No left turn (revisited)

But apparently it's alright if you squeeze your way up the pavement!

Someone visiting* a local establishment had decided to park on the admittedly rather wide bit of pavement in the front of the photo. When told they weren't allowed to park there (apparently the sign wasn't enough of a clue) they decided that reversing into the main road was too dangerous. As presumably was turning the car and driving off onto the main road. Maybe that would have taken them a good 60 seconds out of their way.

Now the eagle-eyed will notice:
(1) a no left turn sign
(2) the no entry sign, and
(3) a bloomin' great arrow on the road.

Most normal people would, therefore, deduce that it was a one-way street! However, the lady in question decided to try and squeeze her rather large Audi up the pavement between the parking restrictions post and my car. She also failed to notice when she hit my car and left a chunk of her nice pale blue paintwork on my wheel rim. I should mention that while she was doing this I was gesticulating rather vigorously to no avail. I'm only glad I'd tucked my wing mirrors in or it could have proved more costly.

Her defence was that this was less dangerous than the main road. Oh, and there didn't use to be a parking space where my car was parked! Yes, you would have been right a year ago but today there blatantly is and my car was fairly obviously in it!

Apologies for the overuse of exclamation marks but as you can probably tell I'm still rather incredulous about it all. I was in a bit of a rush to get to M&S before it closed so it wasn't until halfway there that I realised I should have waited to see whether she turned around in the entrance to the small car park at the bottom of the road or drove all the way up the hill the wrong way. That could have proved interesting and/or deadly. The road narrows to single track partway up and there's a nursery at the top.

Time for a cuppa I think and then some frantic line-learning before rehearsal.

Vx

* "Visiting" suggests I should give them some leeway for not knowing the road system. From our conversation I think they were an employee or more likely, the owner.