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 🤷🏼‍♀️

[havingtochangeusernameagain]

Parking legally on the road is fine, whether or not you are outside someone's house.

Parking in front of/opposite a driveway, on a corner, opposite a junction, on the pavement or on a grass verge is not ok.

People know whether they are being reasonable or not.

I do understand why someone who's asked the council for a blue badge bay outside their house will be annoyed when other blue badge holders park in it and they can't park in it. But it's unfortunately the system.

[Organicmamahope]

Yes they should earn more so they can afford a house with its own dedicated parking space. YANBU. I would hate to live in traffic cone alley.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

It absolutely shouldn’t be the system though.

I take @00100001 that you don’t know much about what it is like to be so incapacitated that you need a space outside your front door. Able bodied people commenting on disability issues boil my piss.

[Katlow]

We have a nutcase in our town who parks on a fairly narrow but very busy road which connects the two main sides of our town. She's legally parked on this road - inconvenient but legally. However, she was scared of people scratching her car so she would drive over a plank WITH NAILS STICKING OUT of the side she wasn't driving on so that anyone who drove too close to her car popped their tyres.
Police got involved in the end.

[81Byerley]

@SchadenfreudePersonified Hahaha! Merry Christmas!

[DontbeaBabs]

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?

pretty much anyone without their own drive?

Take baby and a rucksack, go home, put baby safely in cot or playpen and run to get rest of shopping if you are really alone.

Or wait for other half to unload the rest of the shopping if he happens to be around that day.

When you are leaving on the top floor it's very good exercise...

[stucknoue]

My bugbear is people parking fully on the pavement so close to my drive I have to back out blind onto a main road (normally I back onto the pavement for safety). There's times people park both sides and I cannot get my car out, I've had to go door knocking, twice I've had to call the police, once a car was towed. So inconsiderate

[IamPickleRick]

I 100% agree with you. I lived on a road that had lots of parking when we moved in, and gradually people got two cars and one had a truck that was 3 cars long. I had 3 kids, 2 under 2 in an upstairs flat. Neither were walking at the time so I had to carry them both up. I managed to get a space outside my house, hooray for me i thought. The next door neighbour who had only been there 3 days promptly tapped on my window and said I had to move because I was outside her house. Er no I am outside MY house and I can park where ever there is a space because there are no restrictions. We share a path with four flats, someone will always be “outside your house”. She kept having a go at me till I lost my shit and told her to fuck off. She later set fire to her own garden so I don’t think she was the brightest of people.

[DontbeaBabs]

MeredithGrey1 that I would report to the non-emergency police.

The way I report the twats who put rocks or pieces of wood or god knows what on PUBLIC grass verges.

[bluehairandheartbroken]

We used to have a neighbour who would go nuts if he couldn't park outside of his house. Each house was only wide enough for 1 car in front and no off-road parking.

However, he and his wife both had cars and so she would park in front of someone else's and that was fine.

I went into labour unexpectedly having parked outside his house as it was the only space there when I got home from work. DH heard him in the shop a couple of days later ranting about some bitch (me) who had left their car in "his" parking space.

I am sorry to say, it stayed there for the whole 6 weeks I was unable to drive

Are your neighbours my neighbours? They are exactly the same. They both have a car, so she puts hers outside their house and he puts his outside our house. EVERY FUCKING TIME. Honestly, the whole street can be empty and he'll put his car outside our house. Even if his wife is out/at work and there is a a space outside his OWN house, he'll still put it outside ours. There's been times I've actually watched him come out of his house (when he's seen one of us go out in the car) and move his car to 'his' space outside our house. Obviously it's a public road and we don't own the space so I've not said anything, but my god it boils my piss because he seems to think HE owns the space.

To the OP, YANBU. It's a public road, she doesn't own the space, so you were within your rights to park there. I think like you, if she'd asked politely and explained she had a delivery coming then I'd have moved, but yeah - she was really rude so I'd have also been petty and not moved

[Whiskers14]

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.

This is us too and normal for where we live in London, so it doesn't bother me not to park in front of my house. But what really pisses me off is when people drive a few streets in the same permit zone to park in our road because ours is closest to the Tube station, thus forcing us to park further away. Bloody use your legs and walk, lazy gits!

[bluehairandheartbroken]

Arrrrgh bold text fail

[LazyDaisey]

“You may park on single or double yellow lines for up to three hours if it is safe to do so but not within 15 metres of a junction or where there are restrictions on loading or unloading – indicated by yellow kerb dashes and/or signs on plates. You are not entitled to park on yellow lines in 'off-street' car parks."”

This.

I’ve had entitled twats pop a blue badge on and berate me for pointing out they’re dangerously blocking traffic to lights at an intersection because they can park anywhere with a blue badge.

[00100001]

@Mummyoflittledragon



I'm not saying they should struggle.

I'm not saying they shouldn't have the space.

I'm not saying it's not inconsiderate...

all I'm saying is they are not entitled to sole use of the space... All BB holders are entitled to use the space...

[notthemum]

Actually where we live the council do not 'obliginely' put in a disabled parking space. The resident who lives in the house has to prove they live there, are disabled , they have to give the registration number of the car that will be using it, the car cannot be parked there unless the disabled person is being transported AND they have to pay for it for the space.
Although the road is not anyone's personal property I don't see why someone with several health issues, reduced mobility but not in a wheelchair, but blind should have to walk five to ten minutes up the road when they have paid for the space and ambulances are unable to park outside this person's house when required

[IamPickleRick]

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 daily. I had two non walking babies, an older child and shopping to carry. I still accept that you can’t always get the space you want. A double drive was a fundamental need for our next house, and now I have one I am happier than I have ever been!

[Catandstuff22]

I think it's fair enough. It's really shit when you can never park outside your house and I completely understand the lengths that people go to to protect the space outside their house e.g. Traffic cones. I can never park outside my house, the same people park outside it every day and don't care. One neighbour has 3 cars and gladly parks one outside hers, one outside mine and one outside another neighbours. And again, does not care or show regard for anyone else. Because I work long shifts, I often have to walk home from where I have parked in the dark, pouring rain, snow. Its not okay.

[Evilmorty]

If you want a space outside your house, buy one with a drive. The end.

[00100001]

@Mummyoflittledragon
"I take @00100001 that you don’t know much about what it is like to be so incapacitated that you need a space outside your front door. Able bodied people commenting on disability issues boil my piss."

How do you know I'm able bodied? How do you know I don't know much about incapacitation?

People making assumptions about strangers on the internet "boils my piss"

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

I am sorry to say, it stayed there for the whole 6 weeks I was unable to drive.

YABVVVVVU to say "I am sorry" - don't be

[Catandstuff22]

@Evilmorty a lot of people can't afford to buy a house with a driveway.

[MitchellMummy]

We've had two cars damaged after parking legally outside someone's house (there were three suspects, never found out who it was). It did the trick, I never parked there again.

[IdiotInDisguise]

To the previous poster complaining about people parking on the road when they have a driveway, we would never usually do this but just occasionally when we have a visitor coming we will move one of our cars out to the road if we see a space so that they can then use our drive. Otherwise by the time they arrive they may have to park quite a long distance away

So knowing that, you park the car outside so your neighbour next door, who may have kids or shopping bags to bring home, has to park a long distance away to avoid inconveniencing your visitors???

[lettersbyowl]

For the most part, I agree you are not entitled to park outside your house. But also agree with the PP who said that it's annoying when people have a double driveway sat empty but still insist on parking all (2 cars and 1 huge van) 3vehicles on the road outside neighbours houses. On a small estate, it's really rude to not use your own parking and be inconsiderate of your neighbours, especially those who are pregnant, have small babies to heave in and out of cars in car seats etc, or are elderly and walk with a stick!!!

[FoosBitch]

We live on a street with terraced houses, no drives AND a chicane that blocks out parking for both of the houses. Except for one end terrace who got themselves a dropped kerb and driveway when they extended their house. They don't park on the drive but in front of it on the street and put cones out when they're not home so no one else can park there. This is a bit crazy but I guess it's their drive so they can do it if they want. The other day I came home to find her car parked in front of our house with her cones still up on her drive.
Now, she's entitled to park on her drive, or in front of it and fine if she wants to put cones up to ensure no one else parks there, it's her drive. But she can fuck off if after all that she thinks that it's okay to park in front of my house, where there is only room for one car, because she can't be arsed to get out and move her cones!
BTW, she is also on a corner lot and there is room for 4 cars on the streets outside her house.
There has also been an SUV from another neighbour parked outside my NDN's house for so long that weeds are growing under the tires. It is fully taxed and insured, we've checked. It's perfectly legal but not very neighbourly!