To organise parking like this?

[Tonicandginn]

DP and I have a car each and one driveway (can’t park across it as shared)

Whoever gets home earliest will Park on the road if there’s a space free as the later it gets the more full the road gets. I.e if DP finishes work at 5 and is going to the gym and he will get home at 6. So when I get home at 3:30 I leave our drive empty and park on the road so he has a guaranteed space to park in.

Friend just said this was selfish of us and we shouldn’t use the road when we have an empty drive.

AIBU?

I wouldn't say so - it would be unreasonable to park on the road if you only had one car but not if the other space is going to be in use!

It’s not really much different to having two cars, one parked on the drive and one on the road, and going out in the one on the drive.

So no, YANBU.

ClaudiaWankleman I think that's still pretty selfish, though it depends how long the car on the road is left there. A few hours, fine. 2 weeks at a time (like my NDN who uses his car purely to drive to his offshore job and back again then dumps it in frony of my house the whole time he's home), not so fine.

Though I don't think what you're doing is too bad, OP, as (unlike my neighbours) you can't park across the drive, so you're going to need a space on the road anyway.

Sounds like a good system!