Leaving Parking Instruction Leaflets on Cars

[Anonymous]

Say you live in an area with a mix of THs and low rise apartment buildings. Parking is just street parking (no driveways or parking lots). Say some of the renters new to the area fail to park efficiently, routinely taking two spaces. They will pull into a spot for two cars and park right in the middle of it.

How insane would it be to draw up a simple leaflet and stick it on the cars that do this? Would it be better to place one on every car?

[Anonymous]

Is this some kind of argument between you and your spouse?

[Anonymous]

Yes, insane. Plus people will pull those off the car and toss onto the ground, so you are contributing to littering. People understand they are supposed to park in one space, so lack of information isn't what is preventing them from doing it. What difference does it make they are renters? You lose credibility by posting a detail like that.

[Anonymous]

You should get the city to mark parking spaces on the street in paint.

I sympathize, but you don't know if the inefficient parker was behind a longer car that has since moved, or worried about getting boxed in, or what. I wouldn't pick fights. Get the parking spaces marked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, insane. Plus people will pull those off the car and toss onto the ground, so you are contributing to littering. People understand they are supposed to park in one space, so lack of information isn't what is preventing them from doing it. What difference does it make they are renters? You lose credibility by posting a detail like that.

Puhlease. Renters do not have the same vested interest as owners. Renters come and go much more frequently than owners.

I'd just go nuclear on the frequent offenders. I'd get those big orange stickers with commercial adhesive that say "PARKING FAILURE" and slap it right on the windshield.

[Anonymous]

Lol I had to explain this to my husband after years of living in an urban area with street parking. Mid block it could be that the cars around them moved, but if you’re at the end of the block park at the very end, no exceptions. Don’t leave a half car space between you and the end of the zone.

I digress - a leaflet would be crazy, but I get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, insane. Plus people will pull those off the car and toss onto the ground, so you are contributing to littering. People understand they are supposed to park in one space, so lack of information isn't what is preventing them from doing it. What difference does it make they are renters? You lose credibility by posting a detail like that.

Puhlease. Renters do not have the same vested interest as owners. Renters come and go much more frequently than owners.

I'd just go nuclear on the frequent offenders. I'd get those big orange stickers with commercial adhesive that say "PARKING FAILURE" and slap it right on the windshield.

You sound ridiculous. Renters go in and out of their house and move their cars more because....they rent. Beyond ignorant. And as for your "orange sticker" advice...I have a feeling that you'd really do nothing like that but if you did - you'd be liable for car damage and destruction of personal property. And out of spite, as the renter I'd keep taking up ALL the spaces. Kick rocks.

OP - maybe just ask them nicely if they can pull up, etc. They may be totally oblivious - bad parkers, not necessarily bad neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, insane. Plus people will pull those off the car and toss onto the ground, so you are contributing to littering. People understand they are supposed to park in one space, so lack of information isn't what is preventing them from doing it. What difference does it make they are renters? You lose credibility by posting a detail like that.

Puhlease. Renters do not have the same vested interest as owners. Renters come and go much more frequently than owners.

I'd just go nuclear on the frequent offenders. I'd get those big orange stickers with commercial adhesive that say "PARKING FAILURE" and slap it right on the windshield.

You sound ridiculous. Renters go in and out of their house and move their cars more because....they rent. Beyond ignorant. And as for your "orange sticker" advice...I have a feeling that you'd really do nothing like that but if you did - you'd be liable for car damage and destruction of personal property. And out of spite, as the renter I'd keep taking up ALL the spaces. Kick rocks.

OP - maybe just ask them nicely if they can pull up, etc. They may be totally oblivious - bad parkers, not necessarily bad neighbors.

Did I touch a nerve, poor renter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, insane. Plus people will pull those off the car and toss onto the ground, so you are contributing to littering. People understand they are supposed to park in one space, so lack of information isn't what is preventing them from doing it. What difference does it make they are renters? You lose credibility by posting a detail like that.

Puhlease. Renters do not have the same vested interest as owners. Renters come and go much more frequently than owners.

I'd just go nuclear on the frequent offenders. I'd get those big orange stickers with commercial adhesive that say "PARKING FAILURE" and slap it right on the windshield.

You sound ridiculous. Renters go in and out of their house and move their cars more because....they rent. Beyond ignorant. And as for your "orange sticker" advice...I have a feeling that you'd really do nothing like that but if you did - you'd be liable for car damage and destruction of personal property. And out of spite, as the renter I'd keep taking up ALL the spaces. Kick rocks.

OP - maybe just ask them nicely if they can pull up, etc. They may be totally oblivious - bad parkers, not necessarily bad neighbors.

I'm the first person that didn't appreciate OP calling out renters (I'm not one now but have been in the past) and I agree with you completely about the stickers. But the bolded is an opinion that renters are not long-timers in the community and thus are less invested (I'm not agreeing, just explaining what was meant), not that they come and go from their homes. It was just poorly worded.

[Anonymous]

Not insane at all. I've done it, and I have no shame.

People who are selfish (or really, really bad) at street parking have no business parking on the street. If you can't par efficiently, find another option - renter, owner, or visitor.

[Anonymous]

Why would a renter come and go more often than a homeowner every day?!?! They aren't moving to a new apartment every day, and then moving back.

Are homeowners spending all day every day doing maintenance on their investment, but never going to Lowe's for supplies?

[Anonymous]

People who leave like 5-6 feet between cars are no worse than this.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the Poors are bickering again today.

[Anonymous]

Standard forum responses:

Therapy
Divorce

[Anonymous]

Are the spaces marked?

If not, how do you know they are in the middle of a space?