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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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LaBellina · 15/05/2022 14:19

Parking brings out the worst kind of entitlement and bullying behavior in some closeted arseholes people. Ignore.

whynotwhatknot · 15/05/2022 14:21

In my dsis road the people with drives all park on the road in front of their house so noone else does

batshit some people

SusiePevensie · 15/05/2022 14:24

Do you have an unnecessarily large car? I'm always tempted to leave a note on range rovers and similar saying 'do you realise a car this big makes you look like a prat?'

I haven't because sod's law I'll choose the one case in a thousand where there's a good reason for the car too be so big.

SusiePevensie · 15/05/2022 14:25

To not too!

Spelling gods angry with me today.

Fingeronthebutton · 15/05/2022 14:26

We brought our motohome round to our property to pack up ready for a long trip.
We came out in the morning to a note addressed to the Pikeys telling us to park on a Gipsy site in future.

Roystonv · 15/05/2022 14:27

I understand the parking carefully so that you take up as little room as possible but no-one can dictate that it is 'their' road. We live in a town centre, very little parking and poor/thoughtless parking is selfish.

DowntonCrabby · 15/05/2022 14:30

Definitely keep parking there!

LisaSimpson77 · 15/05/2022 14:33

Oh for God's sake!! People don't like you parking anywhere on "their" road that's all. I meet so many people who are like this, it drives me nuts.
If you didn't park on yellow lines, or block a drive or block somebody in then you didn't do anything wrong and can ignore the entitled prats.

NoEffingWay · 15/05/2022 14:44

I was once trying to park, and someone get into my car, scared the shit out of me, and told me I couldn't park on
the public road as it was outside their house.

crosstalk · 15/05/2022 14:57

There is a problem unless there are designated bays which would be ignored anyway.
Usually by cars or vans with a long wheel base. Eg so if I park right on the limit of the permissible parking on my street and a long car/van parks in front, and an ordinary car in front of that, when the long car/van goes it leaves a space not quite big enough for two cars unless the driver of the small car notices and reverses up to me. We're also a one-way street, so if you aren't good at reversing you can hold up the traffic for some time. This annoys my DP greatly whom I have to remind about the right to park anywhere in free parking areas.

NothingIsWrong · 15/05/2022 15:01

We have very limited parking outside my house and there is a particular order that all the residents park in to make sure everyone can fit in - we are the only ones with a drive, and next door park either side of it. They know exactly how close they can get and still leave us space to reverse in. If anyone else takes one of those spaces they don't (being considerate!) usually park so close to our H-bar - which is very nice of them but throws the rest of the row out..

Luckily none of us are wankers, and just get on it.

LetitiaLeghorn · 15/05/2022 15:07

I hate people parking outside my house because it's an inconvenience. But that's the problem with on street parking and you have to learn to with it. Just like you did when you were left with no alternative to park on another road.
For me, though, and I hope you're not the same, I'd find myself mulling it over, wavering between outrage and worry. So if that's you, you know you did nothing wrong and you can't cater for idiots and bullies, so distract yourself to put the situation out of your mind.

Catlitterqueen · 15/05/2022 15:08

Our old house had no driveway but no yellow lines either. I liked parking outside my own house but in no way was it ‘my space’.
When house hunting DH and I parked on a road with no restrictions, not blocking anything. A man came out and had a go at us for parking there because ‘where were the residents supposed to park?’ He wasn’t happy when DH pointed out that our street was exactly the same and we had no right to park outside our house either!

girlmom21 · 15/05/2022 15:12

You say if you'd parked any further back you'd be blocking a junction which means you parked dangerously, because you're way too close to a junction.

Their note might not have been right, but it doesn't mean you weren't wrong.

ItsOverFlo · 15/05/2022 15:16

I live in a city which is double parked everywhere. We all drive around after 4.30 to get a space (for ages) which is usually at leat 3 streets away and at worst a 5-10 mins walk away. I write the name of the street on my hand to remind where my car is. Some people give up, park on double yellows and pay the fine.
This kind of attitude in the note is INSANE. They'd honestly been lynched round here.
Ignore that crap and dont give it a second thought - unless to laugh at it.

Momicrone · 15/05/2022 15:17

They sound like tossers, why do people have to park so close to their house anyway?

Paisleypattern · 15/05/2022 15:20

I've seen this a fair bit and loathe it. People even putting signs or cones up to tell people that the space in front of their house belongs to them (it doesn't). Once, I parked in the street to go to a Bonfire Night display, and someone (I'm guessing from the house I parked in front of) vandalised the car.

WonderingWanda · 15/05/2022 15:53

I once had a neighbour who was modt uoset if their car was not parkes outside their own house exactly lined up with the end of their wall. I parked overhanging her imaginary space as it was on street parking for anyone and she would know and ask me to move up.

notanothertakeaway · 15/05/2022 16:03

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.

I can see it's irritating, but on a public road, you don't own the spaces

LyndaSnellsSniff · 15/05/2022 16:11

Ignore. You may even find the note wasn't left on your car originally and another driver moved it onto your car .🤷🏻

We had this type of note before. We'd had to parallel park round the corner and came back to a note saying "do you HAVE to take up two spaces?!" When we'd parked there was definitely not room for 2 cars. Definitely.

SirChenjins · 15/05/2022 16:11

Of course you can park where you like. Do you have a huge car though? It might be that two small cars normally get into that space and if parking is at a premium then I can understand the irritation.

Don’t poke the bear by continuing to park there out of spite unless you’re willing to install dashcams back and front.

Nocutenamesleft · 15/05/2022 16:12

did You park opposite a junction?

do it again!!!

Nocutenamesleft · 15/05/2022 16:16

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.

Yeah. I knew that, we have tons of people park opposite a junction and it causes so many issues. We can’t see out it, people can’t pass and it makes really dangerous driving but the police don’t care

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JustLookingAtTractors · 15/05/2022 16:21

I hate this sort of thing. About 25 years ago I visited a friend at his flat. No allocated spaces, plenty of empty spaces, so I parked without further thought, as I had done before and as my friend had advised. I was only there about half an hour. Came out to find a note saying if I parked there again they would slice me with a machete. I was young at the time, and it frightened me very much, to the extent I stopped calling in on my friend and he’d come to my flat instead.

People are unhinged when it comes to parking.