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I smell a parking war!!

29 replies

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?!

OP posts:
MrsMoastyToasty · 09/09/2017 15:15

Buy some net curtains and practice twitching them - all in the name of reconnaissance.

RaspberryOverload · 09/09/2017 15:22

UrsulaPandress Sat 09-Sep-17 13:43:22

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

At one of the previous houses I lived at, for 17 years, this rule did not exist. For the simple reason that you could only park down one side of the street, and therefore it was all first come, first served. Parking was always jam packed, and I frequently ended up far away from the house.

On the plus side, I'm pretty good at parallel parking after so much practice Grin

Leavingonajet · 09/09/2017 15:30

In London this parking outside your house is a non thing imagine my surprise on moving north to discover people felt they owned the public road outside their house. I did my best to avoid conflict but it did make me grind my teeth.

LairyMcClary · 09/09/2017 15:51

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

No it isn't. The rule is you park where you can and where you want.

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