Okay. So lived in my street about ten years. Neighbours opposite about the same length of time and are very lovely. All the neighbours are lovely in fact, and considerate.
Recently a car has been parked outside my house on some days. Which doesn't bother me, I don't own the spot outside my house and have a driveway like the rest of my street. However the way they park is causing a small issue.
Last week I came home to see the person who had parked outside mine walk off, out of the street. I didn't recognise them.
The issue I have is they park in a manner which means when I come home, I can't turn into my drive easily. They park fairly close to the edge of my drive, so I have to over compensate and swing my car in a bit, but at totally the wrong angle and have to reverse out and straighten up and pull back in again.
This is as opposed to just turning off my street and straight into my drive in one move when the other car isn't parked there.
This pulling in and out is also sometimes problematic as there's cars parked outside next doors' that can reduce visibility.
Later when I'm wanting to leave, I have to reverse out a bit, change angle and move forward and then back out again onto the road. Again, as opposed to just reversing out and pulling away in two swift moves.
It may not seem an inconvenience, but I come home at lunch every day to let my dogs out and feed them and literally have 30 minutes to sort them out, grab myself some lunch, give them some fuss and get back to work. So a few extra minutes faffing either side of getting home and leaving knocks time off how long I have at lunch.
I saw my neighbour a couple of weeks ago and mentioned the awkward parking and said I wondered who's car it was. They piped up and said it was their DIL. She parks there and walks to the train station to avoid paying to park there. She doesn't live with my neighbours, she lives elsewhere in the town.
Neighbour said they'd ask DIL to move her car back a little bit so as to make life easier. Great stuff.
Sadly nothing changed. Assumed maybe neighbour forgot to mention it to her. Last night I got in from work to see DIL returning from train station to car and I asked if her FIL had spoken to her. She said yes. So I said, is that okay, to move your car back a little bit next time please.
She said she's not wanting to park on the junction. I said I didn't want, or expect her to, I just wanted her to move her car back by just a foot to give me clearance to enter my drive easily.
She shrugged and said it's a public road and she can park where she likes!
Yes, it is a public road, but for the sake of your in-laws' neighbourly relations you'd surely move your car back a foot?
AIBU? How would you broach it now, if at all?