to want to let down the tyres on neighbour's crappy camper van

[Washersaurus]

We live on a narrow one-way street of victorian terraces with no off-street parking.

Fecking neighbours (whom DH and I affectionately call "the fatties" because we don't know their proper names) already own 2 cars, and have just bought a crappy old camper van that is now left parked on the street all day. So they have 3 cars for 2 of them (no kids btw)

AIBU to think this is just plain selfish? Should I let the tyres down?

not sure about that

We get dog poo on the doorstep too (this is a good area y'know)

Some of the people around here are apparently too posh to clean up after their own pets...but that is another story

Getting home at 7pm with 3 kids in the car - 2 of whom are asleep, having to double park while unloading kids, then driving round the block to find somewhere within a mile radius to park the bl**dy car! Then in the morning having to walk all three kids with school stuff, my laptop, coats etc to find the car three street away. And even more fun when it's pouring down with rain. Or of course park on the double yellow lines and risk a fine.

If they were painting their house luminous pink, choosing to have sex in the front room with the curtains open, take up the bagpipes and practice them at 7am every day with the windows wide open or any other perfectly legal but somewhat disturbing activity... no problem! Buying another vehicle...grrrrr.....

YThat way madness lies. You have to learn to live with it or you will end up like the neighbour I once had a who thought the space outside her house was 'hers' and would attack anyone who parked there - verbally, or by parking her car bumper to bumper with yours, or vaseline-ing up their car windows. She was enraged by years of envious curtain-twitching.

Tis when you are already in a hurry Batters. And when the morning has to run like clockwork or everyone is late for everything.

I don't have a space that I call my own - just any space in the street will do....

Can I just add that I DON'T curtain twitch! The fecking van has been parked on the street without moving for ages, and DH, FIL and I have all noticed the neighbours on their sofas (it would be difficult not to TBH).

We don't object to walking to the car - but isn't it just plain selfish to have 2 cars AND a van for just 2 people on a street where parking is an obvious problem?

I would have thought so Washasaurus - but apprently not ...

Yes it is, but they probably don't realise you have a problem with it. Why not go round and introduce yourself and tell them why it is causing you grief and discuss whether they can park their car/s round the corner (on someone elses patch) if they don't need to use them.

Is it a volkswagen?

It is a VW but not a cool one - a modern(ish) version. I have nothing against camper vans per se; my sister owns one which she parks on her drive way next to her other car

OO I'd be cosying up to them in preparation of asking to borrow it.!!!

thats okay then, touch a vintage volkwagen and i will have to object
watercoolers I have no problem with

[suddenly feels wave of love for view of endless fields with no neighbours]

Oh yes Enid. Beleive me I often feel a wave of love for (sadly distant) fields with no neighbours. Even though mine are by and large lovely and most of them only have 2 cars at the most and will babysit, rat or cat-sit, take in packages, wait for meter readers etc.

I think there's nothing wrong with WANTING to let let their tyres down, I think it's unreasonable to ACTUALLY do it.

All feelings are acceptable in my opinion but not all actions.

I also live in a row of Victorian terraces and there's a family down from me who have 4 cars and that's becuase of insane property prices - each crappy house (mine's is the cheapest and crappiest) is worth £250 - 400k which means all the normal people have their 20 plus year old children in the house. Hence why they have 4 cars - the two oldest cars are their teenage/young 20s sons.

I want a crappy campervan now but then again we only have one car between us.

I know exactly what you mean; when I was a student someone on our street had a massive campervan (not VW, some godawful boxy thing) which was permanently parked right outside my window and blocked all the light. Total rust bucket, seats all ripped up inside; a junkheap. Fantasised a lot about letting tyres down, but reasoned it would just make it harder to move. Which they did, after only about 3-4 months.

(Before they did though, I came home utterly pissed one night, something snapped and I emptied about a pint of beer-flavour urine into its air vents. )