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AIBU?

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To park outside my neighbour's house and refuse to move?

129 replies

Graceful1 · 22/02/2017 01:59

We live on a busy road and as such parking spaces are always at a premium, but we usually take up the same spaces. Anyway when I got home earlier there was nowhere to park as someone had parked right outside my house.
I had to park about 4 houses down as it was the nearest space available.
About an hour later the person who lives in the house (who has never spoken to me before and I have lived here 5 years) knocked on my door and asked me to move my car, I refused as I had just washed my hair and was in my pyjamas.
He walked off calling me ridiculous.
AIBU or would you have moved your car ?

OP posts:

Iris65 · 22/02/2017 08:39

Very funny. He was being totally unreasonable.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 22/02/2017 08:53

In my first ever house one of my neighbours once asked me to move my car (legally parked) and when I refused chased me down the road waving a mop.

I miss that lady now she's long dead but was top fun

Ifailed · 22/02/2017 08:57

I have no clue how to even start with a diagram

try an on-line drawing site, such as drawisland.com

AwaywiththePixies27 · 22/02/2017 08:59

needsasockamnesty I'm sorry that's so funny! 😂

peukpokicuzo · 22/02/2017 09:03

Come on, if you can draw a rectangle you can do a diagram. Of course we like different coloured pens to represent houses, gardens, driveways and cars but these are not obligatory.

ItsNachoCheese · 22/02/2017 09:03

I have people park outside my drive all the time and even though i dont have a car yet its a bit annoying but nothing i can do. But when i get my car if my drive gets blocked i will go daft. Im going to get a sign for my gate saying not to block my drive as its in constant use

seafoodeatit · 22/02/2017 09:05

YANBU, I thought it would parking on someone's drive! but it's just on the road, nobody owns it. We live in a permit parking area, our road is usually full and often have to to park down the road it's just what comes with shared parking. It doesn't help we have a few wankers inconsiderate neighbours who either don't know how to park or are worried about their precious car and park so that other cars can't park next to it.

expatinscotland · 22/02/2017 09:05

It's a public road! I wouldn't have answered the door. Definitely wouldn't have moved.

JustSpeakSense · 22/02/2017 09:09

YANBU to park on a public road.

I'm disappointed at lack of diagram, this is compulsory when starting a parking thread

Nanna50 · 22/02/2017 09:17

Ooh a parking thread One of the reasons my OH will not move house is that we have drive space for 3 cars AND we have a small green between our house and the road so no one can park outside our house. He did a fair Victor Meldrew impression when someone parked on the grass when visiting a neighbour once, though he's not daft enough to go and complain.

Ridingthegravytrain · 22/02/2017 09:22

Yanbu! When I moved into my new house my neighbour knocked on our door. To welcome us I thought. But no, she wanted to tell our friend to move their car from the road outside our house (he was helping us to move!)

Pretty much set the tone for the sort of person she is

Ridingthegravytrain · 22/02/2017 09:23

*her not our

NavyandWhite · 22/02/2017 09:25

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JustSpeakSense · 22/02/2017 09:37

NavyandWhite

'there was nowhere to park as someone had parked right outside my house'

^didn't you read the OP?

Laiste · 22/02/2017 09:40

I'd have asked why before deciding he 'needed a life'. Maybe he had a good reason. Perhaps he'd waited till there was a space outside your house before asking? It's not like he swore at you or anything.

NavyandWhite · 22/02/2017 09:41

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RaspberryOverloadTheFirst · 22/02/2017 09:59

I lived for 17 years on a street of terraced houses where you could only park down one side of the road as it was a bus route too. You park where you can, there, and this chap would have had everyone howling with laughter at the idea of moving a car to leave a space outside his home. I rarely managed to park outside my own home.

CatsBatsEars · 22/02/2017 10:06

I wouldn't have answered the door either

Bellerophon · 22/02/2017 10:18

The reaction of this man sums up just why I can't stand our country half the time.

You are not a telepath OP, so how could you have reasonably been expected to realise that parking on an unallocated part of a public road, could ever be a problem?!

This man has communication issues. He should politely explain why he needs the space outside his house - if he has a justifiable reason that is.

It's highly unlikely he has any good reason of course. He should get over himself and move house to a place which has a driveway and dropped kerb.

WhispersOnTheWind · 22/02/2017 10:23

Those who say he may have had a good reason - then why didn't he just state the good reason? I'm baffled that anyone thinks it's ok to disturb a neighbour to ask them to move a perfectly legally parked car when there is another available space just four doors away, as in this case outside OP's house.

Valeriemalorie · 22/02/2017 10:38

Good for you for not moving. If he needed to park outside his house for a specific reason he should have said. It will all be sorted out next time you move your car anyway.

Sweetpotatoaddict · 22/02/2017 10:43

My neighbours visitors are absolutely 100% batshit crazy about their requirements to park on the same side of the road as the house they are visiting, the road is narrow so space for parking on one side only. Highlights have included them blocking the road, demanding that we don't have two cars and when I was 6 days postpartum demanding that we parked on the opposite side of the road to our house as we were inconveniencing them ( we had a 20mth old and a newborn at that point).
There is nothing like on street parking for people to create like entitled fools.
OP I would have done exactly as you did!

CityMole · 22/02/2017 10:45

I'd have put an overcoat on over my PJs and moved it, like the absolute people pleaser I am. I'd then have gone home and become really cross about it, and wished I'd told him to bog off. You were completely within your rights to say no, and he's the ridiculous one for even asking!

NataliaOsipova · 22/02/2017 11:13

This sort of thing drives me mad. If you have a really, really good reason for needing to be right outside your house (eg elderly and infirm guest who needs to be transported by said car and cannot walk the 40 yards down the road) then you ask, very nicely, if someone will oblige you as a favour. Otherwise you accept you live on a public road where anyone is entitled to park. And if you can't cope with that, you look to move house to somewhere which has private, off street parking!

AlexanderBerry · 22/02/2017 11:15

Ha ha. The op's parking issues sound quite straightforward so maybe people can imagine it in their mind's eye without a diagram.
YANBU op

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