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AIBU?

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WIBU not to park somewhere else?

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DDDDDORA · 07/03/2015 19:27

I live in a cul-de-sac there are is just enough parking for one car per house but of course many have more than one car (we only have one) so parking can be very difficult. Parking isn't allocated so you generally park in the nearest available space to your house.
I can not park directly outside my house as there is a grassed play area for kids and at my end of the street there are approx 7 places to park for around 15 houses.
Tonight I arrive home at 6.10 and spot a space at my end of the road which I park in, I notice a couple of neighbours (the space is directly outside one of their houses) chatting but don't think anything of it, just as I apply the handbrake the neighbour who's house I have parked outside of knocks on the car window and asks me to park somewhere else as he wants to clean his car.
I refused, he said you can park down there pointing to a space at the other end of the road which I would have had to parallel park into (which I am terrible at) but I refused again explaining that my house is at this end of the street and I was already parked.
I didn't move because I think he simply wanted to park outside of his own house.
Was I being unreasonable not to move the car?

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AwfulBeryl · 07/03/2015 19:32

Well, depends on what sort of relatiosnship you want to have with your neighbour really.
If you want burning bags of cats hit left on your doorstep then your going the right way.
I live on a street with no off road parking, so I know what a pain it is to park down the road from your house, but it wouldn't have hurt to move your car this once.
If your shit at parking you could have asked him to do it.

AwfulBeryl · 07/03/2015 19:33

I me you're, obviously. I am sure it correctly first time round.

Endler32 · 07/03/2015 19:36

I would have moved just to save the argument, I would be worried that I would come back to my car keyed if I hadn't moved .

UncommonSense · 07/03/2015 19:38

Beryl, you are talking shit.

There is no allocated parking so nobody else has the right to expect you to move. You were right to stand your ground.

AwfulBeryl · 07/03/2015 19:41

ok. Uncommon.
Op, no you didn't have to move, i would have, just to be neighbourly.

Purplepoodle · 07/03/2015 19:47

I would have just moved if it was a one off and he wanted to clean his car. If happened again then I wouldn't move but then I like to be on good terms my neighbours

ragged · 07/03/2015 19:49

For sake of neighbourly relations I would have moved. I also would have marked his card as a total Arse.

CupidStuntSurvivor · 07/03/2015 19:50

Could he not have asked you to swap spaces with him? Where was his car?

Koalafications · 07/03/2015 19:55

YANBU for not moving but, personally I would have moved as I couldn't be bothered with the altercation.

Alisvolatpropiis · 07/03/2015 20:00

I would have moved, because there was another space available. I would have found it teeth grindingly annoying he had asked me, however.

getawaynow · 07/03/2015 20:03

You were right to stand your ground. Some people are so entitled, thinking they own the space outside their house. yanbu, how cheeky!. If they were about to wash their car where was their bucket and sponge? Don't believe a word.

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DDDDDORA · 07/03/2015 20:13

Perhaps I could have moved to be neighbourly but I don't think he wanted to clean his car as it was 18.10 and getting dark. I think it was just an excuse to park in front of his house. I'm not sure where his car was.
I have already marked his card as an arse as when they first moved in he kept parking like a twat until another neighbour pointed out how inconsiderate he was being by the way he was parking.

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AnnieThePianist · 07/03/2015 20:17

Yanbu.

My neighbour 3 doors down is a right old witch. I also can't park directly in front of my own house because there's a grass verge, so have to park in whichever space is nearest my house.

Last year I pulled in to a space, which was outside her house. As I was getting out she came barreling out shouting 'Oh for God sakes! He's (her son) only nipped down the shop, he'll be back in two minutes and wanting to park there...you'll have to move'.

Oh fucking will I? I think not. I told her it was first come first serve so he'd need to find somewhere else. And I was sorry (was I hell!) but that was how it was.

Two days later a (lovely) neighbour knocked my door and said x (horrid old woman) had told her I'd smacked her car whilst parking ...total fabrication.

So now, I park outside the old witch's house when ever I can even if there's a nearer space

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