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?

I've got the same problem in the cul de sac I live in. There are plenty of parking spaces, as well as driveways, but my neighbour and her husband have a work van each & a car each, that's 4 spaces! They asked me to move my car once at 2am because they had been called into work and couldn't park their van where wanted. I told them to fuck off!

I currently have a car belonging to someone from down the road outside my house.
Not an issue except it's evidently knackered as he was attempting to get it running to no avail.

Shall leave it a while before I enquire if this one is going to slowly rot on the road.

"They asked me to move my car once at 2am because they had been called into work and couldn't park their van where wanted. I told them to fuck off!"

I often wonder, sometimes in amazement, at the sheer gall of people who actually do this sort of stuff.

At 2am, I'd have said a lot more than just "fuck off" - although I agree thats a goodf place to start!!

You were absolutely right not to move. I do not understand why she would expect you to move. Don't feel guilty.

Where were her kids during this conversation or did she just leave them in the car?!

She has a 10 week old so may be frazzled and not thinking straight. I remember getting really uptight with a neighbour who had parked on the curb and I couldn't get the buggy through. (I took her flowers the next day as I knew my awful post baby hormones had taken hold of my body). Maybe pop round tomorrow and check if she needs a cuppa x

"She has a 10 week old so may be frazzled and not thinking straight."

Please explain to us all @Toomanykidsandtired how this is the OP's problem? Because it ISNT. The OP didnt tell/make her have kids.

Doesnt the OP have her own life to lead which ALSO may be full of important things that the entitled car-park-woman doesnt take into consideration?

Or doesnt that count/matter?

Sheesh!

It's bizarrely entitled behaviour which, like others, makes me think there's more to it than meets the eye.

YANBU, at all, though I know full well that if this was me, I'd've meekly gone out and moved the car, and then seethed at myself for ages afterwards.

Wow Fancy - it's almost like you stopped reading TooManyKids post where you ended the quote. Did you even see what she went on to say?

She admits it's irrational, but that there might be other issues at play and a little kindness doesn't go amiss.

Your response is way OTT.

Fancy, it's not the OPs problem. But if we all lived like that the world would be an awful place. Just advocating a bit of kindness. She may well be entitled but you wont know by asking MN. Only by talking.

Thanks for the backup Duchess x

@TheDowagerCuntess - I did read it all.

"She admits it's irrational" - and frankly thats all there is to it. My response was adequate, not OTT. Its still not the OP's "problem", regardless of how stressed the neighbour is due to a newborn child and other irrelevant factoids.

@Toomanykidsandtired - "But if we all lived like that the world would be an awful place. "

The world is already awful - especially when some self centred person knocks on doors demanding a car be moved so that they can park closer to their house.

I park on a permit holders only street. one of my neighbours leaves a big gap between his an adjacent cars. It is so annoying if I have a car load of shopping to carry indoors and have to park the other end of the street when there;s a big almost-but-not-quite car sized gap right outside. I have asked him to move once but he still does it.

YANBU.

I lodged at this house and my landlady would almost daily leave me notes asking me not to park wherever it was I parked because it upset her neighbour. Was I glad to leave there.

What is the yellow and red button?

It is a biscuit :)

On a similar vein, I picked up last two musical biscuit tins on the shelf in our local M&S. Woman watches me put them in my trolley and then asks, "Are you taking both of those?" With a disapproving look on her face. My response "Eh , yes!"
Firstly I was secretly rather pleased that I said that, secondly then found loads more by the tills & was going to find her to tell her but she found them herself.

Hahahahaahaha at some of these posts. Take her round some biscuits?