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? 😁

@Theyellowflamingo

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.

Do you know, that thought actually crossed my mind! I checked with my neighbours before I got my detective hat on, and when I called the surgery I was very polite, not demanding anything happened immediately. I'm not a monster

@NailsNeedDoing

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

Can you ask MNHQ to withdraw your post or "no it was the other car" will be this threads cancel the cheque

Well now I would be calling the vet surgery and saying thank you for getting your employee to move their car. However I was non expecting tk then be end of a barage of verbal abuse from that staff member and that you are surprised at how unprofessional they were and how they are bringing the practice into disrepute.

I do understand where posters are coming from with suggestions of contacting the surgery again. But 1) she's clearly had a very bad day already and could probably do without me making it worse again and 2) she knows where I live and she was quite a scary angry vet

She's clearly a fecking eejit - maybe the parking ticket will teach her to be more considerate about where she parks in future!

Love the image of someone arguing with a stranger CF in a park

You are in no way responsible for where she illegally parked her car for a 2nd time. Perhaps get hold of a copy of the highway code, find the appropriate section on parking/obstructions and leave it open at the appropriate page under her windscreen wiper. And I'm pretty sure on a vets salary she can afford a parking ticket.

I’d love to know what the 3% who say you’re BU have as justification. You really weren’t.

I’m with you on this one OP. I have the misfortune of living opposite a primary school and GP surgery and my drive gets blocked this this multiple times a day. I’ve also had abuse from people from asking them to move so I can get off my drive. But this lot, they “know their rights” and don’t give a toss that they are blocking a dropped kerb AND parked on single yellow lines 🙄

I’d be calling the vet surgery and telling them just how rude their staff person was to you. It’s not your fault she can’t drive and never read the Highway Code!

@MintyGreenDream

Love the image of someone arguing with a stranger CF in a park

What I didn't realise until I got home was that my husband (who was WFH) was about to answer the door for real when I answered remotely from the park. So he heard the whole thing. He's had a good old laugh at me too

Lovely diagram! CF vet shouldn't expect to park wherever she wants.

I would call her work, ask to speak to her, and point out has she not parked over your drop kerb or over someone else's drop kerb, she wouldn't have needed to move her car and thus would have avoided a ticket. Suggest she parks legally as per the highway code to avoid such situations in he future. Also point out the highway code doest have a special section saying vets can park where they like

so she parked over another dropped kerb, completely deservedly got a ticket, how is this your problem?

Rude, intimidating and unnecessary. I’d be making a formal complaint to the vet’s practice.

I don't see that you are in any way in the wrong. Part of your drive was blocked and the vet books were in plain sight. It was a reasonable thing to do. You are in no way culpable for where she chose to park her car after removing it from blocking your drive and it was inappropriate of her to berate you for that.

Maybe the vet is bitter as she's only got a Citroen 2CV? . I do enjoy a parking thread with a lovely diagram...

You are absolutely not in the wrong.

@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.

Are you in dream land. She parked partly over a dropped kerb so she was parked incorrectly. If this was my drive I'd also ring the vets.

Vets can be cheeky fuckers too. Serves her right that she has a ticket.

People like this really rile me.

I would have moved on from the inconvenience and thought no more of it IF she had simply moved her car and that was the end of it. However, for her to make the effort to later return to your house to have an argument about it would have completely set me off.

I would have calmly explained that she was 100% in the wrong and why. I would also remind her of the professional code of conduct she is bound to and, if necessary, would be making waves to put in an official complaint about her with video evidence (final decision would depend on her reaction).

I was so confused at the diagram at first, as I had read "angry yeti car" instead of angry vet car. It wasnt until halfway through the thread I realised.

She’s lucky she didn’t end up with two parking tickets today. What an idiot.

Silly bat. She chose to park over your driveway, therefore she took the risk that she would have to move the car - she's lucky that you gave her the chance, you could just have called the traffic police and she might have got a ticket or been towed. OK, for a few minutes you could have got out of your drive, but you could hardly be expected to wait indefinitely to see if the other car moved. If she then got a ticket through parking illegally somewhere else that was no-one's fault but hers.

I don't buy the saving animals' lives thing either. I bet she actually spends most of her day deworming and de-fleaing domestic pets. At the rates vets charge, it wouldn't hurt her to do a bit of overtime to make up for the time she spent failing to rectify her own mistake.

I’m in 2 minds. Obviously there is insufficient parking and that is the cause of the problem, rather than the vet being an idiot. She did what she had to do. It’s unlikely she actually wanted to block you in.

I’d be ok with the vet parking like that if my dog was having an emergency. The animal was presumably quite ill for a house call.

Too many people on this island. We need about 20 million of us to redistribute ourselves over the rest of the world.

I'd be tempted to make up a story about how you are VERY BUSY saving the lives of REAL PEOPLE and she prevented you from doing so. Nothing like taking the moral high ground!

She’s being a knob.

Not surprised your husband had a good laugh - ranting at a closed door to a person in a park is pretty surreal