My neighbour has ruined my night.

[MrsJackRackham]

I'm bottom floor flat with my living room window on the street, no front garden. It's a busy street with everyone out walking as we're near a country park and it's a nice area to walk. So I like sitting of an evening watching everyone go by and loving all the dogs out for a evening's constitutional.
My neighbour has had the absolute cheek to park his big fucking van outside my window blocking my view of half the street. WIBU to chap his door and make up some story as to why he needs to move it?
This is the biggest parking drama ever to happen in the street as everyone is very respectful and considerate so I may be overreacting. Slightly.

I’m with you OP. Someone has parked their white van outside our house for the duration. The cheek of it! I mean, it doesn’t affect my parking as we have our own. And the view they are blocking is just of another house across the road, but still...

@HeyDuggeewhatchadoin it’s cheaper for me. I use a guy who runs a small time abattoir and delivers. I do an order for 3 months’ worth, it’s about £70 for 2 medium size dogs. I like the variety, rabbit, venison, lamb, beef, tripe, chicken wings, lamb bones, tongue, offal, mince. It’s nice to see what they’re getting (in as far as I know most of the provenance). Most people add in whole raw eggs, fish in season etc.

Sorry for the derail, OP. Please can we have some more pictures? Should we reciprocate with our own pictures from our windows? I know another forum is doing photos, but I’m sure our skills with drawing would be far superior.

@CherryBlossomPink waves at fellow cherry 🍒 person

Maybe you could re-draw the OP’s picture with the van the other way round??

Cool diagram, OP.

It had never occurred to me before, but I have just discovered an advantage to living on a steep hill.

If a van parks outside my house, it doesn't spoil my view, because the house is so far above the road I can see straight over the top of it.

You could order something like this www.mural24.co.uk/getMediaData.php?id=65742204 and pop it on the side of the van with a couple of magnets.

If he feels that he can’t be arsed, you will be ok with that but will hire a muckspreader to clart his house so that he knows what it’s like to hae a shite view

This made me laugh so loud that DP woke up from his doze, @Sheldonesque.

He just muttered "Fucking mumsnet" and has stomped off upstairs.

@LakieLady

Please pass on my apologies to your dh.

Love,

FuckingSheldon xxx

MrsJackRackham you are the best! Esp with the obligatory parking diagram cheered me up, even though I am down to my last glass of red in the house, sob .... now off to Google who the f* jack Racjham is...

I'm concerned that one of the people in your drawing appears to be walking a cat. Is that a Scottish custom? Do the cats not object?

....aah calico jack I assumed he was some random celebrity...my apologies Mrs Rackham

It would annoy me especially with no garden joke or not but, I don't think you could ask them to move as the reply may not be nice

Hassled maybe it is a Northern thing, I grew up with a neighbour who walked his two Siamese and my now deceased cat' used to regularly join the dog on an evening constitutional, in his senile latter years we used to have the cat on a lead as he would wander into oncoming traffic .... mind you when he was young he used to walk to my mum's for Sunday dinner two miles away, come shoppnig with us and come to the pub with me when we moved away, all of his own free will

@Hassled I would really like the OP to address this as well. It changes the situation quite drastically.

If - as the diagram suggests - people are walking their cats on leads in her street, and she can no longer watch such a spectacle because of this evil van, then this situation is far more serious than I first thought.

I'm completely with you. Yes of course "he has a right" "it's not illegal" etc etc, but if he was playing audible music continuously the same would apply. It's not the point. I live in a flat and my view out of the front window is my main outlook and also an important source of light. I've had big vans with horrendous logos parked for ages, and actually my neighbour over the road had this situation with an enormous van broken down parked outside for 3 months, completely blocking his view. After trying to get council/ police intervention he went for the tyres with a knife. Now thats illegal lol. But it's quite possibly the case that it hasn't occurred to your neighbour, it just comes down to social consideration and there are those a bit short on that finesse. I wouldn't get angry, just slip a polite note. If you get a bad response try not to escalate, unfortunately not easy to stop them doing this. I feel that my residential road of terraced properties shouldn't have access to vans. The situation improved to some degree after a parking permit was introduced. Good Luck!!

I love the sound of the shopping/pub-going cat .
And yes, if this van is blocking the view of cats on leads, that's a whole bigger issue. I would be livid.

My in laws have a parking bay outside their window and they purposely park one of their cars there so no one else can use it. Their living room is at the back so it's not like they're even looking at the street. Incredibly selfish.

I’d definitely “chap his door” and tell him to move his van at least three doors down as you’re on surveillance for HMRC ( then watch him move twelve doors down!) and need a clear view of the opposite side of your road.
I would also quickly adopt a very snarly ( but very lovable german shepherd/Alsatian) to stand next to you while you regale the perp with your “ I can’t possibly tell you which property I’m surveilling but we’re closing in “ story.

Then sit back ( with binoculars from eBay) and relax!

Oh...it was a joke.....

@Walkingthedog46

The grumpy old CF's (theirs no polite way of putting it) next door to me use to have a enormous touring caravan parked on their front right next to the boundary on our side so it blocked the view and natural light in our front room which is supposed to be the living room.We actually ended up moving our sofa into the back room which is smaller because of it.

DH once parked the car outside our house on the road and the bonnet was a few inches over the space opposite their fence post and the woman next door went nuts at my DH and ask him not to park opposite their house.

This then sparked years of the bloke next door getting their car out of the garage early every morning and parking it outside their house;untouched until early evening when they put it back.

Anyway karma prevailed in the end.Their caravan got nicked off their front in the middle of the night.

God, I have been in your position and believe me I know how annoying this is. I moved from a house I had lived in and loved for 35 years just to get away from people parking outside my property, mostly because I couldn't park there myself. Unfortunately, you don't own a view and if he is parked legally there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Even worse, if he decides to move his vehicle because he is nice (I'm making this up, I know I don't know if he is nice or not!)and thinks you have a point, somebody with a much bigger vehicle may be ecsactic because they have found a premium parking slot - I have had this too.

*ecstatic

So glad I haven't succumbed to a fancy name. Have followed this attentively, admired obligatory diagram despite EFL confusion about havering, as in I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you, meant babbling (or similar). I assumed it meant wanking for some reason compounded by I’ve seen some start havering when they are wanking. It could be argued that the two are linked.

Not "helpful", plse explain, also refs to Dyno-Rod van pseudonym-ish? asking for friend.

@MrsJackRackham
Could you consider moving to a house with a drive? If this is not possible I would make sure “things happen” to the van if you are sure he could park somewhere else; utility vans are enormous and I would not want one beside my window. Very late at night rub some fat or oil on the windscreen, it won’t do any damage but if he has to spend ages removing it he probably won’t continue to park there. Or let a tyre down. Smear Vaseline over the wing mirrors. If you are sure he is just being inconsiderate, he deserves this and more, like superglue in the door lock, the arsehole

Its embarrassing how nasty some of the early replies are, in particular the poster who calls you stupid - when it is obvious the post was tongue in cheek. Nasty, nasty people on this site.

I like the idea of knocking on the door in you mask and gloves and asking him to move.
Either that or draw a rustic scene on the side of his van with a white board marker.