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AIBU?

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to wonder why you'd park in someone's allocated space

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victorioussponges · 09/06/2019 09:30

and not leave a note or anything?

We live on an estate with a combination of permit parking and a small number of allocated spaces. The permit parking is a bit competitive but you can generally find a couple of spots of an evening. The allocated spaces have house numbers and are off the road in a garage area.

Yesterday evening we came home at around 7pm to find someone in our allocated space. No note as there has sometimes been in the past. At some point around midnight they left.

On this occasion it was no real bother as we don't currently have a car, and it just so happened that my parents weren't staying as they often do on the weekends. But this person can't know that anyway. AIBU to think that takes balls? I just can't imagine ever feeling comfortable doing it

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thekaratekid · 09/06/2019 15:53

I would get a sign made up OP.

Our parking space is round the side of our house in an adjacent road. One day when I was off work and DP was using the car, I glanced out of the upstairs window and saw a car had reversed parked very neatly on our drive.

I walked round and some CF lady was sat in the car with her laptop out and her Costa coffee cup on the go! As I approached she wound down the window and was like "oh...do you need to use the drive?" I was like "why are you parked on my drive?". I thought it might have been a wrong house scenario.... nope... she says "oh...It's ok, I literally just live round the corner". I was like "Huh?! Please move from my drive now!". She looked so put out and slowly moved off the drive and parked on the very clear/un-restricted road.

I am still confused to this day why she was there. I can only think she was using someone's wifi or was pretending to be at work or something.

There had been some other incidents...so I got a small magnetic sign made for the garage door which says "Private property. No parking." It hasn't happened again.

HereForAdvice2019 · 09/06/2019 16:00

Our housing officer who does regular visits. Always asks if the parking is OK and no one using our private space..only to get home this week and she was parked in my space. I park on street and dp uses our space as he gets home later.
Dp was due home and I spotted her and said excuse me 'name' is that you in our space. As Dp due home soon.. She very snootily replied 'well yes you know that's my car and there was no other spaces on the street as you can see (I wasn't 100%, sure as its a popular car). And she said I'll be about an hour more !
The way in which she said it riled me. So I said thats fine but if its not gone in 5 min he will block you in until he's ready to move.
The annoying thing is she always emphasises that we pay for our space (£10 a week) and that under no circumstances should anyone other than who we authorise should park there. So what made her think she could!?

littlemeitslyn · 09/06/2019 16:35

You can get into trouble by commenting 'Really ' !!

GertrudeCB · 09/06/2019 17:15

I have an allocated space at work due to my disability. Work and colleagues all fine with it, no problems.
However the amount of delivery drives/ workmen who like to stick their van in there is amazing. Even tho they are told by reception where the visitors/ delivery space is.
One even told me to park in another space -one that didn't give me the access to get my sticks out , so I asked if he was insured to carry me to my desk ?

HundredMilesAnHour · 09/06/2019 17:35

I live in a gated development where all the parking spaces are allocated (although not all are used - but people have paid to own or rent them) and there aren't any visitor spaces. Actually there aren't even enough spaces for one for every flat but because it's central London a lot of people don't have cars so it works somehow. Most of the time.

I rent a space for my car and unfortunately/fortunately it's in a prime location right as you drive into the development (and only a few steps from my front door). It's a magnet for CF parking. When I first rented it, it seemed like every time I came home in my car, some CF was parked in my space (often for hours, never leaving a note of course). Just what you need after a long hard day at work.

As I've used the space for longer, most of the neighbours now realise that my space is in use so make sure their visitors/tradesmen don't park there. But I still get the occasional CF parking there. Or someone parking in the space next to mine and blocking me in (which is totally unnecessary if they parked further back in the space but that would involve thinking/considerate parking). It drives me mad. I find it quite stressful coming home in my car as I always worry that someone will be in my space. When this happens, I have to park in someone else's space and I feel terrible doing that. Then I feel like I'm the CF! It's like a domino effect. I can't relax and am constantly looking out of my window to see if the car has moved so I can move back into my own space. There are no spaces on the road outside. It's permit only and I don't have one as they're really expensive - and I shouldn't need one since I rent a parking space inside! - but also cars outside tend to get scratched/bashed by the local 'yoof' (it's a 'yoof' hotspot due to the presence of the local drug dealers....nice I know!)

youarenotkiddingme · 09/06/2019 17:38

Put a sign up with car park charges by the hour for use and the details of who to pay to!

Payment in advance. Towing if not paid.

Just out PRIVATE PARKING on top!

Kazzyhoward · 09/06/2019 17:41

I've got a bollard with a lock on it. We've actually had people knock on the door to ask for the key as they want to park in our space because they're delivering/collecting/working at a neighbour's house. Needless to say, the answer is no.

jarhead123 · 09/06/2019 17:41

I wouldnt even do it 'just to drop something off' - it's not your space! SO rude.

This happens where my Mum lives, drives her mad.

Anarchyshake · 09/06/2019 17:42

Blew a tyre on the way to an urgent appointment in Newport just a few years back. Managed to get it to the kerb and parked it up and got a taxi to where I had to be. Upon returning to the car, and getting the breakdown people out, discovered a very rude note from the house we were parked outside of. Had no idea what a 'hardstanding' was, but now I know it's sometimes a very small looking area with bins on it which someone might somehow squeeze a very tiny expensive sports car on. I parked where many cars were parked bumper to bumper, avoiding a driveway. Not bad for a three-wheeled four-wheel car... I would have been mortified, but it wasn't obviously for a car. No dropped kerb. Motorbike maybe.

Kazzyhoward · 09/06/2019 18:58

Managed to get it to the kerb and parked it up and got a taxi to where I had to be. Upon returning to the car, and getting the breakdown people out, discovered a very rude note from the house we were parked outside of.

Pretty rude and inconsiderate just to abandon a broken down car and go about your business and then only sort it out later. You should have got the breakdown people out straight away and re-arranged your appointment. Why was your day more important than the householder you inconvenienced? Did you even leave a note to explain your situation and leave your phone number so you could be contacted? Or could you not be bothered to even do that?

IvanaPee · 09/06/2019 19:09

We've actually had people knock on the door to ask for the key as they want to park in our space because they're delivering/collecting/working at a neighbour's house.

What???? The audacity!

pigsDOfly · 09/06/2019 19:27

Some years ago I bought a house that I didn't move into for a couple of months. During that time I would frequently turn up to the house and find one of the neighbours had parked in my drive.

One evening he was having a party and there were a couple of cars in the drive and one across the drive. One time I was meeting someone who was delivering something that was to go in the garage. Next door neighbour had parked his work van right up against my garage door.

The really stupid bit was that every time I had to go and tell him to move his car/van or get his friends to move, he seemed really pissed off as if I was being a bloody nuisance.

Had terrible trouble with people parking across my drive the whole time I lived there. Drove me mad.

RB68 · 09/06/2019 19:35

So those of you saying no car not entitled to moan - you let your neighbours use your drive and garden when you are away??

Its ridiculous the person with the space owns that peice of land - you don't park on it without permission.

We live down a small privately owned lane (all 7 houses own a part of it) we constantly get delivery drivers turning in both our drive and lawn area - they got arsey when they ran over out logs on the garden (Think 2 ft tree trunk) and damaged their van...

Carpetburns · 09/06/2019 19:52

If you don't have a card and parking is at a premium, it might be nice to let your next door neighbour use your space during the week, for example. You didn't need to park there so why do you care?!

MorondelaFrontera · 09/06/2019 20:04

it might be nice to let your next door neighbour use your space during the week

it might. The first thing to do would be to ask, or better waiting to get the offer? It's not their property, the OP could chose to rent it on one of these parking schemes and earn a bit of cash, plan to have visitors, deliveries, workmen...

Do you just go and help yourself to things your neighbours are not currently using?

YesQueen · 09/06/2019 20:19

@Carpetburns because my work is variable and the neighbour then turned into an entitled CF and wouldn't move
Plus I have enough issues with others using it and now it's just no, if I am not parked there, you can't use regardless
I've reversed before and had someone cut in front of me to drive straight in it and then been called a cunt when I told them to move
It's MY driveway and it's part of my property as the deeds show. There's no parking issues, they're just lazy fuckers who CBA walking (I counted) 25 steps to the free on street parking

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