Grumping about a parking issue - would this annoy you?

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A trivial parking gripe! Obviously no big deal but it does make me prickly and I don’t like feeling that way, so wondering if this would this annoy anyone else or should I just work on chilling?

So our neighbours a few doors away has their adult son living with them and the household has two cars. For the last year their son has decided to park his car in front of our house, I know no one has the right to the space and that’s not the issue, neighbours and visitors to the street come and go and park wherever they can, as is normal! But it doesn’t matter how empty the street is, the son will always choose the space in front of my house every single time, even if parking is available closer to his parents. If myself or husband take our car more often than not he’s there by the time we are back, there’s no swapping and changing around different spaces, it’s annoying me lol

However I think I could just think ‘ah forget it’ if it wasn’t for the fact that when his parents are out he parks in front of their home, but then moves his car to in front of our house a couple of minutes before they get back so their space is free!

The way the street is, there is just enough room for people to park outside their houses and they tend to stick to that order by the time evening comes around, apart from lonely old me who mostly ends up down the other end of the road

Ugh this would drive me nuts too, OP. Why are so many people always inconsiderate with parking!! He doesn't give a toss he's hogging your spot and leaving you to park much further away from your own house, just so his entire family are spitting distance from theirs. Selfish arse.

Can only echo others' suggestions to nick his parents' spot but also understand why you're reluctant.

We have 8 visitors spaces in this road, and 6 are taken up by residents' cars, where they have chosen to leave their own drives empty. Everyone can fit at least 2 cars on their drive.

Their visitors don't park on the empty drives either. People are tits about parking.

Where else could he park? You can't expect him to park down the road if there's a space free outside your house.

Could you look for the cheapest MOT'd car on sale in your local area, buy it and leave it outside their house for a few months? Preferably the scruffiest car going.

@valtandsinegar

Where else could he park? You can't expect him to park down the road if there's a space free outside your house.

You are missing the point that if he is parked outside his parents house and OPs space comes free he moves his car just in time to give his returning parent the space outside thier house.

We have one of those too! It's bloody annoying. We have an odd half car space gap, no matter how you park there is always almost another car's space left. Other neighbours take great delight in parking almost in front of the offenders house, but not quite. Leaving them the not quite big enough spce... and a walk round the corner.

We aren't nasty, we don't even blame the couple who refurbished their garage and added the dropped curb that lost us the rest of the space. We just smile a bit and play the silly game!

You have to park outside his parents house.

It's the only thing that may give him pause for thought.

Years ago in an old house my neighbours opposite used family for childcare.

They would park right outside my house on top of my gate leaving their large drive empty. Directly outside their house was also always empty🙄

It made pulling out of MY house on the bend tricky, as I was heavily pregnant.

It pissed me off so much.

Husband asked them nicely if they would mind not doing it, as it was difficult to pull out and see, but was told it suited them to park there.🤨

Our neighbours could see this was happening but did nothing.

I then parked directly outside my gates which made it very very tricky for my neighbours to get in and out.

Suddenly, because it impacted them, they told their family to move further down the road.
However, my elderly neighbour was straight out telling them they had daily visitors and to sling their hook🤣.

They then finally parked outside the family house, which is where they should have parked all along, and was what we had politely asked.

Riled now, I parked my car awkwardly for a good 10 days to get my point across.

Then I reduced it to every couple of days, for a few weeks, just to let them know exactly how pissed off I was.

So petty....but yet deeply satisfying.😁

They never did it again.👍

I'm with pp - as soon as he moved his car to make a space for them, I'd park in it.

@valtandsinegar

Yes I understand that and I’m not saying he has to go down the street, but it doesn’t matter if the street is completely empty, it’s the spot in front of my house that he chooses. He doesn’t park in front of any other houses unless his favoured spot is taken. I would just like him to mix it up a bit, maybe a couple of doors down one day, opposite space the next, go take a turn down the road once in a while? Not my house every time. And the problem that Curious has pointed out.

I had this EXACT same issue, OP. Neighbour's son would park in front of my house every day, despite there being ample space outsude his own. Sounds like he knows it annoys you so does it on purpose. It's a bit childish but I started parking directly behind him so he had to knock on our door every time he wanted to get his car out. He moved out soon after so we don't have the issue anymore 🙃

This would annoy me too. Where is your car when you've seen him move his car from outside his parent's house to outside yours? Is the space outside his parent's house ever available for you to park in but you leave it available for them? If so, I'd stop doing that.

We moved in to our house a year ago and our neighbours told us that everyone usually parks outside their own house. At the time I thought "fair enough, but it is public highway". A year on, new neighbours have moved in who have three cars and obviously don't know the "rules" and I find myself irrationally annoyed when one of them parks outside our house. I think our street may be on the brink of our very own parking drama as I'm sure many of the neighbours who have been here for a long time are just about ready to explode if "their" space isn't available.

I think if you live in a house with no off-road parking then unfortunately that's the chance you take; that you might not be able to get parked outside your own house.

All you can do is try and park your car in that space as often as possible, or as others have suggested, park outside his parents' house.

My neighbours are awful too. They deliberately "save" spaces on our street (outside my house) by taking up enough room for two cars and only moving when another of their family arrives home. It is extremely selfish of them, but there's nothing we can do.

So the neighbours son presumably can’t see his car if it is outside your house. Very silly. I knew of a man who never parked outside his house and someone threw paint stripper over his car and topped it off with some red spray paint. Not advocating that sort of behaviour but the man never did it again.

Does he think you don't have a car? This wouldn't bother me. But I'm also quite petty and don't like to feel people are taking the piss with me. So I'd park in front of their house.

It would annoy me too, are you the nearest parking space to his house? If so i can see why he parks there when it's free, if its not it would annoy me even more!! A you say theres nothing you can do about it, but if his parents are out Id try and nab their space, might even be worth staying in for 😆