To have objected to this parking? Diagram attached!

[Runinwithangryvet]

Parking thread! I've NC for this. Partly because I am perhaps the unreasonable party. We'll see shall we!?

So this morning, I look out of the front window to see a car parked outside the house, overhanging our drive enough to make it difficult but not impossible for me to get out of the drive. Diagram attached! Very annoying etc etc, but not the end of the world. Or so I thought.

When I went to actually leave the house, another car had parked on the other side of our drive. This second car had parked legitimately with no overhang. However with both cars parked as they were there was not enough space for me to get off the drive. I had to leave house within the hour.

Here's where I potentially am the unreasonable one. I peeked in the back window of the overhanging car. Lots of vet textbooks all over back seat. Well...we happen to live about 100m from a vets. So, I call them. Very polite, give reg no, ask could could it possibly be a member of their staff. If so, could they possibly move car. Etc.

Very shortly after the phone call, a lady scampers up the road into car and drives off. I then realise that between my call and her arrival, the second car has moved. Meaning that at the time she moved her car, I could have got off my drive. Ok with difficulty, but it would not have been impossible! Unless/until another car came and parked on other side of the drive again, of course.

Anyway, fast forward several hours and I'm walking my baby to sleep around the local park. My phone goes and it is our doorbell camera. She's come knocking on the door. Oh! I thought; an apology! I answered the door from the park (thank God).

It transpires she most certainly was not knocking on the door to apologise but instead to tell me she was NOT blocking me in, I COULD HAVE got off drive, she moved the car around the corner AND NOW HAS BEEN GIVEN A PARKING TICKET FOR BLOCKING ANOTHER DROPPED KERB! Oh, and she is VERY BUSY saving the lives of animals and could I PLEASE bear that in mind in future.

I've not previously used my doorbell camera to have a row in the park with someone I've never met, but there's a first time for everything I suppose.

I mean, I'm an animal lover and all that but I also like to be able to move my car should the need arise. So! WIBU to call her work and get her to move her car? 😁

She's a CF

Beautiful diagram.

Idiot Parker's give me the rage.

Clearly she's having a bad day and has taken her bad choices out on you. Blocking a dropped kerb is a shitty thing to do for any wheelchair or mobility scooter users.

She's out of order and embarrassed and deflecting. I'd be complaining to the practise manager and asking if the vets entitled attitude is shared by the business?

"AND NOW HAS BEEN GIVEN A PARKING TICKET FOR BLOCKING ANOTHER DROPPED KERB!"

So has a habit of parking inconsiderately and has got her just desserts. Perhaps she will take more care in future. Go you!

She’s a very CF , perhaps she should get to work a bit earlier so that she can park without blocking peoples dropped kerbs . Personally I would call in at the vets at your convenience and tell them to tell their staff to not be so rude .

She shouldn’t of parked as she did in the first place!

I'd be posting the video on to social media and tagging the vet surgery.

No you were not unreasonable.
I'd be sending her the video and suggesting she rethinks her attitude.

Maybe she should pay attention to where she's parked if she doesn't want tickets :)

Cheeky fucker.

So in essence, she feels entitled to park badly because she's a vet? But she has no idea what the homeowners do for a living? I mean what if you were a nurse going on shift? Or a doctor? Or a lorry driver (probably as valuable as nurses nowadays!)? And because she's been called out on parking across your drive she's parked badly somewhere else and got a ticket but that's your fault???? Seriously???? What the hell?

@anotherdaynotanotherdollar

Beautiful diagram.

Idiot Parker's give me the rage.

I thank you

@Aqua55

I'd be posting the video on to social media and tagging the vet surgery.

Please don’t even think of doing this! She was pissed off because she got a ticket which is a very good thing because she’ll park more considerately next time.

@Tee20x

Maybe she should pay attention to where she's parked if she doesn't want tickets :)

Cheeky fucker.

Well, quite!

Yanbu also the cars you have drawn are very cute.

Eh?? So she saw the second car had moved, but rather than move her car to the spot it had vacated so that her car wasn't blocking your drive, she moves and blocks a dropped kerb, then comes to your house to blame you for her parking ticket?
CF
YANBU

It does seem a bit unfair that she was the one who was inconvenienced when there was nothing wrong with her parking but the person who was parked badly had no consequences. I’d be pissed off if I were her too tbh, she didn’t do anything wrong you just took the easy option (for you) by calling her work.

@EeeByeGummieBear

Eh?? So she saw the second car had moved, but rather than move her car to the spot it had vacated so that her car wasn't blocking your drive, she moves and blocks a dropped kerb, then comes to your house to blame you for her parking ticket? CF YANBU

I don't think she can reverse

This is fabulous

When she moaned about getting a ticket, I hope you said, "well maybe you shouldn't block dropped kerbs, then you wouldn't be asked to move OR get a ticket..."

Ok, I take it back, ignore me, I will look better next time

Was she driving a Citroen 2CV?

She’s 100% in the wrong. If she was actively saving an animal at that very moment - ie she was doing a housecall to your neighbour or something, I’d have maybe been sympathetic but nonetheless unless you are an actual blue light emergency vehicle you shouldn’t be obstructing a driveway. But she’s just got the same problem as millions of other employees- parking appropriately near place of work. It might be stressful but that’s her problem not yours.

She's a CF! Have you saved the doorbell video? I'd send that to the vets as an example of the way their staff are treating local people (when they're in the wrong and parked over multiple drives!!). She clearly can't park if she's done it twice in one day.

@NailsNeedDoing

It does seem a bit unfair that she was the one who was inconvenienced when there was nothing wrong with her parking but the person who was parked badly had no consequences. I’d be pissed off if I were her too tbh, she didn’t do anything wrong you just took the easy option (for you) by calling her work.

There was absolutely something wrong with her parking, she was (partially) obstructing a dropped kerb! The second Parker was inconsiderate but still legally correctly parked and of course the vet should've had to move! Maybe she'll think more carefully next time.

@NailsNeedDoing

It does seem a bit unfair that she was the one who was inconvenienced when there was nothing wrong with her parking but the person who was parked badly had no consequences. I’d be pissed off if I were her too tbh, she didn’t do anything wrong you just took the easy option (for you) by calling her work.

No, she was the one who parked overhanging so OP couldn't leave. The other car was parked correctly, then left before the angry bad driver of a vet turned up.

She also then received the ticket (because obviously she can't park) as she moved her car and did the same thing elsewhere!

@pussycatlickinglollyices

Was she driving a Citroen 2CV?

It was a Nissan Micra. My drawing skills don't stretch that far!