to have gone off on a man who encouraged his visitor to park in my parking slot.

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Sunday morning took dd to work, dropped off some things at charity shop, did the 'big shop'.

Came home to our flats (we have numbered parking spaces which we bought when we bought our flat). Someone parked in our slot. No other slots available (even if 5 there had been I would not have parked in there as someone else would have been inconvenienced).

Phoned the clampers. They told me to park on an area with double yellows (private property), took my reg number and said they would sort it out.

5 hours later went downstairs to put the rubbish in the bin. The car was still in my spot, not clamped.

Then man and woman appear, she had a baby and the woman proceeded to get into the car with the baby. The man lived in the flats, the woman visiting.

I asked why he thought it was ok to park in someone elses spot - the answer, because she had a lot of stuff with the baby. So stuff me who had to lug bags of groceries in from outside.

I asked why he had no consideration and had not put a note on the car so I could have knocked on his door to ask them to move the car.

I asked why he had not parked his car outside on double yellows like I had had to and give up HIS parking spot for his visitor.

He just smirked.

So YIBU when I told him he was a very ignorant person and no gentleman (yes, I was very restrained.

How nasty of him - next time check up on the clampers. Is there a management of the flats - could you complain to them?

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Next time you have visitors, just get them to park in his spot and smirk back when he complains.

YANBU. If it was an emergency they could have left a note. And yes, he should have moved his car.

You're more restrained than me though. Once when we lived on a new build estate with a similar set up, this happened to me. I just took the next day off, parked across the back of the offending neighbours car and took myself out for the day. Came back to a note calling me a Fing bitch and telling me he hoped I would die a horrible death. That was great as it meant I'd annoyed/inconvenienced him. But then, we were moving so I didn't have to live with it.

Strange that your flats don't have visitors spaces though.

Have to add that DH went absolutely mad when he found out what I'd done. He said I was lucky to get a note and not the car keyed or towed away. It was 10yrs ago and when it comes up in conversation he still gets cross.

Cora - yes it is strange there are no visitor spots. There is a large car park opposite (under the rail lines) that charges £1,50 for all day. My visitors park there when they visit.

So why couldn't woman with baby or bloke she was visiting park across the road.

Some people are just tossers. I took the kids swimming after school on Friday and the woman in the mini in front of me pulled into the last P&C space. I have 3 kids under 7yrs so they're really useful to me. She was about 25 and I just thought how sad I would be if either of my daughters grew up to be so inconsiderate. (a few years ago, I'd have shouted after her but DH has calmed me!)

That would have really annoyed me too. No YANBU. My neighbours once had some visitors who parked on my actual drive. Parking is at a premium around here and houses only have one space - right in front of the house, so obviously belonging to that house - even my DH has to park up a lane off our road.

I was out at the time and another neighbour told me about it as the car had gone by the time I returned - I still think it's damn cheeky though as I could have been coming back at any time.

DH and I lived in flats with similar parking years ago and someone parked in our space so we parked over them, stopping them from getting out. He was still parked there when DH left for work the next day but rung our doorbell soon after. I ignored it and got great pleasure from watching the idiot trying to get his car out of the space by driving over the grass and pedestrian walk area, while trying not to hit the lamp post. He never parked there again!

Really annoying behaviour. I probably would have rung round all the flats to get the berk out to move his motor. YANBU

YANBU - I posted last night about my snotty neighbour letting her mate use our drive way - fair pee's me off!

Write to the management company for the flats. I think that he'll be in breach of the terms of his lease and will get a sharp letter. I was had this problem eg someone had a visitor with a baby and had told her not to worry and that if my space was empty just to park there. She didn't like the letter but it did resolve the issue.