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?

It is not a valid point. If you have a house on a public road and no drive (like us) you know the score.

@romeolovedjulliet

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.

My NDN also had cones, every night I’d go outside and either put them away in their garden or decorate their car with them. Took a while but they gave up being twats eventually.

Not rtft but I'd love to know how you are meant to know which particular families have young children and 'need' to park outside their house.

Also they are clearly bonkers thinking it's a residents parking bay, unless they have permits. Not to mention too much time on their hands if they bothered to get those envelopes.

Where did they even get the PCN envelope?

Here, probably ...

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-Pack-of-6-Fake-Parking-Ticket-Good-Fun-Joke-Penalty-Charge-Notice-Fine-Prank/131756193127?epid=12025347710&hash=item1ead47f567:g:1sUAAOSwpIdW7FvO

Is it residents parking? The person that lives there seems to be under the impression it is.

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

Is it residents parking? The person that lives there seems to be under the impression it is.

I just came to ask the same! Why is the note writer stating you have parked in residents bay?

The handwriting isn't even straight... all up and down across the lines (well, dots). I presume s/he was shaking so much with rage they couldn't write straight.

As an aside, the 'plenty of parking further up the road'... is that all outside houses too though? So you'd be annoying someone wherever you parked going by these rules?

Bet that's a man.

Not RTFT but that's really bloody funny, when you think about it! Someone has nice creative/recycling capabilities when they put their cowardly anonymous note - as ever with no name or address suggesting they own what they say in their imperious little commands - on your car. Someone's gone to a hell of a lot of effort on your account, OP.

All the while you were parked perfectly legally while they, somehow, got hold of one of those little yellow plastic envelopes you can only get when you're sent to the naughty corner for illegal parking yourself ...

Oh how I laughed!

Where did they even get the PCN envelope?

Here, probably ...

Nah. That one was well crumpled up. It's been used before! Tee hee.

Park there every day forever

@GinAtMerlottes

I'd correct it with red pen like a teacher but then, in addition, draw a massive cock over the whole thing, and leave it inside the windscreen when you REPEATEDLY park in that space because I'm childish like that!

Is it definitely not residents parking?

Extra "sad wanker" points for the fake yellow envelope there.

Don't people buy those envelopes to trick traffic officers into thinking they've already been ticketed, so they don't get one?

Absolutely ott op. If you ever find out who it is, tell them unfortunately wherever you were going doesnt sell crystal balls so you didnt know they had children. Plus you're parked legally so maybe they should move to a house with a drive.

The person who wrote the note is visibly sad. If anyone would really try to get back at someone for this, they need to get a life.

That one was well crumpled up. It's been used before

You.re right, I'd forgotten that!! Maybe it really IS one of her own ..

Oh i'd carry on parking there, and possibly leave them a passive aggressive note on my window-screen explaining that I wouldn't be taking advice from parking advice from someone who clearly doesn't know the parking rules, as they must have had that empty PCN envelope lying around for a reason.

Sorry! I meant I wouldn't be taking parking advice**

We have permit/1 hour parking on our street as we live near a train station- We applied to the council for it as people used to block our driveways when they got the train to work on Friday morning & they were surprised people were pi**ed off with them when they collected their cars on Sunday as they had been drinking all weekend!!!!
The worst was the car that blocked a neighbours driveway & they got the train to the airport - imagine their surprise when they returned from their holiday to find the police had removed their vehicle.
But that note is seriously twatish it’s not their space & how on earth are you supposed to know they have kids!!!

When they say “further up the road” they presumably mean outside someone else’s house? So only really care about themselves!

You HAVE to park there every day now forever

It would really annoy me, but I'd be worried about them keying my car if I parked there again...

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

Is it residents parking? The person that lives there seems to be under the impression it is.

That was my immediate thought - is it actually a street where residents pay for permits to park there?

I know plenty of residential streets where that is the case.

If so, they’re paying for the privilege?

Oh dear OP, maybe your disgruntled resident is related to my old neighbour. On more than one occasion she knocked on my door to ask me, quite aggressively, when I intended to move my car from where is was parked, opposite her house. She always had a note of exactly how long it had been there. She didn’t need the space herself. Her car was always parked in her garage. She just didn’t like having to look at my car outside her house.

Mind you, she also used to complain to the local council about the school bus that parked (briefly) each morning and evening on the other side of the green. Apparently it was an eyesore...