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Original poster

Why should I be able to park outside my own house?

219 replies

cooplise · 30/04/2017 11:31

We have three cars at home and while we do have a driveway, this is only large enough for one car. We need to use these cars every day to get to and from work and we're all time pressured so we can't have long walks to get to the car in the morning. Parking in our road is very difficult especially as we are close to the train station so commuters use the road for free parking. A few months ago we started putting out traffic cones on the road outside our house, just enough to reserve space for our two cars - before we started doing this these spaces were always being filled and we often had to park a 5 - 10 minute walk away which is not really acceptable, we have important jobs and this is time we can do without wasting.

We have had a couple of arguments with people over the last couple of weeks and some people have been trying to move the cones and we have had notes put through the door and left on the car. We think we have every right - we own the house, live on the road, and therefore we should be able to park outside our own property. A friend suggested reporting it to the local council and they could reserve the space outside just for us and give us a permit, so I am going to call them next week. Has anyone else had any experience with this? I thought it would be perfectly fine, but the recent problems have made me think that maybe we need to get this extra protection.

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Questioningeverything · 30/04/2017 12:21

Why do people do such blatant reverse posts and then fuck off not to confess and explain?
I don't mind reverse posts sometimes but when it's this blatant just say 'my neighbor is a total fucking moron who thinks they own the public highway as well as their house, they stick cones out because they're sooooo much more important than the rest of us to reserve parking, aibu to let their fucking tyres down/ put a note through their door / have a go at the stupid arseholes?
I'd be all up in that post. A good parking one.
This just seems pitiful

insancerre · 30/04/2017 12:21

Get rid of the cars and buy a tank
Then you can just park wherever you like, and it doesn't even matter if there are cars already parked there, you just crush those bastards

JaneEyre70 · 30/04/2017 12:23

Buy a house with a drive you can all fit your cars on?

FrancisCrawford · 30/04/2017 12:24

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

muckypup73 · 30/04/2017 12:24

SmileEachDay, lol

PseudoBadger · 30/04/2017 12:24

OP has many leather bound books

RachelRagged · 30/04/2017 12:27

Glad I no longer have a car !

You are time pressured and have important jobs .. wow, here is a medal !

ivykaty44 · 30/04/2017 12:28

How do you get hour head out of the door ? Lol

There are really people out there that think like this, it's a worry

SnickersWasAHorse · 30/04/2017 12:30

we often had to park a 5 - 10 minute walk away which is not really acceptable, we have important jobs and this is time we can do without wasting.

More important that a disabled person?
More important than a parent of small children?
More important than someone with lots of shopping?
More important than all your neighbours who also have lives to live?

I hope to goodness that this is a reverse.

Spudlet · 30/04/2017 12:31

Any Behind Closed Oven fans here? Perhaps the op sells monogrammed thermoses...

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cooplise · 30/04/2017 12:31

yes, this is how my neighbour thinks, and they have said all of that to me a number of times. It's been going on for months and I have been so consumed by it that I wanted to see what independent people would think - looks like everyone agrees with me which is good.

We live across the street and we do not have a drive but have two cars so every space is valuable. I know that the commuters can use the spaces too but having two marked out by the neighbour really does make it difficult.

I have reported it to the council myself but they can't really do anything. I have left notes with the neighbour and asked them to stop but they haven't. I move the cones when possible to make a point. Would it be wrong for me to let down their tyres or is there anything else I can do?

I have just been so stressed about it over the last few months it is impacting my sleep. It seems like a small thing but it does make me angry.

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Pasithea · 30/04/2017 12:32

Sorry don't get this. I have a bff whose DH does have a very very important job , but most of the time he gets a car sent for him. So therefore op can't be that important.

muckypup73 · 30/04/2017 12:32

SnickersWasAHorse, I dont think it is a reverse because she mentioned phoning the local council for a permit.

Ceto · 30/04/2017 12:32

According to your other thread, you work with a colleague with an Ainsley Harriott ringtone on his frequently ringing phone. Be grateful that, by getting to work 10 minutes later, you miss 10 minutes of listening to it.

Andrewofgg · 30/04/2017 12:33

Pigface1 You mean a Council tenant owns a car?

Call 112 999 and have the cheeky upstart put in the stocks.

OP If this is a wind-up well done, you have succeeded. If not, well, let's leave it there!

CotswoldStrife · 30/04/2017 12:33

It's a reverse - well, we are all shocked at that Hmm

No, of course I'm not posting just for the deletion message hits report button

User2468 · 30/04/2017 12:33

Although one of my neighbours does this. He doesn't even own the house, he's a council tenant. It's fucking irritating.

We have a neighbour like this, she's mental. Makes up all sorts of lies to stop us parking on the street outside her house (behind our house). Part of the reason parking is so pushed is because as a single lady she owns an estate car, a 4x4 and a van! She literally has no jurisdiction over parking and in fact I would park there just to annoy her!

Funnily enough she has been a lot more accommodating since I suggested I raise the issue with her housing association...

TheMythOfFingerprints · 30/04/2017 12:34

Yanbu op.

I myself have a very unimportant job, and am happy to park in Glasgow if I get home at 3am and find our road full despite living in Lincolnshire.
It is the least I can do to make up for my poor neighbours having to live in the sane road as someone as pathetic as me.

C0untDucku1a · 30/04/2017 12:34

You cannot let down their ryres

RadiatorClothes · 30/04/2017 12:35

Feel free to print and post them my vij motorbike design

RadiatorClothes · 30/04/2017 12:36

fingerprints I'm. In Glasgow. Is it YOU that is parking near me? Piss off and park in a rubbish dump or sunmit

category12 · 30/04/2017 12:36

You need to find a way to chill out about it if it's affecting your sleep. It's irritating, but it's not worth it.

Go back to the council and complain again.

Ceto · 30/04/2017 12:36

Right, now we're unreversed: talk to your other neighbours, set up a rota for moving the cones whenever they appear. Maybe also try to ensure that someone moves a car into these spaces as soon as they vacate them.

FuzzyOwl · 30/04/2017 12:38

Ah, OP, you must live on my road as one of my neighbours does this. They also make a point of parking in their driveway last of all and will take the car on their drive to park on the road where one of their other cars was, the instance that they take the car that was on the road on a journey. They even took to coming round and telling me to move my car so they could park there even though it is the closet space on the road to my car. I think you just have to laugh at them and be a little bemused.

As for letting down their tyres, no you cannot do that.

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 30/04/2017 12:40

'parking on our road is very difficult, especially as we are near a train station'

Why can't you get the train?