I think it's really cheeky too. Once a 'charming' white van man clipped me (that is a whole other story!) and I pulled over to avoid blocking the road, the woman who had put cones out came out of her house to advise me she was saving the space for her husband and he was on his way home so I had to move. As I was being intimidated by a horrid man at the time I would've appreciated a bit of female solidarity!
Devonshire is like the Horniman jerk cook out every day.