Would you block her in?

[awaywiththefae]

I’m WFH and just taking my lunch so thought I’d also whip the bin out. As I do, a car crawls past and then reverses into our parking spot. (It’s our private spot and has our number sprayed in it as well as a sign saying ‘Private parking for number 30’) A woman gets out so I said “Excuse me, sorry you can’t park there” she looks and me and just wanders off up the street.

I mean, I get she might not have realised (although the sign is big and prominent) but to be told and then still walk off without moving - the cheek.

I was a bit taken aback if I’m honest so went back in the house and then I thought, no sod this and I went and knocked on the door of the house she went in, I waited a bit but no one answered!

I wouldn’t mind as such if someone was quickly dropping something off but she’s obviously stopping for a bit. The annoying thing too is the house she’s gone in has a driveway and there’s room for this visitor on it. So I’m a bit to why she’s parked in our private bay.

Grrr, I can’t keep knocking as going back to work (WFH) in a bit, so would I be unreasonable to just block her in with my car? I feel like I need to make a point

[quote DadDadDad]**@Roasteros* - I love the way Brookes99* has popped by to nicely illustrate your superior poster point.[/quote]
This is the thread that just keeps giving😆

I haven’t got “the hump” at all, nor am I “put out”. I just don’t stick my nose into things that don’t concern me. 🤷‍♀️

you sound it.

@HaveringWavering

I enjoyed the twist where a poster came on to chastise OP on behalf of her boss for not paying enough attention at work!

Pure gold!

I'm interested in the person claiming to be a GP who seems to think that leaving his/her car on private property is fine at a time when many GPs seem to think it quite unreasonable for patients to want to set foot in their GP's surgery.

@FatCatThinCat

B) no note. For the very reason that we visit dying patients and may have a medical bag with opioids, etc with us

Bullshit. Our doctors did home visits in a vehicle painted up like an ambulance with 'doctor' painted on the sides.

And my local doctors use their own cars.

Funnily enough, I've thought of doing this. Why don't you try it? And see how many of the Great British Public actually number their houses so you can see the numbers from your car, especially in the dark - worse if its house names. Or go apeshit following a car driving slowly trying to see the numbers.

Next, you could try teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.

I do know what you mean - but that's partly why I said to look out every dozen or so, as there are only so many houses that have numbers on their walls/fences at the edge of their property or big enough on their doors that you can see from the road, which you can use as guide markers.

Personally, I would make it a legal requirement to clearly display house numbers so that they can be seen by somebody driving slowly by - for the sake of the emergency services as much as anybody else.

If a driver behind you is annoyed at how slowly you're going along a residential street, surely you would just indicate and pull over and let them pass?

But that still doesn't answer the main point as to why you would choose to pull up across somebody's driveway before getting out to look and find the house, rather than in a safe, legal space somewhere on the road - any actual available space?

I’d mind my own business if it wasn’t my driveway but that seems to be a dying art.

You say that as if it's a bad thing for people to be looking out for their neighbours, who may also be vulnerable.

If you had a neighbour who was a wheelchair user with a blue badge space outside their home and you saw a CF (non BB-holder) park up in it and hop out, are you really suggesting that the moral high ground dictates you should ignore it and wait for a disabled person to arrive home, find no space to park and then have to struggle around to find who the owner is - when you knew all along and could have told the CF to drive on in the first place?

@JoeGrundyWasMyRoleModel

NRTFT so apologies if this has already been suggested. Can the OP install the (in)famous penguin bollards to stop this happening in the future?

Now everyone who even looked at the title of this thread will have adverts for penguin bollards follow them around the internet for 16 days.

Only joking, 10 days max.

We have a solar powered lit up sign with our house no on. It was £20 from Amazon

Takeaway and delivery drivers think it should be made law to have one!

(I'll get back in my box)

Well its Tuesday now - so what happened?

Ooops - didn't see the further messages

@yellowsubmarines

WutheringBites Mon 05-Jul-21 21:33:20 this is such a depressing thread. I'm a dr and do home visits. I've parked in COMPLETELY THE WRONG SPOT because I don't know where I'm visiting/didn't know it was a reserved space/am more bloody worried about visiting a sick patient (and the next two I've got to get to before I have to start afternoon surgery). fortunately, I work in a nice bit of the world where no one has blocked me in (yet). and, no, there's not a "dr on call" note to put in the window. sad people are such twats.

My neighbour FREQUENTLY has dr and nurse home visits and they always ALWAYS park on the footpath across my drive. ALWAYS!! There is absolutely no excuse for it. There is a large sign Number 14 right next to my drive that they park in front of. And they will not move when I ask them because 'I'm a doctor' or 'I'm a nurse'. I don't care who you are you have no right to block me getting in or out of my private drive. Meanwhile the neighbour's drive Number 15 is sitting empty. If someone doesn't know which house they're going to or can't read clearly marked signs then how on earth are they a medical professional surely they park on a bit of road that doesn't completely block any drives? Or if the road is that difficult then surely you figure out which house you're going to then move from blocking a neighbouring drive? If it's some sort of life death emergency then how would the blocked drive person know that? If I need to leave and there is a car blocking my drive I have no idea who it is or why it's there, I phone the police. The police then phone you and tell you to move and I have to wait. Meanwhile I've missed my own dr appointment.

Quite. Your "parking spot" whether you are using it or not is yours. You paid for it. If your neighbour is ill and needs an ambulance, they need to decide whether they are in the right street or not- sounds as if they don't really fit in if they are old or ill or unlucky.

This thread led me down a rabbit hole to the original penguin bollards thread and I was a bit disappointed to see that despite promises by the OP to return and show pictures of the penguins installed (by the thread end they had been delivered to Hounslow and were going to be delivered to the Isle of Wight by her sister), she never updated. I’d like to know if she ever built her garden with the black railings with gold spikes, if the nice tenant ever got to rent the garage and whether Bin Lady ever calmed down. All I was able to find out via Advanced Search was that her baby was a girl and she got a dog.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2226098-To-be-a-bit-miffed-that-people-coo-over-my-Pug-puppy-more-than-they-do-my-newborn-DD?postsby=Mrsdavidcaruso&fromid=50493399

Don’t be like Penguin bollards lady OP.

@FatCatThinCat none of the GP’s in the practice I work in have access to one of those. They routinely visit patients at home in their own vehicles. The Drs that have visited my own DH at our home have driven a Volvo, a Golf & a BMW of some sort. Not sure why you think the Dr posting on this thread isn’t telling the truth

I don’t think many doctors carry hardcore drugs anymore though. As far as I was aware patients are now given a locked box of what may be needed in a emergency to keep at home. This is precisely because it is very dangerous to carry opioids around!
Anyway back to parking 😆

[quote Heyyeahyouwiththesadface]@FatCatThinCat none of the GP’s in the practice I work in have access to one of those. They routinely visit patients at home in their own vehicles. The Drs that have visited my own DH at our home have driven a Volvo, a Golf & a BMW of some sort. Not sure why you think the Dr posting on this thread isn’t telling the truth [/quote]
I'm pretty sure that many doctors do use their own cars. That wasn't the point of my post. My post was refuting the notion that Dr's have to travel ninja style and cannot possibly put a note on their dashboard to explain why they're parking like a arse, and nobody should ever be annoyed at someone parking on their drive as there's a million to one chance they may be unmasking Dr Secret Squirrel.

This is complete by-the-by and I'm not justifying blocking private parking spaces, but I think the marked "Doctor" car is the sort that's sent out by 111. In which case, they have a driver so are not alone and probably less likely to be at risk.

An on-call GP from a local practice would use their own car and most probably would be alone.

[I used to do visits as a hospital doctor but carried no drugs and never found the need to park anywhere that would inconvenience anyone who wasn't my patient.
However, I was once asked to see someone and the referral mentioned that they seemed "paranoid" about their neighbour interfering with their car.
When I returned to my car (parked on my patient's drive) I found a big stone rammed in my exhaust pipe...]

I'm far too invested in this thread... I've been lurking since it went up!

I NEED to know who wrote the note.

I'm fascinated by the amount of CF's who think it's okay to use someone's allocated space. I get the sweats just parking legally on raised kerbs between 2 driveways... How you lot have the sheet brass balls to ignore basic property ownership astounds me!

However, I'm pleased to know that the GP's spaces at the surgery are fair game as per Dr Wutherings logic

I’d mind my own business if it wasn’t my driveway but that seems to be a dying art

I can confirm that what actually is a dying art is having the courtesy to respect other people's property even when it is inconvenient to do so!

I speak as somebody who regularly has to hunt for the owner of vehicles parked across my drive and who lost my patience for doing so a good few years ago!

@amicissimma

I'm interested in the person claiming to be a GP who seems to think that leaving his/her car on private property is fine at a time when many GPs seem to think it quite unreasonable for patients to want to set foot in their GP's surgery.

I was going to guffaw at the notion that any GP still does home visits, but I did manage to call one out to my mother in 2019. However, that does pre-date covid...

round where I live, there are loads of houses with no drive or a drive only big enough for one car

What part of "If you are a healthcare worker visiting someone with a drive, why not park in their drive" did you miss?

And see how many of the Great British Public actually number their houses so you can see the numbers from your car, especially in the dark - worse if its house names. Or go apeshit following a car driving slowly trying to see the numbers

I'm not clear how not being able to see house numbers necessitates parking across (or on) somebody's drive, in their allocated space or otherwise inconsiderately or illegally. I think it is quite possible to stop in a non-obstructing place, get out, and look for the house you want.

Dh suggests that the real reason Dr wuthering doesn’t print a dr in call sign is….

Because they would be mobbed by all the mumsnetters who can’t get any appointment whatsoever with their Dr.

I'm loving how this thread has turned into a huge argument about where doctors park their cars. Nothing to do with the OP at all - it's quite impressive how a thread can be derailed so quickly!