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AIBU to resent holiday-home neighbours taking our usual parking space?

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Chipsanddipsforlunch · 12/06/2026 11:21

First of all to say, no one on the road has their ‘Own’ parking space, however it’s sort of an unspoken thing that you park on the road outside your own house.
Have owned our home here for fifteen or so years, we live in a beach type place. The immediate next door neighbours have their house as a holiday home, thankfully they don’t rent it out, they come to stay maybe four times a year, usually for a month or two in summer.
Every time they come, they immediately park where we park daily all year round opposite our house. It has a large tree and shade (we live in a hot place) so i’m guessing that’s part of the reason.
Everyone else parks in front of their own houses, it ends up that we have to park in the sun in front of their home, if space or round the corner/far up the road. I have a young Dd, ddog, it’s just the two of them. I’m often struggling walking up the road with bags of shopping from the big shop, my dd etc
They don’t go out that much, so the car is just sat there.
Dh has noticed that sometimes if we’ve managed to park there, opposite our own house and I for example nip out to the shop, the guy next door will come out of the house and move his car into that spot 😂

Honestly, I know it’s so petty, but it’s starting to piss me off recently as it’s hot and more tourists/second home owners parking on the road

Aibu??

OP posts:
Dandelionsalad · 13/06/2026 19:02

BingoJingo · 13/06/2026 18:12

  1. You did not reflect my comment back at me, you selected certain elements and put them toegether to construe a different meaning to that which was intended. But I would not expect you to understand, so that is fine by me.
  2. Would I need to get proof first before I ceded to his request to be called Dr? Even then, in this imaginary situation, would I have any autonomy to not use such term, given that my interactions with him are not in any service or professional capacity? I mean anyone can call themselves Dr, as anyone can call themselves the King of England. It does not mean that you need to adopt that nomenclature unless the context and circumstances dictate its appropriateness (i.e. in a professional setting such as a Dr/patient scenario when it obvious the said Dr does in fact carry such title).

Do tell, oh wise one.

Do you also insist on calling all women ‘miss’?

BingoJingo · 13/06/2026 19:31

Dandelionsalad · 13/06/2026 19:02

Do you also insist on calling all women ‘miss’?

No idea where this has come from....

If its my neighbour I say 'Hi Tom/Hi Sally'. If they insisted I call them Mr Jones/Mrs I would simply say 'Hi'. I would not cede to a desire for someone with no authority over me that I know in a casual way to address them as Dr/Mr etc. Why would I?

I don't where this comparison you are drawing is coming from.... As it bears no relevance to anything the OP said or anything I have stated. What a bizarre rabbit hole to go down.

Emptyandsad · 02/09/2026 12:16

HugoThatway · 12/06/2026 11:49

@KTheGrey, Pollyanna is not a verb and doesn't work in this scenario.

I would not be able to be glad that someone moved their car to where I usually parked just because I'd nipped to the shop.

Only picking you upon it because your post needed explaining.

POLLYANNA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

Oh, karma has visited! How often does this happen? That someone makes a pedantic, nit-picking point, only to shoot themselves in the foot

Only picking you upon it because your post needed explaining.

You can't use 'upon' in this situation; it needs to be 'up on''

On your main point, while I agree that Polyanna is a noun and not a verb, it is fairly common that people do take a noun and make a verb of it. In this case it is a pretty contrived wording, but it is done consciously, deliberately and, I suspect, with humorous intent

@likeafishneedsabike your example of a noun being used as a verb doesn't work; in I’m going to do a Hugothatway, Hugothatway is still a noun - as demonstrated by the use of the indefinite article before it. You could have said 'I'm going to Hugothatway the next poster to be pedantic'

But you didn't...

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