Was I right?

pat_cork · 18-05-2013 9:36pm #1

Last week I was parking in a built up area where discs are required. I spotted a space outside a house that was lacking a sign saying discs were required but there were cones there. I decided to move the cones so I could park for free.

As I was getting out of the car there was a man of about sixty years of age came out of the house and started effing and blinding at me. I waited until he stopped before asking him was that his way of asking me to please move my car. He then asked me will you please move the car. As politely as I could i told him that he didn't own the road and i was perfectly entitled to park there so I wasn't going to move it. He gave me another dose of profanities so I told him to go **** himself and walked away without moving the car.

I think I handled the situation perfectly and wouldn't change any of what I did. What does anyone else think?

GreeBo · 18-05-2013 9:37pm

+1 to you good sir.

goz83 · 18-05-2013 9:37pm

motors forum?

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 18-05-2013 9:38pm

I would have burned your car out while you were gone.

Starscream25 · 18-05-2013 9:40pm

maybe he was saving the space for a VIP.fair play to ya tho.

Agricola · 18-05-2013 9:42pm

Brave. Ya could have come back to a car with CÚNT written across the bonnet in red paint!

TheBody · 18-05-2013 9:43pm

You should scent the parking space with your urine op. That'll keep others from parking there while you are away.

dd972 · 18-05-2013 9:44pm

You should have kicked him in the bollocks, stormed into his house, raped his wife and kids, then made off with the safe and the jewellery, then for good measure left the scene with the antagonist's head perched upon the estate agents 'For Sale' signpost.

Oh yeah, don't forget to drive off either.

Fr_Dougal · 18-05-2013 9:44pm

Was there a safe in the car?

the keen edge · 18-05-2013 9:44pm

Fcuk that old bastard, that's what I say.

Antar Bolaeisk · 18-05-2013 9:44pm

Maybe he was expecting a visit from a frail relative, he reserved the spot so that said frail relative would only have to walk the minimum distance between the car and the house.

When said frail relative arrived the spot was no longer there resulting in the frail relative having to park on the other side of the street and a couple of hundred meters down the road. Sadly, frail relative died in their epic journey back to the house, they tripped on a dodgy paving stone and no-one was nearby to help them up.

Well done you.

Seriously though you were both probably wrong, the guy shouldn't have instantly gone into rant mode. On the other hand perhaps he had a valid reason for reserving the spot (see above) and had been chasing people out of it all day hence the ranting.

monkeysnapper · 18-05-2013 9:47pm

Hang on a friggin min, are you sure the cones weren't out because he was expecting a man to come around to break into the safe he found while doing up house...

karma_ · 18-05-2013 9:47pm

I train my cat to defecate on car bonnets for exactly this eventuality.

Rochester · 18-05-2013 9:54pm

pat_cork wrote: »

I spotted a space outside a house that was lacking a sign saying discs were required but there were cones there. I decided to move the cones so I could park for free.

It was probably the space outside his home. What you did was rude and ignorant but you know that already.

Rhys Essien · 18-05-2013 9:55pm

Oh jeepers OP,was that you.

I know that man.He put the cones up so it would be easier for the Ambulance to park outside the house when they arrived to take his terminally sick wife to the hospital.

Everyone was saying afterwards who was that horrible cruel ba$tard who parked his car there and gave him grief.

omahaid · 18-05-2013 9:57pm

dd972 wrote: »

You should have kicked him in the bollocks, stormed into his house, raped his wife and kids, then made off with the safe and the jewellery, then for good measure left the scene with the antagonist's head perched upon the estate agents 'For Sale' signpost.

I second this, seems like the only option really.

kneemos · 18-05-2013 10:04pm

Safe to say safe.

100200 shih · 18-05-2013 10:12pm

i hope you do this outside my home one day

the keen edge · 18-05-2013 10:30pm

100200 shih wrote: »

i hope you do this outside my home one day

Internet forum fightin' talk, brilliant.

TheBody · 18-05-2013 10:32pm

the keen edge wrote: »

Internet forum fightin' talk, brilliant.

It's on!!!!!!!!

Hal1 · 18-05-2013 10:35pm

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Maybe he was expecting a visit from a frail relative, he reserved the spot so that said frail relative would only have to walk the minimum distance between the car and the house.

When said frail relative arrived the spot was no longer there resulting in the frail relative having to park on the other side of the street and a couple of hundred meters down the road. Sadly, frail relative died in their epic journey back to the house, they tripped on a dodgy paving stone and no-one was nearby to help them up.

Well done you.

Seriously though you were both probably wrong, the guy shouldn't have instantly gone into rant mode. On the other hand perhaps he had a valid reason for reserving the spot (see above) and had been chasing people out of it all day hence the ranting.

Epic frail :pac:.

Nabber · 18-05-2013 10:37pm

I would have kicked you in the nuts and then put cones around you as you lay in agony.

Was I right?

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