Just really wanted some opinions really. Today I parked over my neighbour's drive. There was a reason for me doing this I wasn't being a total arse.
Basically I have two very young children and live on a road where every other house has a drive as we live by a station many people tend to park their cars on my road all day and go off to work. Unfortunately, I don't have a drive.
I've been getting increasingly annoyed with my neighbour who lives across the road for the past year she has only parked her car in her drive a few times instead she chooses to park outside her house on the road. i think she does this so that her visitors are guaranteed a parking spot on her drive.
Anyway I came home from shopping today and was unable to find parking on my road. With Two young kids under the age of 2 and 20 shopping bags i Saw her car not on her drive and just got so annoyed that I parked over her drive. She came out we exchanged words I told her how selfish she was being and she told me to move my car. I informed her that I would not move the car until a spot became available to park in and if she was so concerned to park her car in her drive and I would park my car where her car was.
To cut a long story short she refused and said she was expecting visitors so they could use her drive.
I left my car there over an hour until a parking spot became available then I moved my car.
Just to add she has no kids and leaves her car on the road for weeks at a time so taking up a parking spot.
I told a friend about what I did and she said i was being unreasonable. Just wondered if this is normal behaviour got those that have drives or am I a total bitch 
AIBU?
To park over my neighbours drive
asianbabe · 25/06/2013 21:53
YANBU. If anyone is entitled it's your neighbour. She lives on a street where parking spaces are hard to find and takes one when she has a perfectly good drive? Totally selfish. Good for you for taking her on. She needs to show a bit more consideration for her neighbours.
Next time park in her drive when she hogs a space in the road 
Sorry OP but YABU.
Good luck with moving to a house with a driveway btw. Myself and my neighbour have shared access (width of two cars) and each have a driveway which can fit 4 cars at a push. Unfortunately my neighbours cannot park their cars properly and constantly block the access. They have even gone so far as to park on our driveway. Twice overnight. We used to ask nicely for them to move but have been sworn at on more than one occasion even though they are in the wrong and I now refuse to enter into any conversation with them.
Police claim it's a civil matter. The local authority will only offer mediation.
I hanker after the days I stayed in an upstairs flat
YABU, but you've already been told that loud and clear! So I'll offer some support - I know exactly how you feel as we live in a terrace with on-street parking. The house opposite is the only one with a drive - they have two spaces free on it, but take up a space on the road with their car, so they hire out one space and keep the other free for visitors.
So I've had to park miles away and lug shopping and small children (particularly annoying when I had a toddler and newborn) home. My neighbours (who are lovely and friendly, by the way) have often watched me do this in the rain and waved as I've struggled by their window.
Them's the breaks, I'm afraid. Your neighbours are within their rights legally and while morally it's a pisser, there's nothing you can do.
But wanted to let you know you are not alone and I can see where you're coming from (but don't park in front of their drive!).
YANBU. This used to happen in our road, and I was the only house left with a garden and no driveway. Why should I have had to park my car streets away or concrete over my front garden just because other people are so selfish? Luckily now we have a CPZ and I am laughing because I still have a lovely front garden, AND can park. Lobby council for controlled parking, especially if you are near a station.
We have incidentally, two neighbours who have never EVER used their driveways but just keep it to ensure their cars (parked on road of course) are never blocked in. It drives me potty that our street has been destroyed in this way. Concrete everywhere, and trees cut down when they are in the way of driveways 
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