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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to want to go and park an articulated lorry in front of the house of the woman who shouted at me for parking in front of her house?

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 16:53

What is it with English people and their PERSONAL SPACE ISSUES when it comes to pavements and roadspace?

I am only there for 10 minutes a day to pick up the small one from nursery

I got a mouthful of abuse

I want to go and hire a lorry and park it outside her house for the weekend

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NomDePlume · 27/11/2008 16:55

lol, I read it as

Were you blocking her access in any way ? If no and you were not on yellow lines then YANBU

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 16:56

no I was not parking across her drive or anything and there were no double yellows or even single yellows

I was just parking about 20 foot in front of her LOUNGE WINDOW which was obviously a criminal act

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Fimbo · 27/11/2008 16:57

My front door is opens straight on to the pavement. It is blooming annoying when people park right outside the front door. I can see where she is coming from but if its only 10 minutes that's not so much of a problem.

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 16:57

she was only about 15

Actually it was when I said "Terribly sorry sweetie but there aren't any double yellows" that she exploded "DON'T CALL ME SWEETIE!" she bellowed

I really wanted to say "You mean: Don't patronise me, darling" but thought that would be going too far

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southeastastra · 27/11/2008 16:57

make sure you park there all the time. ignore her all the time too.

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 16:58

there was a DRIVE in between me and her house

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2point4kids · 27/11/2008 16:59

YANBU
I'd park there when I went shopping if I were you, even if it meant a longer walk to the shops, just to annoy her

OTOH I did say in an outraged voice 'That car is in my space!' today to DS1 when I got home with him and found someone outside my house.
DS said back 'not your space Mummy, you not got a rocket' (he is 3 and only knows about one kind of 'space' ) it made me laugh anyway and realise that I was being a bit daft.
(Disclaimer...I would never say anything to anyone outside my house though)

poppy34 · 27/11/2008 16:59

am in two minds about this one - yanbu as its not her personal space but if her road is one that is used for school pick up/drop off you do get picked up with fact that cars parked incosiderately (eg blocking people in, badly parked so otehrs can't get in /out) does begin to piss you off esp when you end up with a ticket as no where to park due to school run parents.

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 17:01

but she did have an enormous drive on which to park as many cars as she needed

Most parents don't use that road - I use it because it saves me driving another 3 miles to get to the nursery carpark around the one-way system as I can cut through a public footpath and get to the nursery - and I feel too guilty driving all the way there when I can walk for 5 minutes and save the drive....

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KatieScarlett2833 · 27/11/2008 17:03

My street is full of parents doing pick ups. Doesn't piss me off at all. I knew it would be like that when we bought the house.

laweaselmys · 27/11/2008 17:09

Ah, now if she had her own driveway and could still access it, I have no sympathy at all.

Raalix · 27/11/2008 17:17

RULES:

You must not park on double yellow.
You must not park in a space marked for disabled vehicles only.
You must not park in a manner which restricts the passage of other vehicles including parking across somebody's driveway.

Therefore you are correct - I would go and see about that lorry now!

Raalix · 27/11/2008 17:18

Disabled vehicles?

Is that a car with a broken leg?

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 17:20

I am still full of RAGE

I really want to be cool and channel Gregory House

I will work on that for next time

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ChippyMinton · 27/11/2008 17:21

ah well strictly speaking if there is NO car on the driveway you can park across it.

G'wan I dare you!

PeachyAndTheSucklingBas · 27/11/2008 17:25

My house is like Fimbo and I have been totally blovked in before by poeple 'just on the school run'- er yes but I needed to get there too (no back gate to house either).

My neighbour is the Queen of parking rage- she calls the police and swears you're not a resident if your car overhangs her house and they come out as well...... and where is she parked now?

Er yes outside my window!

YANBU as long as you were considerate.

The only ones that nark me are the taxis for opposite 'but i'm waiting for an autistic person' 'yes but i want to get my 2 autitstic children into the house please' (as said by dh, taxi driver wound window up and ignored him- aarrrrghhhhhh)- even then i think the neighbour was OTT to formally complain.

PeachyAndTheSucklingBas · 27/11/2008 17:25

Like Fimbo's

as far as I am aware Fimbo is not a Victorian mill cottage. Are you Fimbo?

Mumsnut · 27/11/2008 17:28

Also,Raaliz - if you park ON THE PAVEMENT so prams and toddlers have to divert into the road . Why do people do this? It esp gets my goat when you can see that they have a child seat in the back of the car and should know better.

picmaestress · 27/11/2008 17:30

I once got a knock on my door - respectable looking middle aged guy. 'Do you own a black mini' 'yes' 'well I thought it had been abandoned because it's been parked outside our house for so long'.

It had been parked on a public road, next to our road, for 10 days. I hadn't moved it...because I didn't need to.

He has a drive for two cars. My car was not in his way, it was just 'annoying him'.

He had gone to the trouble of contacting the mf-ing DVLA to find out where we lived.

I think you can guess my answer . It had the words Yourself and Go in it. He got the door thrown shut in his face as well.

I have no idea if the giggling, the flicked V's, poked tongues and arse waggling etc every single time I parked deliberately in the same place outside his house had any effect on his equilibrium for the next 2 years. It certainly cheered us up.

espadair · 27/11/2008 17:34

its a public road and she has no ownership unless she gets the council to put down a disabled bay even then she could be subject to blue badge holders parking there. You have every right to park there.
Lots of people have this conception of the road outside their property is part of there boundary, it its a public adopted road so is "owned" and maintained by the council she shouldn't put you off parking there as you have equal rights to her to park there especially if you are paying council tax in the area.
I work in parking enforcement so I would just laugh at her and tell her there's other things in the world to be getting worked up and get a life.

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morningpaper · 27/11/2008 17:48

ha! right then

next time she has a go I will be ready with my patronising talk about how I admire her passion and enthusiasm and has she thought about volunteering at the Lib Dem's office because they would just LOVE her to bits

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Fimbo · 27/11/2008 17:59

Espadair can you tell me if its legal to park half on the pavement and half on the road please? Thereby causing a blockage for prams etc

And no I am not a Victorian Cottage

NotQuiteCockney · 27/11/2008 17:59

"be cool and channel Gregory House" ... is "channel" some new euphemism then?

pagwatch · 27/11/2008 18:10

well I shouted at a woman who parked the other side of my drive but was also restricting access to my house. She was only dropping off but she does so every morning at exactly the time that my sons taxi turns up to take him to school.

If I can't get him easily onto the bus it will upset him for the whole journey and much of the morning.

But as we have a big house apparently I don't have any need to gain access and am just being stuck up. Or so she explained.
The next time she does it I am going to put dog shit on her car handles during her drop off

mayorquimby · 27/11/2008 18:17

you pay road tax so in short f her. once you're parked legally you can park where ever you like. people who think they own the roads that their house is on or the roads in their estate just baffle me. it's public road.

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