No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Not my view I've had to travel and park on the street for work and have seen a few people acting like this when I return, which ended with me telling them to do one it's a pubic street and parking is legal.

Do you think people have gone mad through covid, if you live where people need to park ie village, town, city centre, hospital thats tough you chose to live there?

Or do you think it's your house so you own the space outside no one should park there?

PS I'm refering to no yellow lines restrictions and not blocking drives.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...-bins-27328434

Furious residents keep their wheelie bins in the street to block hospital parking
Angry householders living near a hospital have taken matters into their own hands after motorists continue to park "stupidly" in their street, blocking driveways and obstructing buses.

Mum's and Dad's on the school run outside schools parking on the yellow lines there to protect their children

People parking in disabled only parking bays with the excuse I am only gonna be 5 mins

I don’t do or say anything as you’re right that noone has the right, but it’s a big bugbear, irritates the £&@“ out of me. I think Moreso because on the other side of the street opposite my house there is tonnes of space which is also unrestricted

So I personally don’t park outside peoples houses because i find it rude but resist the urge to peoples wing mirrors off who do

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Mum's and Dad's on the school run outside schools parking on the yellow lines there to protect their children

People parking in disabled only parking bays with the excuse I am only gonna be 5 mins

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Yes they are the worst, fine if legally parked but don't block drives or park on zig zags or double yellows, and especially disabled bays it's not right!!!

Its nothing to do with Covid a lot of people do think they own the space outside their house.

Saying that I wouldnt leave my car outside someones house all day.

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Mum's and Dad's on the school run outside schools parking on the yellow lines there to protect their children

People parking in disabled only parking bays with the excuse I am only gonna be 5 mins

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Parking in disabled bays - makes my blood boil (unless the person is disabled obviously 🙄)

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Parking in disabled bays - makes my blood boil (unless the person is disabled obviously ��)

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I even get angry at the disabled people.

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I even get angry at the disabled people.

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I generally get angry at people - no discrimination, or singling people out for special attention here.

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I even get angry at the disabled people.

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it's the ones that claim being blind and wearing sun glasses that gets me

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I generally get angry at people - no discrimination, or singling people out for special attention here.

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Inclusive anger

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it's the ones that claim being blind and wearing sun glasses that gets me

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They soon get found out when they're caught behind the wheel.

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Parking in disabled bays - makes my blood boil (unless the person is disabled obviously 🙄)

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I don’t know if this annoys me most, or when there are no spaces and you can’t park but there seem like millions of empty disabled and electric parking spaces. This happened to me Saturday so it’s still raw.

Park on their drive instead

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/lifes...passing-162603

Parking on the street is better than parking on your drive as happened to one resident in St Anthony Road near Heath hospital.

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Parking in disabled bays - makes my blood boil (unless the person is disabled obviously 🙄)

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Its a waste of time them saying don't park here , it's for disabled people

Nobody takes any notice and those traffic enforcement officers are wankers

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Its a waste of time them saying don't park here , it's for disabled people

Nobody takes any notice and those traffic enforcement officers are wankers

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I’ve always wondered why they don’t put the disabled spaces further back as they’re obviously
Going to be really tempting to those who can be quickly in and out

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I’ve always wondered why they don’t put the disabled spaces further back as they’re obviously
Going to be really tempting to those who can be quickly in and out

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Try being disabled and you'll instantly see why.

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I’ve always wondered why they don’t put the disabled spaces further back as they’re obviously
Going to be really tempting to those who can be quickly in and out

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Do they push past any disabled people in the queue at the till aswell?

I think it was a joke. At least I hope it was!

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Try being disabled and you'll instantly see why.

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Surely it was a dull enough comment not to have to be labelled “joke”
Bloody snowflake (this is also, a joke)

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Surely it was a dull enough comment not to have to be labelled “joke”
Bloody snowflake (this is also, a joke)

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Wasn't trying to ruffle your feathers, whoops there's another one. Seriously though, after 64yrs of being able bodied my luck ran out last summer when I had my right leg off below the knee and also had the news I had developed leukaemia. I have a brand new go faster leg these days and although I can now walk unaided I can't go that far yet so walking far from some satellite disabled spot would piss me right off as well as hurt a bit. Guess you could say I'm a first class reformed ignoramus on disability now that I've joined the ranks so someone else parking out side my house is a big thing for me or will be when I'm driving again.

On several occasions my next door neighbour has had her car parked literally across the road, then if we've had to go out, has got in her car to park where we had been parked, all of 5 yards away. She has shouted at people for daring to park outside her house and has been very abusive to some of the locals.

Not to do with covid. Where my wife used to live when we were first going out I had to regularly park outside different houses.

Wouldn't block the drive, wasnt double yellows etc. I'd say I was confronted at least 4 times, two were quite aggressive.

Other times you were aware of someone in the window.

Had to park there but didn't like it. Can look after myself but don't particularly enjoy needless confrontation.

What a way to live though, always being on edge that someone will park legally outside your house.

I have about 6 parking spaces around the perimeter of my house. I live on a corner. I think it's a bit cheeky when people who know I live here take up all the spots, but they pay their taxes and are entitled to park wherever they want.

We have people in our road with 2 cars in the household. There's only on road parking. If theres a gap big enough for 2 cars, 1 will park in the middle leaving half a space each side. When their other half gets home they'll move slightly to create the other space.
Annoying but smart thinking.

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We have people in our road with 2 cars in the household. There's only on road parking. If theres a gap big enough for 2 cars, 1 will park in the middle leaving half a space each side. When their other half gets home they'll move slightly to create the other space.
Annoying but smart thinking.

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Similar around where I live. Unfortunately one household has 4 cars despite only 2 people living there, there are 5-6 work vans etc. Cars have to park partly on pavements. I could easily have a drive at the bottom of my garden but the road surface of the back lane is so poor that one wrong pothole in the dark would take your sump off.

There needs to be a solution to this while car ownership keeps increasing.

Following links above - did you know that if you park on the street overnight, the car has to be facing the "right way", ie not facing oncoming traffic, so that headlights will reflect off your rear red reflectors. Fine up to £1000 apparently. Ouch!

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I even get angry at the disabled people.

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Wanna fight?!

Be careful out there!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-61828119

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Inclusive anger

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That's all we ask for! :hehe:

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Be careful out there!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-61828119

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What an awful waste of 3 lives

Some people are extremely territorial.
The majority of Cardiff’s houses were built Post war and the streets are too small to accommodate the residents cars especially when some households have 2/3/4 cars each.
Hence people putting traffic cones and wheelie bins to save their particular space.
Couple this with commuters who park outside yours and walk into town or over the bay which happens to us on a daily basis I can understand why people get annoyed

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Some people are extremely territorial.
The majority of Cardiff’s houses were built Post war and the streets are too small to accommodate the residents cars especially when some households have 2/3/4 cars each.
Hence people putting traffic cones and wheelie bins to save their particular space.
Couple this with commuters who park outside yours and walk into town or over the bay which happens to us on a daily basis I can understand why people get annoyed

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I thought Cardiffs housing stock was Victorian mostly and inter War?

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I thought Cardiffs housing stock was Victorian mostly and inter War?

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I think most "inner" Cardiff is as you say, but I think the vast majority of satellite estates are 60s or later.
My area was built in the 80s, and most have a garage and short drive. Most households don't use the garage, some have converted them to extra rooms and leave cars on drives. But there's no room for street parking, and the roads are not wide enough to park on both sides so there's loads of pavement parking.
There's been some newer houses built in the last ten years, costing a fortune, and still developers think along the lines of one car per house, no visitors.

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Try being disabled and you'll instantly see why.

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On several occasions my next door neighbour has had her car parked literally across the road, then if we've had to go out, has got in her car to park where we had been parked, all of 5 yards away. She has shouted at people for daring to park outside her house and has been very abusive to some of the locals.

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I went to a mates in West Wales arrived Friday night, parked outside a house two doors down with a big drive no cars on there, before I could get the bags out some old bag flew out "you can't park there, it's where my Son parks when he visits on Tuesdays".

I said don't worry i'll be gone by then, she said "No you can't park there it's my house, park outside his house", she was so angry, so I moved one down further for the sake of my mate, but imagine living life like that?

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Some people are extremely territorial.
The majority of Cardiff’s houses were built Post war and the streets are too small to accommodate the residents cars especially when some households have 2/3/4 cars each.
Hence people putting traffic cones and wheelie bins to save their particular space.
Couple this with commuters who park outside yours and walk into town or over the bay which happens to us on a daily basis I can understand why people get annoyed

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we are in the valleys and the commuters for town aren't as bad, the worst are the ones who are going to town or the park for a few hours, its like 50p to park in town :shrug:

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we are in the valleys and the commuters for town aren't as bad, the worst are the ones who are going to town or the park for a few hours, its like 50p to park in town :shrug:

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Ya, but women can’t manipulate car parks (where’s that hiding behind the wall smiley) :hehe:

The problems are only going to get worse when electric cars become the norm.

I live next to a school and the parking around drop off and pick up times is appalling. It doesn't bother me though, because I chose to buy a house next to a school. It would be illogical for me to get annoyed at people ensuring their kids get there or get home safely. I get my kicks from laughing at the attempts to make three-point-turns in the road.