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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Gah! I probably am. Parking.

92 replies

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 18:00

New house. New build development still in progress. Each house will eventually have two parking space. It is currently still a building site and builders vehicles on site parking wherever every day. Lorries requiring access. No defined parking spaces yet.

So my house is a semi. The rear looks out onto the building site. Its a small development and next door are the end of the site. So no one needs past their house to get anywhere, its just a wall. When i moved in i happened to break my foot on the same day so my dad brought my car over. Neighbour was parked with the side of his car parallel to his back fence which is just a straight line with my fence, the front of his car parallel with the wall that is the boundary for the site. There was a space beside his car so my dad parked my car there and it made sense to me as it meant neighbour didnt have to manoeuvre round my car to get out which he would have to do if i parked behind his car parallel to my fence as he had parked. When my guests arrived they parked behind my car so not blocking in neighbour. This has been happening for 4 weeks. I am finally driving again and the first time i took my car out I came back to neighbour having moved his car so it was parked diagonally across the two spaces his and mine were previously occupying with the front of his car directed towards his fence. I took it as a hint i wasnt to park there again so i parked with the rear of my car against my fence as his car seemed to be indicating thats what should be happening. Today i come home and neighbour has moved his car back to the way it originally was and there was a builder's vehicle with trailer in the space next to him meaning if i parked in my new method it would be a impossible for him to get out so i pulled up behind his car and parked parallel with my fence. As i was going in to the house he came out and said that he parked the way he had the other night (diagonally) because when the site is completed thats how the spaces will be. Each house will have two spaces for cars to park with front of car facing fence. And that he didnt want any of his guests to be blocking me in. This is fine, i have no problem with this, however the site is currently a third of the size it will be, there are site guards up blocking off what will be our driveways, there are builders vehicles and lorries in every day and what this idiot hasnt seemed to realise is that if my guests park the way he is indicating i should park (parellel to fence) then my guests will be blocking him in! Whereas if i park beside him his guest can park behind him and block no-one in and mine can do the same. Never mind the fact that as soon as the builders are back in the morning they will use that empty space beside his car, my car will be behind his and he will be blocked in. Anyway, i've done what ive been told and parked behind him.

There is no AIBU there is there? Confused

Ok AIBU to think my neighbour is an idiot and does he really think that i'm going to be parking in his drive when the site is finished?

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Owllady · 23/02/2016 19:29

Lol at the parking scenarios :o

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:30

Sorry bogey. Grin

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Maryz · 23/02/2016 19:31

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LyndaNotLinda · 23/02/2016 19:32

You're getting more irritated. I can tell by the rip of the paper Wink

You're right. He's thick. Be kind though - you're going to have to live next door to him for the next XX years :o

FoolsAndJesters · 23/02/2016 19:33

OMG OP, you definitely win my poster of the day award Crown Star

Those are some top notch diagrams. Grin

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:34

I was expecting to be told IWBU because i was getting myself worked up about being told where to park despite not actually having been told but prevented from parking the right way heavily hinted at and you know, parking thread so thats just asking for a battering Grin

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Kerberos · 23/02/2016 19:35

I love the diagrams.

Nothing else to add.

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:36

I am getting more irritated. Will calm with news that its not me, its him. And my new crown! Thanks fools proud of those pictures Grin

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FuckAbout · 23/02/2016 19:36

I live in a new build property too and the parking here is appalling. Each house in the street has a driveway which can park up two cars and then there is a communal car park for the HA tenants. But instead of people parking in their designated spots, they park wherever the bloody hell they want to. Drives me pissing barmy!

You'll probably find the builders will paint places with plot numbers how they deem fit, not your neighbour OP!

FoolsAndJesters · 23/02/2016 19:37

According to the OPs picture of Twat Neighbour there are some of the site guards are standing on his head. Confused

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PegsPigs · 23/02/2016 19:38

Awesome drawings. I am so calling you King of Parking Drawings. I fully understand.

Basically he knows what the finished parking situation will be and wants to adopt it now. Despite the fact that the slightly squiffy site guards are preventing normal parking he wants to get in good habits. He thinks you will get into the habit of parking one way and when the site guards are down you'll have established a way that can't be changed. Rather than understanding people can be flexible as things change on building sites. YANBU but you are blowing his tiny mind.

Owllady · 23/02/2016 19:38

Could his crooked car be the result of drinking the site guards gin though?
There are 20 of them

eddielizzard · 23/02/2016 19:39

park as twat face suggests. he'll work it out. talk about hoisted by your own petard...

FoolsAndJesters · 23/02/2016 19:42

Ignore random 'are'

I lived in a house on a building site once and had ten, yes TEN flat tyres. I used to go into the sales office and throw the nails that I would find on the road on their desk. They couldn't have been more sorry but it didn't help. Sad.
The plus side was that I'm bloody brilliant at changing wheels.

MissingPanda · 23/02/2016 19:42

This has to be one of the best parking threads yet if only for the diagrams 😂😂😂

YANBU OP your neighbour is an idiot

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:47

Basically he knows what the finished parking situation will be and wants to adopt it now

Yep. Does he really think i'm going to be driving up past my own driveway and onto his tarmaced, clearly separate from mine drive when all is done?

hoisted by your own petard

Havent heard this in aaages!

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SexLubeAndAFishSlice · 23/02/2016 19:47

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:48

I'm sure he'll agree eventually.

But will he verbalise that agreement into audible words in my presence? Grin

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Maryz · 23/02/2016 19:49

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:51

Awww! Is it only 5 pictures? Sad

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Owllady · 23/02/2016 19:52

Nit sure if the urgent subject matter should include both broken bone and semis though

Owllady · 23/02/2016 19:53

and yes I know there's no bone. I went to a comprehensive

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:55

Owl you have completely lost me! Confused

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Gazelda · 23/02/2016 19:56

Can you draw Mickey Mouse without lifiting your pencil off the paper?

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 19:59

I dont think i could draw him even with the luxury of lifting my pencil!

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