plants back behind the cellar line. I'd be surprised if she still has her wing mirrors in the morning.

LOVE the comment from a pp which I can't now find to credit/quote where the terraced houses in 2969 have cats on wheels and Cartier cars!

I know what back to backs are from when I lived in Leeds. Now I'm down south I don't think I've seen any for a while... are they particularly northern?

SlippersForFlippers · 09/11/2020 22:54

Yes, mainly built in northern cities.
In Leeds they're still lived in, I think they've been demolished everywhere else.

TheTangoTerrorIsTerrifying · 09/11/2020 23:05

🪴 🪴 🪴

Pat's pot plants are pissing up the parking. Play fair Pat please.

🪴 🪴 🪴

BanditoShipman · 10/11/2020 00:11

Still not quite got my head round it... how do you have pets? Dog and cat type pets, I think hamsters would be ok. Where do bins go? How do Yodel drivers fling parcels over your garden wall??? Don’t you get noise on 3 sides rather than 2? Do the front doors open onto a hall or straight into the living room. If the latter, can everyone walking past see inside and gawp at you all day?

I feel like this is a whole new world I never knew existed! (Midlands, not Southerner)

Sorka · 10/11/2020 00:55

Potty Pat needs to move her pots.

You must live someplace nice OP. Those pots would have disappeared or had an ‘accident’ if they were in my neighbourhood.

Casschops · 10/11/2020 01:05

Khalid has reported from the front line via the street WhatsApp which I don't have access to that there may be a lot reconnaissance mission tonight. Billy is primed his front room with his bonus he is a veteran so must be wearing camo.

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Casschops · 10/11/2020 01:06

Khalid has reported from the front line via the street WhatsApp which I don't have access to that there may be a pot reconnaissance mission tonight. Billy is primed his front room with his binnys he is a veteran so must be wearing camo

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mamapisspants · 10/11/2020 01:33

@Casschops

Khalid has reported from the front line via the street WhatsApp which I don't have access to that there may be a pot reconnaissance mission tonight. Billy is primed his front room with his binnys he is a veteran so must be wearing camo

😂😂😂 this thread has brought me so much joy!

Pat is a plonker. Please keep us updated!

SuperAlly · 10/11/2020 01:42

Is this her?

My First Parking Thread- all out war has been declared.
RainingBatsAndFrogs · 10/11/2020 06:22

Pat is being a bit of an idiot with the pots. It’s a shame not having a garden but it doesn’t mean she can block the pavement

To be fair though, how does this sound:
All the neighbours are being a bit of an idiot with the cars. It’s a shame not having a drive but it doesn’t mean they can block the pavement”

Casschops · 10/11/2020 08:21

@SuperAlly that is her.Grin

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VeggieSausageRoll · 10/11/2020 08:22

@burritofan

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

It is neither. It is Pat plants.

Pat plonts, surely?
Casschops · 10/11/2020 08:24

Morning report, it has been noted that one of Pattys plant pots has been relocated in front of her car and one behind. It is having a penguin collars affect. It's like a very localised attack of the triffids. Pat hasn't surfaces yet. My money is on Billy, quiet silent assassin.

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drspouse · 10/11/2020 08:29

@BanditoShipman

Still not quite got my head round it... how do you have pets? Dog and cat type pets, I think hamsters would be ok. Where do bins go? How do Yodel drivers fling parcels over your garden wall??? Don’t you get noise on 3 sides rather than 2? Do the front doors open onto a hall or straight into the living room. If the latter, can everyone walking past see inside and gawp at you all day?

I feel like this is a whole new world I never knew existed! (Midlands, not Southerner)

We have a back alley but cats can exit at the end of the street, dogs wait for owners to take them out. Delivery drivers don't bother going round the back though we have space for a recycling box at the front so they use that or leave it on the front step in full view.
SchadenfreudePersonified · 10/11/2020 08:48

@Casschops

Morning report, it has been noted that one of Pattys plant pots has been relocated in front of her car and one behind. It is having a penguin collars affect. It's like a very localised attack of the triffids. Pat hasn't surfaces yet. My money is on Billy, quiet silent assassin.
I am now REALLY over-invested in this thread!

What time does Pat usually drag herself out of bed to water her pavement-blocking plants ? I need an update in REAL TIME.

This makes the recent US elections fade into insignificance.

RainingBatsAndFrogs · 10/11/2020 09:00

Black Ops Billy.

Seeline · 10/11/2020 09:07

Have Pat's plant pots been reported to the Council? I'm sure it would be illegal to have them in the pavement - it's not her property so has no right to out private possessions on it. We're not even meant to put our bins on the pavement on collection day - they are meant to go at the edge of our property!

Casschops · 10/11/2020 09:15

Black Ops Billy of the nightwatch has donned multi and is "walking his dog" streetwise whistling. Must be some signal to the higher ups that mission is accomplished or the rebellion whistle like the Mocking Jay signal from The Hunger Games.

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Casschops · 10/11/2020 09:16

Black Ops Billy of the nightwatch has donned mufti and is "walking his dog" streetwise whistling. Must be some signal to the higher ups that mission is accomplished or the rebellion whistle like the Mocking Jay signal from The Hunger Games

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ODFOx · 10/11/2020 10:02

45 minutes! He can't still be walking his dog. I can imagine the whole street's curtains twitching while she enjoys a leisurely breakfast, oblivious 😀!

PunishmentSnart · 10/11/2020 10:07

Why do you not have access to the neighbourhood WhatsApp?

You need to join NOW so you can update us!

MusicWithRocksIn1t · 10/11/2020 10:17

I agree. We ... um I mean you... need to know whats being said on WhatsApp!