Help! Nowhere to park!

[Guessie]

I know someone will come along and tell me I need to move to a house with it's own parking space, but those are few and far between and way out of my budget where I live! I've lived in my house for 6 months and never had this happen. I can't park! I have a 4 year old asleep in the car and I can't find anywhere within my permit zone to park. I've never seen it so busy. I'm currently sat in my car on double yellows in the hope that someone will move but at this time of night it's unlikely. What do I do? Pay for overnight parking and get a taxi? Can't really afford that but might have to. I could cry right now. I'm so stressed out. Been driving round the permit zone intermittently in the hope that someone will move for the last 45 mins but no joy.

It's the same where I live in London. Every time we turn into our road I'll say a little prayer to the parking gods.

The houses round here are all terraced and without driveways and there are too many cars. Households with more than one car and those ginormous truck sized 4 wheel drives. Sigh.

I'm glad you found a space at last @Guessie . I grew up in a street (of many similar streets) or terraced houses with residents' parking in S London. They'd mostly been turned into flats, and we were right in the edge of the borough. We used to say that we had a "permit to look for a parking space in Wandsworth". My dad was disabled, and we had many long wheelchair pushes back for distant perking spaces on a Sunday evening - and dawn dashes to get the car back from being parked illegally or in Lambeth.

Imaginary money doesn’t buy imaginary class either.

You can't be nasty to people who don't exist.

That poster is also talking about her £2m house in London on another thread. She probably has a driver to park their car (in their fantasy world)

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't need to find a space, I'd have dug under the house to put in a basement space with a car lift and turning circle, or a lift on the side if the house with a parking space on the roof.

You're lacking there, Intu.

Just FYI for next time but ‘home’ is very non-U. ‘House’ or ‘flat’ is smarter. You seem like the kind of person who would care.

Of course one does wonder what could be making such a privileged person so unhappy that they need to get their kicks by punching down to someone poorer and more vulnerable than them.

@Intru what a nasty person you are. Hope being such an idiot to a stranger online made you feel better about yourself.

He/she is on another thread arguing that the solution to food bank shortages is that users should reallocate their benefits back to 'what they're meant for'. Very privileged, and clearly a deeply bitter and unhappy person, as they obviously like being a dick to total strangers on the Internet!

Hey OP fwiw I know how stressful parking is. I get anxiety and after DD2 was born I stopped driving as I was too worried I wouldn’t be able to park so I used to get the bus instead with a toddler and a baby as that felt less stressful. Glad you got parked in the end. It’s horrible when things like that happen.

@Intru can you enlighten me on the purpose of AIBU. I thought it was to garner opinions but maybe I’m wrong and the purpose it to give people an online bashing…

I think you’re all being too harsh on @Intru

When I read the posts I felt it was a begging thread?? No money to risk a fine, no money for Uber, having to walk 2 miles carrying a 4 year old…

I knew you'd come back 😂

Pleased you have woken up Guessie in time to move the car before the fine.

@Guessie glad you got sorted. Totally understand using MN to vent / in case you've missed an obvious solution. Ignore the poor people who have to judge. Says more about them than anyone else.

Maybe she initially thought that too, but she carried on even when OP updated that she had found a space, and clearly wasn’t begging.

I'm glad you got sorted OP. Out flat before where we are just now had awful parking and my permit only let me park within a certain area without being ticketed. One night I ended up driving to my mums (20 mins away) leaving my car in her drive and she gave me a lift back to mine. Right pain in the neck.

This is partly why most people who live in city centres don't bother owning cars.

Just to add... we live in outer London and manage fine without a car (and with 2 kids and both of us working).

So glad you got home and safe. Please ignore the weirdos on this thread that seem to thrive off behaving strangely on the internet. You're right they certainly wouldn't act like this in real life to people.

Gosh, imagine a stressed mum, on her own, looking for an opportunity to chat over her predicament. What's the matter with you?

I can't help OP, but I understand why you posted, even if you didn't expect anyone to be able to solve it for you.

You really don’t understand the purpose of “AIBU” do you?

Well clearly she understands it well enough to know that it can be effective to post there because lots of people read her thread and offered support.

Obviously it also attracted nasty people who think it's ok to jump on someone when they are down, as well as the self-appointed thread police....

That’s below the belt. You disagree with the PP and think that she’s gone too far, fair enough, but stalking someone across other unconnected threads in order to shame them isn’t very nice. You’re better than that, surely?

I’m glad that the OP got a resolution.