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To wonder if there's always been so many rows about parking?

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PassingStranger · 03/08/2024 20:58

Seems there's more and more rows over parking and they say that it's the most common neighbour problem.

Today I overheard a man telling another man that he had parked across his drive. The other man was shouting and abusive and said he could park where he liked and he was doing nothing wrong.

I wonder if everyone actually needs a refresher course on what lines and drop kerbs etc mean.
Even when someone else backed this poor man up who was receiving abuse and said it was a driveway and access couldn't be blocked, this other man in the car didn't really want to know..
Neither of the men explaining where abusive quite calm really but the driver was awful.

What's the matter with people why don't they know their highway code and why don't they care, if they do know and do it deliberately?

Would they' like it done to them?
Why are people crazily rude when they are breaking g the law
Can you ever remember your parents when you were growing up having to put up with rude and inconsiderate people cos I can't remember anything?

Even if you did make a mistake, you would probably admit your mistake and apologise back then am I right?

It also really upsets me when I see arguments in the street. I'm always worried in case it gets out of hand.
This man eventually did move off but not before he'd done alot of shouting etc.😪

OP posts:
girlfriend44 · 03/08/2024 21:23

PassingStranger · 03/08/2024 20:58

Seems there's more and more rows over parking and they say that it's the most common neighbour problem.

Today I overheard a man telling another man that he had parked across his drive. The other man was shouting and abusive and said he could park where he liked and he was doing nothing wrong.

I wonder if everyone actually needs a refresher course on what lines and drop kerbs etc mean.
Even when someone else backed this poor man up who was receiving abuse and said it was a driveway and access couldn't be blocked, this other man in the car didn't really want to know..
Neither of the men explaining where abusive quite calm really but the driver was awful.

What's the matter with people why don't they know their highway code and why don't they care, if they do know and do it deliberately?

Would they' like it done to them?
Why are people crazily rude when they are breaking g the law
Can you ever remember your parents when you were growing up having to put up with rude and inconsiderate people cos I can't remember anything?

Even if you did make a mistake, you would probably admit your mistake and apologise back then am I right?

It also really upsets me when I see arguments in the street. I'm always worried in case it gets out of hand.
This man eventually did move off but not before he'd done alot of shouting etc.😪

People are ruder and everyone has a car today.

Some people can't handle being wrong and have never learnt to solve anything without swearing. Which never gets them anywhere anyway.

I never remember my parents arguing in the street either.It sounds awful to everyone.

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 03/08/2024 21:31

After 25 years of arguing with visitors to a local building about parking in the backstreet of a terraced row directly outside the garage. Numerous late and missed appointments, be verbally abused and more. Complaining to everyone from the local councillor to the mp, the fire brigade and the police crime commissioner, hopefully the house sale will go through in the next month or do and then it will be all over.

MyOtherHusbandIsAWash · 03/08/2024 21:41

It’s because we live on top of each other. Where people have more space this just doesn’t happen. Blame shitty public transport and houses being built with inadequate parking space.

ivykaty44 · 23/09/2024 05:54

No, I remember a time when in 1980 there would be 5 cars parked in our road. Now they have nose in to pavement parking in the street & there is space for over 60 cars

TandyhatesAmanda · 23/09/2024 13:38

I had a father who was a compulsive parking arguer in the 70s. It's aggression, I see people at my stables arguing over which pen the camels are in (obvs not in UK)

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