to have declined to move my car.

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I live in a cul de sac. We don't have drive ways just residential parking at where the street ends. I came home from work and got my DD's dinner ready (she's 2.4) and sat her at her table to eat. Door gets rattled and my neighbour says "you're going to need to move your car please" I asked her if I was blocking someone in and she said no...she just wanted the parking space i used because it was closer to her house and she was going to have to park 70 yards up the street. She has a 4 year old and a 10 week old who was in a car seat. I asked her where she thought I was going to park and she said the place up the street I said to her my husband wasn't home and I didn't want to leave my daughter unattended in the house (the way the street winds the house wouldn't be visible from where she expected me to park the car) she got really huffy and said I was being unreasonable that she would have to carry a car seat down the street with her baby. I apologised and said I wasn't willing to leave my daughter alone in the house. It's a rubbish street for parking - built when people didn't have cars so it cant cope with the volume that's now using the street and parked on it.

I feel bad but also a bit annoyed that she rattled my door to demand I move my car.

WIBU?

Where were the kids when she was in your house?

That's what I was wondering too. If she's walked as far to your house with the kids already then surely it would be quicker to walk to her house from there?

Even if your husband is there, do t move the car. Once you do that she will knock every single time demanding you move.
She didn't have to carry the car seat she could leave it in the car and just carry the baby. That's her choice to carry extra weight.

Good point Bewty
So she has left the children unattended so she can come and knock on your door and have an argument!

Yes, what was she doing, leaving her kids in the car to walk 70 yards to berate a neighbour?

People are weird with parking. I live in a small narrow cul de sac. Most houses have drives, we don't, and ignoring the fact we rent it isn't possible for our house to have one. parking is difficult, very much first come, first served out so I thought....

There's a small turning bay near our house since we moved in we've noticed it had been used as a parking space so my DP started parking there instead of at the entrance of the cul de sac (a couple of minutes walk away). A lady from the house opposite knocked on my door one morning telling me that my 'husband' couldn't park there as it was their space. They have a drive with enough space for 3 cars!!! Apparently that is where their son parks not anymore unless he's there first

Silly woman
YWNBU

Laughable. How dare she knock on your door and demand you move your car from a public parking space? YANBU.

Why didn't she ask someone else in the street to move their car - cheeky woman

Ywnbu even if you had no children. Who the fuck does she think she is? The input way I would have considered it would have been if she asked really nicely, similar to 'I'm really sorry, I know what I'm about to ask is really unreasonable but is there any chance you could move your car? Only I have loads of shopping, a tiny baby and a bad back? I'll return the favour another time?'

How she asked? Not fucking likely!

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I don't understand why she would have had to carry the car seat - surely if you have to walk that far you just take the baby out and carry the baby - why does the car seat need to come out as well?
And yes - where were the kids when she was banging on your door?!
YANBU, by the way.

YANBU - as the others have already said, she's an entitled idiot. Unless she has documentation proving sole use of said space then tell her to go fuck herself politely go away.

Have you ever used the space before, out of interest?

The kids were in the car which was only a few metres away. I live at the end of the cul de sac (as does she) so she'd parked in the middle of parking bit at the end

dagnabit

Loads of times!

YANBU. She can take her entitlement elsewhere!

And loads more, I hope!

Well done you for not telling her to fuck the fuck off!

SHE was being unreasonable.

Keep a note handy with the address of the nearest grip-shop.

I love parking entitlement madness. I moved from London where, if people have a car they accept you often have to park 3 streets away, to Milton Keynes where the car is fetishised to the most bizarre degree (the whole place is dedicated to cars). People would knock and ask us to move our car if it was parked outside their house (in fact i remember being told mn that the space outside your house was morally yours and we were out of order for parking the way we did).

We got hate mail and people kept reporting our car as abandoned if it was outside their house. The worst was when i was heavily pregnant and dh was working away and the notes saying i had 'enemies' and to watch myself really ramped up. All our neighbours were retired and appeared to live for this shit!

If they are not designated spaces she has no more right to space x than you have. If you move once she will never let you be, she'll be rattling your door at all hours to demand you move. Just say no, I'm legally parked and I'm sorry you're struggling to find a space.

A senior (and female) police officer once told me that if an Englishman's home is his castle an English woman's castle is anywhere she wants to park her car!

If she says anything about parking again tell her to fuck off.

YANBU. If spaces aren't allocated, then it's first come first served. BTW, I presume she left her 2 kids unattended in her car while she came to complain to you? Pretty poor.

Why you anyway? There are lots of others parked nearby too I would guess.