To have not moved my car?

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Parked on a street (legally) and some woman pulls up outside me and beeps me., “excuse me you are parked in front of MY house, move!”

Was I BU to have politely and rather taken aback said no? Especially with her attitude.

Oh, fwiw, about a million years ago, I owned a tiny terraced house. After a few years there, I bought a car, one day found ‘my’ space outside the front if my house full. So i parked in front of my Carless neighbour about two houses away. She came out to tell me she didn’t like cars parked outside her window as it made her sitting room too dark. I apologised and explained there was nowhere else to park. (Probably was, but it was more than ten foot away)
She moaned, she cursed, she swore at me, she even went in to phone my boss at work!
Guess where I always parked, even when outside of my house was clear? Yup! Outside mrs Mona’s.

Just a suggestion.

Jesus PeterPan you sound charming 😕 if that little story is true, why, just why? Regardless of mental neighbour, why descend to her level with that level of PA behaviour? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Love it @PeterPanGoesWrong

It’s people who don’t live here/aren’t visiting anyone on the street - they just don’t want to pay to park or walk a little bit further to get into town. It is selfish.

Its a road
People want to park
It's not selfish
Maybe you should speak to the council (or whoever's is in charge of parking in your local area) about making parking more accessible in your area

Hah, I don't mind that much when strangers park in front of my house but I'm vaguely irritated when a neighbour parks half on our space instead of further down. Wouldn't dream of saying anything as I have perfectly nice neighbours it's just a minor pet peeve!

How is it not selfish? When there is plenty of parking in the town centre but people park outside other people’s houses instead so they don’t have to pay £2/3, meaning residents have to park several streets away and lug shopping, babies, prams etc to their front door in several trips. I’m fed up of the ‘you don’t own the road outside your house’ attitude. It may not be illegal but it would still be nice to show a bit of consideration towards other people.

Yep people are that nuts and territorial! You pay for road tax, you park where you like (legally ) it's a space outside their house not their space.

@OldEvilOwl we lived in Aus for a while when I was kid (long ago) df was bemused one Sunday Morning when he went to get newspaper & noticed man I shorty pjs get out of car & go into newspaper shop - he saw the same thing when another man went on a Friday night to get fish & chips!

Maybe you should speak to the council (or whoever's is in charge of parking in your local area) about making parking more accessible in your area

I bet I know what the council would suggest!

There's an estate near me that has a few hundred houses and is also the base for a major local employer. There are several hundred people working there, and as they've expanded over the years they've built on an awful lot of what was on-site parking.

Now, most of the staff park on the street all over the estate and local residents get really pissed off with it. The council offered to set up a residents' parking scheme, but the residents didn't want to pay £50 a year for a permit and voted against it.

No I think you are right to have said no.

I do however think there is a big lack of courtesy among neighbours when it comes to street parking. We have one car and three young kids... Our next door neighbours have 3 cars and two grown up kids. It's a row of terraced houses and they will always park outside mine as it's the next closest spot to theirs, despite there often being lots of other options. Not fun having my car half way down the road and trying to get three kids into it ☹️

I’m fed up of the ‘you don’t own the road outside your house’ attitude
But... it’s not an attitude, it is the truth! Parking spaces are for people to park their car when they go from a to b, someone coming home doesn’t take priority over someone visiting friends or going out.

Its right you don't own the road. I never get to park outside mine but I have to suck it up. I have to stop my car in the middle of the road dump the shopping, park up then get child out. People just need to stop whinging.

If you don't want people parking outside your house, you should leave your car there. Or get permits (which don't guarantee you that space)

If you want to park outside your house, buy/rent a house with a driveway, or put one in

I'll park near a town and walk in.

I also used to work in an office with nowhere near enough parking, and you know what, its shit for the workers too, having to get up and leave 30 mins earlier to try and find a parking space, and not being able to go out at lunch time because you wont be able to park when you get back, and then the residents got permits, and now there are empty streets in the daytime. So yeah, I will happily park where I can when can safely, but i'm not going to worry about 'parking in front of someones house'

As long as you're not blocking her driveway or restricting them getting in or out then no you're not being unreasonable.

I also came here thinking it was about me. Last Saturday we were due to have a skip delivered. Some idiot decides to park in front of our double gates on Friday night and didn't move it until Monday afternoon.
We have a dropped curb plus people on our street don't park on it. We tried numerous houses and social media to no avail. I did write her a note telling her that her selfishness had meant that we were unable to carry out planned work on our house. I know she was female as I called 101 to ask for advice.

@Andromeida59 how did you know she was female by calling 101?