to park on a residential street when the works car park is full and this woman was rude

[ljwales]

Sometimes if I start at 10 the car park at work is full, so unless I want to walk miles I have to either park in a pub car park or a residential street. I don't use the pub as it is private and I know they get annoyed. So I used the residential street.

Was only there until 4:30 today. After a busy day just as I was getting in the car a woman came out of her house and started telling me off, "I'm fed up with you lot parking here" and launched into a rant about the company I work for and they should move as there are vans coming and going all day. Firstly it is a road that although busy at night, if I leave by 4ish there are usually a few more spaces and the road has no parking restrictions. Secondly about the company, we moved there last year and took over a business that had gone into liquidation so granted it is much busier now there is a successful business there but she did choose to live by a functioning warehouse so don't think she has a leg to stand on

I would be annoyed and I wouldn't do it myself but legally yanbu

yanbu. The last thread was about parking non stop for a flight now that would be irritating imo and I would park at airparks. While people are out at work anyway so there is parking I really can't see any issue or rudeness, its just a road.

Thanks everyone , I will avoid parking outside her house in the future as its not worth the effort for a confrontation at the end of the day but will keep parking there.

This is a problem on my street. It's annoying, but I accept people are within their rights. I only feel miffed if people bump up on the green verges. It ruins the grass and our local environment.

My mum's old road used to be like that because it was right next to a train station. They all petitioned for resident's parking and got it. It is annoying when you can't park anywhere near your house but it's naive to think that random members of the public aren't going to park in a legal spot just in case a resident is coming home with their shopping.

I wonder where the posters who say they wouldn't park where OP has parked would park themselves? If OP is parking as close as she can to her place of work, where do you draw the line? If the nearest place to park, avoiding being outside someone's house, is a mile away, do you park there?

What about the people who think no one should park outside their house. What do they do if someone else has parked in front of their house? To then park outside a neighbours house would reek of hypocrisy. So what do they do instead? Find the nearest NCP then get a taxi home?

I would be annoyed and I wouldn't do it myself

Why?!

People are weird. They get all territorial about public highways. Yes, was rude and wrong. Not sure how to handle it though. Maybe point out that it's just a street, not a private drive.

former because I know how annoying it is when someone used to park in front of my house. I know I have no right to that spot, didn't make it any less annoying. So I wouldn't do it to anyone else. I will go out of my way to park further afield, which is something I've had to do lately as work is happening on our work carpark.

I have to do this if I'm a late start at work. I try and park infront of a patch of grass at the end of the street which doesn't belong to anybody but sometimes I'm forced to park infront of the houses. I feel bad about it and we bring it up with management at every site meeting but nothing changes. So far nobody's said anything but I'd ask them to complain to my employers. I'm as annoyed by lack of parking as they probably are.

It's really annoying when people park outside my house.

It's also really annoying when a train is full, and I have to stand. Or when I have to queue in supermarkets.

People getting irate about the former are being as logical as someone trying to insist other people stand instead/allow them to queue-jump are. The roads are a shared resource. If I want off-street parking, I need to move somewhere that offers it. Not demand that the rest of the driving world offers it to me for nowt.

Maybe ask her which houses are best to park in front of next time, so you don't have to annoy her specifically? dunno how you are going to engineer that conversation though!

YANBU if you park considerately

I'm seriously thinking of starting the ball rolling applying for resident permits as we have a venue (very small) at the end of our road - think seasonal sports club. New season and already I've had one person park over my drive with my car on the drive, and one person block me out of the drive. The venue have lost some parking due to new houses so I have some sympathy. But not for twats who park over my drive. (I have one car, which always goes on my drive).

I'm planning on writing a letter first and saying I'm going to escalate if they don't sort out their patrons

The warehouse and vans are irrelevant.
If it is an unrestricted street then anybody can park there all of the time.
Where is it? I might exercise my right, if there is a space of course.

People do not own the space outside their house or even in the road. So if you buy a house without space to park a car you will have to accept that other people may park in "your" space especially if you live near a town centre, by a school, near a station etc. Usually the school/town centre/railway station was there when you bought the house.

HOWEVER, parking in front of driveways, in turning areas, on grass verges (especially when muddy so you leave tyre marks for the residents to "enjoy") and on yellow lines is an an absolute no-no. I live near a school at the end of a cul-de-sac and the parents do so love to park in the turning area outside my driveway. The yellow lines don't apply to them of course...

I wouldn't park on the opposite side of the road to a driveway either if the owner has driven in and therefore has to reverse out, it makes it very difficult to get out if there is a a car in the way. If they've reversed in and can drive out, I park there.

When I am in a car park I am incredibly fussy about parking. I tend to reverse in, but sometimes I'll change space if I realise I have two drivers' doors either side of me, and the bays are narrow, and I'm not sure if they can open the door even if I can squeeze out. So I'll go off and find another space. My ds and dh find me very annoying. Oh and I check that a parking ticket is displayed and make sure it hasn't blown down when I closed the door, and that you can actually see it (dh once got a ticket for inadvertently putting ticket behind sticker on windscreen so it could not be read properly) and I make my dh put the key fob away before I check the car is locked in case he inadvertently pushes the button when putting the key fob away and unlocks the car again. As I said, ds and dh find me really annoying.

Until we were going away last weekend, and I leapt out of the car at the last minute to check the garage door was locked even though it had not been used in weeks (so we thought) and it OPENED (my son had had his bike out)! Now they realise I am not paranoid and OCD, just sensible.

Haha, one of my old housemates used to leave notes on cars parked outside our house. Once found one ripped up and sellotaped back to our front door!

If it bothers her that much she should ask the Council to introduce residents'parking. We only have 1 car now and pay several hundred pounds per year for a permit, when we had 2 I think we paid around £700 a year.