We live in a tiny village. There are a handful of houses on our little terraced row. The houses at either end have garages. The households in the middle have always parked one car outside our own home (tiny cottages on a single track lane, just wide enough for a car to park outside our houses) and any additional vehicles got parked further down the lane. No problem. We initially did not realise that this was the accepted etiquette (and had two cars) but one of the neighbours popped us a quick note explaining that this is how they had usually parked and would we mind parking one of our cars down the lane so that everyone was able to continue to park outside their own houses. We were happy to oblige and have since got rid of one of our cars anyway.
New neighbours have moved in. They have three cars. Can now never park outside (or indeed near) the house. I wouldn’t mind but I have a young (but incredibly heavy, 91st centile) baby whom I am now having to wrestle into and out of his car seat, often in the pitch black, down a country lane and carry back to the house because three able bodied adults are a bit thoughtless.
I am far too non-confrontational to mention it in passing and was secretly hoping that one of our other neighbours would have a word or do another polite letter. I’d feel like a complete twat writing a letter myself. WIBU to just continue quietly seething and passively aggressively talking loudly to DS about how dangerous it is that I have to carry him up a dark lane with no pavement? 😬
(I am fully aware that we are lucky to have nearby on street parking and that we have no legal rights to it!)