And breathe...
Picture the scene... terraced housing in blocks of 4, so 8 houses on one side, 4 on the other. We're on the side with 8 houses. Between the 12 houses there are 8 cars which park on the street, no bays just on the road plenty of room for all of us, occasionally you need to go a teeny bit further up the road but never an issue. Git opposite has, in his own words, lived here for 40 fucking years. This for some reasons makes him think the space at his gate is his. It isn't. It's on the road parking, anyone from anywhere can park there. We've been here for 6 years and witnessed his antics. He'll waste 3 car lengths of space just to get parked at his gate. He'll park as close as possible to anyone on "his" space.
He had a huge go at our new neighbours over it, we were on holiday at the time and one of our cars was in his space. Last night he went out, leaving his space vacant, dh popped out and on return parked in "his" space. Half an hour later the git returned and sat honking the horn a few times before wheel spinning off to park 10 metres up the road.
So this morning dh car is still there, the gits 2 spaces up, the car next to dh left so git has moved his car next to dhs car. he is, without a word of a lie, 6 inches of his bumper. the fool can barely park as it is. right now there's a full space behind git so he could reverse out when he wants. I'm in front of dh so he has enough room to get out.
Wibu to park behind the git, close but not stupidly close, to block him in?
AIBU?
To block the fucker in?
MrsKeithRichards · 18/01/2013 12:38
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What an idiot. There is someone on our street who puts cones outside their front door so no one can park there in "their" space (similar set up to your street - plenty of room for everyone, and spare spaces fo visitors, just sometimes don't get right outside your door - big effing deal!).
I have on more than one occasion been tempted to move his cones and park in "his space" when the rest of the street is available, but then I feel I would look a tad childish 
it is tempting though!
Some people are honestly just idiots.
What is it with some people and parking spaces? Opposite us there's a house divided into two maisonettes with two spaces outside. Only one of the people in the maisonettes owns a car, but for some reason she simply can't bear the thought of anyone else parking in the spare space, so she regularly parks across both. If someone goes into one of them when she is out, she does that tactic of parking right up behind them to try to block them in. She had a right shouting match with one neighbour who had the temerity to brush against her front bumper with her leg whilst opening the boot. If she has parked someone in, she stands in her front room, arms folded, watching them try to get out - again ready to scream at them if they dare to touch her car in the process. All the neighbours have got very good at getting out of small spaces as a result. If I'm the guilty party, I like to take as long as I possibly can and to get as close as I possibly can to her car several times without touching it, watching her blood pressure rising all the while.
Lowercase, stop being so damn reasonable!
OP - I bet Kev is as sick as the rest of you over it! If Kev does come over, do your biggest smile and say "oh good, I was hoping we could talk to you, a few of us in the road are worried about your step-dad's behaviour recently, he seems really confused and shouty about random things. I mean, everyone knows on street parking is perfectly open to anyone with a tax disc, but he seems a little obsessed, is he ok? We didn't want to be those neighbours who don't mention to extended family when their family member is showing early signs of dementia, and i thought being irrational and obessive was a sign, we're all a bit worried..."
No lowercase, the OP really isn't as bad as the neighbour. When you've lived near knob ends who park selfishly, you understand that actions speak louder than words.
Our current problem here is having a neighbour with three non-moving old bangers taking up half the parking spaces provided for the strip of six properties. It doesn't seem to occur to them that six houses = six parking spaces = one parking space per property. 
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Don'tmindifIdo - That made me chuckle I would love to see the reaction!!
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