[Closed] Share your tales of parking madness

I have to congratulate our local pub. It's got a pretty decent sized carpark and they arranged with the nearby school to allow the parents to park there on the dropoff/pickup times rather than trying to shoehorn everyone into the madness of the school gates.

That video was truely special

several parents seem to think that the zigzags by the zebra crossing aren't there for pedestrian safety, rather the place exclusively reserved for them to park.

I have to congratulate our local pub. It's got a pretty decent sized carpark and they arranged with the nearby school to allow the parents to park there on the dropoff/pickup times rather than trying to shoehorn everyone into the madness of the school gates.

Exactly the same situation at my youngest's school, but no one uses it as it would require them to walk a couple of hundred yards to the school and back so everyone still tries to park as near as physically possible to the gates.

The bloke opposite our shop does not meet the requirements of having a disabled badge. He runs, climbs ladders and carries heavy loads.
So I phoned the relevant authorities to report him obviously using someone else's badge.

That's hardly a comprehensive understanding of the badge scheme requirements you've demonstrated there, and as the person you spoke to rightly said (albeit using an unfortunate example) doesn't prove that they are "obviously" using someone else's badge at all. Quite apart from which, I know someone who has no disability whatsoever and quite legitimately has a badge on account of a family member's disability (they are the primary carer).

Breatheasy - we have the same arrangement with the Indian restaurant in Dunblane - less than a 100m walk away, with one minor road to cross.

Apparently that is still not close enough for some parents, every flipping day...

[quote=breatheeasy dijo]I have to congratulate our local pub. It's got a pretty decent sized carpark and they arranged with the nearby school to allow the parents to park there on the dropoff/pickup times rather than trying to shoehorn everyone into the madness of the school gates.

Our local pub recently installed gates to *stop* people using the car parks following one child running in front of a moving car and being knocked over 🙁

[i]That video was truely special [/i]
There's a full feature length version of that somewhere on YT.

I too am astonished at the number of parents who park to drop and collect, on the large, yellow, zigzag lines outside a school.
I once politely pointed out to a parent that they were parked on lines placed where they were, to protect pedestrians, especially and [b]including their own children[/b].

I received a look of complete and utter mystery, which for me, said it all.

, I know someone who has no disability whatsoever and quite legitimately has a badge on account of a family member's disability (they are the primary carer).

Which is fair enough, but they shouldn't really be using it when they're out without the person they're caring for.

we live on a narrow one way terraced street, next to a footy ground and a train station 10 mins away
it can get a bit hectic
i was approached by the insane ('just call me dorris day, everyone else does') old lady on the street about petitioning the council to get parking restrictions put on the street as one guy fixes up cars- and apparently his son thinks hes a gangster and stares threateningly? and another guy occasianally fits stereos for his mates
she will often come out and harrass any builder whos unloading or stopping in the street for more than a few minutes
weve got 2 young kids and it can be a pain, but its not that bad, yet every time I saw her shed say how tough we had it with 2 littleuns, she got more manic every time i saw her 'have i wrtten to the council?', 'hes got even more cars now,' 'the other one swore at me and well he's a muslim bastard anyway' and so on. eventually i just told her i wasnt bothered and she shouldnt let it get to her
she looked at me with disgust and stormed off and has never spoken to me again 🙂

the funny thing is she is 1 of only 2 houses on the street that has its own drive way, with ample space for her Micra?!?

I got a laugh on a saturday morning.

I live at the bottom of a narrow road leading to a quarry, im right on the corner.

Im out in my garage working on something and a golf pulls up and parks between my drive and the road end- blocking most of the junction.

I come out the garage as i assume its a delivery or a visitor. And a well dressed mid 50s couple gets out.

Dont know them, they aint deliverying and they get their little dog out the boot, preparing to go walk.

I suggested they probably shouldnt park there and get it both barrels about how this pair of ****s pay their taxes etc etc. i point out that i dont care where they park and its nothing to do with laws or taxes etc , just out of consideration for my neighbours and other users of the road you have now just blocked. Get told to mind my own business.

Im in the garage and i hear a tractor turn up the road as they do to go to the quarry...followed by a crunch as the trailer takes off the wing mirror and leaves a scrape up the side.

Mr townie comes back an hour or so later and comes right up to my garage accusing me of knocking his wing mirror off. Knowing it was a john deere green scrape up his car i just said- how many green cars do you see in my drive. I did tell you not to park there and it wasnt for my benifit. He was livid. No sympathy for the tit didnt tell him what happened just said been busy working in here mate, maybe next time youll take friendly advice.

[i]Which is fair enough, but they shouldn't really be using it when they're out without the person they're caring for.[/i]

I believe the rules allow the carer to use the car and badge if they are on business for the disabled person to whom the badge was granted.

However, in my case, I could never tolerate parking in a disabled parking slot, whether on business for said disabled person or not. Cos I'm not disabled. Well, I'm not physically disabled, at least.

People are odd in where they think they can park aren't they? Was out on a late pootle around the local trails last Sunday, getting back to the house and I notice a muddy lady ramblist stood at the top of the hill that leads down to the parking behind our house. Private parking area, all off street, one space for each car, under each house - the benefits of living in a steep sided valley up North.
As I spin up to turn into the hill I notice she starts to get a bit ...fidigity as a car tears up the hill (50m long its barely a car width wide and about 1/4) and tries to conceal the 4 other ramblists inside it who are trying not to look guilty as they'd parked there for the day.
She didn't appreciate when I quipped "good thing you didn't get spotted parking illegally by someone who lives here" the response of "it's not fair" was cut short with "that you won't pay to park like every other visitor?".
Suffice to say she got in the car and they all stared at me as I waved bye bye. Funnily enough they could have parked FOR FREE in the front of my house on the road and I'd have given not a toss. Oh well.

Drives are often one space so basically you lose one public space to gain one private space or vice versa if someone parks across it.

*and yes I'm one of them
**atleast understandable if not defensible

Our current nursery also has parking issues, we're friends with the owner and one of the stipulations when they opened was having a car park setup round the back as the road is busy, double yellows and the side street is very narrow. We are one of the few families that actually use the car park when picking up kids, most of the other parents park wholly on the pavement right outside the front door or block the side road, it's a 30second walk ffs, a tiny proportion of the time it takes to pick your kids up (compared to going inside, finding them, finding out how their day went and then actually strapping them into the car)

That video was truely special

No sympathy for the tit didnt tell him what happened just said been busy working in here mate, maybe next time youll take friendly advice.

The really annoying thing about all that is he will likely continue to think that you smashed his wing mirror off and completely fail to learn his lesson or understand how any of it was his fault. 🙁

They have never been back . That was 4-5 months ago now.

If you park on the road outside my garden wall/hedge it is almost 100% impossible to J turn or reverse onto my drive due to the extreme narrowness of our cul de sac. Because of this my neighbour with two cars parks his car inconsideratly across his own drive and standing further out so it affects/blocks everyone on the end of the cul de sac. I guess its like a soft-bully to try and turn other neighbours against me by his actions saying 'look at him'. He knows its difficult/the design so does a silent protest.

I'm in the throws of planning for my drive to be widened which will half said parking space as well. Madness.

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This was just abandoned in a street near me one morning.
Was a cul de sac too so blocking people

Surely that ^ just rolled out of the space opposite?

Ok, here are a couple of my old ones. I used to dump the car where ever.

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Not sure what's worse, showing photo's of your dodgy parking or admitting you had a Puma.. 😉

Where I work we have block in bays. People are allowed to double park provided they leave their name and mobile number visible and move their car by 16:30.

On Monday i sued one of the blocked in bays. 1625 I'm ready to go home so walk out to my car. It's blocked in, no problem I'll wait 5 minutes. 1630 - no sign of the owner of the blocking car. I give her a call - voicemail. Back into my car to listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage. 1645 - give her another call - voicemail. 17:00 - the same. 17:15 the driver of the car next to me comes out and manages to get his car past the blocker. I then start a 100 point turn to get out in the middle of which she calls back. I told her that saying sorry didn't really make it better then as my commute takes 2 hours at rush hour left it and headed for home.

I could report her and get her banned from that carpark but I won't - karma,

Glad I scratched that itch 8)

[i]Parking up and blocking a drive[/i]
Now gets you a £30 fine and a shot at asking for your car back, after it's been towed!

I believe the rules allow the carer to use the car and badge if they are on business for the disabled person to whom the badge was granted.

You believe wrongly.

Ok, here are a couple of my old ones.

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I have now started photographing the incidents and sending them to the head who is compiling them with other parents now doing the same and sending to the police.

The school should print poster sized prints out of the bad parking, saying 'please don't park like this'.....might embarrass a few people into not doing it.

I once had A4 sheets taped to three windows advising that where I was leaving my car was a residential area and asking me to be considerate to the residents. Wasn't in front of a drive, opposite a junction, blocking the road or pavement, etc. Decided I was better off leaving the car elsewhere, I had nothing to gain from informing them of their wrongness.

The school should print poster sized prints out of the bad parking, saying 'please don't park like this'.....might embarrass a few people into not doing it.

The school should print poster sized prints out of the bad parking, saying 'please don't park like this'.....might embarrass a few people into not doing it.

Despite the lack of spaces in our office car park people regularly fail to park in the box and end up taking two spaces. I've considered deploying a note saying something like:

[i]"If you are unable to position your car within the designated parking bay then please ask a man to do it for you."[/i]

With the intention of irritating and shaming both male and female drivers for similar but different reasons. 😈

where's the like button?

need a turkish german version of that for here.

Ok, here are a couple of my old ones. I used to dump the car where ever.

and then wonder why you got humped for scratches and dents when you handed it back 😉

I have someone opposite me that "own" he bit of road outside their house no one else is allowed to park there.
I don't care who parks outside the front of my house as have a (now) nice driveway at the rear, just as well living 4 doors away from doctors Surgery !
Last year the driveway wasn't looking good so had it relayed so couldn't use it for a week. Only 5 miles to work so plan was for misses to park out front and I would leave my van at work and cycle.
Ok for the first day but misses parked a bit too far along the road the second night. She woke me on the Tuesday she was blocked in car to the front and one reversed up to the rear would get it out for her.
The gap looked ok at first until I got to the car the car reversed up to mine had a huge great swan neck of a towbar sticking out the back.
No space to manoeuvre with that there, bit of luck on closer inspection it was a detachable swan neck! Just enough to get the car out. Was a bit disappointed with myself for putting it back on
Brought my van home that night and parked it for two weeks 😀 as the weather and cycled to work.

It's not just car drivers.
On more than one occasion I have opened my front door to find a load of bicycles chained across my doorway!
Fortunately I live next to a river and they're always only lightweight road bikes.

Also opened my door to find someone had left a dog tied to my doorknob.
I did not throw the dog in the river.

We're on a new-build estate. Everyone has 1 space, parking is pretty darn tight. We have a drive and a garage, I keep one car in the garage, and the other on the drive.

Crazy old boot round the corner keeps blocking us in to our drive by getting her Dad to park behind her car on her 1-car long drive. Refuses to get her Dad to park on the road outside her house, or move her car onto the road, or even to move her car right up to the wall so that we can just about scrape past.

This is because the sales woman who sold her the house said it had parking for two cars. So she is going to park two cars there, regardless of whether my car can fly or not.

Apparently getting my trolley jack out and budging it over so I can get out is 'criminal damage'.

The same woman goes mental at anyone parking alongside her back fence, because apparently 'burglars will climb over her fence' if you do that. Fence is std 2-metre high stuff, which you can easily vault, aided by parked car or not.

Nowt like brits and arguing about parking is there?

In my cul-de-sac we have two blocks of new-ish build flats. Every flat has either a space or a garage. No excuse for anyone parking elsewhere (assuming they only have one car)

There's a fat slug of a woman in the block opposite mine who rather than park in her own space, will just leave her car abandoned wherever she likes. The council put yellow lines down last year and she seems to think parking completely on the pavement, rather than on the road, somehow circumvents the yellow lines.

On the way to work this morning she was parked on the pavement with a traffic warden giving her a ticket. I chuckled.

Refuses to get her Dad to park on the road

What's her dad have to say about it? Talk to, somewhat literally, the engine driver?

What's her dad have to say about it? Talk to, somewhat literally, the engine driver?

He is a bit gormless. Shouldn't really be driving any longer, but that knackers up these old folk's independence. I can live with having to get it moved, or moving it myself. If they take the piss I'll ring the Police.

gonzy: those videos are awesome. The first two are like watching someone who has had a major stroke and no longer understands the concept of left.

There are cars parked along one side of the access roads into our housing development where there are no double yellows. All the houses have off-street parking, and none of the houses actually front onto the road anyway - there are separate access driveways. People seem to park there to car-share as it's near the motorway.

It's a bit annoying because you can only get one car so there's a bit of waiting and shuffling; but it's more annoying when people drive the other way too fast and generally act like dicks. But it's perfectly legal and not a big deal.

However someone has come along this morning (twice) and squired what looks like used engine oil on the door handles and windscreens of all the cars. What a monumental c*nt.

gonzy: those videos are awesome. The first two are like watching someone who has had a major stroke and no longer understands the concept of left.

The second one in particular is absolutely brilliant

she seems to think parking completely on the pavement, rather than on the road, somehow circumvents the yellow lines.

Not legally Donk - you can be ticketed for parking on the pavement if it's next to double yellow lines.