I have spent far too long on a diagram here.
I unfortunately live in a house where the parking is street parking.
The number of parking spaces is extremely limited, and if you don't manage to get a space you have to park around half a mile away as the rest of the road is double yellows.
I've tried to depict it best as I can in the diagram, but the street parking is further complicated by multiple lowered kerbs (entrances to driveways basically) meaning the spaces are such that you can only get two or three cars parellel park between the lowered kerb sections.
Every day, without fail, I come home from work to find several cars (usually the same ones) parked in the centre of the spaces rather than pulled up to the "start" of the parking area - meaning that a space that has potential to get two or three cars parked in, is limited to one or two.
If these cars just pulled forwards/backwards by two or three foot (which there is room to do) then there would be space for another car to park. This would cost the driver absolutely nothing, and wouldn't crowd the area/risk their car/block anything etc. It's just, IMO, extremely inconsiderate parking.
These spaces are limiting enough as it is, as occasionally I'll be late from work and, even if some miracle has happened and everyone has pulled forward to the end of the space, there are still no spaces and I end up having to park a ten minute walk away.
AIBU to seeth about this? More than once I've had to drag a full week's shopping (three or four trips) from half a mile away, and I've seen at least one neighbour have to carry a car seat.
This isn't limited to outside my house either, the last office job I had had exactly the same thing, where people would just park randomly within the street parking, with a gap just a foot too small for another car in front of them - leaving tantalisingly sized gaps which couldn't be filled.
Bah!