AIBU to think next door neighbour is being a Petty Patty over parking?

I have so much to do today, but couldn’t resist coming back for a read of all the comments.
I would imagine the reason she now tells you about your bins is because she’s sick to the back teeth of you thinking that you own the road and is making it very clear to you that you do not own the piece of land where you’ve been putting your bins.
You don’t have a parking space, you have vehicle access to a road and if there is availability to park you may park there.
You don’t have any right to run a cable across a pavement and if somebody tripped over your cable, you may end up with no cable.
Using the expression petty patty is incredibly juvenile although I have a feeling you thought that it would make you sound amusing and likable.
You are wrong about pretty much everything it seems.

Why use names at all? Women's names that are used as a slur? Presumably you wouldn't like it if you were a Polly. Why not just "My neighbour is being petty"?

And why are you putting bins on the road??
The bins don't take priority over residents' parking...the bins aren't supposed to be in the road at all!

Get away with you.

Can't get over your dh using two spaces to reserve one for you, on a road that has unrestricted parking. That's insufferable.

I think Petty Polly sounds better?

I don’t think OP will be back as I don’t think she’s had anyone agree with her!! Unusual to have a parking thread from this side of the argument!!

Oh no. Public road means public parking, no right to parking spaces for anyone.

YABU for using "petty Patty". I've never heard of it and we really don't need another woman's name used like this.

You're putting your bins on her property and treating the public road like your private parking space. And you think your neighbour is unreasonable???

Doesn't actually answer the question though does it? Why is your partner taking up 2 spaces? If it's a public road then there is no 'my spot' for either of you. You have no business purposely claiming any spot just to deter other people from parking there. This is what happens when people think they own the road outside their houses. I have neighbours who put bins and cones in the road to stop anyone else parking in what they seem to think is their personal parking space. I've even witnessed her throwing her cones at the bumper purposely trying to damage cars that had the audacity to park in her personal space. My other neighbour thinks they are just taking the piss and purposely puts their cones on the verge as soon as they drive off so other people can park there. You should see the look on their faces when the come home and find a random stranger dared to park in 'their' spot. They then sit at the window all day waiting to run outside and re claim the space when the random stranger goes. Last night my neighbours mate parked there and went away for the long weekend. Should be an interesting weekend 😂

Thank goodness you are not my neighbour.

You're unreasonable to use a phrase so rude as passive aggressive social worker and 'Petty Patty'. Grow up

This thread might as well just say "I consistently behave like an arsehole and I resent people pointing it out."

Your partner should never be taking 2 spaces that is beyond rude. He should park where you need to be then move to let you in to charge car and see what space is available.

Also rude to have bins on her area even if only 20% i suspect she wouldn't have done this had it not been as well as the parking issue.

A permit still won’t entitle you to park out side your house. It is to allow you to park on the road you live in. To be honest you sound like the neighbours from hell!

Sound to me as if you are the unreasonable one here.

If she had complained straight away you'd have called her petty and said it's only one time. She's left it a while to see if you'll stop/check her rights and now you're complaining that she didn't say anything for 6 months.

YABU.

Could you not get a jack hammer, and dig up the public road to put in an underground cable? Then you could put in a socket on the pavement and maybe use cones, or even get some little bollards put in to reserve your space.

This. And what does her job have to do with this?

YABU . You don’t have a right to a space outside your house and shouldn’t rely on charging at home every night if you don’t have off street parking. Your DP parking to hog two spaces is a dick. I suspect your whole street despises this. If your car being outside your home is so important, why doesn’t DP park in that single spot, allow neighbour to also park up near her home and then if you arrive later , you switch and DP parks further away from the house alike others do.

What you are doing is equivalent to putting cones out on a public road to save spaces .

You sound a bit tricky to have as a neighbour. Bins should not be on shared accessways, it's good that you moved them but don't leave them there again. As for the parking, ask the council to add some charging points on the lampposts to add options. Madness for you all to have so many cars without a single dedicated parking space, but that's the house you've chosen so you have to take on board that you do not own them (and stop calling the spot "mine").

"Petty Patty"

YABU for cursing me with the knowledge that this phrase exists.

A household up the road from me did this. An elderly chap tripped over the damn thing.
I understand the push towards EVs, but buying one when you don't have either a driveway so you can charge it off the road, or easy access to a public charging point, is nuts & inconsiderate of your neighbours imo.

You sound like a school bully. Keep your bins on your own property. Park with consideration and if it means you can’t charge your car then that isn’t her problem. I have an electric car but I wouldn’t do if I didn’t have a drive to park on with a proper charger. Draping a cable out of the window and across the pavement is a dick move.

You are also BVU to use the phrase "Petty Patty" FFS.

This is all the more reason not to park in two spaces.

YABU.