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Original poster

to have parked 1 inch from the mini thats been parked outside my house since just after 9am?

104 replies

charliecat · 02/03/2007 18:37

Its becoming a regular thing this mini parking outside my house, ALL DAY..so ive jammed it in. So that im not hanging over next doors dropped kerb, but im still outside my house not half way up the street annoying some other resident.
Am I being unreasonable?
I know I dont own the road but
Would you be?

OP posts:
Aloveheart · 02/03/2007 18:39

i would be very annoyed i think you should key it, lol.

hana · 02/03/2007 18:39

well it might hit your car when it leaves
i'd be annoyed too, but you dont have right to park in front

Iota · 02/03/2007 18:40

I hope they don't scrape yours when they leave

and yes I hate people parking outside my house - it spoils my view

Bobalina · 02/03/2007 18:41

I do exactly the same thing and will continue to do so until they get the message. So I do not think you are being unreasonable at all.

edam · 02/03/2007 18:41

Um, you are right about not owning the road... public highway and all that. So I can see that it's irritating but I do think you are being unreasonable.

misdee · 02/03/2007 18:42

we live near the bridge across to the railway station (communter town). they recently painted double yellows at the end of the road. we get people parking in resident bays. drives me mad. we have one bay outside our home, occasioanlly that has been taken, we leave notes on the windscreen asking them not to park there as a disabled person needs the spot.

zippitippitoes · 02/03/2007 18:42

it's a public road so yes you are

TeeCee · 02/03/2007 18:43

So is this person over your drive?

If not, it may be annoying but yes you are being unresonable.
If I was 'jammed in', I'd love to have a car I wasn't too fushed about about and ram the car that had jammed me in. Hope the owner doesn't get pissed off and key your car.

People get very territorial about people parking outside their house but they have every right to park there whether you like it or not.

I have to park in a residential road every day for work and people open their windows and shout, 'you can't park there' so I ask why and they just say 'you're a bloody nuisance'. Right well sorry about that but I have to park somewhere and you're shouting at me isn't going to make me want to move my car.

Aloveheart · 02/03/2007 18:43

That#s out of order misdee, i'd be so

MeMyselfI · 02/03/2007 18:44

Key it??

Just for parking outside her house?

Now that would be unreasonable.

Annoying as it is, you don't have the right to park outside your own house and I would be mightily pissed off to find someone had deliberately blocked me in just because I was outside their home.

Cross your fingers that the owner doesn't want to move it at 2am and has to ring your doorbell to get you to move first ...

TeeCee · 02/03/2007 18:44

If it bothers you that much get a drive.

edam · 02/03/2007 18:44

So, do all of you who get wound up by other people parking perfectly legally in front of your house always park in car parks? Do you never park on a residential street other than your own?

I just don't see how it is possible never to park in front of someone's house...

(Misdee excepted - has the council not given you a disabled space?)

pooka · 02/03/2007 18:46

Have you tried getting a specific disabled bay put in Misdee? That way if people park there they can be fined and so the responsibility for making sure that noone parks there is not yours any more. Must be very stressful. I would have thought that since Peter has a blue badge the Council should be able to put a bay in.

Of course it doesb't help you if someone else with blue badge wants to park there, but it does stop people parking willynilly.

Original poster
charliecat · 02/03/2007 18:47

I think he burnt his clutch out trying to get out..splutter.

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TeeCee · 02/03/2007 18:47

What that fil, is it Fried Green Tomatoes, where the woman in the car park keeps reversing and then reramming the car that stole her parking place?

That's what I'd LOVE to do to someone who blocked me in.

I think that's a really nasty and silly thing to do to someone and unless you move your car you'd actually deserve it if you got your car slightly dented or scrtatched tbh

Aloveheart · 02/03/2007 18:48

I was actually joking about keying it? i'm not stupid.

shonaspurtle · 02/03/2007 18:48

Can you get the council to paint markings for a disabled space in front of your house? Someone in the flats behind us has this, and though it's v irritating if it's sitting empty I fully understand their need to have it as it's very difficult to get parked in our street.

beckybrastraps · 02/03/2007 18:48

Ah yes.
"I'm older, and I have better insurance"

hana · 02/03/2007 18:50

I do admit to getting slightly annoyed by a neighbour ( who has 2 cars) who insists on parking both cars in front of her house....but I mostly get in front of our own, no not a problem for me . I only ever seem not to get a place when its pouring with rain and I have 3 tired whingy children to drag down the street!!

Original poster
charliecat · 02/03/2007 18:50

So none of you would be in the slightest bit miffed at having to lug your shopping down the street, or your cat in from the vets? Ok...thats why I put it in am I being unreasonable...I surely am!

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ImaWurzel · 02/03/2007 18:50

That is annoying. My mums neighbour has a huge drive but insists on parking their car outside mums house and partially blocking the drive. We have a private car park with 2 spaces but people still park here for the market, when i have a wednesday of (market day) i put notes on the window stating that it is private

Aloveheart · 02/03/2007 18:52

And there's lodes of parking up the road a whole road of it to be exact so to park on a slight little bay outside some houses.well..

misdee · 02/03/2007 18:53

the disabled spot is next on our list to get onto.

i;d rather they parked on the rd and not in the bays.

edam · 02/03/2007 18:54

Tbh, I don't drive, and dh's car lives in a parking space in front of our house... when we lived somewhere with no off-street parking, we didn't own a car. No point. It'd have been stolen or keyed if we'd left it round the corner (rough yet very expensive inner London).

My mother, on the other hand, fumes about anyone pinching 'her' spot outside her house and waged war for years with the neighbour's son from the house opposite who would park in 'her' space when he visited. The neighbours have since died, which cheered my mother up no end. (They were elderly and died of natural causes, she's not completely heartless, just a bit demented about parking.)

DelGirl · 02/03/2007 18:54

This used to be a real bug bear of mine at my old house, makes me hyper ventilate just thinking about it. My neighbour across the road from us had a driveway that could park 2, possibly 3 cars. He would never park on it though until night time (he was retired). Fair enough, I suppose.

But, I happened to park outside his house as there was nowhere for me to park one day. (I didn't have a driveway) I wasn't blocking his drive at all. He drove up along side and said was I going to be there long and I said I would move if another space became available as it looked as if he might pass out if I didn't .

Anyway, he got a big white line painted outside his driveway and about 4 feet either side and he wouldn't even park in front of his own bloody driveway. grrr, it really peed me off. So, his one measly car took up 3 soaces in the road when he had at least 2 on the drive.

I need a drink now just remembering

god this is so long, I really should get a life!

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