Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

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

59 replies

Hillls · 30/04/2007 20:44

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?

OP posts:
Original poster
Hillls · 30/04/2007 20:58

No she's not disabled and is as fit as a fiddle, has grown up children, no little ones, just a dog. She just said Could you move your car please so I can get in my space. She got quite annoyed when I said No, my dd1 is a light sleeper at the moment and keeps comming downstairs, I couldnt leave her I'd be too worried anything could happen.

I feel in the way now and its silly, horrible woman. I dont like her every morning she takes her dog out for a crap on the path where the children play Grrrrrr

OP posts:
MrsSpoon · 30/04/2007 21:14

Ah, I'm sure we could all come up with suggestions of what to do with the dog poo?

How about scooping it up and putting it on her car window to welcome her in the morning?

Original poster
Hillls · 30/04/2007 21:15
Grin
OP posts:
Gobbledigook · 30/04/2007 21:17

Does she leave the dog poo on the pavement?! I'd have had to have said something about that if she turned up on my doorstep. Dirty cow.

pucca · 30/04/2007 21:20

WHAT!!!!

Cheeky cow for knocking on your door! i live on a terrace street, on street parking, i am constantly having to park quite away from my house which is a nightmare when i have to carry 6 stone (joke! but feels that heavy sometimes lol) ds (8 mth) asleep, dd 3 yo and bags but i wouldn't dream of knocking on my neighbours door (who have no kids).

OMG the nerve of her!

Nightynight · 30/04/2007 21:49

no way
people do not own the road outside their house.
and dog poo, yuk.

Original poster
Hillls · 30/04/2007 21:52

Yes every morning fresh dog poo all over the place, discusting!

OP posts:
MARGOsBeenPlayingWithMyNooNoo · 30/04/2007 21:54

Hills - are these the rotten neighbours who throw food over the fence? they sound mean

Original poster
Hillls · 30/04/2007 21:54

They are mean, I want to move

OP posts:
NKF · 30/04/2007 22:11

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

lyrabelacqua · 30/04/2007 22:17

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.

Pannacotta · 30/04/2007 22:23

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....

wheresthemerlot · 30/04/2007 22:37

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.

thisisdavina · 30/04/2007 23:12

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.

DonnyLass · 30/04/2007 23:26

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.

FlossALump · 30/04/2007 23:32

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

FiveFingeredFiend · 30/04/2007 23:33

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

WendyWeber · 30/04/2007 23:44

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 )

islandofsodor · 30/04/2007 23:55

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.

gess · 01/05/2007 00:02

just tell her you've been drinking next time.

AitchTwoOh · 01/05/2007 00:07

she's bonkers, hillls.

Freckle · 01/05/2007 07:10

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??

Pixiefish · 01/05/2007 07:48

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

LazyLineCodKiller · 01/05/2007 07:54

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

kimi · 01/05/2007 07:55

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

Swipe left for the next trending thread