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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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I smell a parking war!!

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Caenea · 09/09/2017 13:24

Diagram to follow, but in short:

We have new neighbours over the road. They seemed to have started moving in this morning. It's a terraced street, nobody has a drive so it's all on-street parking.

They appear to have three cars, and this is actually fine in of itself - not everyone has a car and as a result there SHOULD be plenty of room for them.

However, the house next to them but one also have three cars, one of which previously they have been in the habit of parking outside the vacant house. This will now have to stop, understandably.

The chap living between these two neighbours doesn't have a car, so this will leave (if they squish up), space for two cars, leaving the Parking Houses with one extra car each to find a space for.

My AIBU is this.... am I being unreasonable for secretly wanting this to develop into all out war, with passive-aggressive notes and constant space-stealing?!

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HurtyTeeth · 09/09/2017 13:30

However, the house next to them but one also have three cars, one of which previously they have been in the habit of parking outside the vacant house. This will now have to stop, understandably.

Would it? Basic, bog standard on street parking is first come first served.

alfagirl73 · 09/09/2017 13:31

Penguin bollard! LOL! (Wanted to be the first!)

HurtyTeeth · 09/09/2017 13:32

PotteringAlong · 09/09/2017 13:34

Of course they don't have to stop parking there. First come, first served.

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Caenea · 09/09/2017 13:35

Hurty Well, out of basic consideration I'd hope they'd acknowledge that it's nice to park outside one's own residence but who knows!

I am THRILLED. So many parking threads have entertained me through long afternoons of breastfeeding a fussy, tongue-tie baby and now, finally, live action parking drama

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FreudianSlurp · 09/09/2017 13:36

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MiniCooperLover · 09/09/2017 13:37

It's not inconsiderate to park outside someone's house on a street, it's just parking. No lines or bays make it open parking and I'd be very cross f someone even suggested otherwise to me! I have a neighbour obsessed with parking outside her house, I just don't get it.

LizzieMacQueen · 09/09/2017 13:41

I think you'll be disappointed.

I bet the 3rd car is only there to help out in the move.

UrsulaPandress · 09/09/2017 13:43

If you live in a terraced house it is an unwritten rule that you do not park outside your neighbour's house.

HurtyTeeth · 09/09/2017 13:44

Sure, I agree it'd be all well and good to park outside your own house. However, no one can claim the space outside their house, on the street if there's no dropped kerb, they don't pay a parking permit and similar.
It's a PITA. We have put in for a dropped kerb ourselves as me and DH 80% of the time park our cars around the corner/down the road /anywhere where there's a space because we don't have a DK and driveway. The neighbours abuse the parking which has inflamed the situation. But as much as they abuse and take the piss, technically they're not doing anything wrong.

ijustwannadance · 09/09/2017 13:44

What happens when they decide to park outside your house instead?

Cakeycakecake · 09/09/2017 13:48

My neighbours knocked this morning and asked if it was ok that a visitor parks in front of my house later. I don't drive and have no dropped curb.
I had to gently point out that it was only her that gets possessive over the space outside the houses- no one else round here gives a shit. Well except one bloke.
She'd give you the parking wars you want op- she punched the old fella last year cause she saw him scratching her car with his key on purpose. He went at her with his walking stick. They've launched a war between them. She's been to court and he's got to pay for her car to be repaired. She got a police caution.
Sorry for derailing. Can you tell I'm place marking?

littlemissneela · 09/09/2017 13:51

But hasn't OP broken the golden rule of parking threads? Where is the diagram

I think op, be careful what you wish for. Just because its across the road from doesnt mean it won't affect you. They might even park outside your house

ForagingForFaerieGold · 09/09/2017 13:53

Be careful what you wish for. They may decide to park in front of YOUR house if there is nowhere else. Would you mind that? Also where's the promised diagram? Eh? Eh?

ForagingForFaerieGold · 09/09/2017 13:55

littlemissneela great minds lol

paxillin · 09/09/2017 13:58

You need to get a really comfy deck chair for you front garden, binoculars, a sketch book and a big Sports Direct mug. Do report and don't fail to add diagrams again .

PoorYorick · 09/09/2017 13:58

What about visitors? If you don't live there and you have to park on the street, inevitably you're going to be in front of SOMEONE'S house.

Besides, OP, if there's not enough space for all residents to park outside their houses, it's likely they'll start parking in front of yours. Worth the drama?

paxillin · 09/09/2017 13:58

your front garden

SchadenfreudePersonified · 09/09/2017 14:05

You most certainly are NBU!

In fact, I think it would be entirely reasonable for you to kickstart the inevitable altercation by writing a few anonymous notes yourself, purporting the be the new neighbour insisting on parking space (also the old neighbour warning them about parking in certain places), posting them through the appropriate letter boxes under cover of darkness (make sure you don't get the notes mixed up), and then sitting back to enjoy the fireworks.

A Sports Direct mug is pretty indispensable, though - check people's dustbins, there'll be loads of the ugly feckers them dumped.

Don't forget you night vision goggles and an infra-red camera so you can see everything and send us illustrated updates.

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Caenea · 09/09/2017 14:06

Diagram for thy viewing pleasure.

The space outside our house is disabled (marked out, council permit etc) as I need a knee replacement due to long-term damage caused as a very young child so I can struggle to walk. Up until now, even if the street is chockablock (we're close to a function hall and local park), this has been respected by the neighbours so hopefully it would continue to be.

The question mark represents space for one more car, which leaves both house 2 (the longer-term residents) and house 4 (the new arrivals) to battle it out.

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viques · 09/09/2017 14:12

night vision goggles and infra red camera If you are shy , and quite small, OP you could practise standing very still and pretending you are one of those scarey children bollards.

Am I alone in thinking I will be a bit upset if it turns out that one or more of the three cars turn out to belong to kind friends who are helping your new neighbours to move in.

viques · 09/09/2017 14:15

Ah, since you have a bad knee I think you are allowed to pass on being a child bollard.

Shadow666 · 09/09/2017 14:23

I'm so glad we have a double drive and only one car.

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Caenea · 09/09/2017 14:23

If I strap the knee up to within an inch of it's life, I can actually stand still for a fair while - it'll "lock" after a bit (no cartilage left at all so the bones can click together in a disgusting rather interesting way) and go numb, so it'd be getting going that would be the problem

I will be curtain-twitching like mad though.

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ASauvingnonADay · 09/09/2017 15:08

I actually can't believe people think that they should be able to park outside their house on a public road. So strange!!

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