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AIBU?

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AIBU about my neighbour and parking

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FemelleReynard · 11/09/2019 22:15

I live in a row of 5 terraces. We don't have parking so park on the road in front of our terraces. Opposite are several bungalows, all with driveways AND garages.

I noticed recently a silver car is often parked outside of our houses which I didn't recognise to be one of our terraced neighbours. I then noticed a similar silver car parked on a driveway opposite. I noted down the number plate for future reference to establish if it was the same car.

Lo and behold, I saw the silver car owner (who lives in one of the bungalows opposite, with a drive AND garage) come home tonight and park on her drive. All fine. About 5 minutes later, she comes out and moves her car off her driveway and on to the road in front of our houses.

Now I know she's perfectly entitled to park where the hell she likes. BUT, AIBU in thinking that if you had a drive/garage, you'd use it and not take up a space on the road that someone without parking could use? I just find it so bizarre. Her parking there now means that one of the terraced owners will now have to park further up the street whilst her drive sits empty.

As far as I can ascertain, she's the only car in her household (so not keeping drive free for anyone else), no building works, have never seen her open the garage, so there is no rhyme or reason for her moving her car from her drive to park on the road. Next time I see her I might politely ask why she chooses to park on the road because I find it so odd.

It doesn't make much difference to me, but it's just one of those niggling things I cannot work out!

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Ravenblack · 11/09/2019 22:17

Of COURSE YANBU.

I doubt you will get a good response from this on here though. Some people think people can park where the hell they want on a public road, no matter HOW it inconveniences people, OR if they have a 2 car drive and a double garage !!! Good luck!

KatzP · 11/09/2019 22:18

It would irritate me as well. If she is parking on the road overnight regularly could she have problems with her insurance which I expect says the car is on the drive or in the garage?

Thiswayorthatway · 11/09/2019 22:18

She is entitled to park on the road, just like anyone else. I wouldn't bother asking her why, you would sound petty.

SteelRiver · 11/09/2019 22:19

I wonder if she tells her insurance company that she keeps it in the garage overnight. Could invalidate any claim she might make if it gets damaged out on the street. I'm with you, OP. I cant think of a reason anyone would do that.

Ravenblack · 11/09/2019 22:20

Told ya! ^

birdsbehindclouds · 11/09/2019 22:20

I know she has every right to park on the road but I'd be annoyed too. Don't understand people that don't park on their drives when the whole purpose of having a drive is for a car 🤯

Ravenblack · 11/09/2019 22:20

That was aimed at @Thiswayorthatway

Mumofboth · 11/09/2019 22:20

It would annoy me too. Not much you can do about it annoyingly except trying to get to the space first (yes, I’m petty).

Singlenotsingle · 11/09/2019 22:21

thisway not really. It would annoy me too. It's selfish.

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FemelleReynard · 11/09/2019 22:21

@Thiswayorthatway I am petty...I just want to know! (and I also recognise she is allowed to park on the road, but why when you have a drive?)

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Notnownotneverever · 11/09/2019 22:23

I would ask her because there is a chance that she hasn’t even considered the impact on her neighbours.

Drogosnextwife · 11/09/2019 22:24

I have this at the moment too. New people just moved in a cross the road, driveway for 2 cars, none of the houses on my side of the street have driveways. The guy has parked his truck thing infront of my gate every night since they moved in. It fits in the drive, they had it in there when they first moved in. Not tonight though, I've made sure my car is there and it will be there every night from now on, even if I have to stop using the car to make sure he doesn't get the space.

yearinyearout · 11/09/2019 22:24

Park on her drive (only half joking). This would seriously annoy me and I would ask her why she's doing it.

SD1978 · 11/09/2019 22:24

Whilst I get the annoyance- and I'd be inwardly seething a tad too- it's a public road and she can park wherever she wants- on or off her own driveway. She's aware she's doing it. She's aware who not all parks there, asking her why/not to will achieve nothing- I doubt she's suddenly going to go ooh didn't realise it was a problem....and if she's only juts started doing it, there just be a reason, at least in her mind. I'd accept and move on, not mention it.

EskewedBeef · 11/09/2019 22:29

Nobody would move their car off their driveway to put it on the road if there wasn't a good reason. She might be expecting someone to arrive late or early. I don't think you can or should do anything about it.

Thiswayorthatway · 11/09/2019 22:29

Now who's being petty Drogosnextwife! 😬

Ravenblack · 11/09/2019 22:32

A few people have said 'anyone is allowed to park on the road if it's a public road!'

Just coz you can, does not mean you should! Not if it's inconveniencing others.

Anyone who does this when they have room on their driveway is an arsehole. The OP has said she has no driveway as she lives in a terraced house, yet the entitled twatty neighbour decided to take up a space on the road, when she has a bloody driveway. She is nothing more than a rude ignorant selfish twat

People like this would be the first to complain if others did the same.

FrauHaribo · 11/09/2019 22:32

Many people cannot park in their (single or double!) garage because they are used as storage or some kind of room.

She is absolutely entitled to park anywhere she likes as long as she is not blocking anyone else. If she moved her car after 5mn, it's very likely she freed the space for something.

If you had friends around and a drive, wouldn't you leave your drive empty to make sure they can park easily? That's what normal people do when they live in a busy road.

Ameliablue · 11/09/2019 22:32

How easy is it for her to get in and out of her drive if the road is full of parked cars? I've had problems with driveways before because other drivers don't realise that you need room to manoeuvre to use a driveway.

Ravenblack · 11/09/2019 22:33

I second the idea to park on her drive.

TrainspottingWelsh · 11/09/2019 22:37

As a student I lived in a house with a drive but frequently parked outside the terraces opposite. The road was narrower than my car was long with cars parked opposite, and the residents had become accustomed to students having tiny infrequently used cars if any. After the first time I couldn’t get off the drive without angling backwards and forwards I did speak to the houses most likely to own the cars but long story short apparently nobody knew whose cars were blocking my access, then it was my fault for having a big car, then they reckoned it wasn’t actually our driveway, the ll had said they could block it and so on. So I just parked outside the houses. I’m sure a few of the uninvolved residents either end were equally bemused at me hogging a road spot.

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FemelleReynard · 11/09/2019 22:37

@Ameliablue - no issues getting on/off her drive. It's a wide road, even with our cars parked on the opposite side.

Not a particularly busy road either but quite a few bends so only limited safe places where us with no parking can park without parking unsafely on a bend etc. We're the only terraced too - everyone else has at least a drive apart from us 5.

Glad most people think I'm NBU.

Nowt as queer as folk ey!

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FemelleReynard · 11/09/2019 22:39

For context, it's a fiesta, so not a big car.

She's also obviously a relatively skilled/confident driver as can parallel park brilliantly, so reversing/pulling on to drive is no bother!

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Windydaysuponus · 11/09/2019 22:41

I raise you a carpark...
Neighbour along from me owns a car park.
Keeps it locked.
Empty.
And pays for a parking permit for the street instead!

FrauHaribo · 11/09/2019 22:41

I second the idea to park on her drive.

are some posters insane? What's next, going in and using a spare room if you think it's greedy to have an empty room?

That forum is bonkers sometimes.

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