Live on a small terrace of old farmhand cottages in a village/hamlet of about 20 houses. Narrow, winding lane. Outside the cottages there is enough space to park cars and still have a vehicle get past but much of the road is single lane (no other roads nearby) so it does limit the parking a lot. We all get by by being considerate. On our little terrace there is enough space for everyone to park one car outside of their house pretty much, but someone has to park outside of the corner cottage which has a garage so doesn’t need a parking space. None of the parking is reserved.
The lady who owns the corner cottage is a retiree who has a group of friends over (they do art together or something) once per week. This had stopped due to lockdown but have recently resumed in her garden. This means an extra four or five cars to park. Usually not a problem as lots of people are out during the day. No one on our row is currently back at work properly (working from home or on furlough still).
This morning I noticed corner cottage lady asking our neighbour to move his car from outside her house so her friends could park there today.
Now this is where I think SIBU. Her friends park outside my house if I pop out when they are due. I was clearly just popping to the shop with toddler DS and we had a chat about it as we were leaving this morning. I’m pregnant, waddling, and have a not yet two year old and bags of shopping to manage. If she can ask people to move their cars for her friends, couldn’t she also consider that I might need to park nearer? There is parking about 100m away and I do feel like tht’s a much more reasonable walk for seemingly well, recently retired women (not elderly and infirm) than a harassed mum tbh. It wouldn’t even occur to me to ask them not to park outside our house if it wasn’t for the fact that she asks people to move from outside hers though!
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Are neighbour’s parking demands a bit CF?
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BadAlice · 25/06/2020 13:12
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