I’ve recently moved house. The street I live on now goes along in front of my house and then splits, continuing on and also doubling back behind itself. (I hope that makes sense!) But it’s all the same street name. Where the street goes back behind also leads to my back garden.
Since I moved in I have been parking in front of my house, but on the opposite side of the road. The road is fairly narrow so everybody parks on that side (neighbours who live on my side and the opposite side).
Today I had a friend visiting and she parked a bit further up the street where there was space. A woman from one of the houses by there came and knocked on my door to ask if it was my car and said it needed moving. I told her it might be my friend’s car (couldn’t actually see from my doorstep). She told me I was unreasonable for taking up two spaces in the street, and that she had been sat waiting in her car for ten minutes for somebody to come out and move the car that was “in her way”. She said that I should park in the road behind because my house isn’t on that side of the street. I replied that my front door is here so I won’t be parking so far away.
At first I thought she meant my friend was blocking her driveway, but she wasn't. The woman had parked her car on the road just by her house, but she wanted to park directly in front of her gate so she made my friend reverse one metre back!
I couldn’t believe her attitude, she was so miserable and rude. I have passed her in the street a few times since moving in and said hello but she ignores me. Now I’m worried that any time I have a visitor or I have to park further up, she may come to my door and cause problems.
So AIBU to park opposite the front of my house? And what should I say if she comes back again? It’s made me feel very unwelcome although everybody else in the street has been friendly.