Help, I'm turning into my Mother!

[xtriple]

And I swore I never would.

 

She used to be an absolute arse about parking right outside her house and itt used to wind me up a treat. Today, after an extended sojourn out, I returned and couldn't park outside my flat. It REALLY annoyed me... anyway, five hours later I've taken the dogs out and there's a space exactly Mazda shaped back outside my front door.

 

 

I am ashamed to say, I went up the road, got the Mazda and reversed it back so it was parked right outside.

 

I am so ashamed of myself. I'm trying to come up with good reasons for doing so: so far I've decided it's because I want to hoover it out inside, I need to pump up my front tyre (slow leak) I don't want my dog to have to walk to far to the car....

 

Anyone else do this?

[DSdriver]

No, but I did politely request that the 2 police cars parked in the turning area should move so that we would not have to reverse into the main road which is illegal. They moved one and parked it right opposite my driveway. I think they were trying to intimidate me.

[xtriple]

I was soooo annoyed, I came in and rang the council to see about getting a disabled parking space outside. Went off the idea very quickly when they told me it was £335 for them to come and paint some lines on the road and put 'Disabled' in it. Went off it even more when they said if other people (non disabled) park in it, nothing they can do.

[bub2006]

I know two people who try to reserve their space. One moves car out then puts cones out and the other pulls an old trailer into the road so no one else can park there.

[Junkman]

I skip a generation and turn into my grampa straight away.

Like him, I now have a special, cherished, wooden stick exclusively for stirring paint.

Oh, and I kept all the screws from the bed I took to the tip the other day, in case I need them again.

[gary_davidson]

what really pisses me off is when somebody parks on my drive, usually it's friends of my wife, one of them even managed to crash into the house

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^^^ You need to do what I did when I was about 14, dig a massive hole at the bottom of the drive so your dad blindly drives his Chevette van straight into it at 11pm and has to spend much of the following day yarking on with jacks and lumps of wood extracting it. Also works if you dig one right under the washing line & cover it up with twigs, soil, nettles etc thus allowing you to 'trap' your mother while shes putting the washing out.

[forddeliveryboy]

Oh, and I kept all the screws from the bed I took to the tip the other day, in case I need them again.

 

Bloody 'ell, took a bed to the tip? Hope it was just a mattress - even if the wood wasn't any good for turning into something else then it would have kept people warm. Metal bed frames great for welding into all sorts of useful stuff.

 

Similarly, I find myself keeping screws and fittings when broken things come apart.

[chaseracer]

Similarly, I find myself keeping screws and fittings when broken things come apart.

 

Me too.  Usually cars of a type I don't own any more...

[STUNO]

As I am well on the way to 70 and have had a keep the nuts & bolts and screws from everything fetish for years, it has meant tipping everything out many times. Just had a cleanout recently when I moved house, but a new collection is underway ! But I have had to buy some new ones too, because of the when you throw something out, you need it next week syndrome

[Justin Case]

 

Similarly, I find myself keeping screws and fittings when broken things come apart.

Does this mean that there are some people that don't

[brickwall]

Same here. I also keep clips n things that can only be fitted to a certain item, convinced I will have a use for them.

I also have a paint stirring bit of wood and clean disposable brushes after use.

 

I'm a total cheap bastard.

[rml2345]

^ What's a disposable brush? I'm not even 30 yet and have started keeping bits of broken things incase they come in useful again. You never know when a broken headlamp might come in useful again! The nuts/screws/obscure fitings thing must be genetic as both my dad and his before him have amassed an impressive collection of almost useless ironmongery.
And a stick for stirring paint. 

[Justin Case]

I am beginning to exhibit a disturbing and inherited tendency to retain unused pieces of wood.

[Micrashed]

Nothing wrong with keeping old screws and coach bolts. I use my father's stick for paint stirring. It has many many years worth oon it now.

As for parking our neighbours are possibly the most anal when it comes to protecting their space. I no longer care.

[spike60]

Is the cost of brush cleaner, turps or whatever you use to clean brushes less than just chucking cheapo brushes away? I buy cheap, pick the stray spiders legs out of the paint and chuck the brushes after one use. 

[Jim Bell]

I've got a nos bag of what are possibly door card trim attatchers/holders.

No idea where they came from, or why I'm keeping them.

I may have dementia AND hoarders syndrome.

[gtd2000]

Well we have our own parking space, off the public highway so I've always been my mother by that standard!

[ProgRocker]

I have my own designated parking space where I live. Fortunately no-one has parked in the space for a long time now - AT LEAST they haven't done so when I need to park there. Wound me up no end.

 

It's permit parking where I live. I caught one middled aged git who wasn't the full shilling in an N reg Toyota Celica parking in one of the neighbour's spaces. As he and his sour faced missus walked towards a completely different block of flats, I politely explained to him that he's parked in someone else's spot. His weak defence was that they weren't numbered but I said that they were - check the arcrylic numbers on the kerbstones (not that visible to those who don't know where to park admittedly). I then explained to him that there was a free parking zone on the road side to the right. He and sour faced partner got in the car and drove off. He didn't listen to what I told him as I looked outside my window later on and the Celica was back in the car park. Not in anyone's designated space but at a funny angle making it hard for an invited visitor or resident to manoeuvre into one of the spaces.

 

F**king hell, if he can heed simple advise he really ought to sell his Celica to a shiter and start taking the bus.

[daveb47]

When they built new houses next door i aquired about a ton of 2x2/2x4 etc,about 50 yards of 4" plastic water pipe,big reel of convulated 2" pipe,about 200 each of bricks & drive blocks plus lots more.All given to me cos they were going to dump it.

Aint really got use for any of it but it will come in handy one day.......wont it???

Got buckets full of old bolts/fasteners etc.

Can never find one i need though..

[Angrydicky]

A few times recently I've come to get my car out of my garage to find someone parked in front of it, or opposite making it very difficult to get out. The trouble is that parking is at a premium in the area, and there aren't any no parking signs on the council owned property, so people think they can park there. Most annoying.

[brickwall]

The annoying thing is that my mum parks in my drive and when I get home I cant get in. She could park on the street which is wide and leafy, but no, that means walking an extra 5 yards.

[eddyramrod]

I live in a terraced street with only on-street parking; either on the actual street or in the wide alley behind.  So...

I parked my Metro van in the alley.  It was attacked and the previously-perfect driver's door bent.  So much for that.

When MrsR was finally awarded a Blue Badge it struck me that we could have a disabled space painted on the road (mainly so the arsey single-mum with the uncontrollable twins couldn't put her 325 coupe in it when she doesn't even live in our road but in the one that runs across the end!).  I made enquiries at the council, filled in the forms, wrote the cheque... ten months later we got a letter saying our request had been approved and the space would be painted some time in March or April, depending on the weather (ok, I understand that bit, fair enough).  Today is June 1st.  I've emailed the council asking about progress and so far had no reply.  They did give me the line about not being able to enforce the space, when I applied, but I thought it was still worth a try so that my beloved doesn't have to walk down the street on her crutches to get in the car.  So yeah, I get very anal about our parking space for the Tacuma.  My chod, on the other hand, can live at the end of the street or even round the corner if necessary, I don't worry too much about that.  It's never anything expensive, and I can walk to it.

 

I have boxes and boxes of "useful-one-day" screws and other bits, although a lot of them are packed away in boxes having been moved to Cyprus and back .  I re-use "disposable" stuff all the time, and my council lockup is filled with not only my boxes, but also quite a lot of "handy" timber, from the platform the shippers built in my container, and from the shed I dismantled in my back yard.  I have well and truly turned into my dad that way.

[Micrashed]

Oh. Don't talk to me about parking in the drive. My mother in law does this every Tuesday forcing me to park on the road. One day as she backed out the blind old bint drove into the side of the otherwise unmarked ax I had at the time. Never got a penny off her to fix it either.

 

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[eddyramrod]

WTF was she doing backing out at all?  Has she never passed a UK driving test?  I despair of humans, I really do, memory span of a goldfish, survival instinct of a lemming..... [/rant]

[Micrashed]

Nope. I reverse in as we are on a busy road. If it's very bad ill pull into the hardstanding and turn the car round over my drive and my neighbours. But no the mother in law won't do that because it means holding traffic up to back it in.

 

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[mercrocker]

My Grandfather  used to tell anybody who parked in the bus stop  lay by outside his house that his deeds covered the ground right up to roadside edge, including the bus stop.  He had to  let the buses use  it but buggered if anybody else was going to (yes you in the Pippin Red and Foam White IIIc Minx, you flash Harry)....Now I park outside my house on an un-adopted  road for which I am responsible up to half its width along my frontage.   So no bugger is parking there either.   Not unless you fancy moving a T25 van which will now be blocking it.   And don't even think about blocking my gates at the back  of  the property.   They are six foot  high and I cannot always see what's in the way when I boot them open from inside....

 

As for beds...we still sleep in Grandad's original one (its OK he is  not in it any more) and I  still have the receipt (1936).  Just in case we ever need to take  it back.  I  still  have my grandmother's bicycle too, and his collection of screws and bolts come to that....   

 

Haven't quite managed to turn into  him fully yet, though, we are  expecting grand-sprog No.4 and I still don't own a P6 (although I have  his Zircon blue touch-up pot)

[chaseracer]

The Owd Giffer (76) is still using the shed that HIS dad (would have been 105 this year) built 40 years ago, as well as much of the contents therein.

 

Had I the slightest clue what to do with any of them, no doubt I would too.

[Noel Tidybeard]

we have a 'magic' box of asst screws/bolts/nuts that always yields one less than you need of anything

[robinmasters]

And I swore I never would.

 

She used to be an absolute arse about parking right outside her house and itt used to wind me up a treat.

 

I have a neighbour who I believe spend most of his evening looking out of the window, waiting for a space to appear. Well, I suspect it's actually his wife who looks out of the window, then gives him his orders. Not only that, but they seem to prefer parking their car and van next to each other. 

 

It's very sad.