My neighbour is an inconsiderate arse but I don't have a leg to stand on :(

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And so I can't knock on his door and moan at him which is riling me up even more...

I live in a terraced house with no off-road parking. Our street is a mix of this type of housing and a few big houses with driveways so parking is tight. The bloke two doors up (end of terrace) had his front garden turned into a driveway so his wife parks her car on there whilst he parks his 4x4 to the left of his house so his wife can easily get on/off the drive without him needing to come out and move the 4x4.

Now, the idiot has bought one of those massive Warrior cars (4x4 with an extra bit on the back) and he has taken to parking outside my house every single day and not moving it once so no-one even gets a fair crack of the whip at getting that space. It also takes up two spaces, pretty much. It just sits there all day. And (melodramatic) it blocks loads of light from my front door/window because it is fecking huge and black.

I don't have any argument to give him though. He's in a legitimate space. All he is guilty of is being inconsiderate. Every time I look of of my window and see this behemoth of a vehicle sat there I can feel my piss boiling.

YANBU to be pissed off but don't assume he is a thoughtless twunt until you ask him if he might possibly move it. He may surprise you!

sleepybump may have hit upon the best option op... you turn up with a statement of your problem and then suggest a solution. IME people tend to be a lot less fuck-offy if you take that approach!

You have my sympathy anyway. I get very grumpy with our neighbour across the street if he parks in front of our house, because I know he knows that I've got a non-walking toddler, am 37 weeks PG and struggle with the walk if I have to park further down. Yes he is totally within his rights but it doesn't make me like him

I used to deliberately park further from my house so that my somewhat doddery (but not disabled) right-hand neighbour could park easily outside his home - only mentioning this to indicate that it's not one rule for me and another for everyone else!!

The bloke across the road had a car transporter. Not a double decker but bloody huge nevertheless. He used to park it outside my house on the other side of the green from his
Then he would get in it at 5.30 am and rev the engine for 40 fucking minutes.

I eventually asked him to stop because it was disturbing my DD who was gravely ill. Even him, the biggest wankface in the world couldnt argue with me.

I still hate him. He is on my list....

Japanese Light Truck.

Outside his manor.

Plugged into the mains and on all night (sound system optional).

Or this one.

ANDDDDD
The fucking icecream van parks in my OH's disabled parking space every bloody evening after he has gone to work.

It drives me insane. Its not like OH needs it, he isnt there, but its the principal!
And mainly because the noise of the generator outside my window makes me want to go and kick the driver's head in.

He has a dropped kerb/white line painted by the council by his driveway so it's all legit'. Nothing I can do in that respect.

SundaeGirl most people are considerate of those closest to them so I'm not going to give him any medals for making sure his wife isn't put out by his parking. I think that on a street where parking space is at a premium, taking up three spaces with two cars is a bit wankery is all.

PMSL @ Talc links.

It's the supermarket T-Rex

the house a few doors down has a disabled space - it is used rarely by visiting carers. an elderly couple live there with (i think) their son, who owns a sports car he won't street park as it is too valuable...

all houses on this road have at least a shared drive...

if you are dim enough to park in the disabled space, you get the sports car parked on/ blocking your drive.

karma in action.

So he should be inconsiderate of his wife so as to make space outside your house so that it might be possible for a smaller car to park there, or an even bigger one for that matter?

Ugh. Some people have small cars some people have big cars some people have vans some people have lorries some people have car transporters (OK, less frequent).

YABU. But yes, I agree that it might be worth asking him to move. However, if parking is as tight as all that then eventually he is going to be back there and it'll wind you up more if you've said something.

Sundae girl, I think the point is that no-one should be inconvenienced. And no-one should have their light blocked because he's decided to get a monster car. Which, he doesn't need as the OP has stated that he and his wife already have a car each.

They don't live in a bubble, they need to be aware that other people need to space too and what's fair is fair.

It just winds me up even that he has TWO huge cars. Neither of them move. No-one gets a fair chance at getting the THREE spaces he takes up. Two of my neighbours could park where his penis extension is.

Or, why can't he put it on his drive, and his wife park in the street: less light blockage and creates a new space for a car as his takes up two.

If he hasnt moved in three days print off an official looking "ABANDONED" notice and stick it on his windshield :o

Tell him that your kids are now suffering the effects of rickets due to the lack of light entering their living space. Simples.

When you tell him about the rickets make sure you have at least two sickly, pale waifs with you, looking all sad and scurvish (and a bit infectious)

you could try this

or this

or if neither of those works then I suggest something like this

My neighbours often park outside my house. I have a long front garden so it doesn't really affect me but I wonder why they leave the road and driveway empty outside their own house and put 2 cars in front of mine.....odd

I think I might invest in some bird seed and scatter it liberally out my front bedroom window a la Mary poppins - all the better if coated in a bit of lard so it sticks to anything it falls on and has to be pecked at - also I've never known a bird who doesn't like a little toilet time after a nice dinner. Are there any overhanging branches you can attach a bird feeder to?

I feel your pain, OP. I live on a similar sounding road except we don't have front gardens, so the front room window looks directly onto the pavement iyswim. The road is pretty narrow too, so people tend to park half on, half off the pavement, which means if a large vehicle parks directly outside the house it's only about 12ft-ish away from where I sit on the sofa.

Last year, one of the neighbours from about ten houses down parked their manky old camper van directly outside my house, blocking all the light into my living room. It was there for two weeks solid. Every day when I got home from work and saw their hunk of junk still outside my house, I died a little more inside. As I sat watching TV and MN-ing in the evening, every time I glanced out of the window I could feel my bile rising. Until, one glorious day, I turned the corner into my road and it was gone! Oh, sweet joy! I parked my car outside my house for the first time in weeks and didn't move it for days.

Unfortunately there's nothing you can do legally. My only suggestion would be to appeal to his better nature and see if he'll consider parking it elsewhere. Or wait patiently for the day that he goes somewhere then pounce.

I am really confused op. You say you don't want a dropped curb because of cost and you don't like terrace houses with drives for gardens which is fair enough however, that indicates that you have a garden and are not straight into a pavement. I don't see how it can really he blocking that much light then. With a garden, garden wall and pavement the car must be somewhere between 8 and 15 feet from your window, they are big but not so big that it can make all that much difference to light at that distance surely? I know in our terrace a transit type van makes some difference but we are just 8 feet from it and, tbh, the difference isn't huge.

From the pov of the scene out of your window I can see your point but I honestly think claiming any massive disruption to light is a stretch - unless I am missing something?

YANBU. Its a public road. I really don't get this thing of people thinking they own bits of public road, or can dictate what people can and cannot do on them. If its a thing thats so important to you, why don't you buy a house with its own parking?

It is inconsiderate to park a flipping big car right outside someone's windows blocking their light.

Edam, there's a garden in the way. And, anyway where would you have them park? This the street they live on. They'll be outside somebody's window.

2 big cars?

TINY TINY PENIS.

Probably not visible to the naked eye.

LowReg, I didn't say I didn't want a dropped kerb because of the cost I just think that terraced houses with gardens modified to drives look crap.

We have a small garden at the front. Our garden path is about 5ft long then the narrow path leads onto the road. It really does blockout plenty of light. :(

I don't think I own the road, geegee. Like I said, I don't care about parking at the other end of the road. I just don't think it's fair that he takes up three spaces (especially when he could park in front of his own house with one of his massive cars!) and no-one else in the terrace gets a look in with these spaces! HE doesn't own them either!