h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Some people really do think they are something "special", don't they?"

My parents think they not only own the space outside their own house, but the spaces outside the next two houses up the street... It drives me mad when they complain about neighbours parking in *their* spaces, and that they often park in a way to block other people from parking there. They don't go so far as to mention it to anyone else though.

I've just remembered...years ago a friend used to park in a street near a junction of the A1(M) in Hertfordshire and hitch hike up to his parents' in Northumbria. He used to get residents shouting at him for 'blocking the road'...one of those leafy avenues that you could comfortably get a whole Red Army tank formation down.

(He was a major hitcher. He was a hang glider and sometimes he'd land in a field a couple of hundred miles from where he started and would have to make his way back to his car. I *think* he left his glider stashed at the landing point).