...to resent being asked to move DD1's car? (Long explanation, sorry!)

[WendyWeber]

We live on a terrace, almost opposite a side turning which has gable ends of 2 other terraces on either side. There is usually enough space, along our road and the side road, for most of the local cars to park in the evening and at weekends - during the day 6th-form students from round the corner take a lot of the space and that can be irritating when you come home in the rain with a bootful of shopping but otherwise we all get by. And both are ordinary roads - nobody owns a space.

One of the gable ends has its front door on the side and there is an unmarked parking bay there with space for 3 cars; the resident of this house tends to look on all 3 spaces as hers. DD1 has been away for 2 months and her car has been left in various spots during her absence after I've have taken it out for exercise; for the first 2-3 weeks it was in one of these 3 spaces, and this woman was definitely not happy about this because she wasn't informed. (Or asked for permission, possibly )

On the other side there is no bay, just the full length of house+back yard, with space for 5-6 cars. The resident of that house normally parks her car in "her" space, beside the very the end of her back yard wall. DD1 came back today, took her car out and then innocently left it parked in that space.

The rest of the length of kerb alongside the house was empty - but when this woman returned she left the car with its engine running and came over to ask me to move the car so that she could park in "her" space. I wasn't quick-thinking enough to say I hadn't got a key, or ballsy enough to say "why not just park behind it?" (this is a fit young woman, not someone old or with any physical problems) so I very grudgingly moved it.

Thing is both these women have a thing about "their" spaces and often stand around outside discussing them so I know side-front-door woman (who is a nosy old bat) has told back-yard-parker whose car it was - she wouldn't have known otherwise.

It would be very childish of me to start parking in "her" space occasionally, wouldn't it...?

We live in a terrace of four houses just off a hill where there is an application going in for residents only parking. We are lucky to have the driveway AND another parking space allocated accross the road from the house (named and deailed on the deeds of the house). We have had people parking in the space accross the road (leaving it all day whilst they go off to work), despite a large notice stating it's allocated to our house only, and I do put notices on the cars and have looked in to buying a clamp because we use that space every day!To top it all, we went to work one day, came home and found some twunt had reversed his blue transit van, at speed, on to my driveway, smashed in to my garage door and denting it, and taking chunks of brickwork out with his towbar.Oh how I was so gutted to find he'd smashed his lights when he did it!Not. And again only the other evening I looked out of my lounge window to see our neighbours friends parking on our driveway right under the window!Said he was only going to be a minute! I wouldn't have minded but there was no reason to do it! He could park directly outside their house, or on the road!Cheeky get. We used to live in a flat with allocated parking per flat in a car park just away from the house, I had hoped that the problems and nightmares we experienced with that space would disappear when we had a driveway, evidently not! I shall now step away from this thread!Argh.Thanks for reading this rant!

We have a shared drive & grassed area belonging to 4 houses. We all got on well, once in a blue moon 'lending' our spaces for instance if one of us had lots of visitors, bringing in each others wheelie bins, even mowing each others grass if they were on holiday, especially since one of my neighbours is now widowed. The new neighbours however, are very possessive of their extra 3rd car space which is not directly outside their house. They refused my other neighbour's birthday request to borrow it for a night, guranteeing her car would be moved by 6am. The new neighbours now find that their bin is no longer brought in and they have to mow their narrow strip of grass, both previously done by the neighbour they were so churlish to. We still mow their little bit of grass attached to our lawn since they haven't offended us yet!

Well!! They're both nutters! (I was hoping he might be a bit more rational)

Yesterday DD1 parked behind Mrs Nutter's car - about 3-4 feet back, a sensible distance; Mr Nutter then turned up and parked his huge lumbering beast 3-4 inches behind DD1's

This morning they have both gone, but she has found some more cones for "her" space - orange and white ones this time.

DD1 will be living elsewhere from this week so it won't be an issue any more but these are crazy people - if we cross them we might get a load of dung on our doorstep!

Have none of the other neighbours/residents had problems with Mr abd Mrs Nutter wendy?
They are probably known for being awkward and people avoid them

As other posters have said - parking spaces are a real gripe and some people can get really worked up over it, so be real careful in how you deal with this as it could get ugly very quickly.

The only time (apart from the exceptions such as marked bays) a parking spot is yours is when you have a driveway. That's it really. If you live on a public street like you do then you park wherever you can just like everybody else. It's an issue that millions of us face on a daily basis and you can't go round dictating to people where they park.

Just tread carefully though.

Good luck!