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AIBU to think people should park outside the house they are visiting?

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UnsocialBat · 08/09/2024 14:09

Most of the houses on my street are terraced and don't have driveways, it's mainly on road parking in front of your house. There's a car that has been parking in front of mine quite regularly the past 2 or 3 months, sometimes leaving it there for 3 or 4 days at a time. They aren't visiting the neighbours either side of me, they go across the road to a house which has road parking on 3 sides plus a driveway.
I know that no one has any right to public road outside their house and they are parked legally. But I feel like 4 days of leaving your car in front of someone else's house when there is plenty of space to park at the house you are visiting is a bit rude.
AIBU or are they taking the piss?

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ILikeItWhatIsIt · 08/09/2024 16:58

Totally get where you're coming from OP. I live in a street where all the houses have driveways. My neighbour across the road has one that could fit three cars. There's also a visitor space 10m along which is semi "off road". But they have a regular visitor who insists on ignoring their driveway and the visitor space & parking on the road right opposite my driveway. It gives me rage. Well, not quite rage but mild irritation. And it makes the street look untidy.

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UnsocialBat · 08/09/2024 14:24

@mamajong the person parking outside mine doesn't even live there, they just seem to visit the house across the road quite often. So I'd feel bad parking outside theirs when it's not even the people living there who are irritating me 😂 I'm not going to say or do anything about it, more just wondering if I'm justified being silently annoyed haha

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UnsocialBat · 08/09/2024 14:21

@Trallers oh absolutely, there are bigger things to worry about. Glad I'm not the only one though 😂

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UnsocialBat · 08/09/2024 14:19

@SaveItForTheBirds no when they aren't there, if my car isn't here for some reason, out the front of my house could be empty for weeks! It's a semi rural area, not in a city and very quiet. In the grand scheme of things no it doesn't matter, it just feels like bad manners

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mamajong · 08/09/2024 14:15

There's nothing you can do, try not to let it bother you. If you're petty, start parking outside their house but some things just aren't worth the energy imo

Trallers · 08/09/2024 14:14

It doenst really matter but it would irrationally irritate me too!

SaveItForTheBirds · 08/09/2024 14:13

But if they're not parked there, then somebody else probably will be. So does it really matter?