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My NDN and Parking

288 replies

MrsDylanBlue · 28/05/2018 21:58

My NDN moved in a few months ago, I have seen them in the street and almost forced them to say hello - fine whatever I respect the fact they may want to keep themselves to themselves.

We have no ORP and it is an issue in our road and we get people from neighbouring streets also parking here.

NDN have a very tiny driveway which they sometimes park one of their three cars on (I have a small car and DH has a car but is only here on weekends).

When the NDN drive is empty (it’s a drop curb with no gate) we have always parked over it as sometimes there is just nowhere else to park.

Outside our houses (they are semi detached) there is enough space for two cars on the road, quite often they have taken to not leaving me enough room to fit my car on (and not block my elderly neighbours in the other side) and then moved forward when someone else has arrived home so monopolising all the off road parking directly outside the houses.

Last weekend DH parked slightly over their drive and they left a shitty note on his car. He went round and spoke to the lady and said just knock don’t leave a note and please could you just leave my wife enough space to park in the week, after all we have one car you have three.

This weekend they have taken up all the parking directly outside the houses meaning I have had to trek up and down the road with my weeks shopping and when we went Kayacking it was not greatly convinuent carrying them down the road to put on the roof of the car.

Do I go round again and appeal to their better nature or do I start parking my car in the middle of the two spaces to make a point - starting a potential war which I will probably lose as I have less cars than them Grin

OP posts:
SimonBridges · 11/06/2018 23:11

Good heavens, Skoda, calm down a little.
You might find a proper swear helps. You can say fuck, shit and even cunt.

skoda62 · 12/06/2018 12:39

MrsDylanBlue

Well you have certainly stirred up a hornets nest with this one! Bet you never imagined so many dunderheads would be on the side of the inconsiderate neighbor?
So you post comments about the inconsideration of a neighbor, and get a barrage of false accusations. Like trying to claim your own piece of road, saying neighbor has no right to park outside your house, and anything else that can be made up?

These dunderheads just can't seem to understand all your asking for is for neighborliness and for consideration Something even those opposing you would like no doubt?

MadMags · 12/06/2018 14:23

Why is dunderheads in italics?

Also; have you confirmed whether or not you know what hundreds means?

StealthNinjaMum · 12/06/2018 14:32

skoda62 the problem is that op started off badly by blocking her neighbours drive. There just is no justification for doing that.

Perhaps if op had gone round with some wine when the neighbours moved in and developed a relationship and then asked 'would i be ok if I sometimes block your drive for ten minutes to bring shopping in?' they probably would have been ok. I completely accept that a family with three cars should, in an ideal world, be considerate to their neighbours but when their neighbours very first action is behave like a cf I can't blame them.

MrsDylanBlue · 12/06/2018 16:58

I at no point blocked their drive!!

I did go round and say hello when they moved in.

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Flatearthersphere · 12/06/2018 17:02

Yes you did block their drive, you have stated this more than once.

Bahhhhhumbug · 12/06/2018 17:27

So your neighbours had the audacity to come out to one of their legally parked vehicles to put something in or take something out in plain view of you and your dh..
Do you think they should sneak out in dead of night so as not to be 'caught' ?

StealthNinjaMum · 12/06/2018 18:00

From op

When the NDN drive is empty (it’s a drop curb with no gate) we have always parked over it as sometimes there is just nowhere else to park.

Is this not blocking their drive? What if they had 10 bags of shopping and had to make 5 trips to the car and back because you had parked over the drop curb.

Did you ask for permission to park over their drop curb before you did it?

crazymumofthree · 12/06/2018 18:09

Tbh I would do the same if you kept parking over my driveway!! How annoying! Doesn't matter if you did it for the old neighbours you should of asked them first tbh! We had new neighbours move in and kept blocking us and it drove me mad! If you want a guaranteed space drop your own kerb! It costs a lot of money to have a driveway so leaving a note because your blocking it is IMO justified! Street parking is for everyone and you can't specify you own space!

Flatearthersphere · 12/06/2018 18:47

And it doesn't matter if their drive is empty and you're technically "allowed", because technically they are allowed to park wherever they want on the road. if you want consideration, as crazy "dunderhead" up above says, maybe you should have shown it in the first instance?

skoda62 · 18/06/2018 18:53

And it doesn't matter if their drive is empty and you're technically "allowed", because technically they are allowed to park wherever they want on the road. if you want consideration, as crazy "dunderhead" up above says, maybe you should have shown it in the first instance

Me Crazy? What about all the likes of you that supports an antisocial NDN?

bawbles · 18/06/2018 20:16

@skoda62

It’s not antisocial it’s just street parking. You can hope people are considerate but if they don’t leave you space it’s not them being inconsiderate.

Assuming you can block someone’s drive because the previous tenant didn’t object is extremely inconsiderate and I really don’t blame them for not then accommodating OPs desire to have a section of the public road made available to her.

FrancisCrawford · 19/06/2018 05:23

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