AIBU to park opposite this driveway?

[mumtomaxwell]

Sorry about the shadow on the diagram.

I regularly visit my friend on a Thurs evening. On several occasions one of his neighbours has come out and told me I can’t park opposite her house because she can’t get her enormous car off her driveway. Last time I said she could come and get me from my friend’s house if she needs help moving her car. Then she said she would call the police to report me! It is a public road, I am parked on a straight bit of road and all vehicles can easily pass.

What’s the MN verdict?

It is inconsiderate if it’s making it difficult for her to use her drive. And pretty cheeky to suggest she has to come and ask you for help when she needs to leave!

There's someone who parks opposite our drive on a regular basis and it's fucking irritating. They do trap my dh's car in. I regularly fantasise about running a key along the side of their car. If she is coming out and telling you that you are blocking her in, why are you incapable of parking somewhere else?

She should be reversing into her drive, not reversing off it (as should the others in this thread having problems).

What does your friend say? She's the one who has to live there, so if she's worried about neighbourly relations then park elsewhere. If your friend doesn't care, continue to park where you are.

What happens when there are loads of driveways. Should people just not park there because of the people with off street parking might struggle

She should be reversing into her drive, not reversing off it (as should the others in this thread having problems)

Not necessarily. It's not safe to reverse onto my driveway, and no reason I should do so.

Tbh after living next to some really inconsiderate neighbours who I think actually ‘got off’ watching me struggle getting in and out of the drive, unless there are other cars parked hindering her further then I wouldn’t be too concerned.

I used to live in quite a narrow Avenue. NDN and his son used to park to the left and right of my drive, right up against the gate posts, lots of room for them to move forward and backwards. Then, neighbour opposite used to leave her car out, her NDN did the same. They all had drives, my NDN had mostly pot plants and gnomes in his, hence leaving his car out.

I became an expert at reverse parking, manouvreung up my drive. Asking gnome neighbour to move just fell on deaf ears, he used to say he was leaving room for the neighbour attached to him which was a load of shite!

It is entirely pissible to be blocked in facing forwards or backwards, DailyMail - if a car is in the way, it's in the way...

Possible.

Same as our house and there isn't enough angle in our case to get out safely if someone is parked opposite. Also if they are parked clear of our driveway but where we would turn out on to the road it can also make it really difficult. Can't believe how many people are so self-centred & think you can do whatever the fuck you want and fuck the person who can't get out of their driveway!! I don't 'think I own the road' but it is really infuriating to have to do a 20 point turn four times a day to get into my own driveway because of someone else's thoughtless parking looking at you little red VX Fox with L plates parked outside my house!

So YABU and a bit inconsiderate you should re-think where you park, but still a great diagram, gold star!

She should be reversing into her drive, not reversing off it

Maybe she is? OP hasn't said anything about the neighbour reversing out of the drive from what I can see.

I have this happen often and it's bloody annoying not being able to get off the drive. Luckily the person who does it tends to visit on the same time and days so we just put the car on the road then.

I think people should buy cars they are actually capable of driving and which fit on their drive if they have one.

Can't you park across your friends drive to stop any arguments?

Yabu to park there if you are visiting regularly and know it is making it difficult for her to use her drive. Stay on the same side of the street but move down between the two houses (on the left) instead of parking outside her house (on your right).

Believeitornot - why not park across the drive of the person you are visiting? Why block in someone who has nothing to do with you?

YANBU She can jog on if you have left more then enough room she hasn’t got shit to say.
If she can’t manage a big car she should have smaller one.

I think people should buy cars they are actually capable of driving and which fit on their drive if they have one

How is that relevant? I can drive my car and it fits on my drive. It's just difficult to get out when others park on the road very close to the driveway.
It's neither my fault nor my neighbours fault that the road and the driveways were badly designed. Also the car predates the house.

In that diagram you aren't even near her driveway? My parents have a neighbour like this. They can't manoeuvre their big car and a ridiculous amount of space to get off and on their drive

Occasionally we have this with the people who live opposite us - their visiting relations etc. and it is extremely annoying. At one point, having been recently bereaved, I didn't expect anyone to be parking opposite my driveway (the new neighbours had just moved in and the old lady that use to live there didn't have a car) so I wasn't expecting it and backed into a visitors car which distressed me further (and cost me a fortune on my insurance). Although I accept it was my fault, this person needn't have parked where they did, naturally I am more wary these days!

Same situation here, my workman parked opposite nbrs driveway. Bags of room to get her teeny car in her driveway.

She complained to me. Really? I put up with twonks parked opposite my driveway every weekend? My car twice the size (
of nbrs. Do you want me to park your car for you? . She scuttled off. I asked my workman to pull his van forward to block my drive.

OP YABU. The resident has made it clear that your parking is inconveniencing her. She hasn't told you that you cannot park on the road but has simply asked you to park more considerately and for that she is not BU.

One of my neighbours started to park directly outside their house a year ago, opposite my driveway, despite having 2 parking spaces a mere 3m away from their home. This made it hard for me to get on & off my drive in my average-sized family car. I asked them to use their designated parking spaces and was told to lump it. The neighbours either side of them began to do the same as they were annoyed at the car being there and clearly decided that they too were going to have the convenience of having their cars immediately outside their front doors rather than on their driveways (a whopping 3m away from their doors . This makes it absolutely impossible for me to park on my drive without doing a gazillion-point turn. It is ridiculous, frustrating and just downright rude. Granted they are doing nothing illegal but it is just bloody inconsiderate and I would not do the same.

She should be reversing into her drive, not reversing off it

Not always possible. My road is very busy, nose to tail traffic queues sometimes. Going in forwards is often the only option.

Sorry OP. I totally ranted in my post but my original point still stands!

Let her call the police. 3 guesses ehat they would do

In our village we had this, people liked to think they not only owned the space on the road outside their house but also opposite their drive. If it is safe and sensible to park elsewhere do so, if it isn't they will have to cope. People who can't manoeuvre their car shouldn't be driving.