Bloody entitled school parking

[m0therofdragons]

I understand that people living by schools get annoyed at bad parking but seriously, if you live next door to a school and somebody dares to park completely legally outside your house (not blocking your driveway), you do not have the right to shout at that person and demand they move.

It was after school as I was collecting from the after school club and was the last parent (but on time). I got soaked walking to my car from work so was wet through and cold. I parked legally ensuring suitable space for dropped kerb. I got out my car and a woman ran from the house shouting at me for parking "in the middle". Through her rants I struggled to follow what the issue was but turns out her dh drives a van and always parks across her drop kerb so she wanted me to move back. I initially got back in the car then realised she was being an entitled knob and I was soaked and just wanted to pick up my dc. I didn't move, got out my car and said "actually, I'm parked fine and will only be 5 minutes." She carries on yelling and I picked up dc.

I don't want to be shouted at in the street after being at work all day.

Aibu to say, you don't own the road outside your house and if you live by a school, people will park outside your house. You can't be angry about that! (Obviously if people block your drive/park illegally then anger is fine!)

People park IN my drive all the time at drop of and pick up times. I do ask if they can move if I need the driveway myself, but get a mouthful of abuse. Apparently they are only going to be 5 mins...

I sometimes think about finding out where they live and parking IN their drive for 5 mins when they leave for work and are stuck.

Amazing how many people think they own the road.

YANBU. I'm usually in favour of people being considerate in their parking rather than just legal but why couldn't she just ask nicely since it would be a favour of you to move your car?

People park IN my drive all the time at drop of and pick up times. I do ask if they can move if I need the driveway myself, but get a mouthful of abuse. Apparently they are only going to be 5 mins....

That would give me the rage. I'd be tempted to park my car and block them in and only be 5 minutes (unless I happen to get delayed while slowly walking to the local supermarket and carefully picking up my milk).

@mclaleli
I parked legally ensuring suitable space for dropped kerb.

Wasn't inches right up to it so a car couldn't turn out from it. There's space for two cars along that kerb before the next driveway. There was still space for another car. I parked sensibly.

If I was ever out when they did it I would. But normally I’m parked on the drive as well and they block me in. The levels of abuse I get if I ask them to move is incredible.

They seem to think it’s an extension of the school car park.

I live next to school and no one is allowed to park on the road due to restrictions but they do. One parent had the ordasity to park on my drive last week whilst collecting her child, I regularly get blocked in by parents and I worry if emergency services ever needed to get into my local area due to the double parking. I did choose to live next to school but from what I’ve seen there are many extremely cheeky parents not abiding by the rules.

It's not just by schools. When I first started driving I used to park around the corner from my parents' house where I lived. The house I used to park outside had space for two cars. I never blocked the drive but that didn't stop the woman shouting at me because they wanted to park their three cars on the road because it was too much effort to open the gate and park two cars on their huge drive. Yeah just kept parking there.

I used to work in a school and we had a complaint once about the noise the children made at pick up time!!!! She only bought the house next to the primary school 2 months before

People park IN my drive all the time at drop of and pick up times

A similar thing happened to friends of ours but this was a football match or something, 2 or 3 hours. The driver was told he couldn't park there, a mouthful of abuse, told that it was really inadvisable to park there, another mouthful and he walked off. Unfortunately, friend was going off on holiday and parked his Land Rover behind the offender and went off for a couple of weeks, the driver wasn't a happy chappy and naturally the neighbour didn't have any keys, (cough, cough).

A man once had a go at me for parking opposite his drive. On a road perfectly wide enough for two cars.