Parking one - am I in the wrong?

[GinSolvesEverything]

DDs weekly music lesson. Location at the end of a no exit street, no parking restrictions. Usually a couple of spare spaces around.

One space is fairly short between driveways, but I can fit my car against the kerb without overhanging at all. This is where I am currently as it’s the only space free right now.

Parked, sitting in the car waiting for DD to finish. People from one of the driveway houses just pulled up next to me and had a go at me as ‘I’m not allowed to park there, and the no other spaces is not their problem’

I wasn’t over their driveway, but I was close. I’d say a foot either side. There are no other road markings.

Was I parked like a dick, or where they unreasonably rude?

Is there a dog grooming business near by?

Many people need to take the trouble of learning how to park properly. And not buy massive prestige brand cars if they can't be bothered to learn how to park the bloody things

Yes this!

no cars parked on the other side, but there isn’t more road either - hard to explain!

Which is precisely why you have to supply a diagram with a parking AIBU. Them's the rules...

If people routinely refer to vehicle excise duty as a tax

Yes I knew what was being referred to, but people refer to it as road tax because they think that's what it is. Which it isn't. It goes into a big pot and it is NOT spent on roads. Well, a proportion of it is, in the same way that my income tax and petrol tax and VAT is spent on the roads. The point is that paying VED does not give you the right to park/drive on the roads or otherwise. Or does it give you more right to be on the road than cyclists (which is the usual context it arises in).

I can park my big fancy car just fine. I can't get it off my drive though sometimes because some twats have double parked close to it. Go on tell me it's my fault for having such a vehicle!

No parking restrictions and not blocking a drive so you're fine.

No diagram nor any link to Google streetview so we can judge for ourselves?

Shame on you OP

I get this a lot on my drive with the neighbours, my drive awkward to get off and even though there's heaps of room to park a foot further back they must get a tape measure out to get as close as possible. if there is no room can't see the problem I perhaps would have said can I just get on then you can move back, I wouldn't have had a go though that's rude.

Though...how long were you sitting outside their house, inside your car, looking like a weird stalker?

:-p

If there is a vehicle parked opposite my driveway and vehicles close to entrance I don't have room to turn in or even reverse in. You don't appear to have been parked illegally but maybe inconsiderately.. Only you will know.

There are mn rules you know. Where's the diagram?

I used to have neighbours who purposely parked across the entrance of my drive every time they came home and wouldn’t move until they went out again. So I asked the police about this. The police said that as they paid road tax they could park there as long as there were no yellow lines, aNd that it was only out of courtesy that people didn’t park across drives.

you are 100% in the right. they were just being dicks.
legally you can park anywhere as long as there are no lines, signs, permits required or you are not obstructing a vehicle from accessing the road.
its more out of courtesy people do not park across driveways. but if the driveway is empty then you can actually park across it if you really wanted to. the house owner might get a bit miffed, as in this case, however there are no legal rights.