Parking Clowns

[Shedendman]

Theres a great site for putting photos on for people that park.....................oddly
look up YPLAC its on twit and face

 

[Shedendman]

^^^ doesn't matter on my road...we have a street full of parked cars from a main road. If I didn't use the parking there's a dozen other cars that would use it.

Its different I guess when you live in a village where everyone knows each other....in London its every man for himself...hence the reason I want to move!

I have one car that's strategically parked to prevent people blocking my dropped kerb!...it never moves except for the MOT once a year. Pretty ridiculous but thats what it takes!

I feel your pain,well i did till we moved out some 16yrs ago now have a drive for 2 motors,pure heaven

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Interesting thread, mostly theoretical problems from my POV, location, location, location. One question though: Do any of you see you see yourselves as part of the problem, or is always other people?

2 cars, 2 bikes and a van here. And off road parking for all of them, and many more. Indoor parking if I could be bothered opening doors too. :smug:

Van goes on the drive
Car on the road
I'd put some slabs down and park the car off road too but school run lot would block is in daily. Not paying for another dropped kurb when I rent.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I feel your pain,well i did till we moved out some 16yrs ago now have a drive for 2 motors,pure heaven

Viewing houses at the weekend by the sea side...criteria is detached house with a driveway of room on each side + parking for at least 4 cars.

...and enough garden to build a couple of garages....wish me luck!

Prices...straight swap for my London terrace

 

[lchris21]

2 cars here and plenty of room on drive .........Couple of neighbours have 4 and 5 cars, his and hers, kids etc, plus when the kids girlfriends boyfriends turn up its as many as 7!!........I was chatting with the one with 4 cars one Sunday morning a few months back, about 11am. He was washing one of the cars, his sons, a new VW? I asked why?..............he's not got out of bed yet...I said he's 25 FFS. What do these people expect, the kids all have brand new cars, find the money to swan off to Mexico for 2 weeks all inclusive, have 4ft Flat screen Tv's in their bedrooms, have mega discount board and lodge and poor old dad is washing his brand new car....why bother saving up for a house and moving out and taking your car with you

 

[Exuptoy]

I am just about the only house on the main road for a fair distance with off street parking. Transporter on the drive, knocked down my front wall to park wifeys car on the front garden (slabbed) my E60 is parked across the road on the main road and my daughters Ka is parked on a mates drive up the road as he has no car. I am kind of fortunate I suppose. 2 garages at the rear, one of which if for bike related stuff and a bloody great T2 Bay window camper on its side in the other, so neither suitable for parking in!

Double yellows outside my house and the **Language** (junkie and GF) who live in the flat opposite have family members who pop in from time to time and park on the yellows across my drive when there’s a few hundred yards of yellows and no driveways, just because it’s opposite the door to the flat!
Winds me right up.

 

[Morrisman]

My brother has a thing about people parking next to him in car parks....when the rest of the car park is totally empty.

I often get pictures of his car with another car blocking his drivers side door...in an empty car park.

No idea why it happens to him...never happens to me!

Someone once told me they got so annoyed with an illegal parked car that they moved it into a double yellow zone...no idea if its true or not!

A couple of years ago I parked in Asda early one morning. Hardly a car in sight, I left the door open as I wandered a few years to buy a ticket.... and turned back to my car to see some t**t patiently waiting for me to close it, so he could park RIGHT NEXT TO ME!?

There wasn’t a car within 10 parking spaces in any direction, but this moron felt his herding instinct too strongly to resist.

Sometimes I despair of the human race.

 

[Morrisman]

Van goes on the drive
Car on the road
I'd put some slabs down and park the car off road too but school run lot would block is in daily. Not paying for another dropped kurb when I rent.

My dropped kerb is basically shared between the neighbour and me, a throwback to the days nobody had a car I guess. If they park directly in front of their property the dropped kerb is then too narrow to get my car up, so I have a length of wedge shaped wood laying in the gutter so I can get my ONE car onto my four car drive.

Price for extending the dropped kerb would be over a grand, and we plan to move, so it ain’t happening.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

A couple of years ago I parked in Asda early one morning. Hardly a car in sight, I left the door open as I wandered a few years to buy a ticket.... and turned back to my car to see some t**t patiently waiting for me to close it, so he could park RIGHT NEXT TO ME!?

There wasn’t a car within 10 parking spaces in any direction, but this moron felt his herding instinct too strongly to resist.

Sometimes I despair of the human race.

I look for the empty corner.
Doesn't help im in a lwb van and car parking spaces are suited to Fiat 500s

I'm more goat than sheep. Rather bugger off on my tod than be around people.

 

[brightspark]

it happens all the time. empty carpark and someone parks right next to you

 

[8ob]

Its like NCP here.

Bob

 

[4String.]

A couple of years ago I parked in Asda early one morning. Hardly a car in sight, I left the door open as I wandered a few years to buy a ticket.... and turned back to my car to see some t**t patiently waiting for me to close it, so he could park RIGHT NEXT TO ME!?

There wasn’t a car within 10 parking spaces in any direction, but this moron felt his herding instinct too strongly to resist.

Sometimes I despair of the human race.

Lorry drivers are exactly the same.

A few years back I parked up early one afternoon at Colsterworth Truckstop on the A1 near Grantham. Nobody in, just me, and as it was autumn I went for a wander with my foraging buckets to snaffle some blackberries. Came back an hour later to find wagons either side of mine, one of which was so close I couldn't fully open the drivers door!

I squeezed into the cab, started the engine, and moved across the still otherwise empty parking area, at which point one of the muppets walked over and asked me if there was a problem. Once again, out came the rag-man's trumpet along with some very choice expletives...

 

[Morrisman]

Its like NCP here.

Bob

Thread is titled ‘parking clowns’, so did you expect it to be about slag inclusion, divorce costs, or, er, parking?

 

[Happy_welder22]

I’d go and speak to the neighbour nicely Some people can’t be reasoned with but sometimes all you need is a chat. I like to open with niceness.

 

[LewisT]

I regular park half way across 2 bays to stop ringpieces parking close and bumping there door on my van had someone say one day do you normally park like that . YEP all the time to stop ass holes like you hitting it and I walk off

Before i scraped my focus if i came across people doing that i would park so close to them that there was not chance of them getting in the drivers door, car had dents on every panel and a different colour of paint on all four corners ( due to mums dropping kids off at the nearby primary school ) i imagine i peeved off a lot of entitled drivers

 

[owas]

5 cars in my house, 4 next door ... We take up the entire street

I remember when we first moved here, there was only 1 or 2 cars

 

[Wedg1e]

But criminal damage and i would never suggest such a thing to do

I would... I've told this story on here before so I won't do the full write-up, but the essence is that on a council estate with garage blocks, those who didn't have garages used to park opposite them. To most garage users it wasn't a problem but there was one mummy's boy with a 3-Series BMW (1980s model) who couldn't judge size or distance to save his life. So his mother used to go around banging on doors to get people to move their cars so he could get his toy in and out for the 2 mile drive to/from college.
My ex at the time drove a Skoda Estelle and one Sunday morning there was a lot of shouting followed by banging on the door. "Move yer car!", ranteth psycho-woman. The ex took her sweet time about getting dressed and going out and when she got there, nobody to be found but the Estelle had moved 30 feet and gained a broken quarterlight.
I think I waited six months before emptying an entire bottle of Loctite into the two expensive Abus padlocks that kept the BMW safe from the twoccers of Middlesbrough. It took mummy's boy and his 'uncle' all day, standing on a kitchen chair with a junior hacksaw, to cut the locks off. While the mother yelled and screamed at the entire estate.

 

[northwest]

emptying an entire bottle of Loctite into the two expensive Abus padlocks

Added security. Just helping out I take it?

 

[Exuptoy]

Sometimes it’s the only answer!

 

[Nick67GT]

it happens all the time. empty carpark and someone parks right next to you

A friend of mine has a beat up up ex-MOD Landrover.

No one ever parks next to him or comes close whilst going round roundabouts.