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? 😁

1. Your diagram is lovely
2. You did the right thing
3. Angry yeti/vet is a huge CF to go back to the scene of the crime and claim innocence.
4. Let us know if it happens again!

I'd be complaining to her work place again. You shouldn't be harassed in your home coz she can't park

I was thinking the opposite actually, quite tempted to book my rabbits in for a nail trim now!

Are your rabbits up for being bitey on command (silent signal obvs) and leave wee and pooh on the table ?

Oh, and she is VERY BUSY saving the lives of animals and could I PLEASE bear that in mind in future

LOL - if she wanted to play that card, she should have become a real doctor

Oh god she's one of those 'I'm saving lives! Therefore I can be a CF and throw a tantrum and the rules don't apply to me'.. Oh do p**s off woman. Glad she got a ticket. Clearly has a habit of entitled behaviour. You are only BU if you apologised to her.

Did she give the "I'm a key worker" cry? Shame on her!!

YANBU!

I'd write a polite letter to the vets surgery saying that you really don't appreciate someone coming to your house and berating you on your own doorstep, thank you very much.

@5329871e

Oh, and she is VERY BUSY saving the lives of animals and could I PLEASE bear that in mind in future

LOL - if she wanted to play that card, she should have become a real doctor

How do you know she doesn't have a PhD @5329871e ?

And why do you think that PhD holders save lives?

Or do you believe animals don't have lives?

Of course they have lives - ones that this Very Important Vet is SAVING, dontcha know.

@SirChenjins

Of course they have lives - ones that this Very Important Vet is SAVING, dontcha know.

I'm just confused as to how only 'real' doctors save lives.

Not vets, paramedics, nurses or any of the other HCP then?

Yes she's behaving like an arsehole, but posters disparaging the work of anyone that's not a 'real' doctor is unhelpful ass well as inaccurate - I assume the PP is referring to medical doctors who are actually physicians holding a courtesy title.
So how they're any more 'real' than another type of doctor I don't know 🤷‍♀️

I suspect that poster was being facetious and matching the CF Vet’s ridiculous, self important posturing with a cheeky comeback designed get her hackles up - just as yours are

I'd drop her a complimentary copy of the Highway code with the relevant pages marked for her perusal for the next time she had a break in-between saving animals lives.

@SirChenjins

I suspect that poster was being facetious and matching the CF Vet’s ridiculous, self important posturing with a cheeky comeback designed get her hackles up - just as yours are

Fair enough.

I guess I think disparaging the work of every HCP in an effort to make a point about a single individual is a pretty unfair and flimsy argument

I think that disparaging the work of a profession with 4X the general suicide risk and a significant mental health burden is a cheap shot

But then what would know. I'm not a 'real' doctor
And you clearly think it's fine so crack on

her eye rolling and telling me how busy and important she is etc

So very busy that she has time spare in her day to come and argue with somebody entirely unconnected to her getting a ticket for her illegal parking. She reminds me of those lecturers who love the sound of their own voices and sense of self-importance, who will spend 40 minutes telling you at length about what extra fascinating information they would have included you if only they'd had an extra 20 minutes....

But then what would know. I'm not a 'real' doctor And you clearly think it's fine so crack on

You don’t know what I or my family or friends do for a living - I’m simply refusing to get wound up by one facetious comment.

@pussycatlickinglollyices

Was she driving a Citroen 2CV?

Hahaha 😂

I would suggest she perhaps rides a bike to work to avoid unnecessary parking fines in future.

I’d be hot footing it round to the vets surgery to complain about being harassed by one of their vets!

@SirChenjins

But then what would know. I'm not a 'real' doctor And you clearly think it's fine so crack on

You don’t know what I or my family or friends do for a living - I’m simply refusing to get wound up by one facetious comment.

Where did I claim to know what you did for a living? I've no idea how it's even relevant

Up to you what you get riled up by or not 🤷‍♀️

You chose to defend a poster who has disparaged the work of a profession with significant mental health burdens rather than the actions of a single selfish individual.

I'm simply pointing out the flaws and unkindness that approach
You're welcome to continue defending it.
It's a free country

Very excellent diagram.
YANBU. CF.

It is indeed @Veterinari

@SirChenjins

It is indeed *@Veterinari*

And we all have our lines in the sand.

Mine is unkind inaccurate and judgemental sweeping statements under the guise of 'humour'

Yours is the flaws and unkindness of such statements being challenged.

Nowt so queer as folk

If you say so

@SirChenjins

If you say so

I'm happy to be wrong?

Struggling to see why else you're investing your time and energy objecting to my posts otherwise though 🤷‍♀️

Awww - please don’t struggle, I’m really not objecting to your posts

@SirChenjins

Awww - please don’t struggle, I’m really not objecting to your posts

Oh don't worry yourself. I can just about keep up with your sparking repartee

Still not really sure what your point is though and I'm pretty sure you aren't either.

If you had one you'd have made it. But instead you've backed yourself into a corner and can't admit that you're simply killing time trying to pick an argument and be patronising. I assume it makes you feel better about your life choices
Or you're a bored GF with nothing of substance to contribute