Neighbours putting cones on the road to reserve space

[MandiY]

Is this cheeky? I live on a row of terraced houses. All residents have to pay for permit parking. Neighbours who are around 80 have started putting cones outside their house to reserve their space. They put them over two spaces too, I'm guessing so he has space to manoeuvre in. His wife has been telling me about how his eyesight is deteriorating and he often has to pull over because he can't see properly so not sure he should even be driving, but that's a story for another day! They often put cones out for delivery vans and window cleaners etc, again meaning I can't park. They are elderly but he's quite capable of walking is out and about walking all the time. Often means I can't park outside my own house and have to walk round the block with my 3yo. I know if I parked there then they would then have to do the same, but surely that's just life when it comes to using on street parking? WIBU to have a friendly word?

Hide the cones.

It's not discrimination against the elderly when someone who happens to be elderly is clearly not meeting the criteria to be able to drive safely.

He is putting cones out and blocking two parking spaces because he can't see and wants extra space to manoeuvre. He should be retested and have his licence removed if he can't demonstrate safe and competent driving. The alternative is potentially some innocent person being mowed down.

Holding one space is being a cheeky fucker and if I arrived and it wasn't in use I'd move them and park up.

The reason he's holding two spaces is dangerous.

Move the cones. They don't own the road. If they say they do, ask them to provide proof that it is their land and not the councils.

Buy a shopping cart so you don’t have to make multiple trips, I’d rather the OAP have the space, however do agree if he is unsafe to drive then rightly you should have reported him.

Totally remove the cones!!!

Get your own cones and put them next to his cones then no one will
park there ever again

Two spaces

You condone someone with failing eyesight driving? Isn't the first part of the practical exam a sight test? It's Kinda important?

@SickofSnowflakes

Don't private message me again about this thread (or any other thread).

Just because you disagree with my post from 17/10/22 on this thread, it does not warrant a private message. Post your opinion in the open/on the thread, not to me directly as I have zero interest in private correspondence from you.

@SickofSnowflakes But you do get bossed around by men? 😂

Nobody owes you a response. So what if she doesn’t receive a notification you tagged her? So what if she doesn’t reply?

@SickofSnowflakes If that’s what you think feminism is then you’ve sorely misunderstood.

But you were “making sure” she got the notification? Why?

Fucking Cheek! Lol - The cones would be hurled somewhere else, a skip perhaps! I am disabled & spaces are limited in the tiny close I live in! Folk here are considerate I am pleased to say! I would NOT put up with anyone putting cones out, you ALL pay to park there Ffs! Simply place the cones 'Politely' on their pathway to door & get on living, these clowns have no business doing this! 🙂

Of course OP wouldn’t do the same as she is not an entitled piss-taker! Mind blown that anyone would think reserving 2 parking places in a public highway for themselves is acceptable.

Being as you're new, here's a tip. It's not appropriate to send private messages berating people for their views just because they don't align with yours.

As for your millenail/zoomer comment, you're decades out.

Finally, I don't give a fuck about your tolerance levels and as for bossing you around, you were the one who private messaged me to berate me 🙄

Can you call the cones hotline?

In all seriousness, I cannot believe the #bekind bollocks has now extended to saying that elderly people should be free to mow down the populace at leisure, as calling them on their dodgy driving would be unkind!

My neighbour had a disabled space made for herself. She then did a parallel park into it via my car. She has now stopped driving. Her daughter still parks in the space as they don't get rid of them. She will park right in it even if it's halfway between two natural parking spaces, and has therefore forced me to park elsewhere on more than one occasion. My asking her mum not to do it has got me nowhere!

reminds me of an incident at work where someone was looking out of the window that overlooked the car park and noticed a manager (who wasnt liked) opening his boot and removing......a traffic cone. He was then joined by a lady known as his 'work wife' who moved her car out of her space and he put the cone in the vacant spot. They then went out somewhere. This happened a couple of times with them alternating cars so my colleague decided to take action and removed/binned the cone. Oddly, no one asked where the missing cone was!!