I know the MN rules regarding parking is to put a diagram on, but I won't as I'll probably out myself!
I moved into my house over ten years ago, the house has off road parking as there's a dropped kerb outside. However, after changing my car eight years ago I could no longer park on the drive as every time I did the car would 'bang on the bottom' as the drive is quite steep. you'd have thought I'd have had the sense to think about this before I bought the car.
Anyway, it wasn't a problem to park on the road instead as there was mostly only my car and ndn's parked on a large stretch of road (where you could probably park seven or eight cars) and part of this includes a lay by.
Ndn has always parked in the lay by (he doesn't have a drive) and I parked just on the straight bit of road, but not directly across my dropped kerb as I preferred to be able to see my car easily. (Kerb nearer to the side of my house more out of view).
Parking like this was all ok, but inevitably over the past few years, other neighbours have bought cars/moved in and the lay by where my ndn parked has been 'taken over' by others who don't go out often, thereby not giving ndn as much opportunity to park there now. Because of this, ndn (or his wife who uses the car for work) started to park their car in the spot I've been using for years.
No problem at all (I could just move a bit further down if ndn was there first). Now though, ndn's son has moved back home with his car and ndn now also comes home in a works van.
Again no problem with this, but, I've noticed over a period of time that if I happen to park where I did for a number of years, ndn and his wife or son often park right up my arse and up to the bonnet leaving me to have to do about 27 manoeuvres to try and get out, and they do that even if there is plenty of room for them to park a little bit further down.
Although, if the lay by is free, ndn's are happy to park there and don't attempt to box me in.
I've started to feel as if they're trying to 'intimidate me' into parking directly outside my dropped kerb so that they are left to have the 'better' parking spots.
I've noticed that if I 'move along' and park across my kerb 'out of their way' they don't park within an inch of my car.
The past couple of weeks though, if either the ndn, his wife and son can't manage to park all three of their vehicles outside our houses, they have taken to parking directly across my dropped kerb, leaving me to park further down the road with my car being out of sight.
This has really pissed me off, especially as they have three vehicles between them, against my one!
Although, I'm prepared to be told I am BU expecting to at least be able to park against my own dropped kerb, as I don't use the drive way.
Mind you, I do use it to turn in and may need to leave access for skips I sometimes have delivered.
What do you think? am I being precious or are my ndn's being intimidating CF's?