This is a neighbour parking issue. I live in a terrace and we have 2 cars. Most of the neighbours have 2 cars and there's a church in the street so lots of coming and goings and cars.
A neighbour who doesn't technically live in our street but at the end of the terrace and who has 2 cars, a garage and lives on a main road with no parking allowed has had a go at me in the past for parking outside my house and not parking right up against the white access line- the reason i do this is that if my second car is parked close to the line, it's a nightmare reversing out of the driveway. These neighbours do not use their garage for either of theirs cars.
Tonight, both of my cars were parked on the road. As I was drying my daughters hair, this husband parked right over my driveway. I know that if a car is not parked in a driveway, it is not illegal to do this. I asked him what he was playing at, as there was a space right outside the side of his house and he called me pathetic and said why did I park both my cars on the road every Wednesday night (i don't always do this).
He said he would continue to park across my driveway if I didn't have a car on it. I eventually got him to move his car by agreeing to move mine onto the driveway but he was really aggressive and demanded to speak to my husband (who is still at work) and said he needed to sit down with us and sort it out. I said that was the last thing my DH needed ( lots of job worries at the moment) and he said no wonder married to me,
Ok- I accept it must be annoying for him to have to park further along the road but given I pay my road tax too and the fact he has a garage and doesn't use it makes me think I am perfectly entitled to leave my driveway free if i want. I think he's being a bit of a hypocrite.
Sorry this is long-'what does the mumsnet jury think. Any advice?