Someone has parked over my H bar and blocked my car in ...

[WatfordGap]

Earlier this year, I had an H bar painted across my dropped kerb because people kept parking over the edge of the dropped bit, meaning I couldn't get in or out of my drive (the drive is narrow and at an angle on a very narrow street with cars parked opposite).

So far, it's pretty much done the trick. But today I went out for an hour and came back and someone has parked a good foot or so over the end of it, meaning that I can't get my car off the driveway. Unfortunately for them, I was not using the vehicle which was (and still is) parked on the drive, but another one. :)

So I've parked across the rest of my H bar. There's now enough room between my front bumper and their rear one to get a matchbox in. There's about a foot between them and the car parked in front of them.

Today is my last day at work for 2 weeks. Do you think I should have an early glass of wine to celebrate?

@ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule

I'm another one who couldn't get a car out in an emergency. DH, bf at the time, couldn't get his car out of his parents' garage at around 2am when I needed to go back to hospital following repeated asthma attacks. The wanker neighbour had parked partway across, and that meant DH couldn't have got the car out of the very tight garage, even with all the fancy manoeuvring in the world. We had to get a taxi because I refused to call an ambulance. Selfish drivers parking badly make me mad as hell.

Took me a minute there to work out your husband wasn't breastfeeding

Blimey! Are they still parked there OP? They can't complain about being blocked when they've been blocking you in for hours. There is absolutely no way they could have known that you didn't have plans this evening. If it's still there around bedtime I would phone the police who will then phone the car owner to tell them to move it. I had to do that frequently when I lived in London. The police don't even need to turn up you just phone the non emergency number and tell them the registration number of the vehicle and they can trace it and phone the registered owner (who might not actually be the driver). We had it once where a son had taken his father's car out, parked like a wanker and the father was phoned by the police telling him to move the car. I can only hope the son got a right bollocking when he went home.

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I especially love the "blameless cars" on the diagram 🤣🤣

@Sparklingbrook

Why does there need to be a diagram? It’s fairly straightforward.

Get out!

But is the diagram to scale ?

Can't believe how long they've been there OP! Cheeky fuckers indeed!

I love a parking post on a Friday!

But it's going to cost DH a fortune. Why? Because we are going to have to move! I want a house where the drive can be blocked! I want to drink wine and tell them to go forth and procreate when they ask me to move my car! I want to poop on their bonnet! I want to draw cute diagrams with blameless cars!

We have lovely, considerate, neighbours, and live on a cul-de-sac, so no parking problems, ever

I have sad news. Well, not sad, but slightly disappointing. Neighbour has gone out so wanker car is free.

Thank you for chatting and sorry there wasn't a more dramatic end.

I do not regret anything and I'd do it again!

Have lovely weekends

@peridito

No the point here is that the OP is being unreasonable in her reaction to this specific incident .

Because of her circumstances ,not that of hypothetical others .

I love how some people, you in this case, can't see what's wrong. It isn't 'unreasonable' to be angry at inconsiderate fools, if we all sat back and let them get away with it they'll never stop.

Don’t panic OP, neighbour may come back before CF leaves…

@WatfordGap

I have sad news. Well, not sad, but slightly disappointing. Neighbour has gone out so wanker car is free.

Thank you for chatting and sorry there wasn't a more dramatic end.

I do not regret anything and I'd do it again!

Have lovely weekends

Quick, ring a friend to come and park there!

Right - where are you and I’ll drive there and park up in your neighbour’s spot? The CFer is not getting away with this.

@readytosell

Love it!

And learned something new, never knew it was called a H bar!

We call them access protection markings in the LA I work for. We charge people to have them and where I am they are only advisory anyway and Civil Parking Enforcement don't do anything. It's a police matter.

@WatfordGap

I have sad news. Well, not sad, but slightly disappointing. Neighbour has gone out so wanker car is free.

Thank you for chatting and sorry there wasn't a more dramatic end.

I do not regret anything and I'd do it again!

Have lovely weekends

Sure you can't get your car off the drive? Block the front with one car, back with the other?

OP, take a photo and upload it to a FB page called "You Park Like A C**t"

My dad has a H bar painted across the entrance to his block of flats. Commuters ignore it and park partly across it. In his case, the driveway is quite wide but it means that people leaving the flats cannot see traffic coming. His lovely neighbour used to leave notes, but they ended up scrunched up and chucked in the hedge or gutter. Dad is more sly. He gets his grease gun and puts a nice line of grease under the driver's door handle. They don't do it again. Vaseline would probably work equally as well.

I’m hoping that CF has already returned to their car but has been too mortified to knock on doors and has therefore taken a taxi home, hoping to return for their car tomorrow, but has learned not to do this again

That is a shame, would have loved a better ending for my Friday evening entertainment.

Nothing to do with this thread but I was in a very posh village earlier this week in an area where the residents and holidaymakers tend to drive large expensive 4x4s, Porsches and Bentleys, they have a brilliant car park with wide spaces and reasonable rates just off the high street a 1 minutes stroll away. Talking to a local coffee shop owner she said that the car park always has spaces as the wankers who drive the posh cars prefer to abandon them on corners, blocking entrances and on double yellows. After all they are very important and will only be 5 minutes (or more like 25, their watches are obviously as defective as their parking]

How is OP unreasonable?

Parking like an arse is an unreasonable thing to do. OP was restrained and dognified in her response. Someone else might have been temped to smear dog poo on his windscreen.

@Sparklingbrook

They are thick wankers and cunts then

They probably have no clue what an H bar is. 🤷‍♀️

In which case they are clearly too thick to have a driving licence! What other road signs/rules don't they understand. Already too many cars on the road/multi cars per house. Which means more potential to be in an accident.

Without 'too thick' being chucked in for good measure

Can't believe how long they've been there OP!

Well they can’t leave!

I can't believe I've read through all of the OP's comments and there's no update!

[quote Cluckycluck]@peridito
The driver of the parked car doesn't know that Watford has another car and isn't inconveniencing her. What if it was there was an emergency and the person blocked in desperately need to get out? What if they missed seeing a loved one before they died because they spent 40 minutes trying to find the inconsiderate prick who blocked them in?

These people are the same kind of wankers that end up blocking roads for emergency vehicles because they can't park considerately.[/quote]
Exactly. When my Nan was in in her final days she refused to eat unless my mum went and fed her. No one else, nurses, carers eTc could get her to eat. Mum had an hour window each day where she went during her lunch hour. One day some idiot parked across the entrance of her workplace. My Mum couldn’t get there to feed her.

^In which case they are clearly too thick to have a driving licence!*

Well yes, but unfortunately the theory test doesn't include an intelligence test.