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To hate it when inconsiderate motorists park so much on the pavement that you cannot get your buggy past thus blocking a public right of way

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I was walking on the pavement today down a quietish road, all the houses had driveways with no cars parked on them because they were all parked on the pavement so far up that they were practically blocking public right of way except for a very narrow gap that even Victoria Beckham would have difficulty squeezing past angry. I just walked through the little gap there was not caring one jot if i scratched the car parked there, no way was i going to go on the road putting my lo in danger and incoveniencing myself by crossing over when they should not be parked like that in the first place angry
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 07-Nov-09 16:27:24
Absolute tossers they all belong together along with the ppl that park in parent bays without babies ( and im sorry i porsonally dont think a 13 year old still qualifies someone to use it) and the ones that leave you with a cm gap to get in your car when there is a bright pink carseat in the back!!!!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 07-Nov-09 16:19:44
oH thats so good i am glad that i am not being unreasonable, when i was walking one sunday with my dh down that path and there were copious amounts of cars on the pavements, i deliberately did not cross over on principle and squeezed myself and my buggy in between the small space left, my dh was like hmm. He is a car driver and i am not so i am more sensitve to these things, plus i dont mean to be gender biased but is a man after all.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 07-Nov-09 09:28:02
Of course YANBU. As far as I'm concerned it's just another example of (certain) people with cars thinking they own all outside space and that they're superior to pedestrians, buggies, wheelchairs, bikes and any other entity smaller than they are.

I imagine it would be the same people who don't indicate for pedestrians or stop at zebra crossings.

On one point I do think YABU though: I wouldn't call them motorists. I find this gives ammunition to Jeremy Clarkson types to think of themselves as some sort of oppressed minority, which they clearly are not.
YANBU.

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Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 07-Nov-09 08:49:49
I 85% accidentally/15% deliberately broke some a-hole's wing mirror off with my shoulder. He had left his Jeep parked completely on the footpath and I was trying to get past with a pram. He was still parked there when I returned and I have to admit I considered keying it for good measure.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 07-Nov-09 08:48:21
I hate inconsiderate parking,this reminds me of when my friend & myself were walking into our local town with our newborns & a man in a huge 4x4 swerved onto the pavement about 50 yards in front of us.

We would have had to walk onto the very busy road but miraculously a policeman came round the corner in his police car,stopped,told the driver to shift his vehicle NOW & pointed him to the pub car park a bit further down & gave him a ticket grin

Made my day i tell ya!!
I'd tow their cars away and turn them into small metal cubes.
Someone needs to put me in charge grin
Its dangerous for wheelchair users and ptam users. For a chunk of metal. grrr
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 06-Nov-09 19:21:27
YANBU at all. In our cul de sac everyone has driveways for two cars plus there are 4 visitor spaces as the end. my neighbour two doors down's son parks his works van overnight outside my house on the pavement only to replace the van with his car during the day.

had a stand up row with him a couple of months ago when i said that if the double buggy ran over a stone "accidentally" and scored the paintwork on his car, it was his own fault as his car was parked illegally. Then let DS1 play at the bottom of our garden with his football without moaning at him for bashing the car. strangely enough, its no longer parked there grin
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 06-Nov-09 19:00:48
YANBU.

And another pet hate of mine is when wheelybins are left all over the pavement too. I know it can't be helped in some cases, but often it can, and either the binmen just fling them back any old how after emptying them, or the owners leave 'em out for days on end.

Grrrrr
This is a big pet hate of mine. When I take DD1 to school, I also have to take out DD2 in her pushchair (she is 4 months). The school is on a hill, and all the way up has cars parked on the pavement.
Once I was trying to navigate the pushcair while holding on to DD1 and not hit one of the cars and a passer by shouted at to me that if they cared about their car getting hit/damaged they shouldn't of parked there in the first place.
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