a parking one with a note from neighbour

[KinkyAfro]

This is the letter left on DP's van yesterday. We live at 215, attached to 213, then there's a road and then 211 where note writer lives.

I'm having to sit on my hands so I don't write a response. AIBU to think this is a bit passive aggressive or AIBU to park van there?

[Message from MNHQ: We've had to remove the attached letter as it was a bit too identiyfing. We realise the rest of the thread will make little sense now to anyone new to the thread, but we're leaving it up so the OP can continue to discuss with those already on board].

I'm almost hoping there are no more sunny days in the next three weeks. I did say almost.
Sounds like neighbour doesn't have a great deal to do, think, or worry about. She possibly writes a lot of notes when life outside impinges on her home life. Caravans? Vans? Whatever next? Travellers on the grass verge, ponies on her lawn, homeless people in sleeping bags on her doorstep? No? I didn't think so.
KinkyAfro - Since she now knows that this marring of the view won't last beyond the end of the month try not to let her attitude get to you. Or those of the more hostile posters. 🚐🚒🚚🚛

Consideration costs zero, you are perfectly within your legal rights but thinking of others does seem to be vanishing at an astonishing rate in this country these days.

In my previous house I had the joy for 3 years of looking out of my sitting room at an Autoglass van at all times of day as they worked shifts. Couldn't park opposite their own house as they had another neighbours drive opposite, didn't have their own drive as it was shared with 3 other garages. Was quite happy when he left that job! We also had a no vans restriction but nothing was ever done.

I drive to work and every morning there is a Drains company van parked opposite a T Junction (on the top part of the T) which makes it a blind corner - and on a bus route so loads of fun!

paniniswapx3

I am being "rude" to OneMagnum because she feels that no vans should be parked in residential areas. Ever. Did you read that? She suspects that anyone who parks a transit van near their house (when they don't have off-street parking) is not paying business rates and is fiddling their tax. She is posting rubbish and is being challenged on it. That is all.

bibbity I don't think you were being rude.

I'm thinking of others, other road users, pedestrians, mum, other neighbours. This was the least obstructive place or so I thought. Anyway, DP is home and he's told me he's working away for a few nights so problem solved

OP: I think OneMagnum may well be helping you to get an insight into the mind of someone like your whingey hyacinth bucket of a neighbour. You can't radon with it, so just keep parking and ignore. If she contacts the police they'll just tell her to get a grip.

You can't reason with it either.

I've no idea why you'd want to radon with it. You'd probably be very unreasonable if you tried to.

I would try and rotate where the van is parked around the road, or put it on the drive. It is annoying to have a van parked outside your house/drive all the time.

I just don't get how for example, you were a self-employed plumber who had no one visit you at home and went to different jobs a few times a week how you could leave your van at the customer's home instead of yours and then having to come back via public transport? Or why it would be a problem for your neighbours if you were running this business from home? I genuinely don't understand this line of thinking, it's not being rude.

Let's be honest, you are parking it there so it doesn't have to be on your own drive. You could easily put it on your mother's drive with her car, and park your car elsewhere.

In a way Persephone, because it's a pain in the arse having to keep shuffling them about. It's not in anyone's way, not blocking traffic. Only thing it's blocking is neighbour's view of the side of opposite neighbour's bathroom window and roof

I hate hate hate works vans in residential roads. There's one near us, it in no way affects me but it winds me up. All detached houses with double drives, yet this guy has a huge van (the san pro bin people) he parks it on a bend, at the side of someone else house then walks across the road onto his close to his double drive way. I would key it if it was at the side of my house.....I don't even care.

Op, take one of your cars off the drive and park the monstrosity there. If your DH leaves at 2am to 4 am then I'll bet it's also waking them up.

I just happen to have courtesy and understanding of what might be annoying to other people but if the rest of you want to be ignorant and do what the hell you like then crack on. It's not my street. If wanting to remind people that they should have the proper insurance and permissions to use their homes as their businesses is wrong then fine, it won't be me that finds my insurance is invalid if my house burns down and if you think tax dodging doesn't harm anyone then clearly that's okay too. I also said that the vast majority of people wouldn't give a toss about vans being in the street contrary to residential rules as long as some consideration is taken.

I'm also not the one that saw fit to post a piece of correspondence giving someone's address on social media for any weirdo to view. I'm sure that would be extremely distressing to the person involved who we can only hope hasn't seen it and seen herself ridiculed by people who want to live their lives in a selfish way. People wonder why there is no sense of community or society anymore and then we have the stuff that is written on these threads which completely explains it.

The OP quite easily park the van on her mums drive and park the cars in the street but that might be inconvenient to her so she's rater annoy someone else and leave a van that is getting started up at all times of the night outside someone else's house even though they've asked them not to.

But well okay strike at the easy target. And this isn't a threat because I would never do it, but there is no reason that anyone seeing the original post couldn't contact your neighbour and tell them what you published.

I'm presuming that your Mum who needs to live in the street is okay with you annoying the neighbour? whether you or anyone else feels it is justified.

Yeah bibbity isn't being rude. She is spectacular at being rude. If she is being rude to you, you know about it

a talent I wish I had sometimes

Again, as soon as I realised the address was posted I asked for it to be removed, it took over 2 hours to be removed and it wasn't intentional. You can stop labouring that point now

And bibbity didn't your mother teach you that "she" is the cat's mother?

Boggles. Seriously magnum, drop it. We are not tax dodgers or running businesses from home for fucks sake, we are parking a van on a fucking side road, next to a six foot fence, that is all

I can stop labouring the point? Ah well that's fine then, that changes things entirely.

Kinky who has said you are? You not me are the one who keeps applying it to you and insisting that you aren't. I was answering a post by someone else and we were both talking generically, not about you.

hyacinth bucket

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So, why can't you park the van on your own drive and park the cars on the road?

Gives up, I'll leave you all to carry on, I'm done. Thanks all

Yip I would totally ignore it!