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On my parents road they all got a letter through the door offering them all free H bar markings at the bottom of their drives due to careless students from the 6th form college nearby parking cars across driveways, so H bars were painted and the college kids park sensibly, only for the residents to park their cars on the H bars blocking driveways instead regardless of the college being in or not! And they all have perfectly nice long driveways to park on as well.
Caz xx
I used to park in a street near work. Once an area was marked off with cones. I thought "WTF, this is a public road" and parked there anyway, and found a rude note on my car when I returned. I threw the note away and drove off. Next day a lady came from the nearby house and apologized for leaving the note and explained she'd had to carry her handicapped son from the end of the road. I felt about one inch tall 🙁
[i]and explained she'd had to carry her handicapped son from the end of the road[/i]
My wife took a group of wheel chair users to town one day in the adapted school minibus. It's got big signs on the back saying don't park within 1.5 metres due to ramp access required.
They were parked in a marked disabled bay which has posts at one end and they'd parked front near the posts to give room for the ramp.
Came back and someone had had parked a non disabled badge displaying Mercedes literally touching the bumper of the 'bus. Not even enough room to shuffle it out of the bay and get the kids in.
There was a for sale sign in the car with a mobile number on it so my wife called and asked if the owner would mind moving her car. An irate woman turned up 5 minutes later and met my wife on the road side of the minibus. There was a fair amount of shouty anger for being dragged out of her 'important meeting' followed by some swearing at my wife.
As they walked round to the kerb side of the bus she caught sight of the 4 kids in wheelchairs and their carers all waiting for her and went a bit quiet.
Yep been there done that.
Some people refuse to be considerate and reasonable and just act like assholes.
My old house was basically a terraced street, some houses had put parking directly in front of their houses instead of gardens, so you couldnt park in front of the house on the street either, as you'd be blocking access to their parking space. Fine.
Except my neighbour had 3 cars (2 his and 1 his daughter's), so rather than park the 3rd car wherever he could find a space, he parked in front of our house, swapping cars over whenever he needed to use the one in front of ours. He always waited until we went out to swap the cars.
Even when we were moving out he moved the yellow cones we had obtained from the police and got one of his mates to park in front of the house. Vile family, the lot of them. He will be up first against the wall when im in power.
We have lovely neighbours now.
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gofasterstripes - wonderful
[i]We have a farm nearby with a dog that barks all night; I went round and politely discussed it with the farmer, who has a reputation for being aggressive. Despite my fears, he was perfectly reasonable about it and the barking has stopped. It's amazing what a civilised meeting can achieve.[/i]
You do realise he shot the dog, don't you?
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wwaswas - if your wife had called the council they would have sent a truck asap to lift her car away. Saves all the shouting and provides silent sweet revenge.
gofasterstripes - wonderful
Aye I am going to copy that and just leave it on random cars 😀