Oh, I wish! I'm so careful never to leave any of my untaxed cars on the road, even if it means shuffling the taxed ones round the garden! My neighbour trades a bit (he does have trade insurance and a vat number to keep it all above-board) and he, too, keeps untaxed vehicles off the road. It's the muppets that trade with him who drive untaxed, and piss me off by parking in or across my drive :-(
I wish they would do that round here. They just don't seem to be interested when you tell them about untaxed vehicles being driven, not just parked, on the road. It makes a mockery of all the DVLA's advertising - their computer is a waste of time on these, as the people who are driving them also don't have them registered. They either don't exist on the computer, or the details are out of date. Of course these cars usually don't have any MOT, and in some cases the drivers don't even have a licence. Pray you don't have an accident with one.
Heh - some people don't think much about others. Just a simple phone call from his mobile would have done if he couldn't be arsed to get out of the car. Anyway, if someone's expecting a lift at 6am, why don't they just look out for the person or wait outside?
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We had a Post Office van which used to wheel spin at one end of our road then try handbrake turns at the other end - at 6am. Eventually we got fed up and persuaded the supervisor chappy to stand in our garden behind the rosemary and watch him. Driver never got as far as the end of the road - supervisor stopped him, ejected him from the vehicle and told him to walk back to the yard while super finished the round.
OK. Change "talk to" to "reason with".
I'm sure if I had approached him with a view to buying one of his tarted up old bangers I would have found him much more willing to engage in conversation!
Pretty much the whole of the SE has a high demand for rented housing surely? Local estate agents advertise for suitable properties all the time. Certainly the rented houses around here are usually only empty for a few weeks between lets unless the previous tenants have trashed them.
Chris
Chris Whelan ( snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
MANY places have a surfeit of rented property, due to the explosion in buy- to-let. Rents are falling and void periods are increasing.
Chris Whelan ( snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Not always.
But it's legal. If you don't like it, you could always *talk* to them.
"Excuse me, but would you mind moving your car - I can't get mine into my garage. Thanks."
That's not your problem. If the parents want to try and absolve their own responsibility for their children's safety, that's their problem. Nobody else's.
The OP explicitly said they hadn't.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Age has *nothing* to do with politeness. Being retired often makes people MORE likely to be patronising.
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
An ex-landlord of mine was an accomplished skip diver.
One day, he disappears off with his trailer in the middle of the night, and comes back with about a ton of topsoil from a skip outside a house that's having some building work done.
Starts spreading it in the garden, then suddenly curses...
It turns out it's about 50/50 topsoil and dog turds. The people in this house must have had DOZENS of big dogs...
Nope. Mowing your lawn makes a noise. Its usually done on a weekend when most working people are on their days off. Therefore, antisocial.
THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM. You're a Southerner.
You're a typical self centred intolerant rude Southerner whose sole preoccupation is how many £100,000's your house is worth and how much said bloke is reducing that. Like most Southerners, you barricade yourself behind your front door and after years of not talking to one another, now believe everything you read in the Tory Mail about the streets being ridden with crime.
What problems?
Don't have any here.
Time of the month, Conor?
Problem? What problem?
I'm not the original poster here. I was just trying to offer him some support after all the rudeness and unhelpful criticism he experienced in response to what I thought was a perfectly reasonable question. Relating a past experience that I had, and explaining how it was resolved, was my attempt to help him.
Conor, in the short time I have been reading this NG I have seen you be wrong many times. You have never made a bigger mistake than what you have posted above.
In what way have I been rude? What have I posted here that makes you think of me as self-centred or intolerant?
The house I live in belongs to the local authority! I couldn't give a twopenny toss how much it is worth - it isn't mine!
As to the rest of the paragraph above, I have lived here since the house was built nearly 30 years. The house is in a terrace of six. Four of the houses have the original occupants. Some like me still rent from the council, others have used their right to buy.
Our houses front on to a park with no road, with open plan gardens. Once or twice a year we have a barbeque with all invited. We always visit each other at Christmas or any time we feel like a party. All our children have grown up together and still keep in touch with each other to some degree. We help each other with DIY, gardening, transport, shopping and yes, sometimes even car repairs. As I am typing this upstairs in the spare bedroom, it is warm and humid. The front door is wide open. If one of the neighbours wants me, they will tap on the door, walk in and call me. I would do exactly the same at their houses. To celebrate 25 years of living here we took over the restaraunt at a nearby pub for the evening.
The friendliness of my neighbours is one of the reasons why I would not want to move from here.
However, your misreading of who and what I am in a political sense is the biggest innaccuracy of all!
I am a member of the Labour party. I have voted in every local and general election I have been entitled to, and obviously always for Labour. Part of the time I was working, I was a shop steward and a TGWU branch vice-chair. If I took a daily paper (which I don't) it would *not* be the Mail!
Chris
Yes always! It is inevitably part of the planning application.
"FUCK OFF!"
Fiat 132, blimey, showing your age, I did have a Fiat 2300, now who remembers them? Did my first 100mph in that on the A404 Marlow by-pass, would only pull 90mph on the way back up though.
-- R
there are probably lots of problems but you don't see them as you are at school.
Chris Whelan ( snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Google is your friend. There's plenty.
Round here, planning permission has been refused on the grounds of insufficient parking, too. That does not mean that rule applies
*everywhere*.
Quite. In my Fiat 132 days there wasn't as much fuss about speed limits, so it was pedal to the metal most of the time... Yes, I remember Fiat 2300, quite a plush car. It had an inline six, I was told by a mechanic that the rear cylinders could overheat if you pushed it. Problem solved with modern transverse engines.
Normally I'd disagree with Conor on principle, because he's an efffin' wagon driver. But here, I have to concede that he has a point. Round here, we all know who does the crime, with a few exceptions, and deal with it accordingly. if anyone, ever, tells me that the state of my house/vehicles is lowering the price of their property, they'll get their testicles crushed. Then we'll discuss it reasonably.
Wander across in your vest. Offer the can of Stella that you have in your other hand (the unopened one). Drink. Talk. Don't raise the subject of obstruction.
Repeat for 7 days.
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