but as many of us are well aware, the written word can fail to convey some of the subtleties of conversation
Priceless.
Still IMO, if someone stalked me down then came to my door to have this conversation I would be far less amenable than if they left a polite note. Include your address if you want to.
Better still... start at thread on here detailing what your note is going to say, we can help you ensure it is polite.
'Oi fart face, move your car, what have you got sugar for brains or summink?'
Oddly where i ussed to leave a couple moved in and started putting cones outside their house, despite the fact they had a driveway (a rare luxury in that street) they could use.
I simply parked next to the coned off space one night, opened my boot placed cones in back of car and gave them their fredom at a local building site. 😆
I consider it a public service.
How about putting the URL for this thread on a note then tying it round a brick?
When I was a student a couple of houses in a very congested street used to do the cone thing.
I think they must have been the only people in the whole world who weren't aware of students' obsessions with cones. Leaving them outside our house was just too easy 🙂
No idea where they got them from, but we had quite a collection in the garden by the end of the year...
How about putting the URL for this thread on a note then tying it round a brick?
I'll go one better. I'll open the browser on this page and throw my laptop in his window.
To clarify, the conversation should go like this.
Me: Hi, My name is CharlieMungus and I live over there, I wonder if i could ask a favour, see when you park your car there, could i just ask that, if possible you could just roll it back by about a meter. I have a Dalek friend who visits occasionally, and if he can get up there where the kerb is a bit lower. It makes it a lot easier for him.
Him: Oh, I'm sorry...
Me:No really, it's not a problem that you park there, in fact if you continued to park there it would be great, then I wouldn't have to go round everyone's house asking them to roll back a bit. Thanks ever so much. Goodbye.
So, if someone tall dark and good looking turns up on your door in the next few days and says those words, then you'll know we've all been talking about you.
Apart from that, i assume no one knows of a simple way of finding out, online, where they live?
Nope, otherwise you'd have every angry nutter putting car registrations into the locator and petrol bombing someones house because they didn't indicate soon enough before they turned left.
A neighbour of mine had a similar issue and ORDERED my tenant to move my car, which was parked outside his house (tenant was a mate & mechanic and fixing the car at the time). Tenant/mate refused due to his tone, a couple of arguments ensued and the neighbour kicked my car door in.
Idiot hadn't noticed the witnesses who left notes with me. Guess who got a Police complaint, £400 body-shop bill and £60 Court summons fee to pay?
put a travel rug on his roof, set up a picnic up there for when he returns, put gin in the tea, wave to him as he drives off post tiffin and you call the police?
Charlie - you sound far more cordial in real life! 😀
Charlie - you sound far more [b]cordial[/b] in real life!
I can be if I concentrate.
beautiful pun sir! you have gone up in my esteem 😀
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Lived in a flat in the town called chester, plenty of parking on the terraced street i lived in, old grumpy neighbour next door, hammering on the front door at 05.30 hrs one morning shouting i needed to move my car, went out and looked down street one car parked outside, loked for ambulance, fire engine, Argos delivery driver with sleep disorder, none around, so asked nice ranting old biddy what the problem was, she said her daughter was arriving at 09.00hrs to take her shopping and she wanted to park ther, in the spot the car was parked in.
I politely pointed out it wasnt my car and i didnt drive, her responce was do you think you push it away then.
Perfect case for euthanasia there, project
the town called chester
it's a City darling, not a town, hence the bloomin great big cathedral in the middle of it 😀
I thought it was a rap at first. In fact, with only minor changes...
Lived in a flat in the town called chester,
plenty of parking on the terraced street [i]right there[/i]
old grumpy neighbour [i]come from[/i] next door,
at 5:30 hours hammering on [i]mah[/i] front door
[i]she be[/i] shouting i need to move my car
okay, maybe it was just that first bit then... dammit.
Leave a note on his bonnet with a brick paperweight. Include your address for feedback
What if he's built like brick shithouse? ie, where does a gorilla park his car? Ans= anywhere it likes 😳
So did you ever find out where he lives, or have a pleasant and cordial chat?
Similar to Project, I was told - via a note left on my car's windscreenm not to leave my car parked up the road from where I lived, "OR ELSE"! Even though there were usually plenty of other parking spaces.
GF then overheard the old biddies whinging I'd left the car there when I had to go away for work the previous week. Even though it was infront of someone's house who didn't drive anyway!
When I moved the car, the neighbour I assumed had left the note was looking through his curtain, I politely waved at him...
It unreal how upset ppl get over 'there' space, our old neighbours (either side) would park religously directly in front of their houses. It didn't matter that if they shifted 2 feet forward or backwards would allow some-one else a parking space. Didn't cause us to fall out but you left wondering about their mental state.
We moved on, but now our 'new' elderly neighbours have got a petition together for extra parking spaces (from the houseing association), when @ the street busiest, they might be 5 car parked on one side of the road over a 75m stretch (on a saturday night when there all tucked up in bed)... scary but harmless.
