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?

If i were you i'd just leave their note in view right on your dashboard. It's the biggest IDGAF sign you could give them.

Leaving notes is so pathetic. I think there's a hilarious thread somewhere on MN about pass-ag notes.

How on earth is it cheapskate? It’s pure common sense. Or do you go out of your way to pay for stuff when you don’t have to?

Bizarre.

She can park where she likes as long as it’s legal.

Ignore it, keep parking legally on the road you pay tax for, I get it, i live near a town centre and parking gets ridiculous, but without a permit, there's nothing anyone can do

Honestly park elsewhere or you’ll come back and find your car keyed

Then park in the other cul de sac nearby.

It is not rational behaviour, but you are upsetting the residents, who presumably live on a quiet cul de sac because they like a quiet cul de sac. 5 or 6 days would annoy them. 5 or 6 weeks is a long time.

All of my neighbours are like this, if anyone parks more then once in the street a photo is taken and circulated. My next door neighbour recently forwarded me a 'reminder of the estate parking guidelines, keyword being guidelines not laws.

Anyway OP I'd probably find somewhere else .

I don’t agree with most of you. Working people who could afford to pay for parking in a proper car park but don’t want to, cluttering up residential streets by leaving their cars there all day every day, are a pain in the arse.

The problem with these small minded parking numpties is they might do something stupid to your car like let your tyres down so if you have somewhere else to park then probably better to do so.

These types of residents have always got the option of petitioning their council to make their street a controlled parking zone but they are too cheapskate themselves to want to pay for a permit (and probably in a minority in their own street )and instead want governorship of the public road for free for themselves only.

Are you sure it's not a private road?

Just because you dont want to pay for parking does NOT make you a cheapskate.

Just because you live in a road or street, dores not mean you own the road

HTH

I can’t believe how many people see nothing wrong with this. I live on a cul-the-sac and we’ve had occasions when our bins weren’t emptied because of cars parked on the road. Yes, there was enough space for car access, but not for a bin lorry to turn.

Just park on a main road or pay for parking like everyone else.

dash cam and switch up your parking spots.

You are legally allowed to park there. Put a big sign on your windscreen. I say this as someone who lives close to a lot of amenities, a large hospital and a big school or three, the street looks like a car park some days.
I have a driveway so it doesn’t bother me unless it’s blocking the driveway.
People do notice when it is a regular parker.

Oh I got my tyres slashed for doing this. These kind of folk think they’re the only people in the planet!! Fucks me right off!! Fuck those guys!!! Sorry for my language, PTSD 😂

But she’s not blocking a bin lorry tho. 😂😂😂

Why?

How do you know? She just said that there’s plenty of space for others to park too

The issue is that you are using it daily, if you changed your routine parking in different streets it would be less obvious

how do you know she is?

I never said she was, I gave an example of what can happen and why the residents might be annoyed.

I think if there was a specific reason why it annoyed them, like that…. They would say so in the note. They just don’t like that an outsider is on their street. Pathetic really

If you can legally park there, crack on. I wouldn't be able to resist leaving them a note on my dash, but you're probably a better person than I am.

I literally live next door to a primary school. Cars clog up my cul-de-sac every morning. It's at best a minor irritation. It's not that deep. And I certainly never give it a thought the rest of the day, because I'm at work and have better things to do than curtain twitch.

You know it's short term, they don't.

If you're out of the way on a road with lots of parking then it's hard to understand why people might get annoyed. It is surprisingly easy to get annoyed with these kinds of petty things though so I have some sympathy with the people who live there. I've had it in the past when a neighbour's parking started to wind me up and it's hard to ignore it once you notice.

He would park on his drive opposite all night, then every morning move his car directly outside our front window (no front garden), leave it there all day and then move it back to the drive when it started to get dark. He was parking completely legally and I never said anything as he can obviously do that if he wants to but my god it annoyed me. Very glad we moved as I used to seethe seeing him move his car every day FOR NO BLOODY REASON. Other cars parking there I was fine with. But his, every day while his drive was empty, was so annoying even though it only made our lives and parking slightly more inconvenient. I guess it was the fact he had no consideration for anyone else that I found odd and didn't get. There were other places he could have parked that were more or less same distance but not directly outside anyone's house but he always put it right outside ours.

If I have a choice I will normally choose on-road parking that's not directly outside someone's house or opposite a drive. That does sound like what you are doing though so who knows why they are annoyed.