Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Louise]

I have to share this with you lot

 

We have an engineer up here to look at a piece of equipment which is playing up

 

He drove up from Leicestershire where the company is based and he has a new vehicle it used to be a Ford Mondeo but he was struggling to carry all the tools etc in it so has now replaced it with a Nissan Navara 4X4

 

He has 3 young children and as this has to double as the family car as well as a works vehicle a van would be no use

 

He was at a B&B in Edinburgh overnight and has gone out this morning to find someone has 'ticketed' him

 

It looks like a parking ticket till you read it and basically it is giving him a row for having a 4X4 in a city or rather miles from the nearest wilderness

 

I had such a laugh as I was calling it a Chelsea Tractor when I saw it yesterday

[Jules.]

Poor fella, he didn't even get a chance to defend himself

[Louise]

I have got the ticket I will try and get a picture of it sooooooo funny he was gobsmacked as he has a good reason for the vehicle choice just a shame he picked a city centre B&B

[Louise]

http://www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk/shop.htm#parking

 

They have a website oh man this gets funnier I must show the guy the range of different tickets he will have to get used as he is countrywide with most places being in cities

 

I have the generic pink one in my possesion but you can get them for specific towns

[bronze]

its quite funny really

 

I have to say I judge 4x4s by how dirty they are which is wrong really becaus eif you use it for work then you will want to keep it clean

[Egluntyne]

My colleague takes her 4x4 out to go to Tesco's and the gym.....both of which are in walking distance, and to drop her children off at school and they live a 5 minute walk away.

 

I do admit that it would be a bit of a problem doing the uphill walk home from the supermarket with half a dozen bags of groceries.

 

There isn't a speck of dirt on the vehicle and her children have to remove their shoes before they get in.

[Cinnamon]

Oh my goodness, that site is so funny

I wish I'd had one of those "tickets" on me yesterday when this woman parked 4 inches from my little Panda in her Porche 4x4

[Tina C]

I am embarrased to say we have a big pickup thing.

 

Its a company vehicle, and while OH does not need a 4x4 for work (he is in sales) what we have is classed as a commercial vehicle and is therefore cheaper tax-wise, which is ridiculous.

 

He does work for a transport company and they also operate a car dealership, so the company vehicles are also used for test drives but I have to say I am sometimes a bit embarrassed to be seen in it.

 

I work from home and walk to the shops most of the time but I do have to use it on occasion and I am ashamed to say I prefer to pay half the tax than we would have to bear if he had a Ford something or other. Yes I know

[Cinnamon]

We are thinking of upgrading Marge, our little blue brand new Panda for the 4x4 version next year, as we have a lot of pot holey lanes to deal with around here.

it says on that website not to give those tickets to little 4x4's like Pandas

[The Dogmother]

I'l stick with my green van I think, no-one could accuse that of being a chelsea tractor!

 

Egluntine, I like the one about it being clean - our MD's missus has one which is spotless - unlike Lesley and Carl's

 

Thanks for that Louise - really made me laugh

[Jules.]

[Richard]

Brilliant. I am fed up of them coming up here for the weekend or holidays in these great big gas guzzlers, blocking up our roads (which are only small) getting in the way and generally being a right nuisance ....

 

Rant over

 

The tickets are just great - I will get some

[Rhapsody]

I think 4X4's are just plain vulgar- why not drive around with your bank statement displayed on your tailgate and have done? I live on a 40-acre farm all on a whopping hill and I dont need one, it makes me laugh when friends visiting from London turn up in a pristine Wagmobile and park next to my filthy little A-class

I would have loved some of those tickets when I lived in South London- some of the detail on them is really excellent. I just love it when people make a stand like this, more power to their elbow!

[Lesley]

even genuine 4x4 users have to visit cities sometimes Should we produce our own stickers telling you all what percentage is spent on off-road or rural usage? Banks, Doctors, Dentist and Pet Stores tend not to make home deliveries like Tesco/Waitrose

 

Actually, I agree with most of this - but how do you tell which are in use genuinely? Clare has mentioned how filthy our Freelander is but when it goes in for a service it is valeted. We are really embarrassed to drive it for a couple of days because of what others think of clean 4x4's

 

I'd just like tickets for people who park badly - whatever vehicle they are driving. I often write a note and stick it on their windscreen - but Carl hates me doing it

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[Jules.]

I'd just like tickets for people who park badly - whatever vehicle they are driving. I often write a note and stick it on their windscreen - but Carl hates me doing it

 

What do you put on your notes?

 

And why are my quotes not showing up properly?

 

Edit, Claret 'cos you missed the last square bracket off the first quote code

[Lesley]

I'd just like tickets for people who park badly - whatever vehicle they are driving. I often write a note and stick it on their windscreen - but Carl hates me doing it

 

What do you put on your notes?

 

Usually just something like "Thank you for parking so badly that I can't get in my car" or "Your inconsiderate parking is taking up two spaces!!!"

 

I feel better for writing it - and then I drive away quickly so that i don't get thumped! I don't do it when I'm with Carl as he says it is him they will thump

[Rhapsody]

This reminds me of the time I bust my Achilles- my leg was healing nicely and I found I could drive fine as it was my right leg, if I rested my heel on the car floor I could get out and about. Fantstic, off I went shopping with my walking stick in the car. I had to leave quite a space on the drivers side so I could swing my leg out and back in, so parked up next to a pillar and left quite a gap, meant the car next to me was quite close on the other side.

I returned later to find a red-faced woman with a hideous squalling toddler ranting to herself as she slapped a note on my car and bundled her yuppiespawn into....you guessed it..... her giant Jeep (with some difficulty as my car was so close). She pulled out really quickly when she saw me limping over with my stick and wouldnt talk to me when I approached her window to ask what the problem was.

I found a note on my windscreen cursing my selfish parking and ranting on about how I should have noticed the child seat in her car! God she must have been when she saw me walking with a stick!!!

[bronze]

drivers!