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?

I’d move to a different street.

I did some training and it was one weekend on, one weekend off for 6 weeks. Saturday & Sunday 9-5. Similar situation to you and completely out of the way, not busy and the training company actually advised I park there!

After the first weekend I got a really arsey note. I parked there again the next weekend and my car was scratched up really bad.

IME the end of a cul de sac is used for turning (precisely because it's a cul de sac), so while you're looking at it as 'I'm not outside one of their houses & they can't even see me', you may actually be in the way of people who need to turn around to get out again. This would include delivery vans. trucks etc, as well as people who've gone the wrong way & need to get back to where their navigation went wrong.

Are you parked on their turning circle? Something about your parking is annoying people, if it's as you described it's unlikely to bother them maybe you are missing something.

Agree, I couldn't be doing with it all

Nope, it's completely fine, and only weirdos think otherwise. It's not their street and it's not their business. At all. Why you park there.

Creeps and losers who do this sort of thing might resort to keying your car though, is there at least a public camera around the area that would catch that sort of behaviour? If not you might consider moving away from this person, as they're a coward who enjoys harassing people for no reason.

Read this after I posted my comment. Yikes. I'm sorry some creepy loser engaged in a criminal act, you didn't deserve that.

It's not their street and it's not their business.

They are the ones paying the council rates for their area, so in a very real way it is their street.

Council tax payments don't give you the right to dictate who can park on your road.

I didn't say that. I pointed out that residents have a vested interest in their street and area, unlike the OP. Maintain the rage.

Respectfully, you are quite wrong in this matter: They may be paying towards the maintenance of that street but unless if is a private road it most definitely does not belong to them.

It’s wild that anyone gets upset about people parking on the street unless they are actually blocking your driveway. We have people parking on ours because we are close to a big block of shops.

I didn't say it belonged to them. Of course she is legally allowed to park there. But people living there do care about this sort of thing.

I guess most people posting here defending the OPs "right to park" do this sort of things themselves, or live in apartments or tower blocks where this is not an issue.

I live on a road where people park to walk their dogs - we do have a drive but frequently end up semi blocked in as it’s a very narrow road - technically it’s parking permit only too but people risk it - yet we also have to pay a permit so we can have any visitors or tradesmen - I get why you do it and think it’s petty if you aren’t bothering anyone but to be honest people get fed up of paying for pricey permits only for others to seemingly not bother as not resident

I live in a cul-de-sac and this would piss me right off too. You're lucky you got a note, I would have Sharpied straight onto your windscreen! OK, maybe not, but I would have been sorely tempted! Stop being a dick and park somewhere else.

We had a guy parking in the the street every day, but he moved it up and down the street every day to not be opposite the same house. I would’ve done the same thing. Put it into perspective, it’s just a car, it’s not a sink hole happening in the street.

Nah, you’re being the dick. We live in a cul de sac, we don’t own the road.

shes not talking about somewhere with permit parking though.

Leave another note on your car and say I am legally parked also not that it’s any of your fucking business but this will be a temporary measure. I pay my road tax and insurance and I’m not in anyone’s way so find someone else to annoy with your I have nothing better to do with life than be a busy body

Leave a note on your dash board

Harassment is being recorded, 2 notes count as evidence, we have your face from the first note left.

Copperoliverbear

nobody pays road tax, it was stopped in the late 1930s

council tax system for local roads

Why? Serious question.

Why would someone parking in the street you live on bother you?
Why would you feel tempted to vandalise their car?

I'd like to understand this.

you say you wouldnt have parked there if it inconvenienced people. Of course it would annoy people. We live near a station and commuters always parks all day on my street and i cannot get carers in.
you have every right to park on the street, and they have every right to be annoyed.
our council changed the parking down our street to 2 hour parking spots with parking permits for residents. It is so much more peaceful now.

not vandalise a car but as someone in one of those streets its really annoying plenty of people park badly over our drive, obscure our reversing from driveway, take up multiple spots and getting out of street takes longer as I have to weave around the cars.
luckily for us council just made all the spots 2 hours with residents permits. Its peaceful now

Imagine if everyone was like OP, the cul de sac would be full of other peoples cars. Also the residents dont know its only till christmas. We have an unwritten rule in our street that we all keep our cars off the road and on our drives, if we can. Now and again someone from out of town will leave a car all day while they jump a bus or train into the city. They only do it once. Our resident neighbourhood watch leaves them a nice little note. Petty I know 🤣

i know an elderly couple who missed an important hospital appointment because someone blocked them in.

I’m surprised by the responses here. Yes they don’t own the road but the road is also not a car park.