People who try to book parking spaces
by putting (stolen) road cones, wheelie bins or other junk in the road. Yes, I'm looking at you, owners of Dr Huttons's Land in Kippford, Dumfries and Galloway.
(ubergeekian, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 19:50, 6 replies)

There's a couple further down my street who do this
Parking their car seems to be almost a well drilled operation involving the wife leaving the house to help out. Needless to say, it looks rather odd
( Jahled Three shades of black, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 20:22, closed)

Do what I did:
Park your car in 'their' space and lock the cones inside it.
(DownhillGardener no-one does it like that anymore, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 21:11, closed)

I've a better idea
Where do you think the cones in my garden came from?
(ubergeekian, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 21:52, closed)

There are a couple in Kirkby Lonsdale
who own a holiday house in Horsemarket. They are so paranoid about "their" space that they have a Mini (a BMW one, and quite smart) which they leave parked in it whenever they are not there, moving it to a car park whenever they are in residence and want to park their BMW.
(ubergeekian, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 21:57, closed)

Where I work, we have no parking...
...so we have to park in a nearby street. This is never usually a problem, however one house on this street is particularly protective of the space outside. Cones will be left in the road to let everyone know it's *their* space.

One day, the cones weren't there, and so an unsuspecting driver parked in the space. As I walked back at the end of the day, I noticed that the car was still there, but with its wing-mirror hanging off. "Oh dear, some careless passer-by must've bumped into it" I naively thought.

But then, in the days after that, I noticed other cars foolishly daring to park in that space, coincidentally attracting similar fates by the evening. More wing mirrors would become detached. Then scratches would appear on doors.

Then, one day at work, a colleague who'd noticed this same pattern collared me.
"Did you see that car this morning?"
"Which car?"
"Outside the miserable bastard's house"
"No... Why?"
"Have a look this evening"

And so at the end of the day, as I walked back, I took a look. Bloody hell. A car had once again unknowingly parked in this space. And on the roof of this car, somehow; A human turd.

They really missed those cones.
(costas, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 21:23, closed)

Mill Road, Lockerbie
It has free parking and is quite near the station. It used to be the case that if you parked there you would find a fierce laminate note on your windscreen saying "These places are to be used by residents only. If you park here again you may find that your car gets damaged. Please leave this message by the kerbside for re-use and do not take it with you." I still have mine, obviously.
(ubergeekian, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 21:55, closed)

On my first visit to Leicester, I was looking for the halls of residence and was a bit lost
so I pulled in to consult the map. Quick as a flash, a couple had left a nearby house to inform me that I was in "their" space.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 7:46, closed)