To refuse to move my car because my dd's are in bed??

[Hillls]

My neighbour just knocked on my door and asked me to move my car because she wanted to park in the space I am in(Outside her house) I live in a terraced house (as does she) and we all park where we can on the road, sometimes we get to park outside our house sometimes we dont just the way it is. Anyway I refused as it would mean I would have to drive all the way around the block leaving my dd's asleep upstairs in the house on their own, she got really shirty with me but I just explained I couldnt as my children were asleep, she mumbled about me being an unrasonable person so am I??

Should I have just moved it?

[stitch]

someone left ther e car parked outside our house for more than two months. whilst it wasnt blocking us in, it did mean that if dh pareked in the driveway then i had to park much farther away, which is fine unless it is pouring with rain or worse, if i ihave kids that are asleep in the car when i get home.
i calle dthe council and they said it was parked legally and as it still had valid tax disc, they could do nothing abotu it.
but two and a half months? i had visions of dead bodies in the trunk..............

[Paddlechick666]

this woman sounds toxic to me.

apart from being so cheeky regards the parking the dog poo is just disgraceful.

report her to the council.

[helenhismadwife]

she has a reall cheek asking!! We lived in a road of terraced houses a lot of them had two cars including us but it was friendly there were never issues over parking I guess we were lucky. When we moved in 4 people moved their cars for us. I usually got to park outside or near the house which was a bonus with two under 3 years old to get in the car, one of the benefits of working night shifts
Island that is so funny I would love to have seen their faces when they couldnt get out

[OrmIrian]

"so I can get in my space" Eh? Is there such a thing in a terraced street? Wish there was 'cos then my life would be much easier. I wouldn't have refused to move because my kids were in bed, I would have refused to move because you have as much right as she does to park there. Odd woman...

[kimi]

Hillls could you please move your post, I wanted to post n that spot.

[wheresthemerlot]

IoS - it sounds like a road I lived in once in Northampton (but these were far from new houses!!). If the spaces outside the houses had gone, some people just used to park in the middle of the road effectively making it triple-parked and obviously blocking the entire stretch of road. I had to go around the block more than once thanks to these jokers. Luckily it was a one-way street divided into chunks so it was possible to get past them by taking a divert or two. Manys the time I wound up parking the best part of a mile from my house and walking back!!

[kslatts]

You are not being unreasonable, I would not even of explained to her that dc's were in bed, I would of just told her to find somewhere else to park.

[zookeeper]

next time she comes tell her it is a public highway and give her some nappy bags to clean up her do's poo.

If she's as mad as she sounds i wouldn't fall out with her as you will have to live with her next door to you - if you want to sell in the future you will have to reveal any arguments you have to your purchasers which may put them off.

[kimi]

I would have told her to p* off.
Stupid cow.
God I'm so glad I have a drive.

[LazyLineCodKiller]

It's not her space anyway, it's just a patch of road.

[Pixiefish]

Mad woman your neighbour- bloody cheeky as well. Where did she expect you to park!!!

[Freckle]

Contact the dog warden and tell him who she is and when she takes her dog out for a crap and where. With that sort of information, they are very likely to come out and catch her in the act with consequence penalties. And she's nuts about the parking. Where had she left her car in order to come and demand that you move yours??

[AitchTwoOh]

she's bonkers, hillls.

[gess]

just tell her you've been drinking next time.

[islandofsodor]

I once totally blocked my street off!

Brand new street, houses still being built and sold. A lorry was blocking one side of the road and a car the other side so I couldn't drive onto the street. I got out of the car, carried dd aged 11 months out of her car seat to the show house. The car belonged to a couple who were having an argument with the woman manning the show home. I asked if they would move as I had to get my dd home for her dinner. No they wouldn;t move, no they didn;t know how long they would be.

OK I said I am going to pull up behind you, but if I do then I will have no alternative but to block the street off and once my dd has eaten and gone down for her nap then I can not move the car.

So I left the car, carried dd down to the other end of the street, fed her and put her to bed.

When the couple finally moved there was mayhem. My car meant no-one could either get in or out .

Very interesting.

[WendyWeber]

I have neighbours who put cones out - they actually live on a side street (dead end) off the main road but you know, we are all fighting over the same space. (There is a 6th form centre round the corner and the idle sods won't go an extra 200 yards and pay for a car park )

[FiveFingeredFiend]

Someone Parkedin front of my house today. I called him various names before getting out and smiling. I dont own the road you see. and parking is a premium. grrrrrr

[FlossALump]

On our street it is first come first served. All apart from the neighbour who positions her bins out to 'save' her space.

[DonnyLass]

Stupid moo.

I used to live in this type of set-up ... anyone with half a brain knows it is first-come, first-served.

You didn't even have to explain about the children.

She is being utterly absurd.

[thisisdavina]

Hire a skip and get them to put it on the road outside her front door FOR A MONTH.

Then fill it with smelly crap and bags of rubbish.

Oh and take photographs of her allowing the dog to foul the pavment. She is committing an offence here!

We have just moved back to Wiltshire and renting a terrace house with exactly the same parking problems so I sympathise.

[wheresthemerlot]

She sounds like my neighbour who went ballistic when I parked outsider her house one time then had the cheek to park where I normally leave my car. If she doesn't like it being done to her.... dont do it back.

I rather childishly parked right behind it so it would be a matter of rather tight steering on her part to get it out but she detailed her DH to get it out instead. I've not had any bother from her since - mainly as I park miles away from her house now rather than sully 'her' space. It's not really worth a ruck over.

[Pannacotta]

She sounds bloody awful...
No reason why on earth you should move your car and I would not feel at all bad about saying no. In fact I would report her for her nasty dog poo habits....

[lyrabelacqua]

at the cheek of the woman. Why should you move if there are no other spaces available. You could leave your dds and be gone ages looking for another space. I presume the neighbour doesn't have children or she wouldn't have suggested it.

[NKF]

She sounds horrible. I can't bear it when people allow their animals to do that. Nasty.