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AIBU?

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To be annoyed by a note left on my car?

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isabellaboo · 24/05/2023 19:56

I went to pick my children up from their nannies in the evening. The street they live on is on a bend and on one side of the bend is two houses with two drives so you can't park there, the bend in front of MIL house has room to park but is always full as there are no drives for this area, as you follow the road around there are two streets where there is space on the road and most of these houses also have drives.

For context I'd had to park quite far down from the house I was actually going too but made sure not to block any drive or any house opposites drive. I left my car half on the pavement half off the pavement so if had a pram they could fit through. Didn't think anything of it as there were literally no other parking spaces and there was a car just opposite me on the other side of the road or else I would of gone there.

When I've come back (I'd been 30 minutes max) As I've been driving a piece of paper has come up my windscreen nearly flying into my vision, so when I've gotten home I've looked and there's a snobby not telling me to be more considerate. Absolutely baffled. I hadn't parked diagonally or in anyway I would find offensive in the slightest, was blocking no one in. I pay road tax and it's not private property.

I have young children and I'm pregnant so this has really rubbed me up the wrong way as I had to park a fair walk from my MIL in the first place.

I don't understand why leave a note and not just come and speak to me in person ( even though I honestly can't see what I did wrong) I understand it's annoying to have people park in front of your house as I live on a public street but that's life.

It's really wound me up. I know most of it is probably pregnancy hormones but AIBU to be annoyed by this? Or would this annoy anyone else.

Just needed a little vent.

OP posts:
ZiriForEver · 28/05/2023 08:50

Wibblywobblyway · 28/05/2023 08:30

So you’d rather block the road? Your opinion would change if you lived half way round the crescent and your house was on fire. No access for a fire engine, but hey everyone has parked correctly and not blocked the pavement.

Surely, it isn't parked correctly, if it blocks the road.

Maybe there are places where it isn't possible to park on the street at all. Surely all owners knew it when moving there/getting a car while living there.
It is hard situation, but how does it make blocking the pavement (and damaging the infrastructure below it) acceptable?

Wibblywobblyway · 28/05/2023 09:05

ZiriForEver · 28/05/2023 08:50

Surely, it isn't parked correctly, if it blocks the road.

Maybe there are places where it isn't possible to park on the street at all. Surely all owners knew it when moving there/getting a car while living there.
It is hard situation, but how does it make blocking the pavement (and damaging the infrastructure below it) acceptable?

Well obviously that’s why I don’t park on my spacious drive, in case I damage the infrastructure of the pavement as I have to drive across it.

Catchasingmewithspiders · 28/05/2023 09:13

ZiriForEver · 27/05/2023 22:49

Isn't it bad to block the pavement?

Depends on whether you are in the wheelchair, pushing the wheelchair or have conviently forgotten wheelchairs exist I suppse

DVL · 28/05/2023 16:33

Was the gap wide enough on the road to get through? Parking on our street is a nightmare and there is quite often a car parked opposite our drive making it hard to get on - this I can get over. BUT I did actually leave a note on a car windscreen the other week as I couldn’t even get into the street with two cars parked opposite each other, the guy who lived there came out and moved his car after minutes of holding the horn down and the owner of the car I left the note on was nowhere to be seen.

Note was something along the lines of be more considerate if we can’t get through an ambulance definitely wouldn’t be able to.

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