I recently moved to a new house where I have a drive big enough for one car. Last week I bought a new car as my current rustbucket is finally going to scrapheap heaven. Over the past week I've been driving the new car and the old one has sat on the drive. I've been parking down the road (suburb where most of the houses have drives and theres plenty of on street parking for the few houses that don't).
Then I remembered that my insurance on the new car has that the car is parked off road when at home. So last night I swapped the cars over. Came home from work today to find a note on my old car from someone in the neighbourhood telling me not to 'take up parking on the road' but to park my old car over my drive. I hadnt done this as it blocks the pavement and would make it difficult for the house opposite to get their car off their drive. I'm not parked directly outside someone's house but on a section of the road where no houses overlook. My old car will be gone in a few days anyway (when I sort out a scrapmerchant).
Normally this wouldn't phase me but I recently became a single parent and having moved to a new area am feeling a little vulnerable living alone with my DC. Don't want to piss the locals off in case there's retribution but at the same time I dont think i've done anything wrong.
Wibu to ignore the note?
AIBU?
to ignore this note on my car?
buildersteaplease · 01/07/2015 23:50
Ignore it or leave a note on your screen saying 'NO' or 'MYOB' Or 'Fuck Off, twat' :)
You are being considerate to your neighbours. Do not give in to the fear. And I totally understand the feeling of vulnerability. But if you stand up to the fuckers they melt away like snow. It is actually quite liberating. 
They are cowardly busybodies or they would have knocked on your door and spoken to you, like any normal person would have. You have every right to park your car on the road.
I would ignore it if it's on a public road. Did they leave a name? If so you could go and introduce yourself and politely explain that it will be gone in a few days.
Our elderly neighbours used to leave notes on any car that parked in the lay-bys next to their drive, it looks like a good parking spot but it was actually their land.
Not to worry you, but a crazy curtain-twitching old man used to leave notes on DH's car when he parked on the shared driveway in the parking space of the house he was visiting. They were batshit crazy and used to block his car in too. They even called the police once to get him arrested 
once at the police station it was all quashed, but a bit of a nightmare at the time. That's not the phone call you want from your DH when your 8 months pregnant...
But there can't be too many note-writers that are that nuts about. Perhaps you could leave a folded note on your windscreen explaining that it isn't a permanent solution. Failing that, leave an obvious note saying it's going to scrap and wait for it to disappear...!!
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YANBU.
We had MoD orders not to park near the house (there was a credible threat about a car bomb) but obviously didn't want to park outside anyone else's house so parked at the end of our own drive blocking only our drive.
We live on a small street with no through road so parking for visitors is limited.
We had two, different hand written notes 
about how push chairs and wheelchairs couldn't pass.
Not sure where they would be going by passing us unless to our house as there is a dead end 
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