Notes on windscreen for parking in someones slot
12-13-2003, 02:31 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ADP
Builders really need to start allowing 2 car spaces per flat and well big 3/4 car drives for houses and ample visitors spaces.
Builders really need to start allowing 2 car spaces per flat and well big 3/4 car drives for houses and ample visitors spaces.
12-13-2003, 02:34 AM
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I think Doug's approach is probably the right one, but that's easy to say when you aren't the one that's come home late at night and found someone parked in your space.
If we assume this is what happened and there has been a history of such 'offending', it's not difficult to see why the note was aggressive.
Andy, I think your mate should just look at it in that context and forget about it. Just think what they could have done..........
Finally, although good neighbourly relations sounds very fine, there are a fair few people like me who want absolutely nothing to do with their neighbours. I don't need them to watch my property when I'm out, I would never ask any of them for the proverbial cup of sugar and I wouldn't lend them my
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So when I 'interract' with them, it's on the basis of necessity. I want both parties to get to the point (you are blocking my drive, your tree is overhanging my garden, etc) and long term congenial relations are not part of my thinking. I have friends and have neighbours - these categories do not overlap.
I accept it might be different if I lived in the middle of a row of terraced houses.
If we assume this is what happened and there has been a history of such 'offending', it's not difficult to see why the note was aggressive.
Andy, I think your mate should just look at it in that context and forget about it. Just think what they could have done..........
Finally, although good neighbourly relations sounds very fine, there are a fair few people like me who want absolutely nothing to do with their neighbours. I don't need them to watch my property when I'm out, I would never ask any of them for the proverbial cup of sugar and I wouldn't lend them my
.So when I 'interract' with them, it's on the basis of necessity. I want both parties to get to the point (you are blocking my drive, your tree is overhanging my garden, etc) and long term congenial relations are not part of my thinking. I have friends and have neighbours - these categories do not overlap.
I accept it might be different if I lived in the middle of a row of terraced houses.
12-13-2003, 02:43 AM
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I understand your thinking, and in actual fact dont really want to have too much to do with them either, sometimes if your lucky you get neighbours who you think are ok, can have a chat with or whatever, but in this case I think not, they are scungers 
I understand your thinking, and in actual fact dont really want to have too much to do with them either, sometimes if your lucky you get neighbours who you think are ok, can have a chat with or whatever, but in this case I think not, they are scungers
12-13-2003, 02:59 AM
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Why wouldn't you want get on with your neighbours? 
I guess I'm lucky, as all my direct neighbours are nice folk who I enjoy chatting to on the rare occasions that I bump into them. I also feel that we would help each other out if any of us were in a fix.
Mind you, might be different if your neighboure were all ar$eholes.
Although I'm not a liberal by any stretch of the imagination, from a pragmatic point of view I always try to get along with people - antagonising folk always leads to more stress, and the way our laws stand at the moment, its never the victim that comes out on top nowadays.
I guess I'm lucky, as all my direct neighbours are nice folk who I enjoy chatting to on the rare occasions that I bump into them. I also feel that we would help each other out if any of us were in a fix.
Mind you, might be different if your neighboure were all ar$eholes.
Although I'm not a liberal by any stretch of the imagination, from a pragmatic point of view I always try to get along with people - antagonising folk always leads to more stress, and the way our laws stand at the moment, its never the victim that comes out on top nowadays.
12-13-2003, 03:07 AM
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Does depend on where you live.
My Olds live in a cul de sac of 10 houses, I know everyone in the cul de sac by first name - all decent enough people.
However, I live in an equally nice area, unfortunately(flamesuit on) when you build a development these days you HAVE to build lo cost housing also if the development is over a certain size. Our neighbours are of the lo cost variety - Im pretty sure I dont have much in common hence have made no effort to socialise with them as such.......to put you in the picture so far we have had: matress in the front garden of their house for about a month rotting, a sierra being fixed at midnight on the road, engine reving, shouting all sorts of comotion, fences broken down by the son who prefers to climb over it rather than use the gate etc etc.........
My Olds live in a cul de sac of 10 houses, I know everyone in the cul de sac by first name - all decent enough people.
However, I live in an equally nice area, unfortunately(flamesuit on) when you build a development these days you HAVE to build lo cost housing also if the development is over a certain size. Our neighbours are of the lo cost variety - Im pretty sure I dont have much in common hence have made no effort to socialise with them as such.......to put you in the picture so far we have had: matress in the front garden of their house for about a month rotting, a sierra being fixed at midnight on the road, engine reving, shouting all sorts of comotion, fences broken down by the son who prefers to climb over it rather than use the gate etc etc.........
12-13-2003, 03:16 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by euan
Why wouldn't you want get on with your neighbours?
I guess I'm lucky, as all my direct neighbours are nice folk who I enjoy chatting to on the rare occasions that I bump into them. I also feel that we would help each other out if any of us were in a fix.
Mind you, might be different if your neighboure were all ar$eholes.
Why wouldn't you want get on with your neighbours?
I guess I'm lucky, as all my direct neighbours are nice folk who I enjoy chatting to on the rare occasions that I bump into them. I also feel that we would help each other out if any of us were in a fix.
Mind you, might be different if your neighboure were all ar$eholes.