You don't have a right to park outside your house!

[LendAnEar]

Burgh! Why is it that people feel that they have some God given right to park outside their home and can demand where other people can/can't park?

I parked on the road yesterday afternoon, in front of another car, getting the perfect spot, just before the double yellows start. There was a bin on the road behind the other car, I assume to reserve a space . It's difficult to find a parking spot so I was happy I got a space.

As I get out of my car another car coming towards me slows with their window down. A woman proceeds to shout "Excuse me, you're not allowed to park there, you need to move. I'm expecting a delivery".

I was annoyed at the way she spoke to me, condecending and assuming because I look young, that I don't know where I can/can't park. I replied that I can park there as it's a public road and I'm not on the double yellows. Lady repeats that I can't park outside her house all day and that I need to move. She has a delivery coming. The house she's referring to has an empty drive!

I simply say tell the woman I'm parked legally and not moving before walking away. The thing is, if she had been polite from the start and not so entitled and asked nicely if I would move then I would have. I just hate that people think they have a right to tell other what they can or can't do

Now I want to be REALLY petty and park there every time I'm in the area but then again now I'm worried something will 'accidentally happen to my car which isn't worth it 🤷🏼‍♀️

[YogaDrone]

In my parents local authority the disabled bays in roads are accompanied by a licence which is reviewed periodically (every 3 years I think) so if there is a painted bay but no current licence fixed to the nearest street lamp then it's not a "real" disabled space.

[Frazzlerock]

I grew up in SW/Central London and was there until I was in my late 30's and have very rarely been able to park outside my house - it's a real bonus if you can! It's just not expected, everyone knows that. Then I moved to a small town and this 'you can't park outside my house' really knocked me side ways. I mean WTAF? If there's a free space, there's a free space. It doesn't belong to anyone unless they own that piece of road

[Crackerofdoom]

There is also the fact that some councils won't remove disabled spaces. My aunt had one outside her house for her DH who had Parkinsons.

When he died, she was not allowed to have the space removed and of course no longer has a badge so the space would only be used by other badge holders.

[BigSandyBalls2015]

This always astounds me, it's very odd.

DD recently came home from uni for the weekend and decided to drive back in her car and keep it up there for a week so she could go and get her food shopping at Aldi and go a bit further afield, explore the area etc.

The hassle she had - she parked it on a huge wide residential road, no yellow lines, not blocking anyone's drive or anything like that - a bloke kept leaving arsey notes on her windscreen - she said he had such a massive drive he could have got about 8 cars on it, but he still had to moan at her about her little hatchback outside his house.

[Minionoftheantichrist]

Loving the descriptor ‘Vile old couple’ formerbabe. If the parking space offender near you were black, Muslim, gay I’m guessing you’d describe them as the vile Muslim couple or the vile gay couple would you?

[babysnowman]

I live in a small street, my front door opens onto a small paving slab/ doorstep. I don't mind people parking in front of my house but I get really annoyed when they park right across the front door, rather than maybe a foot down from it when there is space there. If it's just me I can get in and out no problem but if I have the buggy then I can't! I know they aren't technically doing anything wrong but I think a bit of consideration wouldn't go amiss.

[MaudesMum]

The only exception to this is if you're having enormous deliveries (think building materials or a skip) or if you're moving house and waiting for a removal van. In which case, I''ve always worked on the theory that you talk to all your immediate neighbours to warn them, and then stake out as much space as you can using wheeley bins, "borrowed" traffic cones and possibly even large bits of paper saying things like "removal van arriving this morning, please keep clear". This is because if you don't, the builder's delivery lorry or removal van will block the entire road and cause lots of disruption. Everything else, nope..

[LendAnEar]

No you wouldn't. You were pleased to get a space.

Not that you should have moved, but don't pretend it was only her attitude that stopped you.

Please don't pretend to be a psychologist or that you know me. I'm generally a nice person and don't mind helping others out. If she had asked me nicely I would have moved. There's a difference between 'Excuse me, you can't park there you need to move your car' and 'Excuse me, I'm expecting a delivery soon and need the space. Would you mind parking somewhere else?' I would have moved for the latter.

[Doodoobear]

I'm sick to the back teeth of the parking wars where I live. There's a row of bungalows opposite that don't have parking and I live on a junction between a loop round the estate. Most houses have drives apart from the bungalows. Next door is a takeaway, and there's enough space for three cars in front of it/to the side like a driveway, then enough space on the road for about 4 cars parked properly. Then the additional one people make up from the pavement in front of my gate, and then the road next to it. The shop owner parks on the pavement in front of my gate, his delivery driver on the road next to him, and a bungalow neighbour in front but on the road. If anyone not going to the shop parks on the road anywhere, shop owner is out balling and shouting that they can't park there because where will his customers park?
Now you'd think being a non driving, car-less bus wanker, I wouldn't have a dog in this fight, but my good people you'd be wrong! I rarely have visitors, usually if there's a car to do with me it's because I'm being dropped off, which considering where him and his employee park, is usually outside the shop, because I can't get dropped off outside my gate due to his car, and the delivery car (which never seems to move much) every, single time he's out having a go "Move away from my shop! My customers need to park!"
It's usually my mum and she's in her 60s and looks frail but actually isn't, she told him once that she wasn't moving and now ignores him, I tell him every time that if he didn't park outside my gate, then I'd be dropped there. He stopped parking there recently after my 6ft6 rugby player brother dropped me off in my mum's car, and the usual shenanigans ensued. The guy went rather pale and stopped mid tirade as DB unfolded himself out of the car, looked down at him and asked "There a problem mate? I'd have dropped her off outside the gate but some inconsiderate twat has parked on the pavement and then next to that car, shame really but me mate's on duty tonight I think, I'll get him to come and have a word about that car and then there won't be a problem"
Now parks his car in front of his shop. I couldn't care a less who parks where, I don't have a car to park, but I'm buggered if I'm going to get grief for getting dropped off by the person that all but blocks my front gate constantly. If I had a wheelchair or pram I wouldn't be able to get in or out, have to shimmy with lots of shopping bags to get by as it is without catching his car.

[OhamIreally]

My own sister did this to me. I had driven 200 miles to see her, parked outside her house and she came out and asked me to move further down the road as my niece (her DD) liked to park there. I gave her a bit of a WTF? look and she graciously allowed me to park there after all. We get on well and she is generally a nice person so it goes to show how deeply ingrained this sense of ownership is.

[Confusedbeetle]

Hs anyone arrived home with a car full of shopping and a small baby to find that they cannot park anywhere near their front door? If you park 50 yards away, you cannot bring in both the baby and the shopping

[Mummyoflittledragon]

@00100001
I have a blue badge and I would absolutely not park in the bb resident space. It has been put there for a reason and specifically for the resident. A visitor holding a bb is choosing to visit a house whereas the bb holder has to park in space in order order to access their home.

Rude, entitled.

[micah]

I had a good one...

When we first moved my DS was allocated a school 5 miles away. About 45 mins walk via footpaths.

In nice weather I'd drive there, park up, walk home. then reverse the journey in the afternoon.

there was a side road next to the school, providing access to a housing estate. Busy during pick up and drop off, but empty in the day. I parked right at the back, past the entry to the housing estate. Alongside the side of a house- so they had a two car drive, and I wasn't parking outside the front of their house. There was a pavement round the side, so I was a good 6 ft away from their garden fence, just behind their garden gate.

Buggers started leaving notes on my car telling me not to park there as they needed access to the garden gate "at all times for deliveries". Fair enough I could have parked anywhere else on the road but I'd picked there as it left the access road and turning into the estate completely clear!

They were just being arseholes. Anything that could fit through the gate had plenty of room.

I did witness him moving his car off the drive a few times though to park up there to stop people using the side of the house for drop offs.

[carolinelucaseshandbag]

@00100001

*"The disabled space ownership is one level up of entitlement"
*
Then...

Yes....it could be seen as selfish. [

But the resident isn't ENTITLED TO THE SPACE!"

So who's the entitled one? The one who the space was actually put in place for and has paid for, or the one being selfish by using that space when their BB gives them plenty of options of places to park without making someone else's life genuinely more difficult, not just inconvenienced?

[JavaQ]

so glad I moved....
Bloody parking across my driveway so I couldnt get out
Changing car tires on their car...while parked across my driveway
Couldn't get into driveway as arse's friends parked across it....so I let two of his tires down and the AA took him away.
I couldn't live with that amount of aggro in my life anymore.

[formerbabe]

Hs anyone arrived home with a car full of shopping and a small baby to find that they cannot park anywhere near their front door?

Yes, a million times, throw in a rambunctious toddler too! Baby in sling...hold toddlers hand, shopping in other hand...back and forth to car. Not fun, but I still don't own the road.

[beckyvardy]

What always confuses me is the dropped Kirb thing.

We have two cars. Driveway big enough for one car. The other car then blocks the drive so parking over the dropped kirb to my drive.

Am I allowed to park over my own dropped
Kirb?

[Yeahyeahyeahyeeeeah]

Yes becky

[00100001]

@carolinelucaseshandbag ... No-one is entitled to the space...

[daisypond]

I have never seen this happen. I’m in terraced housing and no one has a drive. There are residents parking permits that you have to buy that let you park in a set of streets or you have to pay on a meter. You do not get to park outside your house. The streets are full of parked cars. You park where you can, maybe several streets away. Never seen any notes. Everyone behaves decently and knows the setup.

[danni0509]

BB holders can only park on double yellows for 3 hours.

[NaturalBornWoman]

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it isn’t selfish and inconsiderate. My neighbour’s daughter runs a business from her mother’s house. They have a 3 car drive but most of the residents have no off road parking. Her staff and customers cause us parking difficulties anyway and on top of that she’s now bought a land rover which she rarely uses and keeps permanently on the road outside my house. No consideration whatsoever to the impact they are having on this residential neighbourhood. It’s legally parked. There is nothing I can do or say. It’s still monumentally rude and inconsiderate.

[MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig]

We have a batshit woman in our village who likes to tell people off for parking in the road outside her house. It’s not even right outside her house, it’s a lay-by across the road. She asked me once what I thought about people parking there. As I started to say that I thought she was on thin ice she walked away mid sentence. She is a proper nuisance though. She’s upset loads of people with her forthright views and downright bloody rudeness. She got into a row with the primary school because a couple of parents parked there for a function and she had a go at them. Although apparently they gave as good as they got. She then complained to the school. Honestly, she is in no way inconvenienced by anyone parking there, the entitled daft cow.

[GoKartMozart]

I had an neighbour years ago who presumed his blue badge was a 'park anywhere permit'. He got ticketed for blocking a junction because he'd literally abandoned the car and thrown the blue badge on the dash.
So adamant was he that this would all go away when he waved his blue badge at the council appeal that he carried on doing it.
Imagine his shock and surprise when they upheld five lots of fines

[MeredithGrey1]

Someone once scrawled "don't park here" in lipstick across my windscreen after I parked completely legally on a residential road that wasn't even busy, there was loads of available space. I was mainly surprised that they ruined a lipstick over it. But it was a nightmare to scrub off in freezing weather.