Threatened for Parking in a Free Area

takman

Richard53 wrote: »

Age (or how old one feels) is very subjective. I have just turned 63 and am reluctantly accepting that I might be entering middle age in the next few years. In my head, I am just a very mature teenager.


When I was 10, I thought 17 was old and past it. When I was 30, I thought 45 was ancient. I now regard 80 as properly old. No doubt when I am 80 I will take a different view.

When the average age life expectancy in the UK is 81.5 years, with half that being just under 41 then I'm afraid to say middle age has been and gone for you.

I don't think it's unreasonable to consider someone over 60 as "old" considering they are statistically in the final 25% of their life.

But the funny thing is I'm 26 but I sometimes think of myself as old because I feel no different than when I was 19 and that was 7 years ago!.

Head_The_Ball

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

..Next time you go there, make sure that you have a mobile phone handy and if he does start ranting at you, immediately call the police.

I would set the mobile phone to record video just before arriving* so that it will record any threats or illegal activity by this 'young' man.


I'm nearly 65 so 60 is young to me.


* Don't break the law on mobile phone use while driving. Pull over and stop to set the mobile to record.

missbiggles1

agrinnall wrote: »

I'm guessing you are nowhere near 60 years old, perhaps come back when you are and give us the benefit of your experience then.

I'm in my mid 60s and think it hilarious that friends of a similar age describe themselves as middle aged. There's nothing wrong with being old or being described that way.

Richard53

takman wrote: »

When the average age life expectancy in the UK is 81.5 years, with half that being just under 41 then I'm afraid to say middle age has been and gone for you.

Mathematically, you're right. Emotionally, I'm right.

agrinnall

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I'm in my mid 60s and think it hilarious that friends of a similar age describe themselves as middle aged. There's nothing wrong with being old or being described that way.

I think there's a bit of a difference between "old" and "elderly" (with the latter being what the OP used) though. I sometimes feel old, but I hope it's many more years before I start to consider myself as elderly.

dannyrst

OP - there was a thread on pistonheads with many many ways to deal with people who put cones outside their house, I don't have a link but some of them are incredible. I believe one was to fill the cone with concrete.

neilmcl

Or OP you could try and vary your parking places a bit. There's no excuse for what the guy did but you can have sympathy for house owners who constantly have a stream of strangers taking up all the available parking spaces outside their homes. For all the bashing going on here I'm sure plenty of the posters, assuming they park on the street, if they were being honest wouldn't like it either. Just try and be considerate, that's all.

dannyrst

neilmcl wrote: »

Or OP you could try and vary your parking places a bit. There's no excuse for what the guy did but you can have sympathy for house owners who constantly have a stream of strangers taking up all the available parking spaces outside their homes. For all the bashing going on here I'm sure plenty of the posters, assuming they park on the street, if they were being honest wouldn't like it either. Just try and be considerate, that's all.

I live in an area used by many to park for free because it's close to town and the car parks in town cost money, our street doesn't.

I have no issue with other people parking outside my house. If I did, I'd petition the rest of the people who live on the street, notify the council, notify my MP...whatever. There are ways to address things legally. Putting cones outside and shouting at people isn't one of those ways.

neilmcl

dannyrst wrote: »

I live in an area used by many to park for free because it's close to town and the car parks in town cost money, our street doesn't.

I have no issue with other people parking outside my house. If I did, I'd petition the rest of the people who live on the street, notify the council, notify my MP...whatever. There are ways to address things legally. Putting cones outside and shouting at people isn't one of those ways.

But I thought you lived with your girlfriends parents

dannyrst

neilmcl wrote: »

But I thought you lived with your girlfriends parents

Stalker. :rotfl:

When I refer to my house, I refer to the house I live in. My girlfriends father has a disabled parking space for his car, so he has no issues parking.

If I had an issue with the parking situation, I'd do as I said.