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Grrr - Car Park - What Would you Do?

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  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    goater78 wrote: »
    Ignore it.

    Nothing ignores note writers more than it just being completely ignored. They will never say anything but inside they will be very irritated.

    You can get cream for that.
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  • Homeagain
    Homeagain Posts: 553 Forumite
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    Take note from windscreen and leave it on drivers seat. Then leave the car in the space for as long as possible.

    Will driver the note poster mad knowing you have seen the note and are ignoring it!

    Great advice however I have to say that anonymous 'note leavers' really irritate me - big time. If you have a problem - go to the person concerned and discuss it. What's the big deal? Cowardice?
  • They probably left the note thinking the car owner didn't live in the flats, which would make it difficult for them to go to the person ---- they don't know who's car it is.
  • mttylad
    mttylad Posts: 1,520 Forumite
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    Homeagain wrote: »
    Great advice however I have to say that anonymous 'note leavers' really irritate me - big time. If you have a problem - go to the person concerned and discuss it. What's the big deal? Cowardice?

    What a stupid thing to say!

    When you park your car how long do you stand around waiting for someone to come discuss anything with you?

    You don't, you go on with your business - go into your home etc.

    No one is going to wait around while you return to your car, they do not know who the driver of the car is or where they live etc so they leave a note.

    Its not cowardice!
  • System
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    mttylad wrote: »
    What a stupid thing to say!

    When you park your car how long do you stand around waiting for someone to come discuss anything with you?

    You don't, you go on with your business - go into your home etc.

    No one is going to wait around while you return to your car, they do not know who the driver of the car is or where they live etc so they leave a note.

    Its not cowardice!

    It is cowardice.

    You don't have to hang around but you can put your name on it. When people don't sign a note it's because they are scared of the comeback.

    Of course the same is true for web forums like this. Nobody uses their real name so abuse each other all the time. In real life most of the people on here wouldn't say boo to a goose (except that adamdouglas fella as he seems to be a bit of a big lad!)
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  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    mttylad wrote: »
    What a stupid thing to say!

    When you park your car how long do you stand around waiting for someone to come discuss anything with you?

    You don't, you go on with your business - go into your home etc.

    No one is going to wait around while you return to your car, they do not know who the driver of the car is or where they live etc so they leave a note.

    Its not cowardice!

    A point may have soared over your head!

    Leaving a SIGNED note is a practical solution to the problem you laid out. Leaving a note with no clue as to who wrote it is, as has been said, a cowardly thing to do and gets peoples backs up.
  • mrcow
    mrcow Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    We used to have a busybody who left notes on people's cars.

    He was a coward. A complete bully. He used to sign his notes "the residents of ***** street".

    I used to leave notes back on his car putting him straight.

    Bullies can't stand being stood up to. It drove him nuts.
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
    Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    goater78 wrote: »
    It is cowardice.

    You don't have to hang around but you can put your name on it. When people don't sign a note it's because they are scared of the comeback.
    Nicki wrote: »
    A point may have soared over your head!

    Leaving a SIGNED note is a practical solution to the problem you laid out. Leaving a note with no clue as to who wrote it is, as has been said, a cowardly thing to do and gets peoples backs up.


    Absolute shoite.

    People don't sign notes because they don't see the need to. They're leaving a short simple message to the recipient, not because they think it needs a sit down discussion with bullet points and somebody taking minutes that will be emailed to everybody who came.
    It isn't cowardly leaving A note because there's no need to sign it. If there are notes being left daily / regularly then you might have a valid argument.
  • TeamLowe
    TeamLowe Posts: 2,406 Forumite
    i think we can tell who in this thread has left an anonymous note before...

    Also, if it makes you feel better OP, check out www.passiveaggressivenotes.com ...
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