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

[charliecat]

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?

He had 2 ft at the back, and 1 inch at the front, so that I wasnt blocking MY next door neighbours drive. BTW.

Do you never park in residential roads then? I know I do and I'll always be parked outside someone's house when I do. When I drove to work or when I go somewhere regularly now, I had/have my "favourite" spot. I've lived somewhere with no off street parking so I know it's annoying when you can't park outside your own home but that's no reason to park incosiderately and block someone in.

id have dne same thing as we have same persn doing same to us every single night!

I do, but not for the whole day, and not when theres actually a whole stretch of the road that I could park on ON THE OTHER SIDE..with no houses..

And the reasonable side of me, if it wasnt every day, would park somewhere else. Its the daily thing.

well um park on the other side then?

Its a busy road on a curve. No.

that's probably why they haven't parked there then

They havent got kids to get across it.

Not when it's pretty obviouse that that bit of parking is for that row of houses, and there's a road above it and across the road, and lots of other places there's a car park up the road. Perhaps she shouldn#t have blocked them in, but i sure everyones done things out of frustration. I think the other driver was being unreasonable to park there. Everyday.

why don't you just reverse your car when he picks it up? or he could be a she

have you got any parking restrictions? you can't park outside ours without a permit between 2 and 3. it stops commuters parking there.

My DH and Mr Next Door Neighbour would love this thread.

We bring a lot of baggage to these threads don't we? - I actually think Charliecat has a reasonable point, but at the same time I have a displacement anger thing going on against all the nobby residents of School Road who have a grievance against mums parking their cars down that road to drop off children (I can honestly say I have never witnessed another parent from my school blocking a driveway or parking without consideration)....consequently I get irked by 'parking rights' discussions

We used to live in W London, in a street with free on-street parking, fairly near to a tube station. If I went out in the day there was no chance of getting a space until after 6pm, as the second I moved my spot would be taken by a tube commuter. It was such a pain in the arse to have to park 3 streets away from my own house, then lug ds1 in the pram back and forth to the car to unload a week's shopping.

Someone fairly nearby (NOT me, I hasten to add) took drastic action over a car parked outside his house, and sent a bomb warning to the Police. Police came and blew the car up - story is here about a third of the way down, under Tuesday, headline "£20,000 Alfa Romeo being blown up by Police".

So, in comparison, I guess you're not really being unreasonable!

Yikes!

if you're dropping off at a school you're only there for 15 mins of so. parking outside your house all day is very frustrating.

i used to park my car round the corner from the school on a small bit of grass verge. one day the house owner was out taking my number and saying i was spoiling the grass. he just didn't seem interested in talking to me in person, i don't know who he was going to report me to.

the lengths people go to!! dear me

The thing is no-one has any parking rights over the street. Even in residents' parking areas, you are just competing with the neighbours.

Blimey, I live in a cul de sac which has the nearest free parking to the town centre, so we get loads of people parking here all day or for several hours while they go shopping. Doesn't bother me at all (although we do have a drive so suppose it's not the same aggravation as if I was competing for space).

well it's not going to bother you if you have a driveway!! lol

blimey badhair!

yes you are being unreasonable, and here is the baggage that I bring
once when I was in the middle of a very painful m/c I parked outside someone's house to get to the chemists and she came outside and screeched at me that I wasn't to park there, her husband was going to home in five minutes and that I was a lazy cow and if I left the car there I should expect to have it scratched when I got back (there were no parking restrictions btw). completely ignoring the fact (not even noticing in her rage presumably) that I was sobbing
I thought then and I thought now, people go bonkers about their cars and "their" roads and makes them inhuman.

sorry - another vote for unreasonable. if it bothers you, get a driveway for your car or move somewhere with a private road. then you could be reasonably cross about it. that car owner pays as much road tax as you and has as much right to park on a public road as you. sorry.

My God - how horrible

Rofl SEA!

It never annoyed me that I couldn't park outside my house, but it used to annoy me intensely if I couldn't get a space in our road. We live in a cul-de-sac, but there's only parking on one side and many families have two (or more) cars! Hence, we took out a loan and spent a small fortune on getting a drive (if you could call it that - it only just about fits our car), but the stress relief of no longer having to worry about it is amazing. Some folk still have a problem with the courtesy white line though, but they're few and far between.