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?

It’s not good behaviour from the residents op and it’s a public road so you’re doing nothing wrong.

Personally I would alternate where I’m parking. Coming back to a damaged car would be more trouble than it’s worth.

If people didn’t park partly on the pavements on the streets near me, there wouldn’t be room for vehicles to drive along. Mainly Victorian terrace houses, and very few with off street parking. Neighbours are pretty good, there’s usually room to park near home.

I volunteer on a Saturday morning, but I won’t be taking the car today. I’ll walk. There’s a football match, and the whole area will be filled up by fans. There will be no chance of a space when I’m due home. The fans pay a fortune for tickets, but many won’t pay to park.

Work will cover parking if it’s not your usual location

We used to live on a road near a station. We bought the house knowing full well, people would park on the road, outside our house. People are dim, if they think they own the road, outside their house or their street, unless it’s private.

The public highway is precisely that: public. If it’s legal to park, then you are entitled to do so. The fact that people get all bent out of shape if others park outside their houses is neither here nor there - nobody owns the piece of road outside their house. It seems, though, that you are not even doing that. Carry on, OP - you are doing nothing wrong.

Residents typically own or rent a home, not the whole street.

What happens when you visit a friend or relative with no driveway? Where do you park?

If people didn’t park partly on the pavements on the streets near me, there wouldn’t be room for vehicles to drive along.

thats because drivers are trying to make 3 lanes out of 2, so take over the pavement to do do. If you park on one side then there would be enough space for driving and one side of parking

a road near me has white lines drawn on pavement each side to “allow” parking - but they park over the white line. This means the pavement is list completely and pedestrians have to walk back along the road to find a space to cross ( as cars park so tightly there isn’t any space)

Exactly. The entirety of the UK has been designed this way and isn’t going to change for a hypocritical minority who expect to park on other people’s streets but don’t want other people parking on their street.

I'm a pedestrian, and as long as people don't park on the kerb and block the pavement - OP isn't - I don't really care to be honest.

Pavement parking, though, is just idiotic and selfish😡

Incidentally, I live in cul-de-sac and, as a non-driver, I find the 'parking politics' insane! I do wonder if people have anything else to worry about 😂

A long time for what?

It’s a public road not a private drive.

hostile ! Hmmm click bait title
anyway Yanbu to park there legally but it is annoying for your street is used as a car park

The other cul de sac mostly do not have their own drive ways- despite being allowed to park in either, I don’t actually want to inconvenience local residents who usually park there.

If they do, it will be the residents who are in the wrong not the OP

It’s hundreds of pounds not ‘a couple of quid’.

If you have a problem with what’s legal, lobby the council to make your road resident only parking.

Perhaps mix your parking spot around if you say there’s other places to park.

I live on a street 2 mins walk from a mainline station to London, so we get all the commuters parking all day or, more annoyingly, people parking for Heathrow/Gatwick and disappearing for 2 weeks. I totally get why people get annoyed, but you’re not doing anything wrong! Maybe scout out an alternative or two and rotate if you feel like it might calm things down?

Tragic behaviour … the day I start worrying about parked cars that have no impact on me will be a very sad day.

Unfortunately though there a lot of people who do care about this shite.

I don’t know why people keep quoting me in an outraged fashion I didn’t say I agree but i do meet many older people through my work and believe me other peoples parking in their roads is a hot topic!

Am in a cul de sac but is permitted with an active traffic warden - park at your peril!

Keep parking there. Leave a note in the window saying "try someone who cares". Some people really have nothing better to do than watch traffic. You're not putting anyone out and it's legal so don't you dare back down. Hold firm, OP.

I've often parked like this to avoid parking charges, with no regrets at all. But as others have said, if you do this regularly, do not park in the same place every day. Petty vandalism often does happen as a result of this, which is expensive to fix, and very difficult to prove. Years before, I used to be a driving instructor, and people could get very nasty about learners practising manoeuvring (or even just driving) in "their" streets, so I was careful to vary my routines a lot.

Where I live, there are a few free parking spaces, which I use to avoid paying for a permit; there are a few people who are clearly commuter parkers who also use these spaces. It works both ways.

So to round up for the hard of thinking -

Acceptable behaviour:

• parking on public roads that don’t require permits

Not acceptable behaviour:

• blocking people in / blocking access
• parking on private roads or permit roads
• vandalising cars

It sounds like you’re parking somewhere with expensive houses and residents who want their road to stay clear of cars. Just park in a different place or a number of different places.

Yes we parked once on a small road no markings at all near a beauty spot this red faced man came out of his house and went literally mental at us yelling and screaming. We had very young children at the time who were terrified! I guess it worked although legally we could park there like hell did we ever park there again!

Who could be bothered with the aggro though? I know I just want an easy life so I try and avoid causing confrontation but can handle it if it comes.

Though not all older people obviously my parents are chill about it as also
live in a village near nice walks they will let the stranger parkers use their loo!