Parking thread- am I the CF?

[Imsupposedtobeatwork]

I live on a new build estate which I love, but recently the parking has become a total nightmare! I live in a row of four houses, each with a garage behind and an allocated parking space next to the garage. In front of the houses there are two visitors parking bays. Since moving in 7 years ago (when the houses were built), I've always parked in one of the visitor spaces, my next door neighbour uses the other. There is no rear access to the garages, so I have to walk around all the other houses to get to my house. No one was using the visitor parking so it seemed simpler. Recently other people have been parking in this spot. That's fine, it's a visitor spot and if someone else is there then I'll happily park in my parking space. However, I've often noticed that if I park there first, then someone parks behind me, making it almost impossible for me to get out. My neighbour next door has been having the same problem. There's lots of spare parking on the street, so there's no need for them to park here.

So my AIBU is- am I being the CF by being lazy and not using my own parking space, or are they by parking me and my neighbour in?

I don't 'get the hump' if someone else parks in the spot, I know it's a visitor parking, if someone else uses it then I just park in my spot at the back. My issue is when someone else parks directly behind me. It's the same car that does it, so it's obviously someone else who lives here and has their own allocated space too?
Just to be clear, everyone else in the row uses the visitor parking as well, on both sides? I'll try and draw a picture but I'm not good at drawing

You’re definitely the CF.

I guess if parking is an issue, it must be annoying that you are taking up a visitors space and leaving your own space free.

We have a similar set up here but hardly anyone uses the visitors spaces because all the houses have drives that can fit at least two cars.

Our neighbours use one fairly frequently but only because their drive can fit two cars but it's one behind another and I assume they can't be bothered to keep switching their cars around.

I did live in a space were the houses had one space each and one visitors spot and some CF thought the visitors spot should be just for him and it ended up getting nasty and everyone being told that it was actually more of a turning bay than a visitors spot and shouldn't be parked in at all.

You should either use your space, your garage or park on the road. Taking up the visitor space every day is rude.

We have a couple of CF's near us. They have a long drive, (that can accommodate 2-3 vehicles,) AND a garage, yet they park on the road, virtually opposite us, because they're too lazy to make the effort to park on the drive. They make it SO hard for us to get out. (And hard to get in!)

One neighbour sometimes parks a pissing red van virtually opposite us, even though he has a THREE car driveway, and it makes it SO hard for us to swing in (and out) of our driveway.

We always park our car on our drive. Why the fuck wouldn't we? It's so inconsiderate and rude to block the road, when you have a driveway and/or garage.

Oh, we DID park on the road once, for a few days... whilst our driveway was being tarmacked ... And the amount of dirty looks and 'hmphs' we got, because it made it awkward for THEM to park outside their drive OR get on it, was hilarious! It's OK for them to make it hard for us to get out of our driveway - AND in - but they get all sniffy when we do the same.

Twats.

And yeah OP, you ARE a CF.

Diagram please.

Diagram please! Dems the rulez.

You need to sort out getting a path from you proper parking space to your back door.
Knock the garage down, turn it into a drive, problem solved.

I don't think that you are being cheeky. Your designated parking provisions are inadequate. If a space on the road happens to be free there is nothing wrong with taking it. It's not like you are putting cones out to try to save it or blocking other people in when they park on the street.

You both are BU. You shouldn't be routinely using the visitor space, but other person shouldn't be parking you in. Fortunately for you, there's an easy solution in the shape of using your own parking space. As for your 3 year old, buy some reins.

Need a diagram!

A neighbour of yours is trying to give you the message that you are a CF. Of course it's bad that they're blocking you in but they want you to stop parking there!

We live somewhere very similar. New build with spaces and garages at the back and visitors parking at the front. People like you are so bloody selfish. When the space is empty (rarely) we use it occasionally to bring in shopping, then immediately move back to our spaces. Only once have we parked there overnight, and that was when we got back from our holiday at 3am. I wish everyone did the same. Everyone in your road will do shopping, have visitors or deliveries in big vans. Please stop being so selfish. You knew when you were buying your house that you'd have to walk a few steps to get to your car.

You're both being CFs then?

Our road used to be easy to park on a decade ago, now it's a bloody nightmare. A combination of 17 year olds adding to the collection of cars and cars themselves getting bigger. We have no off street parking and I used to have about 100 yards of road to park in (yep, even I could manage that), now it's like a Spanish city centre and I'm lucky to get a space at all.

You are a CF. We live in a new build estate and have two allocated spaces. We always park in these. There are also visitor spaces, for, you know, visitors. Like my elderly parents for example. About 3 of our CF neighbours have now got 3 cars each as their teenagers have learnt to drive, and they ALWAYS park in the visitor spaces, rather than further up the road. This is the tip of the iceberg of their entitled behaviour but it pisses me off no end.

You’re not a visitor. Don’t park in visitor parking spaces. If you can not control your 3 year old enough to walk from the garage to your house buy reins.

How are visitors expected to know that your garage parking space is free and available? they might accidentally park on the garage parking space of someone who is not parking on a visitors space and that would be a whole new parking thread.....

So you are being unreasonable, and doubly so since there does not appear to be a diagram. Waiver have not read page 2 yet.

I've drawn a (rubbish) diagram but can't work out how to upload it? I'm not the only one who parks there, my neighbour does too and the people on the other side do the same thing too

Have now read page 2. No diagram.

Wishes for a sighing heavily emoticon.

Every resident who has a garage & parking space but parks in the visitor space is being a CF.

Can you not get access put in from garage to house, e.g. back garden gate?

I don't think yr a CF. if there are lots of free visitors spaces then it's not a problem for visitors to park. You too can park in front of your house. Yr only a CF if visitors can't park and your garage is empty.
But another car is using the one by yr house on a regular basis. When you get there first, they block you. Why can't they use a different space. You don't block them . They are the CF.

Sorry I think you are being a CF too. It drives me mad on our estate that everyone has two off-road allocated parking spaces, usually just behind the houses, some have drives and some have car ports and yet lazy people park on the pavement or in the visitor spaces, blocking their drives / in front of their houses or directly opposite their garages. It makes getting down what would otherwise be a road wide enough for two cars to pass difficult and visitors have nowhere to park.

We need a diagram picture on the Mumsnet smileys list.

You're a CF just for starting a parking thread without a diagram.