Parking

[Shopkinsdoll]

I know I’ll get shot down for this but ..
we have lived in our house for eleven years and my husband has always parked his works van across from our house. We have one car in our driveway which only takes one car. Next door has room for two cars in their drive. Since the son has passed his test, with his car and his girlfriends car, they are parking we’re my husband has parked for years. They always make sure their is a car parked in the space across the road so my dh can’t park his works van there. So they have three cars including mum and dads. I know there is nothing we can do about it as the parking space across the road is for everyone. I’m just having a rant as they are cheeky fuckers. The girlfriend parks in the space every bloody night and she dosent even live in the street. My dh has to park the van wherever. With all his work tools in it. He can’t see the van from the house now. Grrrrrr

Ah, reverse might be a good call on this one! Would explain why the OP is coming across slightly tone deaf.

He should be taking his tools out anyway or they are likely to get nicked !
Widen your drive if you can, if not, tough.
No one owns the pavement or road outside their house.

I know I’ll get shot down for this but ..

You already know you are being ridiculous then!

They gave three cars, you have a car and a van. Same thing, van us even worse because its an obstruction to visibility. Park the van on your drive.

Park it on your driveway. They probably don’t want to see the van!

Can he not park to block you in?

That's what we do?

One on our drive, the other blocking your drive.

They always make sure their is a car parked in the space across the road so my dh can’t park his works van there.

Really? They are parking there spitefully so that you can't? I very much doubt that 🙄

Park the van on the driveway and the car somewhere else. You have no claim to it and neither do they. First come, first served.

It's presumably a public road so anyone can park there whether they're resident in the street or not so I don't see how they are CFs for parking there any more than you are.

It's a road, so first come, first served. I would personally park my van full of tools on my drive and park the car on the road.

Not a chance I'd park a van with expensive tools in it on the road if I had a safe(r) drive to park it on, and I live in a relatively quiet area. It's just common sense.

But if you just want commiserations then yes, that parking situation sounds mildly irritating. It's a public road, though, and it's unlikely to go on forever.

I imagine the people who live across the road are delighted they don't have to look out of their window at someone's eyesore of a 'works van'.

That's what I thought.

My neighbour opposite has her kitchen window blocked most days by next door's large van.

OP - your husband parks on your drive.

@Brandaris

They’re not the CF, you’re the CF for thinking you have first dibs on a spot on the road!

This.

Not really understanding why your husband wouldn't just park his van across your drive 🤷‍♀️

So he has been parking infront of their house for 11 years? Instead of parking infront of his own house?

You're the CFs, not them.

Park the van on your drive to keep it safer, and park your car somewhere else.

You're the CF!

Park the van on the drive and put the car elsewhere. Honestly i find work vans at home an eyesore, maybe they’re fed up too.

Take the tools out and park it on your drive.
Tools get stolen off driveways even when the person is inside the house eating their lunch so the owner has been rather lucky for 11 years either way.

I'm gonna go against the grain and say I know technically everybody has the right to park on the street, but it's actually blatant rudeness of your neighbours to park where you've always parked and I would be furious too. If you'd both moved in at the same time, it would be different, but where there is precedent, why rock the boat like that? They are inconsiderate. I would be petty AF and park my car there, then have the work van on the drive. They started the parking wars!

No it’s not a bloody reverse or whatever you call it on mumsnet world. I know we aren’t entitled to the space, I was only having a rant!! I just think it’s bloody cheeky that the girlfriend who dosent live in the bloody area park in the space. My dh parked in that space overnight for years without any probs. Sometimes they have 4 vehicles taking up space in the street. It’s only a smell cal de sac.

So why can't he park on your drive?

RincewindsHat
Thank you for your comment. No we won’t be starting any kind of war, will just smile breezily and look like we don’t give too shits. Don’t want to fall out with neighbours.

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Today 11:49 Planty13
What’s wrong with works vans? Typical snob! Not everyone has office jobs.

What if the neighbour was miffed at the work van being parked there for all them years?
Little things like that do upset people (I've noticed a lot on here)
Just a thought!
My neighbour mother always parked halfway outside their house and my house. It used to miff me and she parked on the path so I struggled get my grandparents wheelchair from my little walkway to the actual path without having to go onto gravel. No matter how many times I asked if they could park more so on the road so I could get a wheelchair past (now I need room for my pram)
When we got a second little car I then parked outside my house. It is a case of who gets there 1st! But I now can access my little walkway no bother most of the time!

But why can’t / won’t he park on your drive? Seems the obvious answer!