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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I used to work in road works and we do indeed tow the cars away 😌 enjoy!

Can't wait to see the rude women come back and find their car has been disappeared. Hope it costs them a £££ to get it back, entitled rude things.

Dog photo please! Preferably tucked up in his bed 😂.

Oh my. I saw this thread just before masterchef and future food stars (only watching ffs as a local guy is on it!)

Just settled into bed with a cuppa and this did not disappoint!
Thank you OP!

Also feel a pic of the dog is necessary.
Doubt the Fuck Offs will be back tonight but lives in hope!

I property’s snorted. Please do.

Does this town involve the letters h and n?!

Cos I think I can hear the roadworks from my back garden 😄

Ok I’m very interested to hear more.

Me and the more “fragile” teen have been discussing what job we’d like to do in road resurfacing:
digger who clears the road of debris
digger who receives debris (why a digger?)
scraper
driver of lorry who collects the scraper’s scrapings
buffer
people with spades
person with wheelie measuring thing
person with mad long extension cable
the fat controller (there really is one)
tow wynch driver.
tar dropper person
roller person

I’d quite like roller person.

Best thread ever! well done OP! 🏆

I'd go roller or wheelie measurer. I used to love those wheelie measurer things at school.

Loving this thread, thank you kindly, OP, but while we all wait for FUCK OFF WOMEN I need to ask: how the heck do you refresh on this new fresh hell that is MN? I cannot see a refresh button, so have resorted to all sorts of shenanigans including getting out, going elsewhere, coming back in. Tis tedious to say the least. Any advice welcomed.

I reckon you could hear them from St Evenage…

Fat Controller. [bossy]

Proffers thanks and technical advice* - the 'scraping' is called planing, as in 'plane and resurface' aka PRS.

*I look after the money, but I do have my own hi-vis jacket and trousers and hard hat and steel toe cap boots just in case

Ooh yes, those were great. Imagine having a job where you get to legitimately use one!

Fab thread OP, very excited for you!

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How funny! We’re on a street T H S right in town!

@DailyMaui

Ok I’m very interested to hear more.

Me and the more “fragile” teen have been discussing what job we’d like to do in road resurfacing:
digger who clears the road of debris
digger who receives debris (why a digger?)
scraper
driver of lorry who collects the scraper’s scrapings
buffer
people with spades
person with wheelie measuring thing
person with mad long extension cable
the fat controller (there really is one)
tow wynch driver.
tar dropper person
roller person

I’d quite like roller person.

You forgot measurer of road using own feet!

I just use the refresh button on my browser (chrome) or pull down on my phone. I've always done this, I didn't even know MN had it's own refresh button before.

Using own feet!

And for all you local council tax payers, it'll be costing around £100-£150 for each towed vehicle.

I want to be the one who leans on a shovel offering wise advice.

I reckon baby pins man has either lost his roller measurer or been demoted for improper use of said measurer

Love that the car got towed 😂

Ok this lot are way down a hole after their “planing.”

Have they found a body? I only say this as I dug out a massive hole for a trampoline in my back garden and the number of bones I found…. I kept digging and waiting for the skull, which thankfully never came. I did however find what some doctor friend drunkenly said “may” have been a child’s femur, a China doll’s leg, lots of rotted fabric and an intact bottle with the words “lung tonic” down the side.

A road near me was called “dead street” as everyone died of the plague there back in the day. They sadly changed the name to something more salubrious and there are known to be plague pits around:

You realise you are going to have to stay up till the small hours to report on reactions of drivers when they come back to collect their cars? Especially the Fuck Off women.