Hostile note left on my windscreen

[Whatsgoingon777]

For the past week I have been working in a different town. It is temporary, and I will return to my usual workplace by Christmas.

Parking in town is very expensive, so I have been parking in a quiet cul de sac about a 10-15 minute walk from my work.

Every house has a drive way and I’m parked right at the end away from their homes, and there is always plenty of space for anyone else wanting to park there.
I also have a tiny car.
I would never park here if it seemed like I would be inconveniencing the people who live there. My car is doing no harm there and is in the way of no one!

Anyway I return from work this evening to find a note saying ‘TRY A CAR PARK’

It seems utterly pathetic to me, but they clearly think I’m in the wrong.

AIBU thinking about parking here still?

Do you happen to have a friend with an artic lorry?

Sounds perfect 😃.
People like these really need to touch grass.
And you're not a cheapskate, OP. You sound more sensible than the people looking to be annoyed.

That’s true; but also pouncing on a car that’s only been there a week is very presumptuous.
Given that I wonder if they had even seen me at all, I could just as easily be visiting someone in the area or even living nearby.

They are the worse NIMBYs so I’m surprised you are surprised!!

Largest I could get is a big white van 😂

Lol

I would be tempted to leave a note every day on my own car saying "Try getting a life" that they would see when they next decide to leave a note!

I love this idea!!!!

Yanbu. Any taxed vehicle is allowed to park on any public road where parking restrictions are not in force, as long as they are not causing obstruction to other road users.

However I think it would be wise to ring the changes and use a few different streets rather than using the same one every time

YANBU, but I'd park round the corner probably just to avoid drama. I know you're in the right, but you can't argue with batshit and life's too short to try.

The main road is busy and my car is much more likely to be clipped.

I am not even remotely in the way where I am, so why clog up a busy main road where buses are trying to navigate in and out of parked cars?

Plenty of people visiting the main road my cul de sac is off of park here because that main road is very steep and they don’t like parking on it… I couldn’t give a hoot about it, so I don’t see why these people should.

People frequently park on my road to avoid paying for parking fees at a nearby destination. It can be annoying at times, but it's a public road - and they therefore have as much right to park there as I do.

Some of my neighbours get ultra irate about it. I find them rather ridiculous. Because it's a public road.

We have people from the old houses round the corner taking up all the layby space in the new build estate where I live. It's incredibly annoying when you see them park and then walk out of the estate and return to their houses. One guy has done it for years. Don't know what's wrong with their own parking. There's then no parking for our guests.

However, vandalising a car because of it is just pathetic.

It just seems that for the sake of maybe 5 or 6 weeks, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal!
But they don't know it's for a limited time and they don't know you. A week is a long time in curtain twitching world. Maybe many others have done it and they've got annoyed with it all. They're not in the right but can you alternate which street you park on to avoid further hassle? Something similar happened round our way and the local n'er do well let their tyres down.

I don’t have a problem with people parking on the road, but I do have a problem with people who park on the pavement and force pedestrians into the road.

Absolutely agreed! It surprises me how many people drive but have never read the Highway Code.

Our train station parking is £1 per day and people still come park down our street 😂 there’s nothing they can do!

Residents do not own the road!

It’s a public road - if there are no restrictions you are perfectly entitled to park there. Ignore it.

The thing is, it had already occurred to me that I could swap spots over the coming weeks. I really am trying to be conscientious but they couldn’t even give me a week before being unpleasant and essentially littering on my car 🙄

Ugh I can’t fucking stand this kind of small town shit. Get a dashboard cam. Park where you want

I cannot abide petty car parking views like this. I don't give a fig if someone parks outside my house I don't own the road and I can walk a bit if I have to park further away.

I live in a cul de sac that people use for free parking. It doesn’t bother me as long as they park sensibly. But there is a very small but vocal group of residents who are very cross about it. Campaigns for residents parking, unpleasant notes left on windscreens, bird seed piles on cars and several cases of vandalism - tyres damaged, paintwork scratched, stuff smeared in windscreens. So it may be wise to vary your parking spot to draw less attention.

I used to park on residential streets (long rows of terraced houses, no driveways and not residents-only parking) and walk to work. I only once got a snitty note telling me I'd ruined someone's day by parking where I had. I posted it through the door of the house I was parked outside. It saved me a fortune, enough to make me not care about pointless notes I might find under my wiper.

A friend of mine is a mobile nail tech and she was parked perfectly legally one day at a client's house in a small village. When she got back to her car and went to open the door she found someone had smeared dog shit underneath the handle. People are so strange about parking. I'd go in the other cul-de-sac OP and maybe alternate where you park for the duration of your time.