Visitor Space Nazis

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I expect a number of people on here live places with designated parking spaces and visitor spaces. Do you have visitor space nazis?

I've lived here for 2 years and thought I was safe, but it appears I do have one. Since the council went overboard with yellow lines a lot of people with 2 cars are having to park in the visitors bays. My GFs car was there today. Bell rung and it was a neighbour asking if we could move it as they had visitors. No problem I said, ill do it now. All seemed civil. But then as I walk over to the car to move it his mood suddenly changes and gets very confrontational and says in a very aggressive way "see, this is what we do here, we use the visitor spaces for visitors and don't just park in them" and storms off.

I ignore him, and then move the car. Funny thing is I moved it about 10 meters to a free spot on the road, a spot his visitors have just driven past :rolleyes:.

So it looks like I've got myself a parking nazi. Who else has them? A friend of mine has a visitors space that's unusable because of the conflict between some residents that's left the space blocked by a badly parked caravan and an overgrown bush.
 
It does say visitor for a reason...

We have the same issue here. I don't mind them being used over night or a day for VSITORS!!! Over the Christmas break one neighbour used it permanently to park his car. One swift call to the letting agency and it was all sorted.
 
I've lived in share houses before where parking is nothing less than a nightmare. Nod and a wink with some respect shown to the concierge desk resulted in that problem going away.

If I'd had the comedy comment from the neighbour after agreeing to move the car I'd have laughed, and gone straight back in the house. If confronted just totally ignored them.
 
arknor said:
should have turned around when he thought he had won and decided to turn into an ********
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This. I would have actually told him where to go as well, just to make sure he knew why you were doing it. I have no time for snippy people.

I don't have designated parking where I am fortunately, I have two "visitors" permits, but I don't have a "resident" one, so I used to just put the visitor one in the window and leave my car. No one ever said anything.

It's still a royal pain when both the football (Hearts) and rugby (Scotland, or Edinburgh some times) are on, as statistically from 50k+ people, at least some of them know you don't need to pay the PCN's (it's a non-council zone), so they just park here. That is of course once the BT parking zone next door is full... :D
 
The problem with doing anything is it just ends up with a keyed car. I was happy to move it.

peterintheghetto said:
It is for visitors and not residents.

Could your girlfriend not park on the road?
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It never used to be a problem, but about 3 weeks ago a bunch of double yellows were put down the street and large chunks of on road parking have gone. Parking was tight before, but now there simply isn't space. If we can we park on the road before using a visitor space. Some people have taken to just parking on the pavement which I won't do.

Having just worked out where this guys space is, his own allocated spot is empty. Meaning his visitors could have parked either on the road where I moved too, or in his own space, but instead he made a point of asking me to move. Makes me think parking there in the future could end badly.

This is the problem with new housing estates, just not enough parking.
 
It's easy for people to say ignore the neighbour or just tell him to do one. The problem is that if you care about your car enough you don't want to have it vandalised over something so trivial.

I've seen it first hand with a neighbours car being vandalised with paint stripper over a parking space. At least he thought that was the reason.

So I think you did the right thing in moving it.
 
At my mums house, a guy told the company that looks after the car park that she had 5 card permanently at her house, because we had a lot of people round once. I tend to park in an 'unofficial' space that doesnt get in anyone's way at all but this guy has a problem with it.

He never says anything to anyone but writes letters to the management company. He lives on the other side and his space is nowhere near mine so I'm not sure why he bothers. Oh well.
 
Buy a banger with a sunroof, park in visitor bay, call Readymix, fill with concrete, skip float the top for a nice finish, job done.
 
This is really simple.

If your girlfriend does not live with you, she is a visitor and has every right to park in the space that you readily vacated.

If your girlfriend lives with you, which I'm assuming is the case, then stay the **** out of the visitors' space because you're not meant to be using it.

You can refer to them as nazis until you're blue in the face, but they're still in the right and you're still that annoying bloke that can't follow simple rules.
 
GF lives with me, we have a car each, as do most couples around here. There's only one assigned space per house/flat.

I try not to park in the visitor spaces but as I said since the yellow lines there is no space. Its park in the visitor bay or don't park. Like I said I could park on the pavement, but I'd rather not. The visitor spaces are always the last spaces left so most people seem to be doing the same. The car was there as it was the only spot available when we parked.

I had no issue moving it, there was a space on the road so I put it there, leaving the space for the visitor. But the fact the guy went out of his way to make me move when there wasn't a real need, and then after k was perfectly civil about it all still made the aggressive snap at me makes me think something could be starting.

If he wanted to channel the anger somewhere useful he could go to the council about the mass of yellow lines that have gone down robbing us of over half the on street parking we have. Or at least go after the people in the flat across who park in the visitor bay all the time yet have a garage that is empty.

Like I said I've no issue with moving it, and try my best to stay out of the visitor spaces. My issue is with his attitude even after I was perfectly polite and moved my car straight away. He had clearly decided he wanted a rant about parking before he rung the bell.
 
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