05-10-2012, 02:04 PM
Grr ready to crack some skulls, forgive me for being very British and venting my anger on an internet forum!
Basically I stay on a main road in the town centre. On my street, outside the flat, there's enough space for four cars to park, then a skip, and then a massive bus stop that's about 60m long. Obviously noone can park at the bus stop, so the only realistic parking is those four spaces. There's a free public car park a block away, the work van won't get on it though due to height restrictions. There's also parking further down the road.
There's a deli downstairs from me who haven't taken too kindly to me parking my vehicles outside my flat. They seem to think they have some legal right to have their vans parked there and have started to get rather pushy in getting me to move my vehicles.
A few weeks ago they left a note on my van windscreen. Now, they see me every day, and could quite easily approach me to voice their concerns, but no, they HAD to go down the note route. I love writing notes.
In their first one, it was on their official headed paper, signed by the owner, and well worded. They made a point about space on the street, and double parking for deliveries, bla bla bla, and suggested I leave them in the car park round the back. This got filed under "B" for Bullshit and mostly ignored. I did however try a wee experiment and leave the van in the spaces further down the road when I was off work for a fortnight. It made f*ck all difference as, every morning, someone else parked in the space and their vans were STILL double parked. Boo f*cking hoo, i figured my experiment proved it made no difference as there would always be someone parked there, sucks to be them but they may have to walk a bit further, what a shame.
Anyway, today I had a less eloquent note scribbled on a bit of lined paper, simply signed "The Deli". The words were, in effect, "move either your car or van, we can't work with this situation".
You can understand why I screwed it up and threw it in the bin. Public road, my house, first come first served, my car, my van. Their problem.
I'm currently wring a rather strong worded email to the owner, they started the note game and i'm finishing it. Why the f*ck should I move out of their way just because they don't like having to park an extra few metres away? They're holding me completely responsible for their delivery drivers double parking. No, the problem from what I see is that the drivers choose to park their vans in the middle of the road, not me. If i'm working and I can't park directly outside a customer's house, I don't double park and blame it on the residents, I find a safe place to park and have to deal with walking a wee bit further. Inconvenience yes, residents' fault though? No.
Someone come give me a shoulder rub before I start swinging fists. Please?
Basically I stay on a main road in the town centre. On my street, outside the flat, there's enough space for four cars to park, then a skip, and then a massive bus stop that's about 60m long. Obviously noone can park at the bus stop, so the only realistic parking is those four spaces. There's a free public car park a block away, the work van won't get on it though due to height restrictions. There's also parking further down the road.
There's a deli downstairs from me who haven't taken too kindly to me parking my vehicles outside my flat. They seem to think they have some legal right to have their vans parked there and have started to get rather pushy in getting me to move my vehicles.
A few weeks ago they left a note on my van windscreen. Now, they see me every day, and could quite easily approach me to voice their concerns, but no, they HAD to go down the note route. I love writing notes.
In their first one, it was on their official headed paper, signed by the owner, and well worded. They made a point about space on the street, and double parking for deliveries, bla bla bla, and suggested I leave them in the car park round the back. This got filed under "B" for Bullshit and mostly ignored. I did however try a wee experiment and leave the van in the spaces further down the road when I was off work for a fortnight. It made f*ck all difference as, every morning, someone else parked in the space and their vans were STILL double parked. Boo f*cking hoo, i figured my experiment proved it made no difference as there would always be someone parked there, sucks to be them but they may have to walk a bit further, what a shame.
Anyway, today I had a less eloquent note scribbled on a bit of lined paper, simply signed "The Deli". The words were, in effect, "move either your car or van, we can't work with this situation".
You can understand why I screwed it up and threw it in the bin. Public road, my house, first come first served, my car, my van. Their problem.
I'm currently wring a rather strong worded email to the owner, they started the note game and i'm finishing it. Why the f*ck should I move out of their way just because they don't like having to park an extra few metres away? They're holding me completely responsible for their delivery drivers double parking. No, the problem from what I see is that the drivers choose to park their vans in the middle of the road, not me. If i'm working and I can't park directly outside a customer's house, I don't double park and blame it on the residents, I find a safe place to park and have to deal with walking a wee bit further. Inconvenience yes, residents' fault though? No.
Someone come give me a shoulder rub before I start swinging fists. Please?
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