Neighbour spying on me parking

[curtaintwitchers]

Aibu that this is over the top and unnecessary? Every evening when I come home or late at night if we go out somewhere my neighbour pulls up her blinds and stares at me out of her front window watching me park my car and then goes back in. We live on a terrace street so I park my car directly in front of hers and have to parallel park in if my other neighbour parks in front of me,I think she's concerned about me bumping her car whilst parking but it's really starting to make me feel uncomfortable. It's like she's listening for my car engine pulling up .

We live on a busy terrace street, we had one neighbour who had to move after living here less than a year because she couldn't cope with having cars parked close to hers. You can't park outside your house here and you have to park close to neighbours but the cars are always fine, she moved somewhere with a drive and she's much happier now!
Spying on you is just weird tho

I'd go to her door, hold my keys out, and say "If you're that nervous about my parking perhaps you'd like to park for me".

Or I'd ostentatiously wipe my brow and then blow her a kiss after I've successfully parked my car.

Id use my parking sensors to get millimetre close to her car, but im bad like that.

Perhaps a one man band and you doing a burlesque dance with a TV flim crew interviewing her on your entertaiment value;?.

No joke : when our street started getting busier I had to park a bit along outside 'the neighbour from Hell'
Actually watched her crawl across the room from under a table with a camera and take pics of me parking outside her house.
*she owns a private car park AT THE SIDE OF HER FRONT GARDEN and keeps it locked. EMPTY
Told the dc to start waving at her. She stood scowling instead.

For a laugh bubble wrap your bumpers around the corner from home before parking. Say nothing, skip up your path.

next doors kids stand and watch me water the garden. Every evening. Or they stand and stare into the garden on rotation. First the youngest, then the middle one and the eldest likes to have the last shift.
tomorrow I am going to Argos to buy a folding screen for at least part of the garden because I am begining to feel beyond irked by it.
We have parking wars on our street too and as the road next to us now has restrictions, there is going to be a proper bomb put under things.
Our other neighbour waits for us to go out then moves his car/van so he can have both parked outside his house. We drove up the road and watched watched him scurry out, do all these manouvres then scuttle back home. What is wrong with people?
We live on a street designed for perhaps a handful of cars sometime int he 1930s. It is what it is. Space is finite and the road is a rat run too boot.

Aprilshouldhavebeenmyname...I think you ahve won. That is off the charts maddo behaviour and I say that living next to an absolute arsehole.

It really unnerves me when people watch me park - I'm always guaranteed to mess it up/stall.

My parents have a neighbour like this - she puts a cone out when she goes out so people don't park in front of her house as well! Of course people ignore it, move it or, my personal favourite, move it, park there and stick the cone on their car roof!

I wonder if it's my ex-neighbour? She too used to be obsessive about watching when anyone parked next to her car, and would leap out and harangue them on the slightest excuse. I remember once one unfortunate woman had parked leaving a perfectly reasonable amount of space, but then made the mistake of going to get something out of her boot and daring to let her leg touch neighbour's front bumper - from the fuss made you'd have thought she'd been kicking it with steel toecaps. The reality was that neighbour didn't think anyone should be allowed to park outside her house anyway, and regularly parked across two spaces to try to prevent it. If she could possibly park other people in, she would.

I must admit I used to wind her up when I had time, by deliberately making a major performance of getting into or out of the parking space and moving my car so that it was close to hers but never actually touching. It was quite amusing watching the head of steam build up and her utter frustration at realising that there was nothing she could shout at me for. When she finally left, it was very strange being able to park without the glowering face staring from her front window.

Id put a performance on too. Leap out the car (well what passes for leaping) and dash to the end nearest her car, pulling lots of faces as if you think you might have hit it!!

Our other neighbour waits for us to go out then moves his car/van so he can have both parked outside his house. We drove up the road and watched watched him scurry out, do all these manouvres then scuttle back home. What is wrong with people?

I'd be so tempted to reverse smartly back in just as he started moving his car.

Get a bumper sticker saying something like this

Could you go and knock on her door once you're finished and politely say that you've noticed her watching you park a few times now, and is she worried about you damaging her car? Add something like "The thing is, is makes me quite nervous to be watched while I'm doing it, and then I'm more likely to make a mistake. Can we agree that if I ever did bump your car accidentally, I'd knock and tell you straightaway instead?"

I know it's boring, but it might help you actually resolve the issue.

Do you have a reversing camera? I would be really tempted to get really really close to her car every time just to make her as unconfoetable as she us making you.

Bibesia I have a neighbour a couple of houses away who obviously has nothing to do, because if he isn't parked outside his house he is watching for the car that is to leave.

Sometimes I'll go out and start loading my car ahead of going out and he's out there ready to move his....while I nonchalantly walk back to the house.

One time a big 4x4 had been parked outside my house for days. I walked in to my living room and noticed it had gone. I was toying with the idea of moving my car bit decided it was near enough so I wouldn't bother. Then Mr neighbour went pelting up the road to get his. Now my car was much nearer than his, so I was very naughty and by the time he had got back my car was already in the space!!

1. Stare right back at her until she looks away.
2. Park up, then go and look between the two cars and clutch your head with an "oh no", horrified expression as if you'd hit her car, and run indoors.

I agree with those who have said to talk to her. I'd knock on and just say something like "Am I ok parking there? I've noticed you watching when I park and I'm just worried that you think I'm going to crash or something?" see what she says.. if she's a weird one and starts going on about being too close to her car etc then you can re-assure her the you know how to park safely and nothing has happened so far, and to be honest watching you isn't helping. Or maybe she's just not got anything better to do and if you call her out on it then she'll stop. Hopefully!

Maybe she's had a couple of 'anonymous' scrapes left on her car and is now being hypervigilant?

If I'd had this, I'd be eyeing each car like a hawk!

@starfishmummy so petty I love it!

Bibesia he does the parking across 2 spaces too and my husband has had a word with him pointing out that it was a little unreasonable to do this on a street that had such limited parking but he gave a load of guff about he van being a work van etc.

No point with some peole

Somebody actually cracked my number a few weeks ago but I didn't notice straight away so I couldn't determine where or when it actually happened, I'm starting to suspect that it may have been her and she thinks I'm out for revenge!

Cracked my bumper.

Ask her if she saw who did it!!

It is weird on her part but who knows why she's doing it she may just be nosy about when you're coming and going, she may be overly anxious about her car getting banged (maybe it's been scratched before and no one left details?). I don't think you can complain as it's a public space and she can watch you park if she wants. Is a bit odd and off putting though!