People parking outside our house

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I find that people always tend to park outside our house when visiting the neighbours. I’m not sure why at all. This is quite a wide road. There is lots of parking as the houses are decent sized semis and detached with big gardens and most have two parking spaces or more. There are not many cars on the road at all so it is not a case of parking wherever you have space. There is nothing outside the neighbours’ houses and yet, when people visit, they park outside our house.

It is particularly annoying because we only recently moved and are decorating so don’t have curtains or blinds downstairs. There is a massive car parked in front of my living room.

I know I don’t own the road and people can park wherever they like but I’m just wondering why the neighbours’ friends and relatives park outside our house and leave the front or their houses clear?!

*Averyyounggrandmaofsix I am lucky that I have a drive and I have lots to be thankful for BUT don’t assume I have “nothing real to worry about”. That annoys me. I lost my son this year, my only child, and this was our first Christmas without it him. It has been a touch Christmas in that sense and yes you’re right I have a drive and it’s not a big deal. Perhaps I started this thread as an escape for the “real” things to worry about but some Mumsnetters get carried away!

All I ask is you think before saying “get a life” or “don’t you have anything real to worry about” because you don’t know what’s going on in someone else life. People can be so nasty.*

I'm sorry for your loss, but all of us were only commenting on your post about parking.

That's the question you asked, that everyone including myself answered.

If everyone took the stance, yeah but that person may have had XYZ happened then you would never have a reasonable reaction.

I stand by you are totally I reasonable moaning about the parking.

Again sorry for your loss, I'm sure you've got better things to think about now than parking.

To be honest I'm another who finds it irrationally rage-inducing when people park in front of my house.

You do realise that irrational and unreasonable are the same thing. QED!

@spingly It’s fine to say I’m being unreasonable or I don’t own the road as that is relevant to parking BUT when people say I’ve got nothing else to worry about or get a hobby or that I’m a nightmare or even name calling then that’s not necessary and not relevant to parking. It is a massive jump from saying I’m being a bit unreasonable in not wanting people to park outside my house to assuming all of these things about my life and that’s what I tried to say to you earlier but you wouldn’t stop.

You are being rather precious.

I think a PP has a probable reason why - that Google Maps or another common satnav, when given your postcode, puts the destination outside your house.

I think it would be hard to live in a tourist area if you had strangers constantly parking and leaving you nowhere to park

It is, but the worst thing is the door/boot slamming. How on earth one couple can need to open and slam all the doors and the boot repeatedly for 10 minutes or more is a complete mystery, but it happens quite a lot. Rude.

Definitely rude @NaturalBornWoman I am convinced lots of people are almost completely unaware of other people sometimes

@spingly It’s fine to say I’m being unreasonable or I don’t own the road as that is relevant to parking BUT when people say I’ve got nothing else to worry about or get a hobby or that I’m a nightmare or even name calling then that’s not necessary and not relevant to parking. It is a massive jump from saying I’m being a bit unreasonable in not wanting people to park outside my house to assuming all of these things about my life and that’s what I tried to say to you earlier but you wouldn’t

My advice, keep off AIBU with parking threads.....

If you don't like looking at other people's cars then you should either have bought a house with no neighbours or a much, much longer drive.

@spingly I think you should because I maintain that you are the one who has been very negative. You kept on and on as if you had nothing better to do than make a point. I didn’t like that people voice assumptions beyond the parking and are rude

If only @PickAChew

@spingly I think you should
Vice made valid points as have LOTS of others about parking and your i reasonableness!

I suggest that you withdraw now?

• I've made

I'm withdrawing now.

It never ceases to amaze me how wound up people get about posts on here. OP posts about something she finds mildly irritating and loads of people jump on getting really angry at OP for being mildly irritated. No sense of irony whatsoever...

OP FWIW I would find it mildly irritating too.

I thought exactly the same thing @nobodyimportant

Oh well

This is still going ...lol

I am sorry for your loss but it doesn't change my view that you are being unreasonable. However if worrying about the small stuff helps you in anyway you crack on.
I'm bowing out too.

@spingly

1. I made an observation. I want rude I could've said your stupid etc but I didn't!

You're stupid. (SPAG)

And @Grumpelstilskin is clearly @spingly 's sock.

@Averyyounggrandmaofsix Of course, my loss is nothing to do with whether I am being reasonable or not. My point was simply that posters on here, who know nothing about me, shouldn’t say things like “you have nothing else to worry about” or make assumptions

For some reason, many people on Mumsnet don’t know how to express themselves without getting personal... It’s those people who have made an issue of this. Not me. I was never rude about any of it and the parking is not a massive issue. Clearly.