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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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Lambzig · 23/02/2016 19:59

I bloody love this thread. I think we should demand diagrams from every OP.

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 20:00

Yes! Lets all refuse to rule whether TABU or not until we've seen a discriptive diagram.

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 20:01

Descriptive! I knew that looked wrong. Blush

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Cookingongas · 23/02/2016 20:08

Yanbu- as evidenced by the supplied artist rendition.

He's a twat, with twat parking, twat passive aggressive parking, and twat passive aggressive solutions to twat parking with twat logic to boot.

Unfortunately I suspect you too will have to take up twat parking in the interest of twat peace.

stubbornstains · 23/02/2016 20:26

I disagree. I don't think he's being that twattish, just misguided. He does claim to be considering your guests' convenience, after all. I think you need to find common ground and bond a little, for you really need to be standing shoulder to shoulder, ready to engage in guerrilla warfare against your common parking foe. That's right, the builders Grin.

Imissmy0ldusername · 23/02/2016 20:27

Can I politely request that when we get into diagram territory, especially diagrams involving houses and parking spaces, can we please use 5mm squared paper? It makes everything just sooo much easier on the eye - I can supply every single Mumsnetter with a nice clean page or three gratis - I may have a few reams... but I'm not reaming the semi...

Lweji · 23/02/2016 20:36

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

I can predict with confidence that he'll come up with a whole new idea of you parking parallel to him by the wall and respective guests behind each car. And beam at you while explaining to you in detail how it works out.

And then you can pull out your drawing and prove to him that it was what you sugested in the first place.

Grin
Hunchbackofnotre · 23/02/2016 20:42

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FeelingSmurfy · 23/02/2016 20:46

Poster of the day award Grin 3 diagrams drawn, and so quickly too!

Has anyone else forgot what the question was Wink I got distracted by the drawings Grin

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 23/02/2016 20:48

Your neighbour is an idiot, RudeElf, you are not, and I really like those diagrams. Hope your foot is better soon. Grin

UterusUterusGhali · 23/02/2016 20:56

I love in a new build and my parking is as you indicated in your first diagram.
Will there be new houses/fences where the guards are?

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 20:57

Grin thank you everyone.

lewji i have a sneaking suspicion you are right! I will keep my drawing on my person at all times in anticipation of that moment.

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 20:59

I dont know about new fences, i dont think so but there will be new house much further back than where the guards are.

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CraftyPenguin · 23/02/2016 21:02

I love the diagrams!

YANBU. He's an idiot. Do it his way, and hopefully he'll be a bit more reasonable once he realises he is blocked in.

Maryz · 23/02/2016 21:18

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FoolsAndJesters · 23/02/2016 21:23

This thread is so good t doesn't even need penguin bollards but here are some just in case.

Gah! I probably am. Parking.
Blu · 23/02/2016 21:30

I live in a semi.

Could you go out at night and move the site guards?

What's boiling his bollocks is that Sensible Parking
a) has your car on his land
b) has your car outside his house.

He may know, in his head that that is Sensible Parking for Now, but in his territorial little heart he is roaring 'Get Orf my Land'.

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 21:30

Grin will do maryz

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 21:35

Yes it is his land and i know that, which is half the reason i was expecting a load of YABUs. But its still more sensible for now to park there. It makes no odds to him as he only has one car so cant use two spaces. Ah well. I will do as i'm told. and giggle at my window when he is bocked in

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JolseBaby · 23/02/2016 21:37

You are my new favourite poster just for the diagrams. From now on, no parking thread will be officially sanctioned by MNers unless there are clear diagrams or pictures illustrating the problem Grin

SouthWestmom · 23/02/2016 21:42

What is a site guard? Is it men and dogs?

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 21:47

Its the metal fences that go round building sites to stop people getting in.

Gah! I probably am. Parking.
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JolseBaby · 23/02/2016 22:11

I'd imagined rows upon rows of burly builders, all standing in a straight line at night to keep an eye on things

RudeElf · 23/02/2016 22:16

Well if theyre anything like the builders we've got on site i dont much fancy waking up to a row of them watching my house Grin

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JolseBaby · 23/02/2016 22:21
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