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AIBU?

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AIBU to park opposite this driveway?

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mumtomaxwell · 30/11/2017 18:35

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?

OP posts:

swimster01 · 30/11/2017 19:34

Why can't you park outside your friend's house? In any case, if the neighbour is upset enough to speak to you about it, park elsewhere!

Sciaticapain · 30/11/2017 19:37

We get this opposite us there’s a bunch of complete twat young boys who park to go to their mates and they don’t even pull the car in to the side of the road just abandon it where they stop and it makes it really really hard to get my car off my drive. I can’t reverse in because I can’t get swung in because of the way they park they are right opposite my drive there’s usually 3 cars in a line and I have to pull out to get past them and if i go up the road my next door neighbour is up o the pavement on her side.

It’s really difficult. Why they don’t use their driveways i have no idea.

ghostyslovesheets · 30/11/2017 19:40

I can’t reverse in because I can’t get swung in because of the way they park they are right opposite

exactly my issue - I prefer to reverse park and reverse onto my drive but it sometimes an equal faff if my neighbours park everywhere around my drive (and I also have neighbours with 5 cars and 1 work van between them plus boy races mates)

OP if you can park elsewhere it would be considerate to do so

GlitterNails · 30/11/2017 19:44

Someone parks opposite my drive way and it's a real pain. I have a large car because I need a boot large enough for my wheelchair. Because of this neighbour I have to park elsewhere but still need to get on the driveway when things need unloading or the wheelchair needs charging. My carer politely asked them to just move up a little and they refused.

They aren't doing anything illegal, but I do think it's very inconsiderate to not just move up a little.

Pearlsaringer · 30/11/2017 19:48

YABU. She has told you, several times, that she can’t get her car off her driveway if you park where you do. Be nice and find somewhere else.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 30/11/2017 19:49

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

I am perfectly able to drive my Landrover discovery and park reverse it on my tight drive, it’s only when inconsiderate people park opposite on my narrow lane that I can’t drive it out!

BenLui · 30/11/2017 19:55

What do other visitors to your friend do OP?

Does she complain about them too?

bastardkitty · 30/11/2017 19:56

If they are parking a taxed vehicle legally on the public highway, then you cannot expect anyone not to park there because your large vehicle can't then fit on and off your drive.

letsdolunch321 · 30/11/2017 19:59

Why doesn’t she park over her drive on a Thursday, that way if you are visiting it won’t be a problem as her car is parked in the road awaiting her arrival - The stupid woman

roundaboutthetown · 30/11/2017 20:01

What if your small vehicle can't get off the drive, bastardkitty? Can you expect people to park considerately then?

roundaboutthetown · 30/11/2017 20:05

letsdolunch - her insurance policy may be based on her being parked on a drive when at home.

bastardkitty · 30/11/2017 20:07

Then I'd say you have a problem with your drive. I'm not a drive expert though.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 30/11/2017 20:11

What do you mean by a problem with your drive bastardkitty?

specialsubject · 30/11/2017 20:17

If she has a brain she reverses in. Reversing out is much less safe. Especially for ickle johnie hurtling along on his scooter out of control of idiot mum. I'd have killed one ickle Johnnie if I hadn't reverse parked , although at the time I didn't realise that kids were allowed to scoot madly on pavements.

surreygoldfish · 30/11/2017 20:18

Unless there is nowhere else to park this is really annoying behaviour. My opposite neighbour does this and it's very irritating.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 30/11/2017 20:20

She might be reversing on her drive for all we know. If someone else parks on the other side of her drive it will be very difficult for her to get out.

roundaboutthetown · 30/11/2017 20:23

No problem with the drive. There are three houses with drives all on the same side of a short, narrow bit of road, then a large turning circle. It is clear to any idiot driving along it (which you only need to do if you live there or are visiting someone there) that you cannot park directly opposite the drives of the people on the narrow bit of road without blocking them into their drives. No problem with blocking the person you are visiting in, albeit you wouldn't want to be parked on that bit of road on bin collection day, or if a fire engine was trying to get in, but otherwise completely selfish and unnecessary, as there is plenty of parking on the main road. Not that the tosser who parks opposite our drive from time to time seems to care.

stitchglitched · 30/11/2017 20:24

Regardless of whether you are entitled to park there I wouldn't want to make things difficult for my friend with her neighbours. Why not just move?

Darkstar4855 · 30/11/2017 20:36

What does your friend think?

safariboot · 02/12/2017 14:12

What happens when there are loads of driveways.

Agreed. Or, for that matter, loads of houses. Where I live the houses are about as wide as a car is long. If you have off-street parking and the house opposite doesn't, I guaran-damn-tee you the on-street space opposite will normally be occupied. And if you don't have off-street parking, you're lucky if you can park within sight of your own home. So the person complaining about OP's parking would get short shrift from me.

(Albeit this is a road wide enough - barely - for on-street parking on both sides and two lanes in the middle.)

Iprefercoffeetotea · 02/12/2017 14:21

I never park opposite someone's driveway if they've driven in and have to reverse out. If they've reversed in, so can see me coming out, and can manoevre round me ok, I'll park there. But only if I am really desperate and really can't find anywhere else. Some roads are really hard because there are driveways, bends in the road, junctions - I was visiting a friend a while ago and I really couldn't find anywhere safe to park along her road. In the end I parked in front of her drive which still wasn't ideal as it was fairly near the brow of a hill.

Childrenslivesmatter · 02/12/2017 14:42

Cant you just move over a little? Then she will be happy and your evening wont be interupted. A lday does this to me every day on a school run. She could just park on the other side. But no i have to sit and wait for her to return so i can leave. (Narrow road) and a slightly different time every day so i have to sit and wait. And no she wont stop even when i asked nicely. Ao i continue to sit and wait

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