To ignore this woman and carry on parking there?

[SozNotSorry]

Name changed for this, but I am a regular poster.

I work in mornings as a TA at a local primary school. Unfortunately the school car park isn't big enough for everyone, so some of us have to park on the roads outside because obviously the teachers take priority and are there before us in the mornings. I usually park in the same spot, just out of habit really but am always considerate.

Today as I left work an elderly lady who lives in the propertyI park outside came out and rudely told me that she was sick of me parking outside her home, and that because of me delivery drivers had trouble finding her home (WTF). She then said that if I did it again she'd ring the police and tell them my car was abandoned and get it towed away (again WTF?!). There was another car parked behind me that I'd never seen before in my life and she told that I needed to tell the owner of that car to do the same (a final WTF?)

I was a bit taken a back. Not that it's relevant, but it's an affluent area where all properties have ample off road parking, so it's not like I'm taking up a valuableparking space. I'm parked legally, I'm fully taxed and MOT'd so the police wouldn't want to know, and how the fuck am I supposed to know who the other car belonged to?!

AIBU to just carry on parking there?

I used to have this problem when I did voluntarily work at a school. I had the same chap come and berate me regularly for parking near to his house.

It's a shame he seemed to choose spending his retirement getting himself wound up about people parking lawfully.

Surely someone else will use that public space?

Yeah probably, but I would have tried to make life as easy for the resident as possible.

I’d rather do that, than carry on parking there just because I technically can.

I live next door to a school. Illegal and inconsiderate parking boils my piss. Someone parking legally outside my house is fine tho. I know teachers and cleaners park outside my house and that is fine. I did have a senior teacher apologise once for someone parked outside my house. I replied it is only when they park blocking my dropped kerb or like twats blocking the road I gave a problem. I don’t own the actual road and others can park legally on the road.

You should vary where you park. It would be annoying for you to park outside her home every day.

I’d continue parking there but then I live on a terraced street with no off-road parking where you’re lucky to be able to park near your home, let alone in front of it (in fact there are double yellow lines in front of mine so I can never park there) - as such I have little sympathy with people who try to own the space outside their house when they have off road parking. Someone living next to a primary school with limited parking should expect this and make their peace with it - if it wasn’t you it would be someone else

Just mix it up a little. Try and park in a different place each time, so it's not always outside her house.

Imo our 80 odd year old neighbour let my ds's car tyres down 3 nights in a row for daring to block her light. She also hid on her hands and knees under a table taking pics of my car outside her house. Did threaten to ring the police if I thought she was photographing my dc though. She crawled back under the table then!!

I know that you have a perfect right to park there, but if there's any way of you parking in a different spot sometimes that would just help neighbourly relations. It's irrational, but many people do get irritated by the same car parking outside their house, day after day, especially if there are other spaces on the street.

When my mum moved into her current house the elderly lady next-door used to come out and tell me off if I (or anyone) parked outside her house. My mum is now an elderly lady who complains about the cars that park outside her house. I think it might be a thing. Give it a few years but as long as you're legally parked, not a lot they can do

Put a note on your dashboard when you park there noting the date or the fact that you work at the school. Dashboard cam wouldn't be a bad idea either.

She doesn't own the road. I'm amazed at the number of people, especially older people, that think they do. You have a right and a reason to park there; you're not doing anything wrong.

There is a woman that shouts at everyone that parks outside her house near school and calls them lazy & says they should be walking

I would carry on but if she threatens or shouts I'd personally log it with 111.

Must be a pain with parking near as school but you just can't expect people not to park outside your house.

To those who asked, yes I could find somewhere else to park, but it would be much further to walk. Which when it's freezing cold and pissing down as it was today is a pain.

Ive also said, I'm not there all day. I arrive at about 8.30 and am gone by 1pm. Also the view from her front window would just be of the house across the road.

YANBU, it's a public road, as many have said.

I'd be frightened of any repercussions (scratched car, nail in tyre) but I'm overly anxious, a total pushover and people pleaser. Be better than me.

Yes, just ignore her. As many other posters have said-if you are legally parked, you are legally parked, and that is the end of it.
Neither the Police nor the Council will take action on a specious complaint of an abandoned vehicle-don't even bother to leave a note in the windscreen. In fact if the Police realise (as they probably would) that she is falsely alleging your car is abandoned, she will get a bit of a "Talking-To".
Come to think of it though, another reason for trying to park in a different place each day (if you can), is to avoid giving a false impression that your car has never moved.
It is a well-known "pain" to live in a street next to a school, and we can all see that. But what can anybody do?
At least elderly people rarely vandalise cars.

Omg please keep parking there! I fucking hate it when people think they own the road !

Yanbu. Keep parking there. If she speaks to you again tell her you're speaking to your lawyer about her harassing you for lawful parking.

She doesn't own the road.

Just smile, nod and say 'thank you for letting me know'. Then ignore.

Half the time these types just want a bit of a fight cos they're bored. They hate it when you don't engage.