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To think that if you choose a house with NO parking...

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WelshMaenad · 05/11/2012 19:58

You should stop fucking moaning when you find it difficult to park your car?

Our street only has houses on one side. The last five if thirteen are built up away from the toad so don't even have road outside them - does that make sense?

8 or do months ago one of them was let to a single girl who works as a HCA in a hospital and therefore works shifts. She is a really inconsiderate parker at the best of times, but at the moment we have tiadeorks in the street that is taking up a lot of available parking spaces. She has several times parked sink considerately that she has all but blocked the road, and did so just now when we were all out front with sparklers. DH politely suggested she move her car to stop it getting damaged and she went off on a rant about how she has to 'fight to park' and doesn't want to park at the top of the hill as she would have to walk to her house (50m?) in the dark, and it's too far away from her house, etc.

Several of us have kids, my dd is disabled, and it's really inconvenient to have to park far away but I swear we don't whinge as much as this miserable, entitled, perfectly able bodied and dependent-free girl. Who chose to rent a house without even road outside to park on.

AIBU to want to kill her? I just had to abandon the party to stop myself telling her to shut the fuck up.

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TheSkiingGardener · 06/11/2012 03:32

The OP isn't complaining about this person parking near her house, but about her parking in such a way that she blocks the road. That is completely unreasonable and there is no excuse, especially not that she basically can't be bothered to walk a bit.

ripsishere · 06/11/2012 03:44

Parking wars.
When we lived in Essex, our cul de sac had a bit on the front garden to park your car. Me and DH had a car each, one of us would park behind the other persons car.
The man over the road had one car which he kept in his garage. He used to put a plank of wood on a bucket at the end of his 'drive'.
We had a party. A big party. A couple of friends of ours parked their cars either side of his wooden structure. He phoned the police.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 06/11/2012 10:02

If she's parking unsafely or illegally she's BU, and if she's blocking the road maybe she is?

But she does have the right to park on a bit of road that doesn't have double yellows and I don't see what you mean, that her house has 'no' parking but your does - unless you have marked bays with your house numbers, you both have exactly the same amount of parking and you don't have more right to it than her just because it is outside your house.

But get in touch with the council for a disabled space.

Round here everything is permit parking and occasionally some selfish idiot will decide that the space directly outside their front door is 'theirs' and start leaving notes on other people's cars. It is exceptionally annoying and childish.

cuteboots · 06/11/2012 11:34

yabu- Where I live parking is a bloody nightmare but what makes it even worse is the idiot who seems to work in a local garage bringing home his breakdown truck and several cars thats hes doing up to sell ! GRRRR. Then one women starting to put cones along the bit where she was going to park at night ! Hmm they werent there long. I know its not a god given right to park outside your house if you rent but surely common sense should prevail as well?

Icelollycraving · 06/11/2012 14:12

Yabu. She has no road in front of her house but as no one in the road has allocated parking,she legally has as much right as you. Possibly not morally but legally.
Not sure why you were using sparklers so close to the road though Hmm

lljkk · 06/11/2012 14:23

If she is blocking the road She IBU.
Put up some pictures OP?

FryOneFatManic · 06/11/2012 14:35

DP and I lived for 17 years in a terraced house, all parking on street, nothing allocated.

We have had two cars for a long time. Along with most of our neighbours, we always parked considerately, meaning that we all kept unuseable gaps to a minimum and if it meant that sometimes I was 100m away with a small child/buggy, then so be it.

We moved house when DC2 was 3 yrs old and now have parking. But parking wasn't the main reason we moved house Grin. But, at least I can parallel park with a vengence Grin

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