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?

😉

Serves fuck off woman right really!

God, I’m so dense, I actually googled St. Evanege thinking it was a real place. Google corrected it and it still took me a good minute to figure it out 😆

@WhereWasThatFrom You do realise it's not Friday night, don't you!?! 😆

Little hard to see in the photo but they may be raising the ironwork on a manhole - so it will be at the same level of the new rod surface. Or it could be a shallow grave

I thought I was invisible in the dark but NAY because my phone doth shine up at my face making me look like a road resurfacing obsessed ghost.

I lol'd

I also have a dog with his own bedroom. What's worse is he's a little 7kg loaf and his room is bigger than mine! He quickly claimed the spare room when we moved in to this house and now he's a complete diva; as soon as the clock strikes 10pm, he whines at me until I put him to bed with fresh water and a snack. He has a box of toys in there and a full sized human bed, complete with his own special bedding with bumblebees on it

Fuck Off's car lifted! I can go to bed happy now!

Or it could be a shallow grave
Lets not let common sense and raised ironworks get in the way here .
Shallow grave all the way !

OP I think @mnhq need to give you an award. Not only do you have the maiden parking thread on the new site, but it's an absolute cracker - 'Fuck Off' women, towing, boss dog, baby steps measuring man, plague pit and lung potion. Thank you for this outstanding public service.

Also in case anyone is in a similar warm wine predicament, you can wrap the bottle in a wet paper towel and stick it in the freezer - decently chilled in ten minutes.

The diagram, updated diagram and photos really are A* 👏👏👏 I was about to put my phone down and go to sleep before I opened this thread and now I’m going to have to wait for fuck off woman’s return.

I’d be the layer of the tar because I love the smell. I also have the hard hat/hi vis/boots. And the licence to drive the truck.

Bravo OP… really, excellent thread all round!

Ooh, my dream is to own a pick up truck, beloved of site agents.

Woah OP, I came back for a little light reading before bed, and the talk has turned to plague pits and potential child femurs

On a lighter note, I do love a pic of what workmen do best - all standing round a hole in the road, looking down knowledgeably...

Rolling sounds fun. Though I’d be the tow truck driver 😂

Parking threads keep me going. 🍿

@noodlezoodle

OP I think @mnhq need to give you an award. Not only do you have the maiden parking thread on the new site, but it's an absolute cracker - 'Fuck Off' women, towing, boss dog, baby steps measuring man, plague pit and lung potion. Thank you for this outstanding public service.

Also in case anyone is in a similar warm wine predicament, you can wrap the bottle in a wet paper towel and stick it in the freezer - decently chilled in ten minutes.

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Now that takes the biscuit for best advice for chilling wine with a paper towel...

[a nice biscuit, not a stop being a twat biscuit]

I'm still randomly musing where the heck this street is...

(Always wanted to be the person with the clipboard and the box-up-a-tripod thingy pointing at the other person's thingy on a tripod several hundred yards away)

It says Outer London Surfacing on the side of the van, so that narrows it down to only a few tens of thousands of streets...

Can you ask HiViz man if he still has the tin of white spray paint?
So you can write FUCKED OFF on the road where the white car used to be

This is a fantastic thread! I would be the exact same looking out the window.

You obviously do not live anywhere near me as our Council doesn't do road repairs.
Someone mocked up a street sign entering our village "Welcome to the Pothole Capital of UK"

spat out my gin 😂

That is one of my favourite streets in the whole town. There a a couple of others vying for the love (P W and T A) but for location and gorgeous period houses T H S is a winner. Love the advent windows at Christmas.

I happen to work on Dead Street (as was).

any sign of the tow-ees yet? <overly invested emoticon>

Great thread. They don't lift cars round here, they just scrape them to shit as they tarmac round them. What a job.