Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁

[DailyMaui]

So they have closed the road I live on to resurface it. It will be closed for the next two nights. We’ve had multiple letters from the council, there have been signs up for at least a month and yesterday they painted NO PARKING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY all over the road.

8 cars are still parked there with 15 minutes to go until resurfacing begins. One of the cars is right outside my house and when I saw them out the window, I tried to explain to the two women (looking like they were off for an evening in town) that they were probably not going to be able to get their car until morning but they told me to fuck off!

The road is lorry central, a guy is taking pictures of the remaining cars… it’s all go here.

Anyone know what they do? Do they just resurface round the cars? Tow them away? Do they get brutal? There’s a fair few annoyed looking men in hi-vis walking up and down! Should I get wine and a comfy viewing position?

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This thread is brilliant. I mean, I'm supposed to be doing some work but this is more important...isn't it?

As for towing, round here they just put the cars in the next street when they did resurfacing. Neighbour had to go and find his car, I'm not sure if he got a heads-up as to which street they'd left it in or whether the council understandably decided he could find it for himself since he'd ignored the "DO NOT PARK HERE ON 27TH AFTER 8AM" notices that had been up for weeks.

Brilliant thread! I have enjoyed reading through this. Fuck off woman certainly her come uppance.

Now if only someone could invent some kind of standard way to measure. Like a long line. We could call it a ruler. Or an extra long one could be called a tape measure. Someone should come up with something like that for these guys.

Or a wheeled one that trundles along in a sort of wheely trundly fashion.

Great thread op

my friend car was towed near a stadium on a match day once just disappeared noone contacted her she had to phone the local pound and go and get it

@ServantofthePeople

Love the measurement stuff!

our fancy kitchen designer ostentatiously measured our kitchen by eye/feet whilst brown-nosing my husband (professor therefore much more interesting than me his actual customer). When I said “aren’t you going to measure?” He turned to my husband and said “ooh she’s getting impatient with us now”.

when they fitted the kitchen the fridge extended 6 inches across the doorway.

twat.

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Yes exactly this kind of thing 🤣

But (controversial) I think it's an inbuilt male trait... my DH is generally v good at DIY, but over 20 odd years, the mirrors that have been put up 5cm too low or high, as he didn't measure the back plate properly, edging strips cut half a centimetre too short (doesn't sound a lot, catches my eye every time I go up the stairs).

But in his defence, he gets a lot done.

I measure three times, don't get a lot done - but only need to do it once

Definitely the tarmac spreader - love the smell and always wanted to drive a roller especially if it were steam powered.

The mention of WW Lane took me back. I was at boarding school for many years in the town up the road with the garden over the side near the place that sounds like Baldrick from Blackadder.

Looking forward to tonight - more towing ahoy!

If you’re 6’ in height your arms outstretched & fingertip to fingertip is also 6’, fingertips to clavicle 3’, to elbow 1’ 6” & hand 6” & thumb 3”

Well mine are anyway. I worried about ageing & the shrinks but when that time comes I’ll get a walking stick with a hidden ruler instead of a hidden sword

Another fan of the stick figures in hi-viz, definite gold star diagram Daily

Oooh I've just had a man from the council at my door in a high viz jacket, and instead of being a miserable bastard to him I remembered the stick figures in the diagram and started grinning. In fact I was inordinately cheerful about the recent rubbish collection problems.

He must have thought I was mad.

Happy days

My dad's a mech fitter - he measures in metric and his tools are in imperial and he just knows. I mean, I can estimate, but he knows.

She??

He'd have lost my business for that!

I grew up in Little, near the church. Went to the school at the top of the hill in H. Still have family in St I.

Friend of ours used to work in a big company that was responsible for a roundabout that notorious causes traffic jams and bottlenecks. Apparently they only realised at a very, very late stage that someone had misread the plans - but the Queen was due to open it the following week and no-one dared admit to the cock-up. Apparently to this day the person responsible takes a perverse pride in it, and whenever he hears about traffic problems in that area is happy to announce "Ah, I did that".

My dh trained as a bricklayer but did a lot of general building before hurting his back.
Maths isn't his strong point. Straight lines, easy, measure 3 times, cut once, fits like a glove.
Working out areas, not so great. When we've bought flooring, decking etc I like to get it all at once so he measures I do maths, it fits.

Yesterday he asked me to work out the area of some decking. He gave the measurements in m×ft. I'm good, but that was pushing it.

I had the same with a bathroom designer, as my house had separate loo and bathroom that I wanted to amalgamate. He actually DID measure, but on reviewing his plans I realised that the shower cubicle would overlap the doorway by at least 9 inches.

He also did a design for a new kitchen, which completely failed to take into account that the understairs cupboard had a sloping ceiling ('cause, you know, under stairs)

Can we all appreciate the last sentence of this comment 👏👏

I live nowhere near OP but this morning I saw 12-14 people in hi-vis jackets clustered outside a corner shop, then later crossing a road, and wondered if anyone on this thread knew the official term for this… It’s not a herd or a flock!

I just Googled to find out where this is (haven't reached the end of the thread yet).

I got as far a typing Wibb and the top result popped up Wibbly Wobbly Lane, I wonder why that might be 😆

I don't know the exact terminology for that, but I do know that the other emergency services call fire women and men 'daffodils', because after an incident they tend to mill about in bunches in their bright yellow helmets.

I used to work on the roads, I can categorically tell you that the nicest of the men working with me was the driver of the roller. I used to be the one with the measuring thing that measured how dense the man with the roller had rolled. Probably why he was nice to me althought I only noted down the readings. I could also make them all stop work if I wanted to [the POWER!].

Another local here - might treat myself to a little nosey later today. I presume there will be plenty of other MNetters there to bump in to.

Never heard of the Hedgehog name before, that's really tickled me.

I love that road sign formerly known as Wibbly Wobbly Lane!!!!!

Yesterday he asked me to work out the area of some decking. He gave the measurements in m×ft. I'm good, but that was pushing it.

I used to make curtains . I thought in Ft and inches but measured and made using metric

laughing my bloody head off at this!!! quality karma!

I wonder what St Evenage is the patron saint of? Judging by some of the posts on here I reckon she is the patron saint of measuring things accurately and cutting once. She was probably martyred by being hit on the head too many times by a very low wall cupboard that her builder told her was a perfect height for a woman to reach.

If it wasn’t for the photos I would think this too good to be true; a pretty town full of MNetters, lovely Christmas windows, instant Karma for rude sweary people…it’s the stuff dreams are made of.