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To wonder who left this note on my car and why

61 replies

Cloudnine1 · 15/05/2022 13:01

Just trivial really but I’m actually quite annoyed by it. I couldn’t get parked on my road last night so I parked on the street round the corner. I was parked perfectly fine, not blocking any one.

This morning I had a note that said ‘if you decide to park on a road that is not yours again, next try try and have some respect and don’t take up two spaces’. I did not take up two spaces. If I was any further forward I would be blocking a drive way and if I was any further back blocking a junction. Where I parked there was just enough room for my car. Aibu to think why would someone leave this and that it must be someone who knows I live on the other road?

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godmum56 · 15/05/2022 13:02

no, I think its someone who knows you don't live on that road. I also think they are rude and entitled.

GarlicGnocchi · 15/05/2022 13:03

Really weird.ignore it.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 15/05/2022 13:04

1 Bin and ignore.

2 Possibly left on someone else's car and they thought it would be funny to move it to someone else's.

3 The person who left it is an arse. See 1.

NoSquirrels · 15/05/2022 13:04

Just ignore it. They’re unreasonable but you don’t have to care.

Whooshaagh · 15/05/2022 13:05

Gosh. Who owns a road?
I'd park there regularly on purpose but I'm awkward.

sageandbasil · 15/05/2022 13:07

@Whooshaagh I would too. I'm petty like that!

Doggydarling · 15/05/2022 13:08

I'd park there again, again and again.

ClinkeyMonkey · 15/05/2022 13:09

I'd be parking there every day! Why do some people think the road outside their house belongs to them? Bloody idiot.

AmbushedByCake1 · 15/05/2022 13:11

I'd park there every day just to piss them off! No one owns the road.

Nitgel · 15/05/2022 13:14

Parking makes people territorial and angry. Ignore the note but parking there every day as others suggest would be a dick move.

Summerholidayorcovidagain · 15/05/2022 13:20

Be grateful imo. Our neighbour on the corner poured a tub of PVA glue on dh's windscreen. Permit holders in our area and we are allowed to park in the signed zone. She assumes the space on the corner is hers. It isn't. She is a cf.

Manekinek0 · 15/05/2022 13:23

Bin it and then park there forever.

RedWingBoots · 15/05/2022 13:24

Ignore and park there if you need to.

dottiedodah · 15/05/2022 13:45

I would ignore ,but only park there again if no other space. I think this will soon be me ,as Everyone has a at least 2 cars(We dont!) and there is hardly any room some days!

StationaryMagpie · 15/05/2022 13:46

i expect if its anything like here, there are people who live there that regularly park their cars, and have their own designated 'spot' on the road, and where you put your car, they could get 2 cars because of differering lengths of models.

Here, we can get 3 cars out front comfortably with room to spare, 4 at a squeeze, and us 3 neighbours all use it as the houses only have 1 parking space and we all have 2 cars.

We get people parking there frequently, and you can guarentee they never park right to the end of the drop curb, or right to the edge of the double yellows that denote either end of the available roadside parking, which means those of us who park regularly, can't get our cars in, so to us it looks like if they'd budged up that odd bit, we might have squeezed in.

Thats not to say you were wrong for parking there, but its why you likely have the note about your single car taking up the space of 2.

ShadowPuppets · 15/05/2022 13:57

Try and ignore it. I know it’s tricky, I once parked at my sister’s in her parking area (no marked bays) when heavily pregnant and had to leave enough space to get out with a 38 week bump. When I came back one of her neighbours had left a really shitty aggressive note telling me off for taking up additional space and claiming another car could have fit alongside - if that had been the case, there’s no way I’d have been able to get back into my car with my bump. It made me feel like shit and I actually had a little cry about it (BIL threatened to find out who it was and have a word which made me smile though!) so I completely understand it getting to you. But nobody owns a space and it says more about them than it does about you… just try and put it out of your mind and feel sorry for them that they care so much.

Staffy1 · 15/05/2022 14:03

I would park there again with a note on my car facing outwards that said “To the idiot that put the note on my car last time, get stuffed”.

whynotwhatknot · 15/05/2022 14:04

Not your road? shame you dont know who it was i would have left a note on theirs sorry ididnt know you owned this road is it private

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 15/05/2022 14:06

Our twat of a neighbour does this sort of thing when people violate his own made up rules. Nobody likes him.

Blossomtoes · 15/05/2022 14:09

Doggydarling · 15/05/2022 13:08

I'd park there again, again and again.

Why? How would it possibly benefit you?

Whoever left you that note is an arsehole @Cloudnine1. Arseholes generally don’t stop at notes. If you want your car keyed, by all means take this stupid, pointless advice.

TheAbbotOfUnreason · 15/05/2022 14:12

I had a note like that a while ago - in fact it was more of an essay. The amusing thing was that there were no designated parking spaces, residents had just commandeered an area between the main road and a side road and stuck flower tubs in there. No one else was parked there when I parked, so there was no reason to think that you were supposed to park in any particular way. The DCs spent a lot of time giggling over the note. I did wonder if the village should rename itself Royston Vasey.

Redwinemaestro · 15/05/2022 14:14

"if I was any further back blocking a junction"

This might be the issue. According to the Highway Code, you must not park within 10 meters of a junction, unless it's an authorised parking space.

RoseGoldEagle · 15/05/2022 14:17

DH used to own a flat in a different city to where we live (bought before he met me), and he rented it out for a while- it came with one parking space but our tenant didn’t have a car so the space wasn’t needed. We went to visit the flat once and parked in our spot, when we came back to the car there was an INCREDIBLY rude note (complete with many swear words!) telling us off for parking in ‘their’ space- presumably they had commandeered the space after realising it was never used, and it didn’t occur to them we might be the rightful owners! Not that we’d have even minded them using it, and had they not left the note that day we’d have been none the wiser (since we then drove home and didn’t visit for ages), but after getting the note we informed the parking warden who later clamped down on them using it, idiots!! Ignore OP, they’re entitled and rude.

JackieCollinshasnoauthority · 15/05/2022 14:18

Definitely park there again and leave a note on the dashboard saying "this is my space now"

RoseGoldEagle · 15/05/2022 14:18

‘Parking warden’ may not be quite the right word- it was an underground car park with a warden who looked after it.