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Original poster

to have wanted to beat this man with his fecking hoover

62 replies

ElectricElephant · 04/10/2009 22:13

Parked in a residentail street. Didn't block any access/driveways/lowered kerbs/double yellows/disabled space/anything. was a public road.

Got back to car to hours later - middle aged man hoovering his car "Oh, it's yours it is?"
"Yes, sorry - would you mind moving your car - you're blocking me in?"
"Sorry, you'll have to wait until I'm finished"

He had blocked me in, both sides, with his car and his wife's.

Explained I needed to get going, he turned his back and switched the hoover back on.

Twat.

btw, i'd been at the local village hall helping out with a NNS for the toddler group.

What would you have done?

OP posts:
yodayoda · 05/10/2009 09:38

ps, didnt want to offend, upset or cause rage! the cress thing was meant as a giggle. toodle pip. xx

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 05/10/2009 10:00

Yodayoda
who are you telling to lighten up?
[puzzled]

Kerrymumbles · 05/10/2009 10:01

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LaurieFairyCake · 05/10/2009 10:05

I would have beamed a smile and said 'thankfully that's what bumpers are for'. And then I would have got in and moved back and forward bumping slightly til the fecker moved.

yodayoda · 05/10/2009 10:34

hi Kat2907, was pointing out to the jolly person who posted what i think was a dig at me for cressing a doormat in the post above my earlier one, ref to me being a "wallnut whip cock!" ?????? me thinks i did something wrong? was only trying to add a giggle to the conversation.....am v new to this forum chat, so dont quite know what ive done to offend, think i may log out of the site, last think i need is abuse! xxxxx

claw3 · 05/10/2009 10:47

I quite liked walnut whips, until now, i will be sticking to the whole nut in future!

NeedCoffee · 05/10/2009 10:50

Yoda, that post was refering to the link that JAMM posted earlierf in the thread, I like the cress idea.

Op-YANBU, can understand you being upset, I prob would be if this happened to me, but if it ever does now then I shall remember this thread and do all the suggestions

NeedCoffee · 05/10/2009 10:52

YODA-also, the walnut whip post was before you even posted

yodayoda · 05/10/2009 11:35

oh god, sorry! didnt understand the whole link thing!!!!!!! thought i was being called a "wallnut whip cock" for cressing a carpet in my youth. im so rubbish at this computer lark, my 4 year old puts me to shame when hes on the cbeebies web site!
thought i was "on the ball" with all this techno stuff, i used to be able to repair the whole streets video recorders if they went wrong and was a wizz, now i cant even work out the smileys for this site and its to the fight of me as i write but cant get to grips, no little faces pop up ??? bugger i have to face it...im old!
off for a cuppa and a biscuit now i can relax knowing no one has called me a cock that looks like a walnut whip! ahhhh sorry all and thanks for pointing out the links! think it me that needs to lighten up. sorry! hope thats a smiley face x

Original poster
ElectricElephant · 05/10/2009 11:38

hehe yoda, it's just MN - you'll get used to it

anyway...

back to revenge...

OP posts:
ItIsNotUCM · 05/10/2009 12:31

Yoda.

Read my post again you doh! and see the link.

PMSL, Ilove the cress carpet BTW but for practical reasons, eggs sarnies etc.

yodayoda · 05/10/2009 12:45

ItIsNotUCM. SORRY! im a numpty who is rubbish on the computer, and still dont know what a link is! egg butties...great idea, my friend was being cheated on a month after she moved into her boyfriends flat......once she found out, she bought a big bag of prawns and hid them in places that he wouldnt find, ie, ends of curtain polls, behind radiators and in every suit pocket he had, in toilet cistern, in tips of shoes, in backs of cupboards and behind fridge, she even took up bits of carpet in each room and plcaed a few and put the carpet back....turned the heat on full blast and left him....nedless to say he honked and everything he owned honked....think he still honks 8 years later. xxxxx

MissM · 05/10/2009 12:59

Jeez, what is with people? Why are people such arses? This is the second AIBU thread today that has had me shaking my head with bewilderment. Poor you, big hug (said as someone who regularly bursts into tears when people act like arses so can empathise fully).

claricebeansmum · 05/10/2009 13:05

I would have bumped my way out of the space. I have a tow bar parking sensor so nothing would have stopped me.

I would then return under cover of darkness and stick a kipper up the exhaust.

kitkatqueen · 05/10/2009 13:06

oooh yoda, I know someone who put fresh fsh behind the kitchen cupboards before they left a certain property and I have to say the thought of a certain word written in weedkiller on a pristine lawn still has the ability to make me lol, the best car revenge tactic tho is to squirt fish food flavouring into the heater intake points, shellfish senseappeal or the lobster thermadore would probably do I've just realised I know some truly evil people....

op park there again next time and if he does it again. Calmly walk around the vehicle taking photo's when he asks why tell him its so that you can give the full evidence to the police this time. He might own the house, but he doesn't own the road and he has no right to upset you or detain you.

phoebeophelia · 05/10/2009 13:07

Could call the police and I bet they would have got him to move. Obstructing the highway; criminal offence.

diddl · 05/10/2009 13:13

What a sad little man!!

Isn´t it illegal to block someone in?

kitkatqueen · 05/10/2009 13:27

Not that I am reccomending any of the above, but tis amusing non?

Geocentric · 05/10/2009 13:34

kitkat and yoda, you are both truly evil masterminds...

OP, are you taking notes????

Tryharder · 05/10/2009 13:35

I was going to suggest that you should have done a Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomates on him but then I saw that KerryMumbles had got in there first.

Seriously though, what a twat, I would have rung my DH and got him to come round to discuss the matter - he's black and 6 foot 3

Original poster
ElectricElephant · 05/10/2009 13:37

SO tempted to go back and leave my car there while I go for a lovely long walk with DS.

More tempted to go and do all of the above though.

Mostly tempted to post his address.

I don't know what's happened to me in recent years - I used to be a much stronger person than this. I never would have put up with this kind of crap 3 years ago

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Vinomum · 05/10/2009 13:50

I would, as others have suggested, just started shunting my way out of the space. A couple of dents on the boot would have complemented the beautifully hoovered interior perfectly .

That said, I live on a road with no off street parking and it is a nightmare trying to cart an 8 month old, a 2.5 yo, and a changing bag to and from the car when people park in front of my house. There's no residents' parking, so they're perfectly entitled to park there, and I have no leg to stand on. I would never say anything to anyone who left their car outside my house for a few hours as I have no right to the space. However, a car has been parked right outside my house for 6 (count 'em!) weeks!! (owner has not moved it at all in this time and doesn't live in our road). This is the second time this has happened, earlier this year a car was parked outside for a month. Surely after all this time I'm justified in taking a machete to the tyres??

MissM · 05/10/2009 13:52

It's called having children Elephant. I used to be strong too, now I weep at the slightest sign of meanness. And I hate myself for it!

In the past when blokes have been deliberately horrible I have said 'Would you like a man to treat your wife or daughter this way?' No idea if it stops them being arses, but it's made me feel better (mind you, this was in my pre-kids days when I was stronger etc etc).

yodayoda · 05/10/2009 14:03

ban old people from the road, or rather grumpy old people, i would go the whole hog and do the cress, kipper, egg butties, and prawns, may make you feel better.
as for falling to bits all the time and no longer having the internal mental strenghth of yrster year, dont fren MissM is so so right its because we are mums and have to be strong for our family and babies, its horris bald middle aged men who tip us ovet the edge....... my neighbour who souts ou the window at 4am "sht up and die" at the beautiful birdsong also ah a habbit of staring ang licking his lips at anything resembling a female...hes horrid and so is your car vac prat! my advice is (an im a crap one to be dishing out advice at the mo!) is to take a deep breath.....look at what beautiful children you have....look in the mirror and tell yourself you are a godess (even if you have greasy hair and no make up on) and then go out and purchase the biggest bar of chocolate you can find...and by god there are some bigguns on the shelves at the mo as all the christams chocs are in the shops.....and eat the lot
he will end up sad and lonely and lets hope will an almighty dose of painful hemeroids, so take comfort at "what comes around goes around" or is that what goes around comes around???????? youre a good person and a fab mummy, hes just sour!

yodayoda · 05/10/2009 14:05

sorry for typing errors!