To be so cross that so many people seem to think its ok to block the pavement!

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Why is it that some people think its ok to bloke the pavement so that people with prams, wheelchairs etc can't get past and end up having to walk in the road?

3 times this morning I had to push my pram out into the road to get past idiots who had blocked the way. One was a motorbike parked across the pavement, one man had decided that the pavement would be a really good idea to set up his work bench and was doing something with window frames and another numpty had parked his car so far up the pavement that even twiggy wouldn't have been able to squeeze past!

My anger my be disproportionate to the crime but this is started to wind me up so much!!!

Seriously, how can people think this is ok?

YANBU.

I regularly have to walk home from dd1 school in the road with dd2 & ds double buggy because i can't use the pavement.

But unfortunley there is nothing the PCSO's can do because the our local council will not give police the authority to ticket the offending car owners.

On the other hand though, you cannot walk anywhere in my area around the post school walk and coffee meetings. Instead of moving to one side they block the entire footpath thereby making people have to walk on the road (and this includes the elderly with frames, people with little children etc).

Mums with buggies can also be a bit of a blockage too. WHen they walk two abreast with a small toddler who keeps them at a snails' pace. Most of the mums round here tend to be twice the width of the average woman

I often have to do a rapid in-road overtaking manoeuvre to get past.

Ormirian,

That's why i have a double so i don't have to walk at dd2 pace .

It's the same as why do some mums decide to stop and have a conversation at the school gates then get annoyed when you tell ask them to move.

YAB a bit U.

Yes it's annoying but I don't think it's really the end of the world.

Well it would be, but the four horseman can't get through..

rofl at kaloki

kaloki!

I did see some fake patrking tickets once - when you looked closer, they said things like: I have given you this ticket because you can't park you selfish bastard...' etc. I should have bought a box full! My bug bear is people who park across drop kerbs. Nightmare for buggies, even worse for wheelchair users.

Being tutted at when you are being polite really annoys me too. shall i just ram into them next time?
and the cars parked to close whether its the car door or the boot so I cant get my buggy in -i have left notes stuck to windscreens! I dont care, people should think a bit more. I dont think its hard to be considerate...

YANBU i posted something like this a few months ago, some people seem to think that they own a public path. Two weeks ago a car was parked mostly on the pavement, i did nmot care, i pushed my buggy past it and scratched it. They should not be parking there, its illegal to block a public right of way.

What about people that bump into their friends/family/aunts neighbours dog walker etc and stand chatting in the way then? that winds me up big time! grrrrrrr!!

ooh my personal "favourite" is people who just stop in the middle of the pavement for no apparent reason, this seems to happen more the busier the pavement is!

Oh, this thread strikes a chord! So many people where I live use prams/pushchairs like battering rams all over the pavement - poor little babies inside!

The other day my friend and I were walking with her baby (in a sling, she's 6 months old). It's Christmas shopping time, obviously, and very busy and a woman with a pushchair basically walked into us from behind, though we hadn't stopped walking. Instead of apologizing like a normal person, she grabbed my shoulder and snapped, 'Can't you see I'm trying to push a baby here?!'

My friend turned round and let her see the baby in the sling, but we didn't get anywhere with her.

I found that absolutely amazing - what is wrong with some people?