To think it’s weird to knock a neighbours door and tell them to move their car

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A family that lives a few doors down Have started knocking peoples doors asking them to move their car from outside their house.

He likes to park right outside his house. Ideally I do too but understand that I don’t have a drive, I am not entitled to park outside my house. We all pay road tax therefore the street parking should operate on a first come first come basis. I try to be considerate but can’t all the time. My other neighbour has also asked if we could come to an arrangement about parking. I found this laughable. I told him I would try to be considerate but of course if someone is parked outside my house where should I park?!
Anyway, back to the original neighbour, I think it’s unreasonable of him to knock every door on the street asking if they know who the car belongs to as the owner needs to move it.
I find this behaviour aggressive and unreasonable. Am I overreacting?!

I would park outside his house just to piss him off more tbh

My dad had a neighbour who did this, complained when I parked outside his house (next to my dads) as it was 'his' grass verge. (public road so certainly wasn't)

I made a not very mature point of doing wheelspins on 'his' grass verge every time I went to my dads house. Right fucking state it looked after.

Its the only way to deal with pisstakers like this.

I would also not move. Not even once. Don't open the door to him.

BarbaraofSevillle - Exactly! He also sweeps the leaves from the front of his house and road, piles them up and takes them across the road to dump on the grass! And will put his wheelie bin in the road if it's particularly busy in the street that day, and has also been known to balance a plank of wood on the cone and bin to create a larger blockage!
Once, about 10 years ago, he complained to someone over the road about their car being in 'his' space. The next morning there was paint stripper all over his car.....nothing on the car next to his, which was about 2 inches away........ He had to have the whole car resprayed...!

I have asked neighbours to move there car a few feet to let me park when the street is rammed, never late at night. A lot of people put their bins on the street to claim their " spot". It make my blood boil.

There would be enough space for everyone if people had cars that didn’t extend beyond the width of their house frontage

This only works if you have larger houses, that are not terraced, so spaces between the houses.

We used to live in a back to back terrace where there were 7 houses that only had 3 houses worth of frontage onto the road (block with 3 houses at the front and 4 taller but narrower ones at the back as the building was on a hillside).

In extreme circumstances there could be 7 couples living in those houses, with a car per person, so potentially 14 cars fighting over probably 4 or 5 spaces, although in reality it was probably an average of more like 10 cars, as sometimes there were single people living in the houses, or not every couple had 2 cars, but equally there could have been lodgers or adult DCs with extra cars.

When we moved away from there, one thing that we made sure our new house had was a driveway with sufficient parking, to get away from all these petty gripes. Our current house has parking for 3 or 4 cars on the drive and also has a big paved area at the side where you can park as many cars as you like, so any arguments about spaces are a distant memory.

We once pulled out of buying a house because of this. We went for a second viewing after having our offer accepted, the agent had parked on the drive so we had parked on the road opposite. Immediately, before we had left the car, the owner of that house came out to tell us to move because her husband needed to park there that evening. It was about 2pm. The agent then told us that was why he always parked on the drive, he’d had a run in with her previously. That was enough to put us off, especially as we would have had lots of vans etc coming as it was a wreck. Not worth the aggro.

Of all the posts on this thread, I’m yet to see one anecdote of a Parking Nazi that’s not a man.

Funny that, isn’t it?

Can't everyone just park outside their own house? If people have more than one car then that's their problem. I have a sign outside my street house asking people not to park outside my home as I have babies and to get them to the house safely means not having to take one to the house leaving the other in the car alone then when I have to go and get them up the road because some people with 3+ cars are parking outside my door my other child would be in the house alone.

Amusing in that case that the one immediately above your post is about a woman.

Of all the posts on this thread, I’m yet to see one anecdote of a Parking Nazi that’s not a man

Sorry but im about to spoil that

I parked in a visitors bay in my brothers street - quite clearly marked with a V - when the owner of the house i was parked outside came out like a screaming banshee telling me to move my car as i was in her bay. I pointed out it was a visitors bay to be met with another torrent of abuse saying she needed the space. Never worked out why as their drive could hold 4/5 cars & they only had 2.

Her shouting brought my brother & SIL out who agreed with me that it was for visitors. Tbh i dont know why we even entertained her & didnt just go inside. Next thing my SIL appears with a folder. She'd only got a copy of the street plans. There in black & white indesputably marked were the visitors bays.

The best the banshee could come back with was it was rude to park in a bay outside someones house

"You don't own the road." Close door.

repeat as necessary.

Your neighbours are ridiculous.

@notonefunkgiven sorry but that’s not anyone else’s problem. Everyone pays road tax on each car, so therefore entitled to park on public roads. Your not more entitled to a part of a road just because you have children. And I say this as someone who has the exact same problem of young children and having to do 2 runs sometimes leaving one behind. It’s part and parcel of living in a busy area and also the reason that when we move in a couple of years wel only look for houses with driveways.

I'd purposely aim to park outside neighbour's house

Then again, I'm a twat with stuff like this because it's grinds. My. Gears.

Entitled prick.

I have a sign outside my street house asking people not to park outside my home as I have babies and to get them to the house safely means not having to take one to the house leaving the other in the car alone

Double buggy! Both babies in buggy, take to car, strap them in, buggy in the boot, job done.

Repeat in reverse on return journey.

Everyone pays road tax on each car, so therefore entitled to park on public roads.

If you're in the UK you're paying vehicle excise duty. It's not a road tax and conveys no entitlement to park anywhere. It does not buy you the right to use the road. It's graded according to the amount you pollute the atmosphere so by your reckoning, those in band A (zero rated) wouldn't be able to park.

Batshit woman at the end corner of our permit only St owns A CAR PARK aside of her house. It's kept locked - and EMPTY, while she parks in the permit zone.
She asked me not to park in front of her window as it blocked her light.
She parked outside her ndn's window!

@notonefunkgiven as someone who had a 16 month age gap, lives on a relatively busy road, and DC1 wasn't walking when DC2 arrived, YABVU. I hope someone takes down your sign! You have no right to do that.

@LakieLady's solution is how I lived for the guts of two years! Replacing a double buggy with a single along the way and DC1 having strict instructions to hold onto it or me.

Can't everyone just park outside their own house?

You can’t park outside my partners house, so we have to park in the next street up. We try not to park outside peoples houses but sometimes there is no choice in the matter.

You sign is just daft! Your parking issues are nothing to do with anyone else. Ds is disabled, it can be a nightmare getting him from the car to my partners house but it’s nobody else’s problem!

Laughing at ' Don't park here, l have babies ' I've said this before but you aren't on a supermarket car park with parent and child spaces allocated just for you and nearer the store than everyone else. You're on a public road.

It's bonkers but my mil does this and in our cul de sac there's alway a kerfuffle when someone parks out of place.

We have a driveway but our neighbour was having work done and the builders blocked our drive. I parked outside their house (on the road perfectly legally). After the builders left the neighbour cane round and shouted at me for parking in his space. Yes, because obviously I got home to my empty drive and thought "I know, let's park a bit further from my house today rather than right outside."

I've concluded that people are a bit nuts. Usually the ones who are home too much without enough to do!

@notonefunkgiven I would ignore your sign, having babies does not mean you own the bit of road outside your house! What age do you intend to take down the sign?

If someone came to the door with this nonsense, and I knew before I answered what they were going to say, I would just do what I do with doorstep salesman... "No, I'm not interested thank you" and firmly close the door.

Whoever put up a sign outside your house asking people not to park because you have children... you are bonkers. How do you think other mothers manage?

Regardless of who parks there, just tell him it's yours and you won't move it.

Street parking is a fucking nightmare, especially if you live in a street where there is a business and the people that work there park right in front of your house all day while at work! I'm a childminder taking sometimes 5 kids to and from the car but what can I do about it until I manage to get a driveway put in?.... absolutely nothing. Certainly wouldn't say anything to my neighbours