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Parking princess

66 replies

crochetmonkey74 · 01/11/2021 15:54

So, theres a woman in my road who is a total parking bitch. We live in a public street with no restrictions, very few houses have drives so parking space is limited. Theres one woman who has home made no parking signs on her fence, and leaves notes if you park there as she feels entitled to the space outside her house. Sometimes theres literally no where for me to park apart from there, I was moaning about it to a friend and she said 'I dunno maybe park on a nearby street, if she gets that het up about parking you have to feel sorry for her really so just be grateful you're not her'
I was ENRAGED by this , I actually have a pretty crap life at the moment and I'm just wondering when I get to be treated like a princess or does it only happen If you're a total dick and leave notes on everyone's car. You know you sometimes just get sick of 'being the bigger person'
Rant rant rant rant

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Dora33 · 01/11/2021 17:12

I'm with your friend. She was just trying to make a suggestion after listening to you moaning. For you to then become enraged, is over the top.
Either as some have suggested park there when you need to but ignore the notes. Otherwise park elsewhere.
Maybe also stop moaning to your friend about it.

TheWayTheLightFalls · 01/11/2021 17:16

Yeah, just park there. If you’re feeling particularly flush spend £200 on the bangerest banger you can find and park that there too, permanently.

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crochetmonkey74 · 01/11/2021 17:30

@Dora33

I'm with your friend. She was just trying to make a suggestion after listening to you moaning. For you to then become enraged, is over the top. Either as some have suggested park there when you need to but ignore the notes. Otherwise park elsewhere. Maybe also stop moaning to your friend about it.
Only moaned once and enraged is a bit of poetic license for just being irritated
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crochetmonkey74 · 01/11/2021 17:30

@TheWayTheLightFalls

Yeah, just park there. If you’re feeling particularly flush spend £200 on the bangerest banger you can find and park that there too, permanently.
Hahahahaha
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Roundtoedshoes · 01/11/2021 18:13

I’d print off rightmove pages of houses with driveways locally and post them through her door.

gettingolderandgrumpy · 01/11/2021 18:19

I know what your saying op some people are so entitled but get away with it because a lot of people just can’t be bothered with the confrontation. It’s up to you I’d probably ignore the silly parking bitch but she won’t like it op so be ready for her coming on all cf entitled.

tempchecked · 01/11/2021 18:20

I have often wondered why people like this buy property without a driveway. If you don't have a private driveway you make do with what's available.

I agree that these entitled idiots need to be shown the door pronto. Doesn't have to be rude or agressive, but wear them down like eating an elephant!

itsgettingwierd · 01/11/2021 18:41

@Sirzy

It would make me more tempted to park there tbh! But I fully appreciate I can be a petty bitch sometimes.
Grin

Sometimes other peoples unreasonable demands just automatically bring out the worst in me too 🤣🤣

ThePlumVan · 01/11/2021 18:57

I would park there deliberately even if there were other spaces.

However, I would also give the whole nonsense too much headspace so I think you’re friend’s advice would ultimately be better for me.

Helloise · 01/11/2021 19:04

We had one of these, with bonus anger issues that meant she would pace up and down the street shrieking about how selfish everyone was for at least half an hour every time "her" space was occupied. A bloke with a big ugly beat-up van moved in a few doors down in early 2020- I recognised some of the band stickers he had and we had a nice chat, he was in one of those bands himself but wasn't really using the van since they couldn't tour anymore because of Covid. I suggested he pop it in front of hers first chance he got and he thought it was a great idea. She did her screaming and pacing on night 1, when it was still there by night 2, went ballistic. She was knocking doors up and down the street and screaming, the police were called but not before she kicked a massive dent in the side of her own car. We literally sat on my front step and watched the show, van bloke shared a bottle of wine with me and my husband. The police took her illegal cones away and must have made an impression because she's meek as anything now.

CloseYourEyesAndSee · 01/11/2021 19:06

I can't bear parking wankers and like fuck would I be parking miles away to give her the space!

donquixotedelamancha · 01/11/2021 19:27

The more people just suck this shit up to 'be the bigger person' the twattier the twats get. Fuck that.

This. There is nothing morally superior about being a doormat. If people are genuinely happy letting someone treat you poorly then fair enough, but it's not wise or kind.

EmoIsntDead · 01/11/2021 19:29

@IveGotASongThatllGetOnYNerves

Life's too short to pander to them imo. Park there if you need to. If she whines about it, remind her it's a public road and mention you have cameras in case an 'accident' happens to your car. Any note that appears on your windscreen gets put back through her door with PUBLIC ROAD written in red pen.

The more people just suck this shit up to 'be the bigger person' the twattier the twats get. Fuck that.

YES!!!
rrhuth · 01/11/2021 19:33

I am often one for a quiet life but this is bullshit - the public highway is the public highway.

I would completely and utterly ignore her, don't do anything at all, just act as if it isn't happening. And park there when you want to.

Smashingspinster · 01/11/2021 19:52

I used to live near a person like this. Used to take delight in screwing up her notes and throwing them on the ground hoping she would see that. Then later I would sneak out and pick them up because - you know, littering is bad.

nettytree · 01/11/2021 19:58

Ive moved cones blocking the only space in my road after a long night shift. One house was putting them out so the builders they had in could park. Bugger that.

StoneofDestiny · 01/11/2021 20:05

I'd park where I wanted on a public road. If she sticks notes on your car the police will have a word with her in some areas as she is acting like a traffic warden. Apparently this is taken a dim view of in some places.

MurielSpriggs · 01/11/2021 20:07

I'm not really getting the life-is-to-short-for-arguments approach! What's the argument? You park there. She moans. No argument. And if other neighbours are inclined to leave the spend empty, so much the better, more likelihood of it being available for you!

MolkosTeenageAngst · 01/11/2021 20:09

I admit things like this would really annoy me so I’d probably be the petty person parking there even if there were other spaces just to wind her up.

KarmaStar · 01/11/2021 20:49

Scribble out the don't and replace it with please feel free to (park here)😀

saleorbouy · 01/11/2021 20:59

Unless it's a designated disabled space then she can't claim the space outside her house. For convenience we'd all love the space closest to our fare but that's not practical.
Whilst I wouldn't go out of my way to annoy her if it was the last space left I'd use it.

MyCarHasBrokenDownAgain · 02/11/2021 10:08

@KarmaStar

Scribble out the don't and replace it with please feel free to (park here)😀
Or just use this Grin
Parking princess
JudgeJ · 02/11/2021 15:58

@nettytree

Ive moved cones blocking the only space in my road after a long night shift. One house was putting them out so the builders they had in could park. Bugger that.
A friend with a similar batty neighbour used to put the cones into his boot, don't know where she was pinching them from but he finished up taking about twenty to the Council Highways Dept.
UltimateBugKilla · 02/11/2021 16:40

Park there and leave a note saying when she owns the road, then she can leave a note

Heartsandroses · 02/11/2021 17:13

We moved into our house about 5 years ago

We got on with both sets of neighbours until one side moved and the other died

The house where the tenant died had a woman and her two kids move in

She’d been in 3 weeks-all good-until one afternoon when I had just got home from a shitty day at work

She was screaming at us for daring to park outside our own house and how dare we?

Where are meant to park a ten minute walk away from our house (but she can park outside her own house) and the corker line was ‘you can’t just park where you like,you know’

We ignored her and carried on parking outside our house so she bad mouthed us to the whole street

She also parks outside our house to prove a point-so we park outside hers to piss her off (and there are no other places in our street)

Winds her up no end but she can’t do anything about it-I’m not parking where she wants us to-we paid a lot of money to buy our house and I’m not having some wanker with the most god damn awful accent telling me what I can and can’t do

(She also tried to demand we move our garden table away from where we’d placed it-she’d have to dangle out of her window to see it and that I wasn’t allowed to use my own garden in the summer-she also went batshit over us growing sunflowers even tho she would have had to dangle over the fence to see them)

Frankly she can fuck off