My home is a first-floor maisonette. Both floors have a front door on the same road; my drive is onto the same road but Downstairs?s drive (I will call her D) is onto the road round the corner. It is possible if you don?t know otherwise to think my drive belongs to D. It is relevant that D is a social worker. Also that we are at the bottom of a steepish hill.
Yesterday evening there was very little free parking in the road ? I think a neighbour was holding a party. A car parked blocking my drive and a woman (?C?) got out whom I have seen before; she is D?s colleague and friend. She is also very obese. No BB, I looked, and of course even with a BB you cannot do that. Given the work they both do, if she had any possible claim to a BB she would have been able to get one.
I saw her going into the other flat and was a bit miffed that D did not point out that the drive she had blocked was somebody else?s but what the hell, I knew where she was and we were about to have dinner.
But after dinner she was still there and I rang D?s door and said I needed to go out to the supermarket. She called C who reversed into a position where she was blocking somebody else?s drive and I left.
When I got back fifteen minutes later she had again blocked my drive! I pulled up where I could and rang D and out comes C to reverse again. And when I parked on the drive back she went! So I spoke to her. ?Could I stay here for a bit?? ?No, I?m expecting a guest who will park behind my car?. ?I won?t be long?. ?No, my guest could arrive at any moment. The nearest free spaces are up there? ? and I pointed out the way, 150 yards or so.
Well: she moved across the road. Onto a bus-stop.
How is that for sheer bloody nerve? I know why she did it; she did not fancy the slog back to her car up the hill. But having used the word obese AIBU to add the words lazy slob after it?