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to be annoyed by this car outside my house?

115 replies

ViciousTrollop · 19/09/2019 09:57

I know I am legally BU as they're doing nothing wrong but I'm still irritated!

I live on a cul-de-sac (back to back terrace) the only people who park here are the residents. The norm/unspoken rule is that residents park right outside their houses and visitors/temp parkers usually have the decency to park on the other side of the street (no houses on that side, just a green).

The houses on the other side of the terrace have on street parking outside their houses too.

Someone parked right outside my house on Saturday and hasn't fecking moved since!! (Def hasn't moved as between me and my overly invested neighbour someone has been here during that entire time!).

I had a dream last night about letting the air out of their tyres 😂.

I know IABU but AIBU though???

OP posts:
beatriceprior · 19/09/2019 12:25

So I have a drive way which I park on and my H parks on the dropped kerb on my driveway essentially blocking me in but outside our house.

Is it illegal to park on your own dropped kirb?

FrauHaribo · 19/09/2019 12:29

being pissed off because a car prevents you from leaving or entering your drive is one thing - that's just bad parking, and no one has ever said it was acceptable.

Being pissed off because you don't like the look of a car parked where you can see it less so, and advising to damage it ridiculous.

Unicornsbumhole · 19/09/2019 12:33

Don't be an asshole and cause damage, contrary to popular belief, you DO NOT own the road outside your house shock horror if the car is taxed and mot'd then the owner is perfectly within their right to park it outside your house so long as there are no parking restrictions.
Grow up and get over it

hiphopchick · 19/09/2019 12:35

@SBD1

What gets my goat is that all the houses on my street have driveways that can fit multiple cars except the house next to me. Each driveway its alternated so they're not directly opposite. Cars inside on parking opposite my drive making it nigh on impossible to get out of my drive because the street isn't wide. HOWEVER If they were to park opposite my next door neighbour, well they don't have a drive so it wouldn't inconvenience anyone.

This gets on my fucking tits too!

People parking on the road when they have a 2 or 3 car EMPTY drive to park on. Making it very hard to swing in and out of your driveway.

When YOU park on the road though, you get this kind of look from them.. >>>> Hmm

It's OK for THEM to be too fucking lazy to park on the driveway, (and park on the road instead!) but not OK for me and DH to do it. Confused

Typical mantra of the terminally-entitled.

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AudacityOfHope · 19/09/2019 12:39

This thread is as bonkers mad as yesterday's one from a woman who claimed not to have the time to answer her own front door, but sat on a thread about it all the livelong day, wondering who it could possibly have been.

There's a life out there for you somewhere OP, go and grab it! Grin

hiphopchick · 19/09/2019 12:41

@AudacityOfHope

LOL the irony, ANOTHER poster telling the OP to 'get a life' with a passive aggressive grinning smiley.

I suppose YOUR life is so full and adventurous eh? That's why you're on here? Wink

Felford · 19/09/2019 12:42

@CaptainButtock Not wanting to derail op, but I neeeeeed to know.. thrashes about why people park on the road when they have empty driveways??!

My insurance is cheaper when I say I leave the car on the street than when I put on the drive.

FrauHaribo · 19/09/2019 12:42

hiphopchick
you might not have noticed but other posters have suggested various things and I was replying to them? I know, it' s hard to imagine that your post didn't take centre stage on the thread, but you'll get over it, dear. Smile
HTH.

Nicknacky · 19/09/2019 12:43

Audacity I missed that one, can you link please?

FrauHaribo · 19/09/2019 12:44

Christ on a bike, that saying hasn't been relevant for about a decade.

from someone who still writes "Christ on a bike", brilliant Grin

yearinyearout · 19/09/2019 12:47

Do you live near a train station or airport? Don't blame you for feeling a bit put out, I would too even though they aren't parking illegally.

DobbyLovesSocks · 19/09/2019 12:50

I get annoyed by this too OP. The road I live on most of the houses have driveways however there are some parking bays, one half way down and one at the bottom of the road which as far as i know are first come first served. The amount of people who park on the road and leave these parking spaces irritate me greatly, particularly as I live at the bottom of our road and near enough have to slalom down our road of an evening to get to my property. One inconsiderate prat parks right opposite our driveway just to be closer to his flat which makes parking/reversing on to and off my drive very difficult. Legally I have no right to complain as they are all parked legally but its still irritating

IsobelRae23 · 19/09/2019 12:56

I parked by my dads once for 7 days, and I had a bollocking off a neighbour for parking there. She did shut her gob when she actually listened to me, that I’d parked the car, got in an ambulance and had been at my fathers bedside in intensive care until I knew he was stable enough for me to come home for a few hours. I still hate that bitch.

AudacityOfHope · 19/09/2019 12:56

Yep @hiphopchick I'm eating my noodles on my lunch break, living the dream. Blissfully unaware of who has parked outside my front door.

tillytrotter1 · 19/09/2019 12:59

This happened to friends of ours, they got another friend who did small load house removals who was going on holiday to come and park his vehicle, old and dirty, outside their house for a couple of weeks. They were not pleased at all!

MyDcAreMarvel · 19/09/2019 13:06

Is it illegal to park on your own dropped kirb?
Yes it stops wheelchair users crossing the road.

DemiGorgon · 19/09/2019 13:13

It is legal but can be annoying.
I have a neighbour who has a huge drive plus our road is pretty empty (as everyone has huge drives). For some reason (ie him being an arse), he ALWAYS parks outside my house, despite having his driveway plus 2 spaces outside his own house. I think he does it because he is an arse. Maybe I should sprinkle birdseed?

Aridane · 19/09/2019 13:19

YABU and petty

TheresTheFlyingFuckIDontGive · 19/09/2019 13:49

I live at the end of s cul-de-sac. There is space at one side to park two cars side-by-side and that space is used by the two houses that don't have drives. The other side has a drive, so nobody can park there. We have a big drive, so we always park on that, but occasionally the old bloke who parks in one of the two 'spaces' comes home to find a car in 'his' space and then goes around knocking on all the doors to find out whose car it is. I like to watch out of the window and sometimes get very tempted to open said window and shout, 'You know it's a public road and not your actual space, don't you?' Grin

SilverySurfer · 19/09/2019 14:10

I seriously don't have a clue why you would give a fuck if someone parked outside your house. Can anyone give a sensible/sane reason? I'm thinking unlikely since I can't see how there is one. You need to buy 100 acres of land and build a house slap bang in the middle - no chance of people parking outside your house then, otherwise get a life.

AudacityOfHope · 19/09/2019 14:44

Silvery, the only time it's ever bothered me is when our NDN's son parked his giant mud-splattered range rover right outside my living room window for a fortnight over the christmas holidays.

We are right on the street so his huge vehicle blocked out all of our light for the whole time, as it was about 2-3 feet away from our window.

But even then, I shrugged and moved on, it's perfectly legal to do so. I would never have said anything.

scottishdaisy · 19/09/2019 18:05

I once left my car in a village on the way to a work meeting - a colleague met me and we went in his car. The next day, the police called me to ask if I had left the car there and if everything was ok!!! And, more relevantly, we had new neighbours who were doing work to their house - lots of various workers were there every day and it drove me nuts because they would park outside my house and not theirs. We have now moved. Because we are old and grumpy and decided we didn't want neighbours!!!!

(So you may BU but I would be too!)

SilverySurfer · 19/09/2019 18:19

AudacityOfHope Thank you for proving me wrong. I now understand that if you live somewhere where there is no front garden and a narrow pavement between your window and a large vehicle parked outside, I can totally understand how that would be annoying and it must block out the light in that room.