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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?

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Original poster
charliecat · 02/03/2007 20:54

OMG at the bomb.

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edam · 02/03/2007 20:55

Admitted, Hana, but OP was from someone objecting to someone parking outside her house, just because she could see the damn car, not because she had any trouble parking herself!

movingmadness · 02/03/2007 21:05

Just to add my grumble at inconsiderate parking..... Round the corner from our house, on a very very busy main road, a car is constantly parked fully on the footpath, reversed back up to a wall and a gap between it and the wall (so the driver can get out), but no gap at all on the road side It really riles me as I have to push my pram on the road itself in order to get past... Have thought about ringing the police, but not convinced they'd do anything...... they would if someone got knocked down .

Aloveheart · 02/03/2007 21:06

I hate that too. pavements are for people.

edam · 02/03/2007 21:09

Oooh, that is selfish, mm, am right with you there. Once left a note on someone's car for doing that (they had a child seat in the car too so should have known better). I think it is a parking offence, too, unless there are weirdy parking regulations on that street (think it's something like two yellow lines painted on the kerb, 90 degrees to where yellow lines on the road would be). Police don't do parking any more unless it's dangerous, IIRC so call your council - they can let their parking attendant contractor people know.

AitchTwoOh · 02/03/2007 21:12

you can ring the police if it forces people into a dangerous road position, i had to do that about a truck that had bee left for three months advertising something (so really just a big as hoarding) but it was very difficult to see round it with the buggy so the police got the guy to move it.

as for the OP, you are being unreasonable of course. i never get a parking place round my way without considerable driving around, but i moved there so it's my tough. commuters taking the bus for part of their journey is something that should be encouraged.

The schoolchildren's parents who park in my great-auntie's driveway every morning and afternoon and continue to do so even when she pleads with them not to as it prevents her home help from coming to visit her can fk off though.

weirdbird · 03/03/2007 20:13

I don't mind people parking outside our house, but I do object VERY strongly to them parking across our driveway and blocking our car into the drive or blocking it so I can't park in my own drive, its an obvious driveway with gates.

We had new neighbours opposite whose teenage childrens friends did this on an almost daily basis, I was very pregnant at the time and was worried sick we wouldn't be able to get the car out when we needed to.

In the end my mum on a visit when they did this went and spoke to the neighbours as I was in such a state over it.

I confronted one women who did this as well she apologised in a offhand way as if it wasn't a big deal, I refused her apology, she looked really shocked, there was, and normally always are, huge swathes of spaces free all down our road, so the need to park across our driveway is zero...

Gah still makes my blood boil!

paulaplumpbottom · 03/03/2007 20:17

They have a right to park there to you know

nikkie · 03/03/2007 22:08

NOt across drives though,
My view on this thread NEVER get a shared drive especially if you share it with your brother

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 05/03/2007 09:51

I parked in the last available parking apace in a non-residential street the other day. So not outside anyone's house. When I'd come abck some idiot had parked infront of me (which was on double yellows). I didn't have any choice but to ram the car to get out - I have a 10year old dented car and couldn't care less!

LazyLine · 05/03/2007 10:06

Assuming that they are parked legally, stop looking at the car. Stop looking out of the window, just to get annoyed. Think again about what you are getting yourself worked up about. Its a car. That is parked somewhere that you don't like. Really.

kslatts · 05/03/2007 10:17

I think you are being unreasonable. Surely you sometimes park outside other houses. I would be really angry if someone blocked me in because I was outside their house. I drop my dd's off at cm in morning and drive to the nearest station, there is no carpark so I park in a residential road, on some evenings when I get off the train I need to be somewhere to collect my dd's (cm, dancing, brownies or rainbows), I would be really cross if someone had blocked me in.

Flossam · 05/03/2007 10:37

We have on street parking. We sometimes have to walk a long way with lots of shopping bags and a toddler. Not fun. Its because we live near a town centre and lots of people park there while they are at work. I do think many of these people could get the bus (I do and will have to even if I could drive -nowhere to park a one car let alone a second!!). I also get annoyed by people parking their gert big 4 x 4's on my street, thus taking up two spaces and also there are a couple of flashy sports cars which park up and I can't help feeling, in my two up two down that they could afford to pay for the bloody car park round the corner.

DaisyMOO · 05/03/2007 10:44

So you are annoyed because you don't like seeing their car from your window The house opposite us recently cut down all their trees which blocked their house from view and it's really ugly, but, yunno, that's life, surely there are more important things to worry about

Troutpout · 05/03/2007 10:56

errr
yep

McDreamy · 05/03/2007 11:12

Sorry but I also think you are being unreasonable unless they are parking in a residents only space. If the car is taxed then unfortunately for you they are entitled to park there. I hate parking outside other peoples houses ( and wouldn't do it for a whole day) but sometimes you have too. Sorry not the answert you were looking for

Kelly1978 · 05/03/2007 11:25

yes!
I've normally got a van outside my bloody house, but if I dare to park outside the neighbours I get boxed in and it drives me nuts edging back and forth for 20 mins to get out of the bloody space. This is our second car, an old fiesta, and one of these days I am going to ram that bloody audi out of the way!

Kelly1978 · 05/03/2007 11:26

jsut realised I said 'bloody' three times in that post.

ThisFrogIsGonnaWhoopYouAss · 05/03/2007 11:29

Yip.

Bamzooki · 05/03/2007 11:31

And I think technically it is an offense to block someone in - of the 'Due consideration to other road users' variety. So if you really block someone in (not just at one end) you might get more trouble than you bargained for it it happened to be a police'person' or the ilk.

flutterbee · 05/03/2007 11:59

I think you are being unreasonable.

We used to live on a road with on street parking (and drives but we didn't have one) it was a very very busy street for parking in as it was a commuter village and very close to the village high street.

DH and I sometimes had to park in a different street all together, yes we moaned and grumbled about it to each other but we never blocked anyone in, what a stupid and childlish thing to do.

Oh and I managed to walk the few extra minuets everytime when heavily pg, when ds came out of SCBU for the first time and with shopping, and guess what I didn't die from it.

Charlie I love you normally, you helped me quit smoking (1yr 2 months) but for Gods sake go and move your car.

suedonim · 05/03/2007 11:59

You've all missed the point. Surely reasonable-ness (I've made a new word!) or otherwise comes down to the colour of said car. I mean, I don't like blue so wouldn't want to see a blue car all day and a white car is boring but otoh, a yellow or a red car would be perfectly acceptable.

Chocolate1000 · 05/03/2007 12:03

I guess it makes a difference if it's an old banger or not. You wouldn't want people thinking that it was your car but a nice Audi or BMW might be more acceptable .

LazyLine · 05/03/2007 12:10

LOL Sue

twelveyeargap · 05/03/2007 12:13

If they're not blocking a drive, then yes, it's unreasonable to be cross about people parking in front of your house. They have as much right to do so as you do. I have been living/ driving in London for three years. I very, very rarely get to park right outside my house - even when there are residents' bays. I often used to have to park three or four streets from our flat when we lived near the Barbican. THAT was bloody annoying when you had shopping - having to risk getting a ticket just to unload at the door and then go off to find a space. I would have jumped for joy to be even on the same street as our house.

If I had space in my front garden for a drive then I would make one. Unfortunately I do not, so I have to live with it!