Oh dear, I’ve upset the neighbours. Another parking thread

This sounds really reasonable.

If you encounter hostility then you know you've done your part.

And your neighbour and daughter can be officially upgraded to CFs. 🤣

She and her mum are CFers. As a pp said park behind her and block her exit.

Next time park behind her and block her exit. Let her wait till you are ready to move. She will learn 😌

If she’s blocking other neighbours in she’s committing an offence - blocking entrance to a public highway. Police can issue a fixed penalty notice of up to £200. You can report repeated instances to 101.

Does this affect other residents too? It would have been best to have a word with your neighbour prior to this but it's happened. I would approach your neighbour very calmly and reasonably and explain that her daughter's parking is causing access issues for residents and ask if there is a reason she won't park in her drive. This may be able to resolve the matter.

I would have just pulled up right behind her, and jumped out to go in and go to the toilet.

Then washed my hands for a good long while before sauntering back out.

If she needed you to move do she could get out she can ‘just ask’.

I hope it wasn’t late when you beeped. Not great in a residential road.

It happens all the time on my estate. I tend to sit there quietly waiting for the driver to come out as there are lots of elderly people who may need help getting to the car & I wouldn't want to rush & stress them & possibly cause a fall. But if I really needed a wee I'd have hooted or knocked saying that I was desperate so either let me use your loo or move your 😡car. However, in your case, the daughter could and should have parked in her mother's drive rather than blocking the street. YANBU.

Whilst it’s very annoying please don’t waste police time over this when you know the little madam will move if asked

Meh. I have a neighbour whose house is at the top of the cul de sac. She and her kids must tell every visitor to stop outside and beep when they arrive rather than park properly and ring the doorbell. So DH and I would run out whenever it happened and ring the doorbell, wave and shout “you’re welcome”! Didn’t take many times of me legging it across the road in pyjamas and slippers for them to stop being inconsiderate twats.

Gosh she sounds either thick as shit or extremely selfish. I would have held my hand on the horn every time she did this until she got the message through her thick skull.
However yesterday would have blocked her in and abandoned my car taking a very long time to answer the door and tell her why.

She's right you shouldn't have had to beep - what did she think you were doing?.

I don't think I would have entertained getting out and asking ever? I'd have just bibbed or flashed the lights. NU.

But what do you think the police are going to do OP calls? Turn up?

I don't think you are being unreasonable. But in the interests of good neighbourly relations, I'd pop round and discuss it. I'd apologise that my tone has come across as rude, explain that I'd been in a big rush that day. I'd then try to discuss the issue politely.

How well do you know her mum @vagges

A horn is to alert other drives of your presence and that’s what you used it for.
Hopefully she may realise now that she’s inconveniencing people. Time will tell

Obstructing a public highway is a criminal offence. If you’re unable to understand that it would impede fire brigade/paramedics/police getting to people in houses beyond the car then I really don’t know what else to say.

they are both pricks and you’ve not done anything wrong. Hopefully she’s not going to do it again but I would get some real joy from overly nice hellos and waves from now on to piss the little cunts off some more.

I used to own a house at the top of a culdesac and got to witness all sorts of snobbishness! Some families thought it was acceptable to park all there cars around blocking everyone else as you could go and knock on their door and ask. Yes that’s fine if you know which car belongs to which house!

I won’t ever be living in a culdesac again!

Toot. Every time.

I would be knocking on mums door and sing that you have had enough of her daughter’s rude behaviour. Ask mum to tell the daughter to park on the drive and show consideration for everybody

and next time she is parked there I would just sit on the horn, each and every time until she gets the hint

She’s being weird and annoying, but I’m not sure what you think the police’s response is going to be to someone parking at the end of a cul de sac.

What's rude is carrying on blocking neighbours from getting to their own homes, time and time again.
You didn't do much wrong OP, and we all know what it's like to be busting!

Next time block her in then ignore the door for at least 10 minutes

I'd beep and if she didn't move right away, park my car behind her and go take my time in the bathroom.

She's rude and disrespectful.