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I know I'm not being unreasonable about this parking!!! (with diagram)

655 replies

UnsuspectedItem · 13/01/2018 13:12

But I thought I'd share anyway.

This happens on our street a LOT and I just don't understand how people can be so inconsiderate, the gap between the wing mirror and wall isn't big enough for a child to slip through and the car is so huge it blocks pedestrians from seeing whats coming without stepping into the road.
Not to mention that he's parked on a T-junction.

GRR!

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I know I'm not being unreasonable about this parking!!! (with diagram)
I know I'm not being unreasonable about this parking!!! (with diagram)
I know I'm not being unreasonable about this parking!!! (with diagram)
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ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs · 13/01/2018 16:12

The costume is wonderful! What a story you will have to tell your future children about The Day You Met Their Father GrinGrinGrin

TinkerbellSparkle · 13/01/2018 16:12

You’re going as a Unicorn? Just when I thought things couldn’t get any more awesome - fans herself with the excitement of it all.

UnsuspectedItem · 13/01/2018 16:13

For reference, I'm not a fan of Unicorns but found the costume hilarious and the party is "Fantasy themed"...

Still no update, and the light is fading Sad

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MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 13/01/2018 16:14

Re. Darkness

Claim you can smell gas near the junction.

Gas company rock up, floodlight area to work.

Obviously need to fake smell of gas....

JollyJuniper · 13/01/2018 16:15

Placemark! As mum of twins a special place in hell is reserved for people who park on pavements.

Oldraver · 13/01/2018 16:15

What are they waiting for ? On those police tv programmes they automatically tox for no tax/insurance

TheSassyAssassin · 13/01/2018 16:16

Unicorn is perfect for the thread though! It has been a bit of sparkle on an otherwise grey Sat aft Grin

ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs · 13/01/2018 16:16

Hmm, even I have run out of excuses for CF now. That puppy should have been rescued long ago. Sad I may need to look again to tow truck man.

rothbury · 13/01/2018 16:16

Say the smell of gas is coming from the Cuntily Parked Car!!!

OP you cannot go to the party - you realise that, right?

FrancisCrawford · 13/01/2018 16:17

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

lollipop7 · 13/01/2018 16:17

Contact the local press.
They live for shit like this...... all very “Angry People in Local Newspapers”

MrsMozart · 13/01/2018 16:18

Not place marking. No. Not I.

CariadAur · 13/01/2018 16:18

Oh my word... This is the best thread EVER!

Snotgobbler99 · 13/01/2018 16:18

Ok, but it'll have to be the kind of unicorn that doesn't attract too much attention lurking on street corners.

I know I'm not being unreasonable about this parking!!! (with diagram)
Ryder63 · 13/01/2018 16:18

OMFG. All this treasure. A generously sharing OP. CF Parking Wanker (unless totally exonerating circumstances and gorgeous. And male, straight and available) Heavenly diagrams, class biscuits. A mystery Shouting Man, Pickle Officer, offers of marriage from PPs and now A UNICORN. Either I'm tripping or MN has reached new heights of lushness Flowers

xXKXx · 13/01/2018 16:19

I'd leave a note on their window

BrokenBattleDroid · 13/01/2018 16:19

Angry male neighbour - was he saying that cars in general cause a problem by parking there a lot, or that specific car parks there a lot?

Perhaps your mum will take over the spying duties when she arrives with the prescription. Do you have walkie talkies?

lollipop7 · 13/01/2018 16:19

Depending on where you live I’ve got a double mountain buggy. I’ve specially adapted it with drill bits and jigsaw saw blades along either side especially for effrontery of this nature.

Think mothercare meets Saw

TheSassyAssassin · 13/01/2018 16:20

Grin Snot - unicorn in camouflage rocks!

TheSassyAssassin · 13/01/2018 16:22

And am now getting advert with a unicorn on it at bottom of thread HmmGrin

MadMags · 13/01/2018 16:22

You're going to have to go out there once you're in your costume and get the Pickle Officers back.

Why have they just left it there? They were doing so well.

rainbowduck · 13/01/2018 16:22

Has CF STILL not returned? I am
Failing to understand how someone could leave their car parked like this, on a corner for more than 30
Seconds. Do you live near shops?

Please go out in your fabulous new outfit, whilst shouting 'neighbourhood watch!' through a homemade paper megaphone...

(Love this thread!)

eddiemairswife · 13/01/2018 16:23

I'm LITERALLY a stone's throw from Staffordshire and it is getting quite dark.

rainbowduck · 13/01/2018 16:23

Forgot to write 'prance and gallop along the curbs, in a Miranda Hart style'

HonkyWonkWoman · 13/01/2018 16:27

Am fighting back slight panic attack with the thought that, the OP will dress like Sparkly Unicorn and leave us all, or it will be too dark for photos of tow truck and handsome driver, or pickle officers have let us down and no tow truck has been ordered.
Please tell me it's all going to be fine!