Do you rush out to move your car as soon as "your" space is free?

[catlady321]

I live in a street that is a mix of semi's and terraced. Some have drives and some do not. I've noticed how obsessed people are with moving their cars constantly.

There's two particular ladies, who will watch the street if someone is parked in "their" space and run out the second the other car moves to move their car, even at midnight - and have even been known to knock on doors and tell people to move.

Now I'm not talking about a street that is rammed and they are half a mile away, we are talking a matter of a house or two.

We've had new neighbours move in and there is a constant bitching session outside about "who do they think they are, they've been here two minutes and think they can park wherever they like!" Well, yeah, they can actually!

Are they bonkers or is it me?

YANBU but it never fails to amaze me how many people have nothing better to focus their energy on.

I can't believe how obsessed they are, and how nasty they are being to the new people for DARING to park!

I think people who do this are twats of the highest order.
There are people down my road who do this, before I moved here people did it at our last place too and having a drive for 3 cars was a non negotiable when looking for our house

So we have room for our cars and guests - not having this problem makes life so much easier

If it's a public road, really people can park where they want. We live on a street of mainly terraces and most of the time people are pretty good about leaving enough space for each other but if not, does it really matter if you need to walk two houses down to your car?
Some people really have too much time on their hands

I don't exactly rush out, no, but if I notice its free and I'm not busy then yes, but it's a disabled bay for my flat, though of course anyone with a Blue badge can use it.
There's actually a space I prefer because it's nearer, so I nab that if I can.
It's main road parking so no one "owns", any space.

I live in a close where most of us don't have drives, but we do have parking spaces in a nearby car park so parking outside your own house isn't always possible.
My next door neighbour has two cars. If they go out in the one outside the house they bring the other one up from the car park to keep their space.
I kid you not.

I'm one of the lucky ones with a drive and space for a guest. I WFH so I've just been noticing their crazy ways more and more, especially with the bullying to the new people.

Who do they think they are, knocking on doors and telling people to move their car?!

One lady will park bumper to bumper if someone is in "her" space and watch them until they return. She will go out just to move her car half a cars length very often 😂. She is the worst actually. She has to park in line with her house, turning a three car space into a two car space.

@eenymeenyminyme we don't have a car park but this is the very behaviour I am seeing! I can't believe there are so many about!

@IHaveBrilloHair your situation makes sense, but all of these are fit and healthy people, who are just busybodies.

My friends neighbours have actually got a No Parking sign screwed to their front wall. It amazes me that people don’t park there just to defy the sign 😃

No that's tragic and if I started to do that I'd be very concerned that I had slipped into the ageing, need something to occupy me, category of my life.

My friends neighbours have actually got a No Parking sign screwed to their front wall
My neighbours had one of these, the council made them take it down what with it being a flipping public road!

My neighbour. He even moved his car back one space so that he was parked right outside his house. He must constantly be watching out for free spaces so that he can rearrange his 3 cars (terraced houses, no drives). It must rule his life.
We once got parked in "his" space but needed to go back out a short time later. DH wanted to catch a taxi and leave the car in situ for the weekend just to wind him up

I only do this if we’re going on holiday the following day as parking right in front of the house is easier with luggage. They sound like they have way too much time on their hands- surely moving it to the preferred spot takes way more time than just walking to wherever you originally parked next time you go out, especially if we’re talking only 2-3 houses away. I feel a bit sorry for them really.

My neighbours across the road sometimes knock our door and ask us to move if someone from our house is parked outside their house. “Oh would you mind? Martin will be home soon” 🙄

And once my DH parked outside the house next to theirs and was maybe a foot into the area outside theirs, and the next morning we went out to the car and someone from their house had parked nose to nose with our car, literally less than 5mm between them, even though there was plenty of room. PA arseholes.

Oh and forgot to mention, they have a drive for three cars!

I don't rush out, no, and I certainly don't tell people how to park, where to park or not to park...but as an end-terrace on a really congested road and with health issues atm and lone parent to two, one of whom is tricky at the best of times...I do like to park outside my house.

1. Not my fault others have two cars
2. It helps me be able to bundle my kid in house quicker
3. It helps me be able to unload shopping quicker
4. I am rubbish at parking but have learnt how to reverse into that space by practise

I know IABU but those are my reasons for preferring to park there. Plus I can see my car and wave to her bat shit crazy

I do occasionally but just because if I don't the house opposite park their huge van outside our house for days and it blocks what little light we get. As I WFM half the week this can be very annoying.

@Expressedways with one lady, we're talking half a house!

@RageAgainstTheVendingMachine but you actually have reasons so that's not unreasonable

It always amazes me how residents incorrectly believe the space on the public road that is near their house somehow belongs to them.

The new neighbours are actually parking in the space outside their house. They haven't argued or said they own it or made anyone move. But they just can, can't they. It's a public road.

My parents are like this. But parking is a nightmare where they live.

Rage, Love the comment"I can see my car and wave to her!" given me a good laugh while at home in the rain!

I don't but our next door neighbour does. It's bizarre and I've never quite understood why he does it. He and his wife both have a car, but the space outside their house is only about 1.5 car lengths, so hers is always parked in front of their house and then he always puts his so that half of the car is in front of our house. It's really quite bizarre - even if his wife is out in her car (so the whole space outside their house is empty) he still puts it so it's half outside our house. I've actually looked out the window before to see him sat there with his head out the car window, rolling forwards and backwards until it's in the exact position he wants it!

If anyone ever dares park in 'their space' he makes a point of putting his car behind theirs, outside our house - or if our car is there he'll put it behind ours (so outside our other NDN's house). The thing I don't understand about this is that the rest of the street is usually pretty empty, there's a space across the road from their house (no houses there so it's always empty) where they can see their car and it's actually closer than our other NDN's house but for some reason they still do it. As soon as his space is empty he's out there moving his car - he's even done it at 2am before! (Our ring doorbell picked it up on the camera, I wasn't spying at 2am or anything!)

The thing I don't understand is that they'll never overhang the space in front of their other NDN's house, only ours. There's been times there's been an empty space outside their other NDN's house but my neighbour won't park there, he still waits for the space outside ours to become free. It's really fucking bizarre. Just to add to the cheeky fuckery, on bin collection day - because they can't fit their bins outside their house, they put them outside ours! I know it all sounds really petty I'm aware it's a public road so none of us own the space (though he seems to think he does!) which is why I've never said anything. It's really bloody weird though.