Here's a big sarcastic "WELL DONE" to Jackie - mobile hairdresser and inconsiderate parker of Suzuki Ignis, registration number Y847GDU.
Please note that the next time you park either partially or wholly across the entry/exit of our driveway, I'll be reporting you to the police, and I'll be telling them just how often you block us in/out. That might make you consider apologising for making my wife late for work, rather than just walking off in a care-free manner and saying nowt.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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Living as I do just a couple of minutes walk from the sea, we get a lot of day trippers parking in our road.
One day I even had one actually park on my drive ensuring there was no way that i could get my car out of my garage. I won't relate the entire sorry tale, but it is quite interesting what you can do with a borrowed wheel clamp and then a short walk to a pub before getting back home at about 2300hrs. Lets just say that they will be thinking a lot more carefully where they park their car in future.....!
@Trevor Woodford - Nice one, Trevor 8)
Did you take any pics?
We used to get that occasionally, but it pretty much stopped once I realised how much of a head of steam you can get up with a fully loaded wheelie bin.
I mean, the average inconsiderate visiting parker isn't to know whether it's bin collection day or not. And accidents will happen.
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Maybe you should speak to her and let her know that it's annoying you. Maybe she genuinley doesn't realise. Some people have problems with spacial awareness.
True, Daniel, but if it's bad surely such people shouldn't drive. I mean, not knowing where the back-end of her car was in relation to the road and to other road-users, especially when she'd walked past said back-end to get to her customer's house, is a sure sign that she shouldn't be allowed to be in control of almost a tonne of mobile killing-machine.
It wasn't a case of poor spacial awareness, it was a case of "fuck it, I'll park it wherever I like regardless of anybody else's rights". Her attitude and demeanour confirmed it, as if I was in the wrong for asking her to move it.
Most cars have a spare wheel. I don't know of any that carry two in the unfortunate event of having two flat tyres.
You could then be a gentleman and help her pump them up, when you have the time of course, by which time she might have missed her next appointment...
whining wanker, plenty of space to get out of that drive. Your wife is clearly an idiot who should not be behind the wheel of a Car.
@whocares -
Thanks for that. I'll show your comment to my wife, I'm sure she'll be impressed.
@whocares - Surprising that you should take that attitude. Your ip address is Dutch. I work for a Dutch company and most of my colleagues in the Netherlands behave honourably, with only the odd exception on the odd occasion. I clearly couldn't back out of the drive straight, it had to be at an angle and as I am a bit more considerate than said hairdresser, I went back into the house to ask BG! to back me out to make absolutely sure that I did not damage her car. Mind you, our drive takes 2 cars and when BG! had to back out his long estate car with trailer attached - he had no choice but to ask her to move it.
Your ip address must be wrong, you clearly can't be Dutch - in my experience they are much more logical and rational than you seem to be!;-)
I sympathise with your problem, but your post rekindled a subject that has nagged me for a long time: where do manufacturers get those silly names from for their car models. Here are a few I found at random: Aygo, Auris, Bipper/Tepee, Kuga
@Conrad R. (Sir Hugh) - Agreed, they do seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to finding these names. That said, it's a tad less boring than the Teutonic insistence on an alphanumeric system... Mercedes S500, Audi A5, BMW Z4...
Sadly this silly-name thing is beginning to affect the outdoors industry - for starters there's the Jetboil Sol Ti (which always sounds like it's been over-seasoned) and this offering from OMM, no doubt there are other examples of this creeping malaise.