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?!

Parking permits here and any space is up for grabs. Outside your own house? Hollow laughter.

Living in a terrace area nothing annoys me more than some absolute dickhead parking in an inconsiderate manner such as not pulling up closely to the car parked in front. Someone's left a Golf taking up 1.5 car spaces for weeks now (you can't park behind because of double yellow lines). I might leave them a note under the cover of darkness which is obviously the correct way to deal with such things.

YANBU. I used to live near a couple of idiots who mistakenly thought the section of public highway that was outside their house was their personal parking spot. We had a man knock on our door rudely demanding that DH move his car. DH has abuse shouted at him in the street by another ‘neighbour’. DH quite rightly told him he had every right to park there. The prat then started gibbing on our car windows and putting snotty tissues under the windscreen wipers. Eventually he keyed my DH’s car! Some people are so thick. Thankfully we’ve moved to a much nicer area where the neighbours are more considerate of each other.

• gobbing not gibbing!

I've had someone key my car for parking in "their space".
He introduced himself when we moved in and it was like "hi, I'm grumpy bollocks, that's my spot, don't park in it and we don't have problems".
Turns out if you park in a spot within a 10 metre radius of "his" space you still get the same treatment.
Keyed to shreds, all the neighbours told us he's known to do it all the time but the police don't care. The BMWs owner cared when he caught him keying his car and beat the shit out of him and he ended up in hospital for a few days 😲
We've now moved and having a drive was pretty much top of our must haves. No petty squabbles and BS for now.

MrsHopey I take your keying and raise you a litre bottle of pva glue down the windscreen.
Still got bits on from months ago. Dh legally parked with a permit on the side St not in front of our house. Neighbour assumes 2 spaces are theirs.

We lived in a terraced house years ago could only park on one side of the very narrow road. We had a neighbour on other side of the road that used to literally run outside every time a car moved to get his car to park it nearer his house. It was bloody hilarious watching him especially as he drove up the road only to be pipped at the post by another driver getting the space first. Jeez life is too short for this madness. Live in house with a drive now but I couldn't care less if someone parks outside my house and why should I. I don't own the road.

We've now moved and having a drive was pretty much top of our must haves. No petty squabbles and BS for now.

...Until someone parks across it. I have a drive but quite often can't get my car onto the road because some lazy git has parked in front of the dropped kerb to go to one of the shops round the corner, rather than using actual parking spaces 30 metres further away.

We had this with a neighbour few yrs ago, passed his test then thought he had the right to park outside his house all the time, we have football traffic so first come first served, across the road is near enough empty majority of the time but he refused to park there & would knock on asking my DH to ‘move his car up a bit’ I used to love telling him no when my DH was picked up by his work mate in a van & I can’t drive anyway, he would skulk off tutting!

I'd tell him "No driveway,No right to park outside your own house.You should have bought a house with a parking space.Hey, that's an idea...move if you don't like it!"
I'd pick up one of those property guide magazines next time I pass an estate agents and pop it through his door.
Knocking on every door to find whose car it is is just being a CF with too much time on his hands.
Ha, where we used to live people used to just dump their cars or vans for months at a time on the road outside then move them up the road for another few months. I'd like to see him try living there.

I live on a newish estate where each house has a designated numbered parking space that we own as per the deeds of the house we own. Some are at the front like a driveway but ours along with 5 others are at the rear. In the 12 months I’ve lived here I’ve had to remove many folk out of my private space that I own and pay the mortgage on. I even put a sign up stating private property but there’s always one cheeky arse who thinks he can use his space and mine too. I’ve ended up blowing up fairly recently with them as it’s plain rude. I would never dream of parking on someone else’s property. We have a road to the front that restricted during the day but can be parked on come evening. I don’t own any part of the public road so would never dream of telling someone they couldn’t park there. But as far as the private space goes, I have knocked on doors and asked them to move as it’s for my use only and they are just cf’s.

I hate people like that! You can park anywhere you like on street parking. He should have bought a house with a driveway if he wanted his own parking space. I don't know if there is much you can do to get through to people like that though...

we have football traffic so first come first served

Aaagghhh, football traffic = absolute lunatic parking.

I have lived in two places that were within a short walk of Selhurst Park. The first was a flat in a block, and the fans would park in the communal spaces, and, when Crystal Palace moved up a division, all along the drive, double parking so that no-one could get in or out.

The residents bought a chain that went across the entrance on match days, with a sign hanging from it that said "residents only". Fans just removed it and parked there anyway. Then the caretaker got a padlock for the chain, and every flat got given a key. The second time the padlock and chain were used, some fucker just cut through the chain.

My house was quite a bit further from the ground, but parking on match days was still a nightmare. Thankfully, I had my own parking space in a little lane that ran along the back of the houses. You wouldn't have known it was there unless you lived there, so that was only a problem when some twat parked over the access to it. Neighbours had cars towed away twice.

DP lived really near the ground for a while, and if he went out on a match day, he'd just have to stay out till about an hour after the end of the match, there was no point in trying to get back any earlier.

I'd never buy a place near a big sporting venue again.

Ha, where we used to live people used to just dump their cars or vans for months at a time on the road outside then move them up the road for another few months. I'd like to see him try living there.

There's a road in Brighton where there are always loads of camper vans and motorhomes parked. Last time I drove along there, a lot of them had been vandalised with spray paint. One of them had the words "You ruin our road" painted on the back and "We ruin your van" painted all along the side.

The motorhome was probably worth about £25k before that happened.

I'd never buy a place near a big sporting venue again.

Or a theatre.
Our last place was a terrace and during the day not so bad as we had permits.
However it was a nightmare if there was something on in the theatre in the next street. By that time the permits had stopped. One night I got home when there was something on and there was simply nowhere to park within a ten minute walk, not even on single yellow lines. I just sat in the car on double yellows and cried (I was shattered and I just wanted a cup of tea), until the thing in the theatre ended.

Oh, and my car is tax free.. where should I park?

ROTF at notonefunkgiven what makes you so special?

ROTF at notonefunkgiven what makes you so special?

She has BABIES. Did you not read? That makes her the most special because no one else has babies.

You've paid your road tax so your entitled to park any where on your street as long as it's legal. Ask him to show proof that he's paid for that space, otherwise jog off!!!

ChesterGreySideboard sorry, didn't realise she was the only person in the UK with babies

and people on our street aren't knobheads like some of these on here

oh there's definately at least one knobhead living on your street.

this thread has just solved my parking problem!

I'm going to make a sign saying 'please dont park here-I have a dog'

why should I have to walk 10 ft up the road with my dog whenever I want to take her out in the car, its unreasonable!

alternatively , and to cover all bases, I might just make a sign 'dont park here-I have an inflated sense of privilege and entitlement and only my concerns matter'

Parking is a nightmare down my road and the neighbour opposite who has a huge drive with a van and campervan Parked on it quite often park his third vehicle outside my house. Irritating as I have 3 kids aged 1-6. However I’d never dream of knocking his door and tell him him to move. I just silently curse him instead! So yanbu!

My neighbour opposite doesn’t like my visiting friends parking outside her house (not blocking her drive, just on public road). She has rung the bell before and asked them to move! It’s totally out of order. Public road, can park anywhere. And as long as drove is not obstructed whats the problem?

I have a lovely lovely relative ..BUT they believe that the space outside their home ...they do pay for a parking permit which enable them to park for an unlimited amount of time in a particular zone is theirs! and will tell people that! I have tried to say maybe not!