Narrow road and the school run!

This is why I'd never have low profile tyres. Big balloons for the win.

I feel your frustration, but not sure what this guys doing wrong. Inconsiderate perhaps, but he's parked where whoever designed the road intended people to park.

I see this continually on the road - drivers being forced into unnecessary confrontations by poor road planning.
 
At the end of the day he's not picked the best spot but there's no double yellows, he's not blocking a drop kerb and you didn't think to ask him if he could move before trying to squeeze past.

I imagine your demeaner once you'd squeezed past and scratched your alloy wasn't exactly jovial so you can't say he wouldn't have moved if you'd asked him initially based on that interaction.
 
Someone parked like that outside my old house once, took their bike and went out for the day somewhere (caught a train I think at the nearby station), blocking IIRC a DPD van in - police didn't exactly take kindly to the situation to say the least. I'm forever grateful I got to experience the scene when the driver got back :o

It seems quite dysfunctional to me with the road that narrow and being plenty of verge the road hasn't been widened - but hey I guess that would cost money.
 
i may be out of touch , but if you called the police , is he not parked the wrong way? i always park with the flow of traffic not against it. maybe just me being ocd:)
 
gc123 said:
i may be out of touch , but if you called the police , is he not parked the wrong way? i always park with the flow of traffic not against it. maybe just me being ocd:)
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Rarely policed and if it is generally only people parking at night.
 
radderfire said:
He's not psychic. He can't be at fault if you haven't asked whether he would move for you before you scraped your wheel. If you had asked him beforehand and he said no, then you could call him inconsiderate, but you never asked him. So, he's done nothing wrong and I think it's somewhat of an invasion of privacy to put his photo and car up on an internet forum.
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Lol, I’d get it if he was being doxxed but he’s in public, he has no right of privacy.
 
EvilRob said:
Low profile tyres mean you can't slowly mount a kerb without damage? :eek: Glad I learnt that before driving something fitted with them.
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If it's an inch or less it's fine, I've had low profile tyres for years, lower than the van and as long as you don't try and mount an actual full height kerb it's fine, an inch is uncomfortable though, I try and avoid it if I can.
 
Journey said:
OMG grumpy looking old bloke in a Berlingo, that has to be SkodaMart, right? :cry::cry::cry:
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:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry: this is sigworthy!

I'd have probably just beeped at him to indicate that he's blocking the road.

Could be worth a complaint to the council and the school. The school can remind parents to park sensibly and considerately. The council could look at double yellows. It doesn't look like the road is wide enough to park on it anyway.
 
We have a school just round the corner from us and its parking armageddon at drop off and pick up. I feel your pain.

You can complain to the school about it and depending on the school they will hassle parents to stop being idiots. Might help.

As one off, its one to just ignore. If he keeps doing it there are options to cause him hassle (blocking him in etc) if you organise with neighbours
 
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