To resent the family with four cars?

[Gentleness]

Road of almost all terraced houses though theirs is a semi. The road space outside each house is the same - 1.5 cars max. We have one car for a family of four and another baby maybe on the way. They have a family of four, 2 adult children and a car each. AND 2 of the cars are long sedans. I can understand the need for a car each but surely they should take that into account when choosing where to park on a busy road. They're all lovely apart from one who can't bear to even smile at anyone, never mind chat, and all of them except her do try really hard to leave us a space outside our house. But when we or one of us goes out in evenings, sometimes we can't even park on our road which leaves me in an awkward spot the next morning with the kids - a baby and a toddler.

The other day the mum said, "It's frustrating the parking on this road isn't it. It's really hard for us with four cars!" Given none of them ever leave the house in the evening so are parked up nicely overnight right by their house by 5pm, and they have 1 person to a car, I just about managed to splutter politely that with our ONE car for 4, we can't always park on our own road which is hard with the kids. I so wanted to rant and it's been picking at my mind ever since.

So AIBU to reckon they should consider the rest of the residents and expect to park at least one of their cars further away. Even rent a garage. Not from any legal obligation, just from moral kindness. Or the "kids" could actually leave home!

Noqontrol - that's a pretty extreme experience - bloody awful. Was this entirely unprovoked?

No parking across dropped kerbs or anything like that?

What kind of car did you drive then? Just trying to work out how a car could offend people so much.

The only time I ever had that kind of reaction was when I had an old hearse - people didn't like me parking that outside!

I don't blame you OP.

No viv, promise, it was entirely unprovoked. The notes started only days after we had moved in. And our terraced house was about 50 yards away from their houses so it couldn't be down to noise or anything. The road we were on was a single road, you could only just get one car down there so we obviously couldn't park on it. It was also the main exit out for all the posh houses so it couldn't be blocked. Therefore we had to park in the cul de sac 50 yards away (where posh houses were) as there was literally nowhere else to park.

I think they resented it because we didn't actually live in the street, but we were very close to it. They all had driveways so it's not as though we were taking up needed parking spots.

We weren't the only ones to get the notes and scratches though, our neighbour also got them for parking there too.

And the car was a peugeot 206. It was brand new, the first and only new car I have ever owned, was very proud of it and I had it exactly one week before it got the first scratch.

I had a good one today, well 3 actually!

Went to Aldi and some total knobhead had parked on the cross hatching between the disabled and M&B spots, and was quite wide to bollocksed up both a disable and M&B spot. Guess what, no blue badge or child with them. Was a very rough (as in scary) looking bloke with his equally scary GF buying large amount of booze!

Then at school I parked perfectly legally. The guy who turned up a few minutes later and tacked onto the back of a line of parked cars, was over a dropped kerb, blocking a drive blocking the view from a junction AND completely preventing anyone going up or down the road however, wasnt. The trouble was, it looked like I had done the stupid parking and I had to move!

Then yet another run in with crazy neighbour (they have already been threatened with an Asbo due to their behaviour) who seem to labour under the delusion that when they bought their house, they also bought their bit of road. I ignored them, but am thinking of printing something out from t'internet about if they do it again!

Must be parking craziness day! Although the last two can happen several times a week so i dont even register them anymore.

I feel bad that we have three vehicles (work van, family car, small runaround) but I do try and park thoughtfully and would never park in front on someone else's house. YANBU.

YANBU. I have this issue with my neighbours although their children are away at university and have left their cars at home, so often it's just the two adults using four cars. Which they do in seeming rotation. And although it's not that relevant two of the cars are used to store items in. Once I actually saw a kitchen sink in the back. And when I'm walking down the road in the rain with my baby and toddler I do think they could be more considerate of their neighbours by parking at least two of the cars on the adjacent street with no houses. So if you ABU so am I!