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AIBU?

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Parking ... aibu?

33 replies

melonposies12 · 02/05/2019 15:20

We all share spaces where we live as every two houses has three spaces outside plus there is a car park with four spaces round the corner. Recently one of our neighbours sons gf has taken to parking half on the pavement and half on the road.

I usually park around in the side car park because there’s not room outside the house usually. She has been told multiple times not to park there and it’s even opposite a dropped curb! Her car usually isn’t straight and it hangs out at an angle as well!

Today my mum could barely get my car past hers because of where she keeps parking !

Aibu to want her to park in the car park in a designated space and not block access off?

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melonposies12 · 02/05/2019 15:23

Have attached an image!

Parking ... aibu?
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Hotterthanahotthing · 02/05/2019 15:26

Go and get her to move it every time.

Beachbodynowayready · 02/05/2019 15:28

Take photos and email the council.

MummyStruggles · 02/05/2019 15:36

Sit behind her car with your hand on the horn until she comes out and moves it.

BogglesGoggles · 02/05/2019 15:38

We have nearly identical handwriting. And YANBU. She’s causing an obstruction

Pinkyyy · 02/05/2019 15:40

sit behind her car with your hand on the horn until she comes out and moves it

Do not EVER do this.

If you persistently make a point of getting her to move it every time, she will eventually get fed up and park properly. Well, hopefully.

VeraWangTwang · 02/05/2019 15:49

What have the sons parents said, surely they don't want any bad feeling ?

HariboLecter · 02/05/2019 15:55

www.fixmystreet.com/

MummyStruggles · 02/05/2019 15:57

Do not EVER do this.

I was jesting, of course.

I have issues with where my relatives park on our cup-de-sac, especially my brother. I tell him every single time not to park there because I know it pisses my neighbour off. Surely your neighbours know that it irritates you and should ask/tell her to park in a reasonable space?

IWantMyHatBack · 02/05/2019 15:57

That layout looks very very familiar.

RavenLG · 02/05/2019 15:59

She's causing an obstruction. Can you ask council to put a yellow lines there? Take photos etc.

itbemay · 02/05/2019 16:00

YANBU this would annoy me too! as PP said knock every time and ask her to move it

melonposies12 · 02/05/2019 16:00

They have told her repeatedly to move it but she won’t ! It’s frustrating because she does what she wants when she wants with no respect for others.

All I want is to be able to park safely !

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BlueEyedBengal · 02/05/2019 16:00

Really as a visitor she should be respectful to the people who live there and consider parking in a way that does not obstruct them. This never happens we live next to someone who's d d parks in the middle of our road and goes in and chats for 30 minuets while dropping of d g d right at the time I drive my kids to school and refused to move even when a space to the side right out side her d m house is empty I have to reverse from the top of the very slim street right to the bottom and she does this every morning. Elderly neighbour knocked on the door because she'd blocked her in and she had to get to an hospital appointment and she blanked her really rude when she doesn't live there.

1forAll74 · 02/05/2019 16:01

Just go and try and have a word with this girl,she will maybe get the message eventually.Some people,young and older sometimes don't think about the rules of parking a car properly.

Dexterslockedintheshedagain · 02/05/2019 16:03

Wouldn't it be a shame if her car got damaged?

melonposies12 · 02/05/2019 16:08

I wouldn’t damage the car that is ridiculous

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Drum2018 · 02/05/2019 16:09

They have told her repeatedly to move it but she won’t

'They', as in the neighbours whose house she's in, have told her to move it? What a CF for not doing what she's told. Keep calling to them every time she's blocking the road. Do the other neighbours have an issue? If you all keep knocking surely the neighbours she's visiting will get fed up and hopefully knock some sense/respect into her.

mumwon · 02/05/2019 16:12

gross lipstick on window screen message :) wrap her car in cling film (no never done it but I would love to hear about someone else :) )

CoraPirbright · 02/05/2019 16:14

Ah yes mumwon! I was just going to suggest getting an old lipstick and writing in huge letters across the windscreen “I park like an inconsiderate cow” ever time she does it! Not actual damage but irritating and hopefully embarrassing.

nancy75 · 02/05/2019 16:15

If the cat is parked like that it is blocking the road & blocking access to emergency vehicles, I would phone your local council to find out who would deal with this (possibly local non emergency police)
If an end house needed fire engine or ambulance they would not be able to get there

AWishForWingsThatWork · 02/05/2019 16:15

I hate people like the woman described. Hate them. So incredibly selfish and rude.

Burlea · 02/05/2019 16:16

Deffinetly write with lipstick across her windscreen. What a silly b*h.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 02/05/2019 16:24

If she's been repeatedly asked and refused to be reasonable, I think the only way to get it into her head without resorting to wholly unnecessary criminal damage is for two of you to park at either end of her car - get somebody to guide you very slowly so that you're both an inch from her front and rear bumpers.

She'll have no option but to come and knock (possibly at several doors, if she doesn't know whose cars they are) and ask you to move.

When she does this, just refuse and tell her that the cars are parked in a way that suits you and you don't care if it blocks anybody else. I'd over-egg it by saying "I know there are ample marked spaces, as well as the four just around the corner, which would make it sooooo much easier for everybody, but you other people don't park considerately, so why should I bother?" You could even answer the door holding a big glass of wine, which 'sadly' means that you can't move the car until the morning.

If the residents of the house she's visiting have told her about it too, it might be worth speaking to them beforehand and getting them onside.

I imagine she'll splutter and panic at first, but then the penny will drop. If not, you might have to repeat a couple of times. Once she realises and apologises, I'd happily move it and say "Look, no hard feelings, but now you understand how extremely annoying it is when people park selfishly, I'm sure you won't be doing it again, will you?"

I don't think she's a terrible person - just young and/or unthinking, and possibly not a very confident parker - but she'll have to learn sooner or later.

WitsEnding · 02/05/2019 16:34

Lipstick on the windscreen is abrasive and does cause actual damage. Marker pen or chinagraph pencil perhaps?

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