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To refuse to move my car because my dd's are in bed??

59 replies

Hillls · 30/04/2007 20:44

My neighbour just knocked on my door and asked me to move my car because she wanted to park in the space I am in(Outside her house) I live in a terraced house (as does she) and we all park where we can on the road, sometimes we get to park outside our house sometimes we dont just the way it is. Anyway I refused as it would mean I would have to drive all the way around the block leaving my dd's asleep upstairs in the house on their own, she got really shirty with me but I just explained I couldnt as my children were asleep, she mumbled about me being an unrasonable person so am I??

Should I have just moved it?

OP posts:
WendyWeber · 30/04/2007 20:48

NO!!!! Don't!

God people like this pee me off. My DH goes along with and will move my car 15 feet because I've left it parked outside someone else's house because someone else was parked outside ours so there was nowhere else to park.

We don't own the road outside our houses!

Rachmumoftwo · 30/04/2007 20:48

No! Unless she had a really good reason and offered to babysit your kids. It was probably a trick & she was going to report you for leaving your kids home alone as soon as you drove off! Not really, but you are so NOT the unreasonable one here!

PestoMonster · 30/04/2007 20:47

No, you were quite right to stay put. I wouldn't have left my dds asleep in the house on their own. Besides, it's as much your road as it is hers. What does it matter exactly where in it she's parked?

nickytwotimes · 30/04/2007 20:47

she's being unreasonable!
why di people think the bit of road outside their house belongs to them. nice when it is free, but if not, tough!

NKF · 30/04/2007 20:47

If it was just a few metres, the neighbour could go in that space.

MrsSpoon · 30/04/2007 20:46

If it was just a case of moving the car a few metres then I would have said yes you should move it but all the way round the block is a different matter, don't think I would do that.

NKF · 30/04/2007 20:46

She's the unreasonable one.

moondog · 30/04/2007 20:46

Of course you're n ot.
First come first served in communal area.
Silly bitch.

misdee · 30/04/2007 20:45

where did she want you to move it to?

you are being reasonable.