To park outside someone else's house?

[sallyhansen32]

Finally passed my test and excitedly bought a new car.
I live in terraced houses with no drive.
Parking is terrible and the neighbours have 2-3 cars between them.
Over the road is a elderly lady and she has no cars and space for 2 cars easily as the house next door is vacant.
I parked my car outside (which is directly opposite my house).
I get in my car this morning to drive to work and she bangs on my window..
Do not park there again as I couldn't get to town this morning as my taxi couldn't park at my door (there was room behind my car and the car wasn't blocking her front door.
Am I in the wrong here?

I suppose you could try to explain to her that you pay road tax to use all and any roads - it might help her understand the rules a bit better, if she's not aware.

Could you park it directly outside the vacant house next to hers? She couldn’t complain about that one.

A neighbour opposite me actually got an Asbo for threatening another neighbour who had parked completely legally in front of their house.

He begrudgingly accepted that he had no right to the space outside his house even though ‘he’d worked hard for it.’ Until two years ago when he started ranting at everyone who did and tried to get the police involved.

The police said if he wasn’t so elderly that they would have charged him with harassment and wasting police time. (He or his wife rang 999 every time a car was there) It got quite scary for some of us.

Obviously everyone would rather park outside their own house but YANBU. Needs must.

We now all take it in turns so that he can’t target just one driver.

OP, your dad is a hypocrite. If your neighbour isn't doing any harm by parking in front of your house, then equally you're not doing any harm parking on front of your neighbour's house across the road....

sallyhansen32 Thu 12-Jul-18 10:19:01
Finally passed my test and excitedly bought a new car.
I live in terraced houses with no drive.
Parking is terrible and the neighbours have 2-3 cars between them.
Over the road is a elderly lady and she has no cars and space for 2 cars easily as the house next door is vacant.
I parked my car outside (which is directly opposite my house).
I get in my car this morning to drive to work and she bangs on my window..
Do not park there again as I couldn't get to town this morning as my taxi couldn't park at my door (there was room behind my car and the car wasn't blocking her front door.
Am I in the wrong here?

Yes. Why can't you park outside the vacant house?

Frequency Thu 12-Jul-18 10:22:12
*Why couldn't the taxi stop further up or in the road? If her mobility is so limited she needs it directly outside her front door how is she getting to town? I doubt the taxi driver drives into the town center and drops her exactly at the door of the shops she wants.

She is being dramatic.*

She might have it drop her right outside the motability place that lends scooters.

@LittleMysPonytail there is a man like this on our school run. He's actually taken the extra step of putting 'no parking' signs up. There's no reason for that, it's not as if it's permit holder only or if there are any restrictions. One afternoon, I had difficulty parking and so parked outside his house, hoping I'd get away with it. But he was waiting for me and when I got back with my 2 DDs he became very aggressive towards me, threatening to call the police. I stood up for myself, but won't be parking there again, as my DDs have never forgotten the 'angry man'.

bullies come in all shapes and sizes.

Love how she managed to get out to bang on your window so quickly!

Haven't RTFT. I live on a road where my front door opens straight on to a street which has a school on it. People park outside my front door all the time. Yeah it's annoying but can't do anything about it. If this is her issue she should buy a house with a drive. If there are no double yellows on the road she simply needs to get over it.

Eliza ..I specifically parked near her window and not her door step/front door so the taxi could park behind me so she could get straight in.
The doors are so close together.

Is Eliza your opposite neighbour? Or your dad your dad’s a plonker btw

And your first diagram looks like a dodgy diagram of reproductive organs lololol!

Ha ha ha I've never been artistic

sallyhansen32 Thu 12-Jul-18 15:33:49
Eliza ..I specifically parked near her window and not her door step/front door so the taxi could park behind me so she could get straight in.
The doors are so close together.

But why didn't you park outside the vacant house? That wouldn't cause an issue with anyone.

You sound quite deliberately antagonistic imo.

Your not getting it are you?
I wasn't outside her house ...I was adjacent to her living room window which is not near her front door or step..if I was to park outside the empty house it would block the step/front door so it would be harder for her to get into the taxi!!

Just park in whichever space there is, when you get there. If it's not outside her house that's all well and good, but if that's the only space there is then you can use it with equanimity.

My mum's neighbour has a passive aggressive sign up in their kitchen window saying "Do not park in front of window" presumably because it ruins their view. Unfortunately for them there is literally no reason why anyone can't park there (no drop curve, no double yellows etc etc). Some people are just entitled and precious

Well got home and parked bottom of street in little dead end bit...hopefully il still have a car come the morning

I have problematic parking, its at a premium here and everyone would love to park outside their house. Its tough luck if someone parks outside our house and we have to park outside someone elses.

The road is free to park on so i have to suck it up, as does your neighbour. The only parking that annoys me is when the guys down the road park up all their taxis when waiting.

When we first moved here (similar set up) we sometimes parked outside the house of the old lady across the road.

She very came round after about the fifth time to ask us not to, she was very nice about it (her son has a disability and it made it harder for him to access her home) and went to great pains to acknowledge that we had every right to park there but that she would appreciate it if we didn't. We never parked there again.

We are about 10 years on and we have had many comings and goings in terms of neighbourhood but her front is always clear for her son because, presumably, she has the same conversation with everybody.

However if she had behaved like the woman you are describing we would have probably continued to park there.

I don't get why people are twats about things.

Sat having a cuppa this morning and her taxi pulls up (and stops behind where my car was) and she gets in no problem.
Clearly didn't want someone parking outside her window.
Total pain !

Then park there next time and don't feel guilty

There is no such thing as road tax and hasn't been since the 1930s.

However, nobody owns the road outside their house.

running - gosh, isn't there? I've never owned a car and clearly don't know! I thought there was.

I think the proper name is Road Fund Licence(or it used to be when I worked in a post office years ago) , but not even the YouGov website uses that term (it talks about vehicle tax/taxing your vehicle mostly).

I think you’re being a complete pushover not parking there. You’re willing to park your car in a bad area and potentially have it damaged or stolen because you’re afraid of an old lady.
Grow a pair and park where you want.

If there’s nowhere else convenient for you to park then of course you’ll have to park outside her house. Taxis don’t have to pull in.. they can just wait on the road... she’s shown it doesn’t take her long to get to a vehicle 🤷🏻‍♀️

There’s an old boy opposite me who likes to park outside his house (terraced street too), he puts a cone out to ensure his space is saved, however.. when he returns he just shunts the cone out of the way making a massive scrapy racket late at night (usually around midnight).

My DP once parked in his space and locked his cone in his back seats in full view..