[Misc] How many f*****g cars do your next door neighbours have between them?

[Flounce]

3 of which two are parked on the road in front of my drive which is f***ing inconvenient as I reverse out but it’s a public road so annoying as I find it, it is what it is

 

[dsr-burnley]

Isn't Malta smaller than the Isle of Wight?
Why does everyone need a car?!

It's 122 square miles, which if it was a perfect circle would be 12 miles diameter. Far enough not to want to walk.

Most people who can afford cars will want them, even if public transport is relatively good. However good public transport is, it can't be as good as your own car (unless you hate driving or driving conditions are terrible).

 

[maltaseagull]

Isn't Malta smaller than the Isle of Wight?
Why the f**k does everyone need a car?!

It is smaller but they have a car culture and won´t walk anywhere and it´s too dangerous to cycle.
The bus service is fee but they want to go door to door.

 

[portlock seagull]

Think the op talking about resident trades, least I was. Temp visiting trades

I've lived in our small close for 22 years. There are 30 x 4/5 bedroom detached houses. When we moved in, each house had one or two cars with each house having parents with children aged around 5 to 10. Over the years these kids have grown up, passed their test and purchased cars. So from 1 or 2 cars it went to 4 or 5 cars.
Then, over the past few years the kids have moved out, the parents retired and they have downsized which means the circle starts again.
We have three vehicles for three adults. Two cars and one van, and we make use of our two car drive.

So you’re part of the problem in other words?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

On the neighbour parking theme, I got a letter from one of mine last year advising me that she was about to have a baby, and if I could try extra hard not to run her or said infant over each time she loaded the precious cargo into her car outside her house, she'd be enormously grateful.

I have literally no idea what I've done in the previous five years to make her think this was or ever has been in any way a possibility. I was quite tempted to write back to her to suggest that if she parked her massive SUV in her designated space rather than in the visitors bay that she's treated as her own for the entirety of her residence, it might reduce the likelihood of me accidentally (or indeed deliberately) mowing her and the Golden Child down from about one in a hundred million to one in a billion.

I resisted in the interest of harmony...

 

[portlock seagull]

We have three cars currently, they all fit on our drive way (that is one car each) as our daughter is currently home. We do have six motorbikes, but they are all hidden away somewhere. As for neighbours we don't have any issues, but most have their own drive. My only issue is with people who park their car on the pavement, saying that once I have tutted and got past it I have already gotten over it and moved on with my day. As long as people don't block my drive I don't really care what they do with their cars or how many they have. Mind you my husband seem to finds way to moan about it, but I just ignore him

That’s fine you can get on with your day, however if you’ve been in a wheelchair or push one then you’re outlook would be very different I can assure you. I’m constantly having to ‘educate’ selfish twats (including those that park without a blue badge in disabled bays) and nearly always they just look at you with indifference or become confrontational. Maybe one in a hundred apologise. It’s a massive problem. As if being disabled isn’t hard enough. If anyone reading this thread thinks differently now then brilliant. Sadly I doubt it. People are inherently rude arrogant and increasingly violent as their default stance these days. It didn’t used to be like, and I wish there was a solution. Sterilisation probably…

 

[portlock seagull]

On the neighbour parking theme, I got a letter from one of mine last year advising me that she was about to have a baby, and if I could try extra hard not to run her or said infant over each time she loaded the precious cargo into her car outside her house, she'd be enormously grateful.

I have literally no idea what I've done in the previous five years to make her think this was or ever has been in any way a possibility. I was quite tempted to write back to her to suggest that if she parked her massive SUV in her designated space rather than in the visitors bay that she's treated as her own for the entirety of her residence, it might reduce the likelihood of me accidentally (or indeed deliberately) mowing her and the Golden Child down from about one in a hundred million to one in a billion.

I resisted in the interest of harmony...

Run both over. No time like the present to clean the gene pool up. It’s much overdue.

 

[marlowe]

.........
As for your problem, all the time the cars are taxed and insured, unfortunately you don't really have an argument, have you tried talking to them?

Not directly because as you say I don't really have an argument, but indirectly I do drop subtle digs by complaining to Mr lack of self awareness about our 6 car neighbours on the other side about why they need so many cars and their lack of consideration when two are surplus to requirements. He wholeheartedly agrees with me, but because of his lack of self awareness my subtle dig at his two superfluous cars goes completely over his head.
Ironically he complains about the parking in the road more than I do and once took it upon himself to complain on my behalf, without my solicitation, to one of the daughters of the 6 car family because she'd parked over our drive by a few inches. It didn't bother me as I could still get out.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Run both over. No time like the present to clean the gene pool up. It’s much overdue.

I won't post it on here, but when I heard what they'd named said infant...all I can say is, poor kid

 

[withdeanwombat]

Just up the road from me there was a murder caused by a dispute over parking spaces.

 

[portlock seagull]

Unfortunately its the world we live in......

Got back to the 15th January 1975, my family unit had three cars on the road, My Dad and my two Grandads.

Today, just my immediate family, Mrs H, the kids and their partners have 6 cars on the road, take my brothers and their families into the equation and its another 8.

14 cars from a family that had 3 50 years ago, replicate that around the country, alligned with the fact that public transport has gone to ratshit, and we basically have too many cars on the road.

As for your problem, all the time the cars are taxed and insured, unfortunately you don't really have an argument, have you tried talking to them?

There is the argument any one person doesn’t own the road though, which includes parking on them. Would love to see road tax quadrupled for people parked on roads permanently. With all this CCTV must surely be a way. Then people might consider car shares, hires, public transport, bikes or good old fashioned walking and so forth to remove the excessive numbers littering not just our roads but our public spaces, pavements, roundabouts…you name it, people just dump their cars on it as if it’s their god given right to wreck or inconvenience others.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Just up the road from me there was a murder caused by a dispute over parking spaces.

Local newspapers (the ones that are left) would lose vast swathes of content were it not for residents complaining about parking, specifically Other People's Parking (usually ones who buy houses near hospitals or schools and are then shocked to learn users of said premises have a tendency to park on the roads around them ).

 

[clapham_gull]

However good public transport is, it can't be as good as your own car (unless you hate driving or driving conditions are terrible).

I say the 58% of inner London households who don't own a vehicle would probably disagree.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

There is the argument any one person doesn’t own the road though, which includes parking on them. Would love to see road tax quadrupled for people parked on roads permanently. With all this CCTV must surely be a way. Then people might consider car shares, hires, public transport, bikes or good old fashioned walking and so forth to remove the excessive numbers littering not just our roads but our public spaces, pavements, roundabouts…you name it, people just dump their cars on it as if it’s their god given right to wreck or inconvenience others.

There are multiple houses in Sussex which have no drives at all, therefore no off road parking.

 

[Insel affe]

On the neighbour parking theme, I got a letter from one of mine last year advising me that she was about to have a baby, and if I could try extra hard not to run her or said infant over each time she loaded the precious cargo into her car outside her house, she'd be enormously grateful.

I have literally no idea what I've done in the previous five years to make her think this was or ever has been in any way a possibility. I was quite tempted to write back to her to suggest that if she parked her massive SUV in her designated space rather than in the visitors bay that she's treated as her own for the entirety of her residence, it might reduce the likelihood of me accidentally (or indeed deliberately) mowing her and the Golden Child down from about one in a hundred million to one in a billion.

I resisted in the interest of harmony...

Oh, they sound highly strung, one of my hates is folks that have the door wide open into the road with traffic, instead of going round to the pavement to get little little snotrag out of the baby seat or unload their haul from shops....
They look at you in disbelief as if you are uncaring or unsympathetic if you don't stop to let them do their thing,
No hang on, you are the uncaring soul in this situation, No way would I struggle with my daughter and seat belts whilst traffic wooshes past and then lead them into the road around to "SAFTEY"

Arseholes....

Rant over

 

[AK74]

I won't post it on here, but when I heard what they'd named said infant...all I can say is, poor kid

Mercedes?

 

[portlock seagull]

There are multiple houses in Sussex which have no drives at all, therefore no off road parking.

Indeed everywhere. But where this then blocks the road in one or both directions, why do the rest of us have to put up with? Maybe people should find an alternative. After all, many do in such circumstances.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Oh, they sound highly strung, one of my hates is folks that have the door wide open into the road with traffic, instead of going round to the pavement to get little little snotrag out of the baby seat or unload their haul from shops....
They look at you in disbelief as if you are uncaring or unsympathetic if you don't stop to let them do their thing,
No hang on, you are the uncaring soul in this situation, No way would I struggle with my daughter and seat belts whilst traffic wooshes past and then lead them into the road around to "SAFTEY"

Arseholes....

Rant over

It was quite bizarre. I can honestly say I just trundle slowly around the roads near my house. I live at the end of a cul de sac with only three houses in it, so by the time I've got to the end of that little strip, where her house is, I'm only up to about 10mph before pausing to check round to my right. There are always kids playing, and dog walkers, and other cars, and cats wandering around (including mine)...I don't want to collide with any of those, so I really do always proceed with care around every corner.

It's like she thinks I drove like a twat when it was just her and her husband, but now I know there is a baby involved, I will suddenly become awakened, and entirely re-think my appreciation of the Highway Code, thanks to her letter.

Obviously she has a huge Baby On Board sticker in her car, because that will immediately make everyone else on the road drive slower and more cautiously out of sheer respect for her.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Mercedes?

Think more wildlife

 

[zefarelly]

Paving your entire block/garden should be illegal. You are the cause of flooding. 50% of every plot should be green.