... to get cross about neighbour parking outside my house?

[CelestinaWarbeck]

Now, I'd like to make it crystal clear before I begin that I know I don't own the road outside my house and anyone can park there. But have an ongoing situation that's really getting on my tits.

I live in a road where everyone struggles with car parking. Each house has a drive and enough space on the road for one car, but most houses in the street have two or more cars, plus we get lots of people parking here for access to the nearby shops. So it's already a bit tense. Plus the road is really narrow, so manoeuvring is difficult.

I have just one car .

A family in my road has three cars, including one mahooooosive 8-seater that they use just once a week for family outings. Every Saturday night they park it outside someone else's house (yes, this week I've drawn the short straw) and leave it there FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK.

It's so bloody big that it makes getting in and out of my drive really difficult, so I end up parking outside someone else's house so that I don't get trapped in the drive.

I'm seriously tempted to park in my drive and bang into their rear end just to teach them a lesson (my car's beyond hope anyway).

Am I being reasonable or should I grow up and worry about something more important? And if I'm not BU, anyone have any ideas how I can politely indicate to this family that they might want to park their frigging Velociraptor in the FREE CAR PARK that's a three-minute walk away?

Grrrrrrr.

Everyone recommending reversing - I can see this would help in most situations, but as lesley said, the problem here is that I need to drive in a straight line to get out without hitting anyone, and having cars parked on either side plus on the other side of the road means there's often just not enough space.

2tired I'm dreaming of that day coming to our road. I've lost count of the letters I've written to the council to ask for parking restrictions to be introduced. My neighbours brand new car was clipped 3 times last month by people squeezing through our road using it as a cut through to avoid some traffic lights on the main road.

Gah, sounds like a nightmare.

op, can't you ask them to move it, even if it's a few inches to allow you better access to your drive?

It IS Jareth, it really is. It's basically the worst thing that ever happened to anyone

maybe we need to start an 'I'm dreaming of a Controlled Parking Zone in my street' support club?

Not Weybridge bingbong, but does sound similar!

Put it this way, if I ever try to sell this house I won't practise full disclosure about the parking situation...

that some folk can afford to run a 'weekends only' car - I'd be having a word. Tell them the diamonds on the soles of their shoes are scuffing the pavements up too

celestina just about every house in our street has paved over their front garden to create a parking space and the council has dropped the curb along almost the entire street, so the few of us who can't (or won't) pave over our front gardens have to fight for the last three inches of curb that hasn't been dropped. That's the basis for my argument to the council that they have to give us parking restrictions.

I have a tree slap bang in the middle of my front garden which has a protection order on it (the road is named after the tree) so I can't chop it down and pave over my garden - not that I would anyway. It's horrible for the environment and makes people's houses look shit.

I don't know how you cope. There must be a support group for This Kind Of Thing

oh - x posts

Pmsl at the idea op should use the car park. Seriously, wouldn't that get on the tits of the person who suggested it? Heh heh heh at Mumsnet sometimes.

Ooh I'd be tempted to let down their tyres, but them I'm evil like that.