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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 8:07:02 GMT
Ideally in one of the two spaces occupied by the previous miscreant!
Often walk, it's not far and the pub is just out of shot!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 10:13:47 GMT
Courtesy of 14th:
In his words, 'It's part on the road, part on double-yellows and part in a disabled bay. Is that a full house?' |
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Post by Tim on May 4, 2017 11:08:31 GMT
I think it would need a wheel on the pavement to qualify as a full house but otherwise its a good effort!
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Post by humphreythepug on May 8, 2017 11:01:00 GMT
My dick neighbours last week, the ones who swap cars about to save each other a space.
I was approaching home and saw that "their spot" wasn't occupied, however one of their cars was across their drive, upon getting closer I could see that the car was occupied, I think she had just arrived home as I had only popped out for 20 minutes and she wasn't there when I left and it was around the time that she gets back home from work and she is generally the first of the three to get home.
So I took advantage of the free spot, swooped in parked up and reversed a bit to straighten up, as soon as I started reversing she popped her reverse lights on and beeped, I was already in "their spot", I gestured with my arms as if to say "what's your problem", turned the car off, got out and she remarked "didn't see my reverse lights then?", I just said, "you are parked, so what's the problem" and walked off.
3 minutes later her boyfriend arrived home, what a shame, he couldn't park outside his house, he had to park a few cars down!!
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Post by ChrisM on May 8, 2017 11:04:04 GMT
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Well, if she hadn't parked across their driveway, he could have parked there !
I can't understand people who park on the road rather than on their driveway; it's got to be so much safer, with less risk of the car being accidentally damaged too
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2017 11:47:46 GMT
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 8, 2017 12:54:31 GMT
^ Well, if she hadn't parked across their driveway, he could have parked there ! I can't understand people who park on the road rather than on their driveway; it's got to be so much safer, with less risk of the car being accidentally damaged too How did your TT test drive go again?  |
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Post by grampa on May 8, 2017 13:28:14 GMT
I really can't understand why people get so aggitated about parking - I can't think of any greater waste of energy. Plus the proliferation of 'parking like a twat' sites really bewilders me - if someone wants to park across two spaces or diagonally across a space in a car park with plenty of spare spaces, so what?
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Post by humphreythepug on May 8, 2017 13:50:56 GMT
I really can't understand why people get so aggitated about parking - I can't think of any greater waste of energy. Plus the proliferation of 'parking like a twat' sites really bewilders me - if someone wants to park across two spaces or diagonally across a space in a car park with plenty of spare spaces, so what? The spot that I parked in was the spot closest to my house that was free, I will always try and park as close as possible to my house, if I'm up the road then so be it. My neighbours swap their cars around using the entrance to their drive to effectively save spaces, they will go out of their way to purposely move their cars around to do this; go out in one and move the other up, sort of thing. Part of the reason that I park in "their spot" whenever I can is that I know it annoys them. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2017 13:51:52 GMT
In answer to Grampa's point, I think it's symptomatic of the frustration that many seem to feel about what seems to me to be a creepingly increasing lack of consideration for others.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 8, 2017 13:52:42 GMT
I really can't understand why people get so aggitated about parking - I can't think of any greater waste of energy. Plus the proliferation of 'parking like a twat' sites really bewilders me - if someone wants to park across two spaces or diagonally across a space in a car park with plenty of spare spaces, so what? It really is an emotive subject. I often have to have a word with myself. We have plenty of offstreet parking for two cars, probably three, and we also have a lay-by opposite our drive and another slightly to the left of the front of our house. Since we never have need to use these spots they are taken up by neighbours and visitors, as and when, and it presents no issue to me. The house at the top of the road, different street really - they have 4 cars - a C-Class, a 640d, a Golf and 308, but only parking for two on their drive, so they use another couple of lay-bys near them. What boils my piss is that they also have a white Sprinter van for their business and that comes home every night and if they can't squeeze it into a lay-by near them they come and park it outside my house. I've even seen it parked there when there actually is space on their drive. My view is that if you've got five vehicles and only parking for two you need to either extend your drive or move. I use passive aggressive retaliation - if it's parked there one night, the next day I'll park my car in the lay-by and leave it - or even in the lay-by outside their house if it's empty. As they're Asian I'm sure this is being recorded as a hate crime somewhere. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2017 15:31:55 GMT
One of my neighbours seem to have a multitude of cars parked outside their house, despite there only being a couple and their kids living in the house as far as I can tell. Why they need a pick up, two Mercedes convertibles, a Volvo saloon and an Audi estate for two people is a mystery to me. Most of these vehicles are usually badly parked and I'm just glad that they're at the other end of our small street (25 houses) from us!
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Post by grampa on May 8, 2017 15:42:04 GMT
I really can't understand why people get so aggitated about parking - I can't think of any greater waste of energy. Plus the proliferation of 'parking like a twat' sites really bewilders me - if someone wants to park across two spaces or diagonally across a space in a car park with plenty of spare spaces, so what? The spot that I parked in was the spot closest to my house that was free, I will always try and park as close as possible to my house, if I'm up the road then so be it. My neighbours swap their cars around using the entrance to their drive to effectively save spaces, they will go out of their way to purposely move their cars around to do this; go out in one and move the other up, sort of thing. Part of the reason that I park in "their spot" whenever I can is that I know it annoys them. Quite - it's your weird neighbors who are the odd ones - people sometimes park outside our house (we're on a estate so it's unusual) in the place we generally park the car that can't go on the drive and my wife sometimes says, 'who's parked there?' to which my response is, 'It's a public road, anyone car park there.' The worst that ever happens is that we have to park three houses away. |
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Post by michael on May 8, 2017 16:03:34 GMT
We're fortunate in the lane outside our house is only a single track so things parked outside our house are rare. There is a Facebook page for the local town that constantly has people whinging about those who park on the public road near the station and can't get it into their thick heads that they don't own the road outside their houses.
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Post by humphreythepug on May 8, 2017 16:18:02 GMT
As a rule, everyone on our estate is ok and respectful to others with the on street parking, the only issues are the ones mentioned above and a SORN'd Rav 4 taking up a much needed space, which has been there for months.
My immediate neighbour to our right we get on with very well, they have a drive, but park their car in the back garden beyond a set of gates, if there is no space on the road then we can park eithr of our cars on their drive as long as we are gone first thing.
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Post by Alex on May 8, 2017 21:15:40 GMT
Makes me glad to have a car port with two spaces and thus, do not have any need to park on the street. There's a couple of lay-bys opposite which the developers kindly marked as for visitors it they tend to be used for the second cars from some of our neighbours who have a garage (full of junk so therefore only one parking space not two). TBH though it's not really something I feel is worth worrying about.
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Post by Tim on May 9, 2017 8:52:13 GMT
Whenever we've been looking at houses parking is a major consideration.
We had the 'competitive parking' problem years ago when we stayed in an end terrace at 90 degrees to another row - there was a horseshoe shaped road around the front with bushes in the triangle in front of our house. Eventually the council tarmacked it which is when the parking became silly.
I think we're unusual in that we stay in a modern house with a double garage and actually put 2 cars in it. I'm always amazed how many houses have their double garage full of crap. They're usually the ones with too many cars for their driveway too.
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Post by humphreythepug on May 9, 2017 19:52:23 GMT
Earlier today 4 cars were parked thus (nose to tail):
Neighbour(1)- neighbour(2) - my daughter(3) - neighbour(4).
My daughter went out, my neighbour came out of his house backed his car(4) up one space to move to where my daughter was parked and went back in his house.
Why the fuck would you do that, he has actually made more work for himself by making the effort to move his car 1 space and hasn't gained anything; apart from saving himself walking an extra 2ft in the morning but to do that he's had to get up from his sofa, put his shoes on, grab his keys, open his front door, walk 20ft to his car, unlock and get in his car, start it, move it 1 car length, get out, lock it, walk 20ft back to his house............and so on, he is in his late 20's not some old cantankerous retired man with nothing better to do.
It doesn't bother me, he can do what he wants, I just don't get the reasoning and it baffles me; if I end up having to park 4 or 5 houses up then so be it, I don't think "oh the woman over the road, her boyfriend has gone now, there is a space, let me grab my keys and move my car", it's all a bit odd!
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Post by ChrisM on May 9, 2017 20:32:18 GMT
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He's a cantankerous 20-something year old who thinks he owns the road outside his house and objects if anyone else parks there, as it's his land.
It takes all sorts.....
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Post by Blarno on May 11, 2017 13:58:59 GMT
 When you try your best to fill every space in the work's car park... |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 11, 2017 15:07:06 GMT
^ Great photo!
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Post by Blarno on May 11, 2017 15:40:13 GMT
Thanks. Good job HSE weren't around to see me standing on top of the work's van to get it.
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 11, 2017 22:00:47 GMT
We're fortunate in the lane outside our house is only a single track so things parked outside our house are rare. There is a Facebook page for the local town that constantly has people whinging about those who park on the public road near the station and can't get it into their thick heads that they don't own the road outside their houses. We get numerous reports of cars supposedly "abandoned" or "we think it could be stolen". Nope. You just don't like it outside your house and you have to park a bit further up the street. |
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 11, 2017 22:03:18 GMT
As a rule, everyone on our estate is ok and respectful to others with the on street parking, the only issues are the ones mentioned above and a SORN'd Rav 4 taking up a much needed space, which has been there for months. My immediate neighbour to our right we get on with very well, they have a drive, but park their car in the back garden beyond a set of gates, if there is no space on the road then we can park eithr of our cars on their drive as long as we are gone first thing. A SORN'd car on the road can be removed immediately by the council and/or the police. Report it. There might not be devolved DVLA powers for the police where you are but the council certainly have a statutory duty to remove it. |
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Post by Boxer6 on May 11, 2017 22:33:37 GMT
As a rule, everyone on our estate is ok and respectful to others with the on street parking, the only issues are the ones mentioned above and a SORN'd Rav 4 taking up a much needed space, which has been there for months. My immediate neighbour to our right we get on with very well, they have a drive, but park their car in the back garden beyond a set of gates, if there is no space on the road then we can park eithr of our cars on their drive as long as we are gone first thing. A SORN'd car on the road can be removed immediately by the council and/or the police. Report it. There might not be devolved DVLA powers for the police where you are but the council certainly have a statutory duty to remove it. I missed that - doh!  The clue being, of course, the 'OR' bit of SORN being Off Road. I'm going to bed now I think . . . |
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Post by humphreythepug on May 12, 2017 8:22:42 GMT
As a rule, everyone on our estate is ok and respectful to others with the on street parking, the only issues are the ones mentioned above and a SORN'd Rav 4 taking up a much needed space, which has been there for months. My immediate neighbour to our right we get on with very well, they have a drive, but park their car in the back garden beyond a set of gates, if there is no space on the road then we can park eithr of our cars on their drive as long as we are gone first thing. A SORN'd car on the road can be removed immediately by the council and/or the police. Report it. There might not be devolved DVLA powers for the police where you are but the council certainly have a statutory duty to remove it. I reported it to the DVLA via their online thingy, about a month ago, I've reported it again this morning, I had a look on our councils website and it directs you to the DVLA. Normally I would't bother, but it is taking up a very valuable space. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 5:48:58 GMT
When you try your best to fill every space in the work's car park... Do you use the same paint supplier as Audi? I'd have thunk that some customers would plump for a more in yer face colour than those in the picture? |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 7:53:04 GMT
I wish the fuckwit driving it hadn't been sat at the wheel, as it deterred me from taking a picture of the big camper van occupying two disabled spaces outside the Co-op yesterday afternoon. Rather than park in the large, unspaced area a mere fifty metres away.
I also wish someone would tell these sort of cunts that being a lazy twat doesn't count as a disability.
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Post by Blarno on May 14, 2017 11:59:29 GMT
When you try your best to fill every space in the work's car park... Do you use the same paint supplier as Audi? I'd have thunk that some customers would plump for a more in yer face colour than those in the picture? There are some more vibrant colours, they're just not in the picture. The blue one at the back is a realy nice shade and we recently delivered a gorgeous dark metallic red one. |
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 14, 2017 19:45:35 GMT
A SORN'd car on the road can be removed immediately by the council and/or the police. Report it. There might not be devolved DVLA powers for the police where you are but the council certainly have a statutory duty to remove it. I reported it to the DVLA via their online thingy, about a month ago, I've reported it again this morning, I had a look on our councils website and it directs you to the DVLA. Normally I would't bother, but it is taking up a very valuable space. Report it to the police then. See if the local neighbourhood team will shift it. DVLA can't cope, hence they shove it out to other agencies. As for the council, tell them it's abandoned. They have a statutory duty. |
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