The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[mac96]

Hackney said:

Completely empty 2 car drive available
Nah, better park right on the junction.

It's OK, they are doing everyone a favour by stopping some parking a van there.

[BenS94]

Hackney said:

Completely empty 2 car drive available
Nah, better park right on the junction.

I got a telling off once for parking on someones drive we were dropping some things off to. The road was very narrow and nowhere else to park unless I wanted to cause obstruction - just ignored her, dropped the things off and left...

I wonder if similar has happened here?

[Tommo87]

Skyedriver said:

Ultra Sound Guy said:

Hackney said:

I would park front in and as close as humanly possible to their rear corner!

So they reverse out and drag your rear bumper with them. Then they drive off with the same carefree attitude with which they parked?

Your a glass half empty kind of persona, aren’t you?

[996_3.4]

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

[MightyBadger]

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Doesn't count, just a mild form of electric gate and door envy

[KAgantua]

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Never understood this behavour yes it is naughty

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Vipers said:

Maybe I am a trend setter, as always I reverse park, this is ASDA, seems to be catching on, I always park in this row strangely enough it seems only this row has max cars reverse parked.

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Ewwwwww Asda, better to head to Aldi opposite.

Brave parking there, I always used to hide the car over the back nearer McDs in the rows behind the recycling bins.

[vikingaero]

KAgantua said:

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Never understood this behavour yes it is naughty

I have 5 cars, 3 on drive, one on road in front of my house, and the other one 100m down the road where there are no houses, which all the neighbours use as overflow parking.

[Byker28i]

vikingaero said:

KAgantua said:

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Never understood this behavour yes it is naughty

I have 5 cars, 3 on drive, one on road in front of my house, and the other one 100m down the road where there are no houses, which all the neighbours use as overflow parking.

It makes me think about growing up when we all drove, a family of 5 and one car on the driveway and 4 in the parking areas opposite

[Vipers]

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Vipers said:

Maybe I am a trend setter, as always I reverse park, this is ASDA, seems to be catching on, I always park in this row strangely enough it seems only this row has max cars reverse parked.

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Ewwwwww Asda, better to head to Aldi opposite.

Brave parking there, I always used to hide the car over the back nearer McDs in the rows behind the recycling bins.

And the cheeky buggers will fine you if you park after a certain time at night, totally rediculous, unless they changed that cut off time was when the shops were still open, dorks.

[Tommo87]

BenS94 said:

Hackney said:

Completely empty 2 car drive available
Nah, better park right on the junction.

I got a telling off once for parking on someones drive we were dropping some things off to. The road was very narrow and nowhere else to park unless I wanted to cause obstruction - just ignored her, dropped the things off and left...

I wonder if similar has happened here?

I wonder if things are exactly what they seem.

The person driving the car in the picture would have been an even bigger knob, if they had also parked across the driveway, EVEN IF they had an alien call Bob from Titan, in the back seat, who just so happened to be wearing one pink and one green sock on that day.

But, we do so much enjoy how you like to invent imaginative excuses for every new scenario that occurs.

Edited by Tommo87 on Tuesday 25th June 14:33

[donkmeister]

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Maybe he has reason not to trust his electric gates so is mitigating the risk of self-imposed imprisonment...

[zedx19]

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Same, but 5 cars and a VW Campervan, it's a narrow road with amble parking at the end of the road away from houses, takes 10 seconds (literally) to walk to their house from the end of the road but they badly park all their cars opposite peoples driveways. Their bloody campervan was opposite mine for 3 weeks, meaning an extremely tight squeeze to get on/off everyday, they even stood and watched me struggle a few times, but didn't think to park elsewhere. VED on the Campervan expired 1st June 2024...

Unless there's double yellow lines, people think it's fine to park, there is zero consideration nowadays for others.

[CheesecakeRunner]

“But it’s in the shade”, was his plaintive excuses as he sat there with his engine running making the world hotter, as I walked my kids to school in the road.

[SkodaIan]

donkmeister said:

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Maybe he has reason not to trust his electric gates so is mitigating the risk of self-imposed imprisonment...

Was the street nearer to the front door than the parking spot?
In my previous house, we had a neighbour who always parked her car on the street (well mostly blocking the pavement) right outside her front door. Her driveway was about 20 feet further from the door down the side of the house. It wasn't as though it was a difficult drive to get into or anything like that - she used it to turn round in every time she left the house!!

[5s Alive]

zedx19 said:

996_3.4 said:

I have a neighbor who has four cars, five parking spots (with automatic garage doors and an automatic gate), but still prefers using two of the few parking spaces on the street.

Does that count?

Same, but 5 cars and a VW Campervan, it's a narrow road with amble parking at the end of the road away from houses, takes 10 seconds (literally) to walk to their house from the end of the road but they badly park all their cars opposite peoples driveways. Their bloody campervan was opposite mine for 3 weeks, meaning an extremely tight squeeze to get on/off everyday, they even stood and watched me struggle a few times, but didn't think to park elsewhere. VED on the Campervan expired 1st June 2024...

Unless there's double yellow lines, people think it's fine to park, there is zero consideration nowadays for others.

I'll see your 5 cars and campervan and raise with 9 cars and a road sweeper, and there was only him in the house.

Only one car and the road sweeper was his, the others belonged to his motorcycling buddies who he invited to park their cars there over the summer months.

I helped him out with a seized suspension bolt one day and, surprisingly, he came across as a perfectly reasonable chap. We had our own private parking area but the rest of the neighbours in the cul-de-sac were not happy.

[Cliftonite]

Watched the SAAB driver park his car in the tiny space left for him!

[Somebody]

Taken from Facebook:

[sleepezy]

zedx19 said:

Unless there's double yellow lines, people think it's fine to park, there is zero consideration nowadays for others.

We have double yellow directly opposite our driveway (as it's also a narrow cul-de-sac, I suspect like yours) and people still park on there too.

[mac96]

Somebody said:

Taken from Facebook:

I would be very tempted to walk into that to see if the sudden application of a 14 stone weight did it any harm
In fact I might recruit a 20 stone friend to try it first!