really FUCKING ANGRY re car parking bollocksq

[bitofcheese]

live in a quiet street where parking is a nightmare due to most of the people living in it having made their small front gardens into a drive, usual shite. we deliberately haven't as we like to look out onto a garden as opposed to the front bonnet. some fucking arse has at a guess either moved into the street/changed jobs or just likes using it as a dumping ground but lives elsewhere but the last few months there are LOTS of the same company van appearing in the few parking spaces and it looks like a company forecourt, nothing wrong legally here, i know. to make matters worse these vans barely get used, they sit there for 1/2 weeks. how fucking inconsiderate, i think the twat is staying with a neighbour as i saw him going up their path the other night, fancy the neighbour not saying something. there is space at the top of the road where considerate people usually park vans. i need to park my car outside mine for work reasons although accept i often can't as i don't have a drive but most people tend to use their car regularly so when a car is out the front it rarely stays for more than a day or two. fucking pissed off and stressed out, want to take a pair of keys to the fucking thing

bitof how is he parking 4 vans? I think i am confused, sorry. Does he park one, then walk into work the next day and bring a different one back? Is it a local company who may have expanded/lost parking spaces at their premises.

I live on one of those streets where everyone wants to park outside their house. I have been flamed on here and told the space is 'morally' theirs. We just don't get it. In fact DP rarely parks outside our house - it would mean mountin almost all 4 wheels on the curb and obstructing the pavement that people would have to walk sideways. We left out car in the bay opposite the house for 6 months without moving it! It was outside someone elses house (but nose in so not taking up the full width iyswim), there was nowhere else to leave it.

i thought i had made it clear enough, it isn't the fact that someone is parking outside my house that bothers me, anyone can park there, sometimes i do, alot of the time i don't, i get on with it but the space is shared as most people use their car regularly so we all come and go and thus the space gets shared. my moan is simply that for some odd reason 4 of the same company vans have appeared in our street the last few months, all rarely being used so they can sit where they are parked for weeks and all appear to belong to the same bloke. he must work for the company in question which i think is quite a big company with many offices around the uk (i nosed on the internet). i have no bloody idea how they come to be in his hands, perhaps he was trying to impress the boss with saving the company parking storage fees and offer that they can park the vans in our street? no bloody idea, the vans are just there for the duration and seem to be the work of this same bloke. they are a hire van company, at first it hought they belonged to someone ie moving home but as they sat there parked for days obviously not as expensive to rent out, perhaps they are overflow vans that are spare for emergency and the depot has no room for them? fucking annoying

I hate to be an arse about this but if you wanted unrestricted parking then you should have bought/rented a house with a drive or garage.

I live in a city with extremely congested streets and even with a permit, most nights it requires a tour around various back streets looking for a space. Parking in the same road let alone the flat But it is part and parcel of living where I chose to live.

Life is too short, get over it!

I'm sorry but your posts are very hard to read. Any chance of using capital letters?

oooh - a hire drive company? which one?

i noticed a street i often drive down in edinburgh is overrun with mitchell self drive vans... i'd be really p'd off if it was my street. we have on-street parking and there isn't enough, we always park a street away and i don't mind, but i bloody would mind if a van hire company was getting free on-street parking for their business.

If the issue is about unreasonableness then YABU. No one owns the road or street outside and whilst we might feel there is a 'moral' right there is none.

If you want a personal space pave over your garden. It is bad for the environment and ugly but is a solution.

The only other option is a petition for controlled parking to the council. It is what, after 20yrs of not being able to park within a 10min walk of our front door because of non residential parking, my street got. Its great. For us. Shame about anyone else who needs to park nearby.

I don't think uabu at all.
I agree about wanting a garden and feel that you should be able to park outside your own home.
Ring the company and then if they don't move the vans ring the council.

OP I know you don't want to be confrontational but if you want something to change you will have to:

Speak to your neighbour; or
Ring the van hire compant; or
Ring the council.

Personally I'd do them in that order but ringing the company first would avoid a face to face discussion if you prefer.

" feel that you should be able to park outside your own home."

Oh I don't agree with that bit. But I think in an ideal world you should be able to park in your own street.