Bullies.

[Accy cyclist]

Where I live everybody has a drive that will take at least 4 cars, but some of us still park on the road if we need to - we all pay to user the roads and nobody owns them, get used to it

Says him from his ivory tower.

 

[Profpointy]

i have to say, if someone in my street laid a claim to "his" bit of road, I'd be rather inclined to park there as much as I could to make a point - just sayin' like. In fact, if challenged I'd tell the person trying to annexe the bit of road to go fark himself.

of course, there may be some unstated "prior" to the alledged incident, but that's a whole other thing.

In my road we all squeeze in as tight as possible ti maximise the limited space. If it takes 5 goes to maneouvre out, that's fine as the next chaps has clearly done a good squeeze in. Never any hassle frankly

 

[speccy1]

Says him from his ivory tower.

Just making a point................

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just making a point................

Just like Marie-Antoinette?

 

[Philh]

This sums it up well

http://www.problemneighbours.co.uk/own-driveway-but-park-road-what-is-law.html

It all comes down to neighbourly etiquette. It is a sad reflection on modern society that some people need to be shots.

We go out of our way to be nice to our neighbours, as a result if they need to park outside our house they come and ask first.

 

[slowmotion]

People get quite extraordinarily possessive about "their" bit of tarmac. I parked the van in a quiet cul de sac once. I had to offload and load some quite heavy equipment from the back of it. In the course of doing my work, two cars parked within about 12 inches of my front and rear bumpers. The rest of the road was completely empty. There really are some rather sad people out there. F#ck 'em.

 

[growingvegetables]

One of the pleasures of cycle ownership. Hehe - we can even park on double-yellows!

 

[slowmotion]

One of the pleasures of cycle ownership. Hehe - we can even park on double-yellows!

This bloke had the audacity to chain his bike onto the same rack as mine. Taking liberties or what?
Please don't open this link unless you are a Derek and Clive fan, it's a bit rude.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTifRi3qDkU

 

[Lurpak]

Is it true that all cul-de-sac dwellers often have massive swinger parties with the curtains wide open knowing that normals can't look in. The fact they attempt to obfuscate their filthy reality to us thoroughfarians with stories of petty parking disputes fills me with even more revulsion.

 

[TVC]

Is it true that all cul-de-sac dwellers often have massive swinger parties with the curtains wide open knowing that normals can't look in. The fact they attempt to obfuscate their filthy reality to us thoroughfarians with stories of petty parking disputes fills me with even more revulsion.

I live in a cul-de-sac and we always close the curtains, we don't want the riff-raff watching.

 

[slowmotion]

Is it true that all cul-de-sac dwellers often have massive swinger parties with the curtains wide open knowing that normals can't look in. The fact they attempt to obfuscate their filthy reality to us thoroughfarians with stories of petty parking disputes fills me with even more revulsion.

Maybe the cul de sac parking problems were the distant roots of the quaint ritual of swingers lobbing their car keys into a bowl.

 

[snorri]

There's a simple solution to this problem
Ban all long term parking on public roads, I pay my taxes to provide a transport network and not to provide free parking areas for a bunch of freeloaders.

 

[Levo-Lon]

This sums people up rather well

View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZjPTedj_g

 

[Profpointy]

There's a simple solution to this problem
Ban all long term parking on public roads, I pay my taxes to provide a transport network and not to provide free parking areas for a bunch of freeloaders.

so, in your view I should pay extra for not driving my car -as actually driving it is OK, but if I leave it parked and don't drive it, then that's freeloading

Or, i should move out of town where i get my own owned parking space, in which case it then becomes OK for me to drive back to visit where I wanred to live in the first place.

I can see you point to be fair, but you do need.to think it through. Or is it just pesky lower class.people who don't live in the 'burbs who shouldn't be allowed cars? Ban cars entirely by all means, but don't force people out into the 'burbs and villages in the interest of curbing car use / ownership

oh and I should also mention that owning your own parking space, just conveniently gives you exlusive rights to the bit you occasionally need to drive out across thus denying its shares utility to the community at large.

A disiniterested.reader might surmise that you are fortunate enough to own a private parking space.
and might also correctly surmise that I don't - but my driving is much resuced by my choosing to live somewhere where parking is on-street by and large

 

[summerdays]

If he isn't parking outside his house, why not park there?

If you see him just say hallo smile and walk past.

Friends of ours have the problem that they do own an area of Tarmac next to their house (big enough to park several cars on), and some neighbours park on it with permission, whilst others park on it without permission and tell people visiting a nearby hospital that they can park there. They just have to put up with it!