A parking one (with photo of pass-agg note)

[MindatWork]

Genuinely interested in people’s opinions on this one - I’ve just returned to my car (parked completely legally in a bay on the road, within the lines and well within the specified 2-hour time limit) to a beautifully-written passive aggressive note - A* for effort.

Whoever stuck it on my dashboard actually put it inside one of those yellow PCN envelopes, folded up so it looked like a parking ticket. Is this a thing people actually do now? Is it a mumsnetter? They have lovely handwriting whoever they are.

In all seriousness, there wasn’t ‘plenty of space further up the road’ when I arrived, and the spaces aren’t just for residents.

I’ve lived in a house like this before so I get it, and yes it’s annoying, but not really much you can do about it apart from say ‘ffs’ and go about your day.

I sympathise as I have a 2 year old DD so completely get the difficulty of hauling kids in and out of the car, but AIBU to thinking giving someone a fright by making them think they’ve been given a ticket (money is v tight at the moment) is - while pretty creative - a bit much?

The handwriting is very bog standard, not beautiful at all!
As for the note - ignore and park there again 😂

Ooh this would make me so angry! Is Paul in exactly the same place and put a sign on the car saying 'this car is equipped with CCTV. Please be aware it is a contravention of the public highways act 2.8(i) to falsely and with intent to deceive place a PCN on any vehicle' or some other made up bollocks.

my new neighbour used to put cones outside his house so he could park his van / partner could park there when they first moved in.
i asked him about it one day as i had a delivery arriving, he replied 'helen' [our nickname for her] needs it saved to get the dc out of the car. bearing in mind the were both able bodied nt kids who were always racing around the garden [4 and 7] i moved the cones for the delivery and chucked them in his garden, they were back out after the delivery was made. i spoke to pc.s.o, they visited him and the cones were removed by the council -result. the twat has since moved out.

where did they even get the PCN envelope? Were they saving it for this sort of occasion?
Clearly some people have too much time on their hands.

Someone tried similar with me once. So I parked there again. With a big sign in in my windscreen saying "LEGALLY PARKED AND WITH DASHCAM TO RECORD YOU BEING A TWAT"

Oddly enough, no more notes on my car.

I've known someone who felt entitled in the same way. somehow the fact it happened while they had parked on another residential road seemed to miss the point, I was told!

Is that considered lovely handwriting now? Do schools still teach good penmanship? That writing looks fairly poor to me.

Go post it through their door with a scribbled "it's not resident parking only", if you're parked outside a house then its them that did it.

Either they've been done for their own shitty parking recently or they've gone to the effort and expense of buying those stickers. Hilarious either way tbh, at least the didn't damage your car.

It’s a lovely note OP, but you know the rules, you should really have drawn a diagram as well.

Presumably if you had parked further up the road, you would have been outside somebody else's house? But they have no issue with that.

I would draw a big penis on the note, then put it back in the envelope and post it back through their letterbox. I mean, it's possible you'll get the wrong door, but the odds are relatively high if you go for the house you parked outside.

Park there again having corrected the letter in red pen, teacher style and leave it in the parking ticket wallet

I like it!

Love a parking fred!

I back up all other pps who have requested that you make time to park there at regular intervals now

@PrincessNutNut

Park there again.

This

I'm very much a live and let live, why make anyone's life harder than it needs to be etc person but, putting that note in a parking ticket holder is a dick move. I'd have to park there every day for a year and just get an Uber to wherever I actually needed to be.

Plus, the note doesn't even make any sense!

Leave your car there permanently. If necessary, buy a new car to drive about in.

People are such twats.
Who do they think they are?

@DuckonaBike

Leave your car there permanently. If necessary, buy a new car to drive about in.

I’m so stubborn that I’d leave my car there indefinitely and buy a new one 🤣

That is not lovely handwriting.

I am also thinking of the threads on here where the OP has complained that there is no room to park outside their own house and unload umpteen babies, buggies, bikes, dogs, giraffes, trampolines, and thousands of bags of shopping because someone has legally parked there. I may be exaggerating slightly.

Result is that everyone says, let their tyres down, put nails underneath, bird seed on the roof, dog shit on the door handles or a note on the car.

Just write a response on the back and put it through the letterbox of the house you parked in front of. Fuck off would be a suggestion.

Park there every day

What a grade A bitch.

Rent an articulated lorry or a horse box. Park it up and sit inside with a cup of tea.

It's a valid point though some people do need to park outside if they have small children or disabled.
I bet the woman was pissed off that every time she goes out she can't park outside her own house and has to lug shopping and the kids down the street .
Of course your not to know that but yabu to carry on parking there now that you know . I don't think it's rude just somebody who's pissed off with it you just got the brunt , park further down like the note said.

I wonder how you're meant to know which houses have young children, because it sounds like this person expects you to avoid them, specifically.

Ugh I have a neighbour who seems to think having a child means the space on the road outside her house is reserved for her. I'd been living in my house a few months and as it's on street parking, I simply parked where I could. One evening a knock on the door, holding her child in her arms demanding I don't park outside of her house as she has a child. I explained there had been no where else available, but she simply said 'but I have a child?!'

@ScotchBunnet

That is not beautiful handwriting, and the person who wrote it is an arsehole. It’s them, not you!

Looks like they've torn a piece from their child's Maths book, or it's a Maths teacher who wrote it! The handwriting is quite poor.