Sunday, 18 March 2012

Xsara Picasso takes Mercedes, checkmate

Up early Sunday morning to watch the Australian F1, and upon pulling back the curtains in the living room imagine my complete horror, 2 of the car owning families in the square had been playing car chess.
You see in our square most of the family's own more than one car and this means they have their own space, ah bless. This means that if someone parks out of place all sorts of trouble ensues, doors are slammed, loud tutting is performed and neighbours are ignored for days.
Seemed that one of the offenders had had the cheek to park in the wrong spot, so when the aggrieved party returned home he parked right behind the offenders other car, thus blocking it in. Grow up for Christ sake. Last year the council put in some extra parking bays, 8 in total but the 2 families mentioned here don't use them, heaven forbid. Why would you, when you can get a few feet closer to your front door.
It took until about 11:00am for the offender to move his first car, this allowed him to move his second car, almost checkmate by this time.
What he had done was to move the car which was in 'the wrong' space into a bay, goodness me, he then moved his other car into its previous space, thus stopping the offended moving in to his space. These people really need to grow up, there all middle aged and should know better.
Eventually the offended managed to put his car in its rightful place, and the the world was once again at peace.
I was, at one stage thinking of phoning our local newspaper and writing to my local MP, to inform them of the injustice which was playing out in front of my eyes.
When they started addressing the situation I had the urge to pop my head out of my front door and inform them as to how pathetic they are acting, but I showed restraint, and was proud of myself for showing it.
They're the sort of people who think its ok to park where they like, but park in their space at your peril.
Sad people indeed, but none the less very entertaining.

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