Another parking one - sorry...
I live on a narrow road with residents parking. I have a residents permit and usually manage to get a parking space on the road, though usually not outside my house. This is fine, though frustrating on the occasions I have to park far away and have heavy bags.
But.... there has been a red car parked in the space right outside my house since Christmas. It has a permit so is legal but, by not moving, means the usual movement as cars come and go can't happen so it's preventing the maximum number of cars parking in the marked bay (they are not individual bays, just one long marked one that if everyone parked considerately could fit 7 cars). At least I thought it had been there since Christmas..... last night I spotted that the red car had moved, and there was a battered blue car in the space. I then later heard much banging of car doors and talking outside the house. I nosed through my curtains to see the red car back in the space, the red car's driver locking the car and getting into the blue car's passenger seat and the blue car driving round to the parking space at the rear of the house opposite me.
DH says I have parking rage unnecessarily. I think they have just committed the equivalent of putting a towel out to save a sunlounger before everyone else is up. It's just not fair play.
For completeness, the houses opposite us each have a parking space behind them. We don't, and can only park on the road. We also only have one car, not a spare one to hog a space with.
AIBU to think that saving a parking space by parking a banger there is not really on?