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?

[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.

[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.

[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!!

[kimi]

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

[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...

[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

[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.

[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..............