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Please nurse... move your car ?

Im quite annoyed about this plonker..... need to let off steam!

Today at work I am with a patient when there is a knock at the door....

Plonker:"Could the person that parked the car outside please move?"
Me: "Ooops... Ok fair enough ill be out in a second"

At this moment in time i am left thinking I dont remember blocking any drives?

It becomes apparent to me after I have moved my car, this plonker just wanted to park where I had. How rude?! Not even blocking anyone, Not a designated space! He then decides to tell me that people are always parking there and he isnt happy and then tells me "Women are awful at parking" !
I could tell this was going to continue into a full blown rant... So to his delight I replied " Im sorry but before you requested for me to move my parking was absolutly fine!" And then went back in to see my patient, what a waste of bloody time :mad:
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  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
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    Why didnt you tell him to chuff off, he doesnt have a right to the space
  • I didnt realise he wanted to park where I had untill I had moved, I thought he was maybe struggling to get down the road... And when In uniform I cannot always act how I would like>>> So I Smile sweetly and walk away :)
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    donaldsl1 wrote: »
    I didnt realise he wanted to park where I had untill I had moved, I thought he was maybe struggling to get down the road... And when In uniform I cannot always act how I would like>>> So I Smile sweetly and walk away :)

    Next time wear a coat over your uniform and tell him to Foxtrot Oscar.
    The man without a signature.
  • Unfortunatly the coat is NHS logo'd! :( thanks though
  • bloss0m
    bloss0m Posts: 1,923 Forumite
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    And I bet had you said something that upset him that idiot would soon report you
  • Gavin83
    Gavin83 Posts: 8,757 Forumite
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    You really should have refused to move, regardless of if you were working or not. It should have been obvious if there was enough room to fit down the street.
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    donaldsl1 wrote: »
    Unfortunatly the coat is NHS logo'd!

    He's even more of a nob then.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • Norant
    Norant Posts: 435 Forumite
    Hello Donaldsl.


    Lets just hope that in the future this person does not require your services.

    Not that you would anyway but.........revenge can be awfully sweet.
    Forum spellcheckers are the pitts.
  • hoyles10
    hoyles10 Posts: 1,283 Forumite
    Some people are pathetic. When I first moved in with my girlfriend at the time (now my wife), her mum suffered from MND and her dad was weak and suffering for cancer of different areas of his body. Both relied heavily on nurses and carers who came to the house 6 times a day. Our neighbour used to regularly leave notes on the cars of nurses and carers asking them if they could park further down the street rather than outside her house just in case anyone wanted to come and visit her. She got pretty nasty about it at times which led to me having several heated argumnets with her about it.

    Anyway sadly both my mother-in-law and father-in-law both passed away and the carers and nurses stopped coming. A couple of months later we noticed a couple of the nurses who used to do the medications coming out of the house next door. It turned out that her husband had fallen seriously ill and now also needed the help of nurses and carers 3 - 4 times a day. I used to joke with the nurses when I saw them pull up and open the window and shout to them to park down the street but one day our neighbour heard us. Later that day we found a bottle of wine and big box of chocolates on the door step with a message saying sorry.

    I wouldn't wish illness on anyone but if one day the person who asked you to move your car needs the help the carers and nurses do then no-one is as stupid as him and complains about parking.
    If At First You Don't Succeed, Call It Version 1.0 :D
  • Jesthar
    Jesthar Posts: 1,450 Forumite
    Norant wrote: »
    revenge can be awfully sweet.
    Especially in the form of double strength chocolate laxative flavoured muffins ;)

    Some people can be so selfish, though. My best friend is a long term crutches/wheelchair user, and I wound up staying with them unexpectedly for a few days last winter when we had all that heavy snowfall and I couldn't get home (car park impassable at work, walked to my friends!). At the time they were living near a town centre, parking was on the street and required permits, and everyone who lived there knew she had mobility needs.

    When conditions had imporved slighty, we needed to carefully venture out for essential supplies and medicines, so her husband and I spent HOURS carefully clearing the path and road around their car to make it safe for her to use, responsibly piling the snow out of the way.

    We were gone for maybe an hour, but when we got back one of the neighbours (who we'd witnessed earlier making a complete idiot of himself trying to pull away in the snow) had decided it was too much effort to clear his own space a few doors away, and parked in the spot we'd cleared! :mad: Despite plenty of other free space along the road closer to his house...

    So, my friends parked about two inches from his bonnet, someone else parked a few inches from his boot - and there he stayed for a good while! :rotfl: Never did dare ask us to move!
    Never underestimate the power of the techno-geek... ;)
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