My side of the road is houses, opposite is flats. We all have drive ways and gardens, flats have gardens but no drive. Most of the people in the flats don't seem to have cars, or at least never park them outside, most of the houses do and park on their driveways. When we first bought the house we were very excited to have a driveway, having never had one before. We have a Focus so not a huge car but we're very surprised to discover that it didn't fit on the drive way. Entrance to drive is gated with two brick walls either side and actual drive way has large stones to separate garden from drive. We had to spend quite a lot of our saving on the house and so never had the money to spend on widening the driveway so we park on the street. The road is probably just three car widths wide. Neighbour across from us has regular visitors, probably about 3-4 different cars throughout the day and for some reason, they insist on double parking us. We generally park outside our house, but if they're there when we come home, we'll park further up or down the street to avoid double parking. They, however, will only park directly opposite our car. Tonight is a great example. There are no cars on the street other than ours so absolutely no need to park where they have. I'm starting to wonder if this is a PA way of trying to tell us to park on our drive (presuming they don't know we can't).
The reason it's a problem is other cars can barely fit through the gap, some refuse to even try and will lay on their horns to get one of us to shift. At first I did move but after a year I've gotten sick of it. They don't need to park where they are parking and we're there first, why do I still have to move? I know this sounds daft but it's doing my head in. I've tried speaking to the person who lives in the flat and she just barked at me that it's not her car so not her problem. I hardly ever see her guests coming or going to ask them to stop double parking but DH says it's quite cheeky but they aren't doing anything wrong. I know they can park where they like and no one owns the road, that isn't my problem. Like I say I have no problem parking elsewhere if they're there first.
So WWYD? And AIBU to be annoyed and refuse to shift my car from now on?