to think people who do this are selfish twats?!

[motherbeyond]

take the sofa's in places like costa,when there are only one or maybe two of them?god,it annoys the hell out of me.
i come in with kids hanging off me..pram/double..buggy board..nappy bags..and mother! the only place to stick the pram is by the sofas.the only area with enough space to sit comfortably with everyone is the sofa area.but.fucking.no...there's some old bloody biddy nursing a luke warm americano.aaarrghhh.

i went into our local(coffee house..not pub!!) the other day and there was a guy sitting on one sofa(30 ish..slob-like).i had usual baggage and said "excuse me,is anyone sitting here?"

he replied " my wife is going to sit there" and looked away.

"oh,right" i said..thinking,why cant she sit on the sofa next to you and we'll have the other?! just rude.

if there's only one or two of you.sit at a table,with two chairs!

[Bigmouthstrikesagain]

Our neighbour used a wheelie bin and a plank of wood slanted on it to save 'their' space in our road when I lived in London. But as I used to work for a central London borough in the parking permit office nothing surprises me when it comes to parking spaces in london.

[expatinscotland]

oh, i'll bet people had lots of fun with that, Bigmouth!

[EyeballsintheSky]

That is common around where my mother lives in South London. TBH though, although you don't have the right to the space outside your house, it is farking annoying because you cannot park in her street between 7am and 7pm because people dump their cars there and walk round to the station. My mother doesn't drive but her elderly neighbour used to put cones outside his house. And before someone says it, he was born in the house which was there before the station!

[Bigmouthstrikesagain]

Yes they did and it was a change from the boring old cones I suppose

still it is so very important to be able to see your car from your front window that the inconvenience of replacing your wheelie bin or retreiving it from it's regular local jaunts were worth it?!

[Bigmouthstrikesagain]

We lived in se London eyeballs and the commuter parking problem lead to the introduction of parking restrictions and us paying for parking permits but our neighbours still put their bin in the space outside their house.

[EyeballsintheSky]

Ah well, they are obviously nuts then It's a nightmare parking here too but all I ask is a space in the same road. A driveway is definitely a must in my next house.

[GodzillasBumcheek]

OMG i'm a boring woman. I want to complain about the lack of parking space in front of my house but i have no car

[simplesusan]

Went shopping today and saw several coffee shops, thought to myself how nice it would be to go in with my 3 dc and have a cuppa. Then remembered this thread and it brought a shudder to my blood. What if we went in and some lazy sod was lounging about taking up all the sofa space?
Made a rapid retreat and plumped for McDonalds instead. I know where I am safe, or at least thought I did until I was served by a poor trainee who couldn't get her head around the fruit bags instaed of chips option.

I made sure that the 4 of us only took up a table for 4 and not Hell forbid a comfy recliner one for 5.