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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

Gah! I probably am. Parking.

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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?

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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HooseRice · 23/02/2016 22:32

Thanks for the diagrams. Maybe sometime in the not so distant future your neighbour will realise he's a class A bellend. Don't hold your breath though.

InTheTeapot · 23/02/2016 22:35

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

Yes especially if I use my pen.

IloveJudgeJudy · 23/02/2016 22:46

I just read this thread and absolutely had to post to say RudeElf what absolutely stonking and clear parking drawings. I am in awe. You have made each stage perfectly clear - wonderful. Fwiw I think you're in the right, always .

I wish more parking threads had your calibre of diagram so that it was easier to picture exactly what's going on.

HowBadIsThisPlease · 23/02/2016 22:46

Brilliant thread. 2 observations:

I wish the people I work with were as logical as OP

as an actual genuine "earn £1,000,000,045 per month while working from home" endeavour that would work (as opposed to pyramid bellendry) the OP should definitely set up a business as a Diagrams Contractor for parking threads on mumsnet

HowBadIsThisPlease · 23/02/2016 22:47

"I wish more parking threads had your calibre of diagram so that it was easier to picture exactly what's going on."

yes, but I wish more conversations about anything ever had this level of logic and clarity

Definitely set up that business.

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 23:26

the OP should definitely set up a business as a Diagrams Contractor for parking threads on mumsnet

Love it. I could totally do that. How much should i charge per diagram?

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DrSeussRevived · 23/02/2016 23:32

Each poster on a DiagraMThread should chip in 10p. MN loves parking threads, you'll be minted!

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RudeElf · 23/02/2016 23:33

Crowdfunding for parking diagrams!

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SouthWestmom · 23/02/2016 23:38

I am v disappointed I thought they would be alive

Fatmomma99 · 23/02/2016 23:44

I think MN should change their rules and regs so that every thread about parking must contribute compulsory diagrams! And they should be to RudeElf's standards.

Although, disappointed by her pictures of the fencing - would have preferred a diagram.

Also, am very envious of all these "guests" that she and neighbour have. Does my postman count? He comes to visit me almost every day.

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RudeElf · 24/02/2016 09:29

Yes a postman counts!

I only have guests as i was housebound due to foot and it was my mum/dad/sister coming to ferry me about places. I'm back to just having the postman again.

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RidersOnTheStorm · 24/02/2016 09:39

I do like a well-illustrated thread.

Collaborate · 24/02/2016 09:40

OP - So you actually own the land behind your fence? and eventually the builders will extend the land so that you each have your own longer driveway? Presumably he'll be able to access his without having to drive over yours, or do your deeds give him a right to pass over your drive?

Assuming that he has no right to pass over your drive, and he can only access his drive at the moment by crossing your drive, it sounds to me as if he wants to stop you parking on his drive, as you have no legal right to do so, yet despite him having no right to access his drive without trespassing over yours, he thinks it's fine for him to do so.

I suspect you may have to initiate another parking thread in the months to come. I'll order the popcorn.

Lweji · 24/02/2016 10:19

Ooh, I see another diagram coming.

How does the land ownership work?

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RudeElf · 24/02/2016 12:00

I rent the house but yes it will be two separate drive ways once the site is completed. So technically he is currently driving across 'my' land to get to his space. Once the site is complete he wont have to do that he will drive up past my drive, turn left across the entrance to mine (but not on mine if that makes sense) and then left again onto his own drive.

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Collaborate · 24/02/2016 13:26

So he's telling you that you must park on your own land. He can do so because otherwise you'll be parking on his land.

Point out to him that you're happy to do so, and will avoid driving on his land if that's what he wants, but you'd expect the same courtesy from him, which is a shame as it will make his drive for the time being an island which he can't access without trespassing.

Maryz · 24/02/2016 14:56

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