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People park at the side of a road in the same spot that has a car parked at the other side when the rest of the mile long road has no other cars parked on it?

This effectively makes the bit of road where they are double parked into a single lane road. Really ****** me off! :mad:
 
yeah, i seen this.

I just do some die hard maneuver and swerve between them to scare them a little
 
Happens on my road a lot, it has been known for there to be 4 cars parked up, left, right, left, right. Unbelievable how stupid some people are, or are they just too lazy to want to cross the road?
 
This happened in my road a year or so back. Car was parked on the road and wasn't known to the those in the street. We have a few "park outside my house at your peril" types who parked where they would normally and of course this blocked the road.

Wouldn't be worth mentioning but it later turned out that the unknown car belonged to two "escort" girls that were visiting one of the neighbours. The two girls left the house with high heels under one arm, a bag of, I can only assume "tools of the trade", and a ball pool under the other arm.

The neighbour was an ex-teacher turned adult photographer.
 
Because people are stupid. There's a spot near where I live that a bus goes down. Should a bus be going down there is another question, fact is some bright spark decided to park directly opposite another car on the other side of the road. The bus driver had called the police as he couldn't get past. The problem is, who do they tow if they can't get hold of the owner, as they don't know who parked there first?
 
Lakeland said:
What's the point making a small gap even smaller when you can just park 5 or 10 meters further up the road though?
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You could also argue what difference does making you slow down for 20 seconds make.

People dont think, its not a personal plan to irritate you, they just dont think.

If you let trivial things like that annoy you, you're motoring life is going to be very frustrating.
 
Yea the car gets a scrape or the fire engine takes another route.

Most fire engine drivers look further than 6 feet up a road i expect and take the required action.
 
Lazyness. People would rather park directly outside their house than a small distance away. See it here on a road which has a lay-by for parking on the other side to where the houses are and a few still park on the road itself on the left, which is dumb.
 
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DiamondMark said:
You could also argue what difference does making you slow down for 20 seconds make.

People dont think, its not a personal plan to irritate you, they just dont think.

If you let trivial things like that annoy you, you're motoring life is going to be very frustrating.
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I'm more worried about my vehicle being damaged while it's parked up than having to slow down to squeeze through a small gap.

PS, If I was anymore laid back I'd be horizontal ;)
 
DiamondMark said:
Yea the car gets a scrape or the fire engine takes another route.

Most fire engine drivers look further than 6 feet up a road i expect and take the required action.
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what if its a cul-de-sac with only one route? i have seen what happens on a documentary program, wouldn't want to be the car owner.

the program I saw they used the appliance to just push the car away causing a lot of damage to it, and you know what? nothing the car owner could do to claim for damages, not allowed to block the path for emergency vehicles.
 
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Lakeland said:
I'm more worried about my vehicle being damaged while it's parked up than having to slow down to squeeze through a small gap.

PS, If I was anymore laid back I'd be horizontal ;)
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Im not saying its right, im just saying i stopped wondering why with the motoring public years ago, its not worth raising you're blood pressure :)
 
stulid said:
what if its a cul-de-sac with only one route? i have seen what happens on a documentary program, wouldn't want to be the car owner.
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What if my aunty had ******, would she be my uncle?

If its a cul de sac they use a long hose, i dont know im not a bloody fire man:)
 
not forgetting i believe as well as getting a damaged car, with no way of claiming for compensation, you can even get prosecuted by the police for the offence.
 
stulid said:
not forgetting i believe as well as getting a damaged car, with no way of claiming for compensation, you can even get prosecuted by the police for the offence.
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Ok you win, i will berate the next idiot i see committing this type heinous crime.
 
I live on a cul-de-sac of 16 houses.

You turn onto the straight road and you see down the left hand side everyones cars parked up for those who do not have/use a driveway. Sadly, some people who come on the street who do not live here just park on the other side regardless. The problem is, that means there's no way of getting past at all. Some of them do it acorss from a gap on the other side but there's no room to manouvre round at all without risking damage to your neighbours cars and it makes you wonder why not park in the gap?!

It beggars belief really that a) someone can't see the pattern of cars parked on one side of the road or b) be so completely self involved they think this quet street won't mind if they park there for 30 mins or so. I wouldn't mind so much but most of the people they are visiting have lived on the street for longer than my parents (25 years) and just let them.

Now if I come across one, I just park my car in front of them and go into the house.
 
This annoys me as well.

What annoys me on my street is that, the whole way down the road people park on the same side, have done since time began (it's only 2 cars wide so there is no middle part to go through if two cars park next to each other), then occasionally you get people parking on the opposite side of the road, why? You then subsequently have to slalom in and out down the road, and they don't make it easy by parking as close to the car on the opposite as they can.
 
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