To think it's embarrassing to put cones outside your house?

How weird!

Do you park in front of theirs?

Ooh - you've just reminded me of the epic thread from a few years ago, where someone dressed up their neighbour's cone with all sorts of additions!

Are they small cones? I'd just park on top of them if so. They'll soon get fed up with buying/stealing them!

"Oops - silly me - I didn't expect there to be obstacles on the public road. What idiot put those there?"

My neighbours over the road does this and everyone thinks they're twats. It's no skin off my nose, as I have a driveway, but the sense of entitlement astounds me. They seem to think that because they have five children, they must park directly outside their house, and anyone else who does so gets grief from them. I know they've had their cones pinched a couple of times, but he always manages to procure new ones from somewhere.

Our neighbour did this outside our house. Apparently they prefer to park in front of instead of their own house (it’s a row of terraces ffs). They were told it’s a main road, free for anyone to park, it’s not a nursery and the cones went on a permanent holiday. They still insist on parking outside ours even if a space outside their own door is available. Total mystery as to why they would want to walk further to their car - it’s not lined with gold or heated or anything special. Just tarmac.

Yep, move them. I have a nightmare with parking where I live - I just suck it up and park further away. I wouldn't dare show my face if I put cones out on a public road.

You know twats live there when you see this 🤦🏼‍♀️

Somebody used to do it outside my mums house (public lay by). If there were no spaces when I arrived to pick her up I would move the cones. I understand the frustration of not being able to park outside your own home, but you can't reserve an area that doesn't belong to you. The lay by is besides a busy road so it was a right faff stopping to move them in traffic. In the end someone ran them over flat and that was the end of that.

I'd feel obliged to move the cones and park there.

She might have CCTV!

I'd park in between them (even if I needed to move them first)!

Some people are so entitled!

I’ve only ever done this for a skip and even then, spoke to my neighbours and explained it. Nobody had a problem with it. If someone did it everyday I’d just move them.

YANBU OP except in the sense that the kind of twats who do this kind of thing are clearly not embarrassed to be twats.

Some neighbours of ours took to doing this. At first we thought they were keeping the spot for the skip to come back but no, they were just being selfish arses. DH took to moving the cones. I was on the point of throwing the bloody things over their gate.

Anyway, after their cones had been moved a few times, and DH had dropped comments about parking being very tight for EVERYONE, they stopped doing it.

At a relatives, I managed to park inbetween the cones once.

Neighbour comes flying out telling me off for moving them, threatened to damage my car. I pointed out I knew where they lived.

I then got a shit load of racist abuse but that’s another story.

That house didn’t even own a fucking car. 🙄

Some builders working on the house 2 doors down used to put cones in the road when they went home, often not returning for several days. This was in addition to 2 skips in the road. I think someone must have reported them for all of a sudden the anti social behaviour ceased.

When you think of the silly common-sense things they have 'public service' TV adverts for - such as telling you to pull over left if you know/suspect you're about to break down on a motorway, just in case you thought you should stay in the outside lane and come to an abrupt stop there - I'd happily see a few adverts reminding people that they don't own the public road, however near a section may be to their own property.

I know they'd probably just ignore it, but at least it would be there to mock their pettiness every time it comes on and be something you could refer to when they come out with their ridiculous assertions.

They could have a snivelling character couple called Terry & Dot - "Don't be a territorial idiot like Terry & Dot" - that were clearly pathetic, quite thick and unpopular amongst the rest of the neighbours.

I've been known to move them before now.
They eventually gave up.

It’s so petty and small minded to ‘bag’ the space outside your house.

The thing is, if it's so terribly important to you, you have to just get there first and then never move your car. Pretty pointless having a car if you never move it, but then these kinds of people don't tend to 'do' rational. It's beyond arrogant to be out and about using your car but still expect nobody else to use the bit of the public road that you've decided is for your use only.

Same as with park benches: if you have a favourite that you want to use all day, get there early and don't move. If you do move, anybody else can take it - as is their absolute right, over and above any perceived right that you may assume, to have it left empty and unused until you deign to return.

There was someone around the corner from us who used to do this. It caused alot of angst to drivers trying to give way to those coming up the street. Nobody local minded though as they had an elderly relative living with them who didn't have a disability badge but needed easy access to their car.
He's since passed away and the cones haven't been used since.

I would (and do) happily move them. I quite often do it when I’m out and about visiting properties for work.

It’s so petty and small minded to ‘bag’ the space outside your house.

Our neighbour used to think she not only owned the road,but all the houses in it

We would park outside our house,perfectly legally-she'd park outside her house (again perfectly legally) and then she'd sit on her ring doorbell until she got a whiff of us and then she'd explode (she also went mental at next door for creating their own driveway and got nowhere reporting them so turned on us again)

Screaming and shouting at us to 'move or else'

We ignored her so she ramped it up and rang the police on us (they just told us to 'be careful and think of the neighbours when parking') and left us to it

We carried on ignoring them which got her back up even more-shed sit on that ring doorbell and scream at us for daring to leave the house or use our own garden

Then she and her family accidentally set their house on fire so they moved (I pity the next set of neighbours) and we've not had any issues since

Funny how if everyone just parks as normal and doesn't get shitty with anyone else,harmony is kept

Yes, this is definitely out of order - and very embarrassing - to do this on a regular basis. As PP have said, hearse, removal lorry, massive delivery etc. is fine - but not just because you think you're more special than everybody else.

My FIL used to know a couple where, whenever he went out in the car to the shops, she would go out and spend the whole time sweeping that bit of road so that she was 'occupying' it and nobody else would feel they could park there. What a waste of your life - especially when there's no shortage of parking on the road anyway.

We have a neighbour who doesn't use cones, but he does leave notes under our wiper, telling us off for parking safely, legally and not blocking anybody in. He has two cars and a double drive, so he doesn't need to park on the road at all, but he has actually stated in one of his silly notes that he does own part of the road. It's just selfish, bullying behaviour, and extremely arrogant to presume to tell people that they can't use a resource that the actual owner/manager (the council) has clearly indicated that they can.

He threatens to call 'the authorities' on us, and we desperately hope that he does - as he will just look so stupid then, when he wastes their time to show them somebody doing something very boringly mundane and totally legal and they tell him off for harassing us.

I'm guessing he actually knows that, otherwise why wouldn't he have called them before? Some people are just so entitled and arrogant that they genuinely believe that whatever they prefer - even if it makes no odds to them at all - is accepted as de facto 'law' and everybody else must kowtow to their every whim. It usually comes from a place of having too much time on your hands and a self-imposed very, very small world. They could take up a fun hobby or volunteer for a charity/community cause, but instead, they genuinely get their kicks from monitoring where other people park their cars and finding any old thing to complain about.

Only time I did it was when I lived in the middle of a town centre and I was moving out I needed the only parking space within a 200m radius (opposite our home) to park the truck. Otherwise if people want a designated parking space they need to get a car with a driveway.

id delight in moving the cones every day TBH

I used to live opposite someone who did this with bin bags. I just moved the bin bags and parked there. I would put them on the pavement, until they had a go at me and a few days later they slipped out my hand and launched themselves over their front gate 😂 Oh well!