My boyfriend has been in his flat since January. He has never bothered to apply for a parking permit for the benefit of his family and other guests. So everyone pays, for a limit of 2 hours parking.
After spending a small fortune parking outside his flat, I persuaded him we should look into a permit. My dad is great with forms and paperwork and he took on what was a fairly complicated process as the BF refused to engage. He sat down with my boyfriend, made sure he had all the right supporting documents and correctly submitted the online application.
The application failed once, although the council didn't bother to contact us to explain why. My boyfriend was too lazy to chase up the silence, so dad did it. We tried again but it failed again and I talked the BF into going to the CAB, who made some calls and told us we had to submit again. Back to dad, who did it all again and paid the associated costs. (all boiled down to some tiny misplaced data on the form, that the council didn't have the common sense to correct)
Dad did all this for me, to make parking overnight at my BF's flat free and simple. For us, for the relationship.
Now my BF wants to hold on to the pass, requiring me to call when outside his flat for him to bring it out. And that will still leave me paying meter fees on the times I have to drop by when he's out (such as to collect the items he's often forgotten or needs for work).
I feel the pass should be in my car. He feels it should be in his flat.
Am I being unreasonable?