to think my neighbour is being rude?

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I live down a dead end narrow street with terraced housing. It is not permit holders and near the town centre, so is a bit if a free for all with parking. People park outside my house for weeks, and it doesn't bother me - obviously, the house would have cost a lot more if it had a drive, so I put up and shut up (as we all do). I have been parked outside someone else's house for a few days and tonight got a knock at the door. My neighbour asked when I was going to move the car, I explained tomorrow morning. Rather than that be enough, she started to rant about how I wasn't neighbourly and considerate. I explained that I am parked legally, have done nothing wrong and that if she wants a house with a drive she should buy one. She kept on. In the end I had to shut the door on her.
I am 7 months pregnant, so possibly am hormonal, but AIBU to think I have done nothing wrong??

No, YANBU if there is no set parking on your street, though I can see her point too. Rude to rant at you though. Could she not have asked nicely?

YANBU - especially as you are not even able to park outside your house.

Not sure tbh. Maybe she has had the same experience as you, and has not been as patient with people leaving their cars in the road for weeks. While strictly speaking you did nothing wrong, I can sort of see why she is annoyed.

YANBU.

You have done nothing wrong and it was the right decision to shut the door on her if she was ranting uncontrollably.

YANBU. Goes with the territory. Bet it's a Victorian terrace!

It's neighbourly to park outside your own house, but if you can't then anywhere's fair game.

She's BU, but it's understandable.

Might need more info to decide if you are being unreasonable. Is the space outside your house currently free? If so she might have hoped you would move so it's easier to get shopping in or something (giving huge benefit of the doubt here)

Or she is a nutter for shouting at a pregnant lady who has parked on her own street as close to her house as possible and you are not being unreasonable.

In fact either way she could have been nicer about asking.

YANBU she sounds like a dick

She is prob expecting you to play that musical cars game that my neighbour used to love - sit in full view of the road At All Times, so that the moment someone exits their home, you can make a dash for your car to nick their space. Problem is, you have to keep your shoes on constantly. But at least you then get to gaze out at your own car until you absolutely have to drive it anywhere.

Yes it is a Victorian terrace! I feel bad because I probably could have moved it, but just haven't been anywhere and knew I would need it Sat so left it where it was. I just don't understand why, after being told it would be moved tomorrow am, she carried on about being neighbourly. We very rarely park at her end of the road.

TartyMcFarty I think that's what she expected.

YANBU. I had this with a neighbour - street is half terraces straight onto the street, half semi-detached with front gardens. Every single semi had paid out to have a dropped kerb and driveway put in but them. If you dared park outside their house they were out in a flash - the woman must have spent her entire life staring through the front window - to hurl abuse at you or leave threatening notes on the windscreen, all swearing and Capital Letters.

I eventually called the police (non emergency number) when she followed me to my house, screaming and swearing, and then proceeded to bang on the door and front window for 20 minutes without a pause except to push more notes through the door about how she was going to slash the car's tyres and pour paint on it. Nice police officer came round, acknowledged that she had done this before to others and went round to have a final word with the implication that she'd be looking at an ASBO for her continued threatening behaviour. He confirmed that there were no parking restrictions.

Still a bit about it all actually, it's a very genteel middle class Boden and Barbour wearing naice area, not that you'd expect to be chased down the street and threatened by a swearing woman in her dressing gown and slippers anywhere, really.

She also used to get her great big fat burly husband to stand by the car in the mornings to hurl more abuse at me, but never at my OH when he parked there.

PS - said neighbour used to get his FiL to come over when they went out to parking-space sit. He sold the house at a huge loss in the end when such parking as there was came under threat.

Liked him though

YANBU everyone on our street has drive or parking space plus garage most people have 2 cars and refuse to use their garage to park cars so it is a nightmare, most days a fire engine wouldn't fit down the street.

We have had neighbours knock on the door to move our car ( we use space and garage but have DH's work van) so they can park on road opposite their house even though they have a double drive and 2 cars. Plus people's family dump cars on the road and go in holiday because we are in a cul de sac no where near an airport [hconfused]

People here also get irate at others parking in 'their' space on the road. Utter madness I feel your pain.

My (former) neighbour bitch had massive issues about this. On occasion I had no option but to park outside her house. Narrow street, not much parking etc.

On many occasions she would rudely accost me in the street and demand to know why I didn't use my garage. I politely explained that the garage was some distance away accessed via a dingy and dark alley on the next street. I didn't feel comfortable going there alone at night (in my former job I used to be on call at night)

Coincidentally my car suffered very deep scratches along the paintwork, as did dp's (now dh) while he was visiting.

btw my neighbour didn't even have a car, she just wanted the space left clear in case her son visited!

SugarPaste we learnt our lesson that way. But I was so at my neighbour. couldn't prove a thing though. We had another neighbour who was a bit odd and used to complain that my boiler made whining noises.
I was glad to move with all the awful neighbours I had!