To park or not to park that is the question....

16 Feb 2008

Quote by Pete_sw
you are soo going to get a SLAP in a minute
it seems to be a popular thing now for people turning their front gardens into driveways to park their cars but not getting the kerb lowered by the councils...if i see a parking space regardless of where it is...if the kerb isn't lowered i take the space simple as that...if they couldn't be bothered to get it lowered through the proper channels why should i care if they can't get in or out of their frontgarden.

really??
take another scenerio then...your driving up and down your street looking for a parking space and cannot find one...one of your neighbours has taken it on himself to put traffic cones outside his house,clearly believing he also owns the road in front of him...you don't do it and neither does alot of other people up that street but what gives him the right?

16 Feb 2008

Quote by musketeer
I have searched the net for an answer but haven`t really found anything of any use.
Where my daughter goes to school parking is a problem as im sure it is in and around most schools at dropping off and picking up times.
Today I parked outside someones house who has paved over their front garden and parked on it. They do not have a dropped kerb. Whilst getting the baby out of the car I was approached by a member of the household asking if I had considered the fact that they might want to remove their car from their garden. I replied saying that the do not have a dropped kerb so do not really have any legal rights in asking me to move. He said I was causing an obstruction and that he could use force to remove my car... :shock: .
I believe that he caused an offence by driving his car over the pavement and that I was leagally allowed to park there.
Can anyone help? Whos right??

Technically you may be right, but then again how inconsiderate of you to block in his car. Better would have been to say, "I'm so sorry there's just nowhere to park, might I stay here a couple of minutes while I drop off/pick up the kids"
His action in increasing his parking area also made it more likely that you'd find a place to park since he's taking up less kerb.
i think you maybe wrong there...your find that people who have legal and illegal drives actually take up more space outside there houses for their cars to get in and out thus shortening the amount of space for other cars to park along.

16 Feb 2008

Sorry only just had time to come back to this.
I don`t know how to multi quote so i will just try to remember what has been contributed...
Had he had not been so rude and threatening I would have probably moved, I never park over someones drive on the school run and and I do park away from the school and walk the rest of they way.
If he had said I need/want to get my car out of my garden in a polite manner I would have moved but to be so rude to me when it wasn`t really necessary just pissed me off so I will be honest and just thought fuck you
pete_sw I do walk to school on non work days but on work days I just do not have enough time to get everyone to where they need to be before getting to work.
I never intentionally meant to block him in or inconvience him I never really thought about it I didn`t park there because I just felt I had a right to, I would never want to inconvience someone who had effectivly broken the law to park their car in their garden...
Sorry if this souds all over the place I was typing as I thought it lol

16 Feb 2008

Quote by Bonedigger
not directed in anyway at you Lyns, you know I loves ya....PS hows that cake coming along??

Its not.... decided im no good at baking cakes rotflmao

16 Feb 2008

Quote by Dawnie

maybe i am odd, but i would never chose to inconvenience someone else, just because i had a RIGHT to do so.

You're not odd, I wouldn't do it either.
Now I've had a small child and twins and had to leave home half an hour before I should just so I could park safely to get small child to and from school safely and legally. Its tough but I couldn't inconvenience someone else through bad manners and rudeness confused

Here here to both points :thumbup:

16 Feb 2008

Quote by smoothsilk
I just want to say that tbh he has chosen to move to a house by a school knowing full well it will be busy at certain times of the day.......If he really doesnt like it then why live there

and that gives other people the 'right' to bad manners and a lack of common courtesy?

16 Feb 2008

The school my kids go to has room for all the cars necessary + lots more to park turn heve a dance. Guess what! They don't let people use it. Why not? I asked the head 3-4 years ago. He couldn't answer me. So what happens we all drop our kids off on the confysion that is the the road opposite the school. Every year we have meetings at the school with parents teachers g'nors etc and given the option of putting ideas down on paper for them to be discussed. I have done so a couple of times still with no answer dunno

Yeah, and when i need to and the lads don't walk to school. I drop mine off as well. Joining the rat race redface