Kind of parking related please cheer me up with tales of angry neighbours

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Ive just moved into a new house. Its an old terrace so just on road parking. Some houses have dropped curbs and parking in front but most dont. Some park in their gardens even though they have no dropped curb. One of the residents coned off part of the street because commuters kept parking there and leaving their cars all day (which is annoying but they can do it theres no double yellows or parking restrictions).

Anyway today i moved a cone and parked my car. I wasn't blocking a drive. I was about 1 foot from someone's drive. I wasn't even blocking a drive with no dropped curb. They were furious and shouted at me and was a bit aggressive. I froze because i am a whimp. But now I'm so upset. I feel like i dont want to live here. Ill always be scared about where i park.

I keep thinking of what i should have said. But i said nothing. I know they were annoyed but i can park there. I was parked legally

Anyway please cheer me. Tell me worse things have happened and i don't have to move.

Yep, we have neighbours from hell and not spoken to them for 10+ years. I totally understand people who want to live away from any neighbours, a friend of the friend now lives 5 miles away from their nearest.

Just keep on parking where you are entitled to, explain you to live on the road. Bullies usually find other targets if you don't engage. Although I might consider a motion activated dash cam if I were in your position. Aggression is never pleasant to experience.

People are odd and strange about parking.

I live in a street that where all the housues have parking for at least one car. Most of the street are bungalows mostly way past retirement age, so have one car they park on the drive. Only a couple have more than one car and can still park on the drive. There is never more than a couple of cars parked on the road of about 100m..

Then there are our houses around a shared drive, at the end of the road. Nearly all park on their drives, it's extremely rare any of us park on the road. Very occasinally a visitor may park on the almost empty road

You would think this would be a happy situation ? But no...my next door but one will take both his cars off the drive and block in anyone who parks on the road near to his house. These are detached bungalows with a long frontage...so even if someone does park out there there is room for a good couple more cars.

I just dont get it

I had an elderly neighbor who was having some work done and had her skip placed in front of my house. She then complained because I parked in front of her house!

Thanks you're making me feel better. I had a cry earlier. I am not used to aggressive people and it unsettled me. oldraver that sounds really odd. Why go to all that effort to block someone in?

My neighbour gets irate about my parking and I find it hilarious. He thinks I'm inconsiderate because it makes turning into the drive opposite difficult. It doesn't. How do I know this? Because the bloke who lives there said so and has no issue with my parking. That's right, furious parking neighbour is not the neighbour opposite. He's got a bee in his bonnet about something which doesn't affect him in any way. Silly sod.

Don’t be pushed around OP. Stand firm from the start. You’re entitled to park there. They aren’t entitled go cone off the area outside their house. If you let yourself be bullied once, they’ll keep on doing it. If you stand up for yourself now, they’ll stop.