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

Also ,, why does opposite neighbour seem more important than the others?

@Shopkinsdoll

He never parked his van in our driveway before as it blocks the view from the neighbours kitchen. Her kitchen faces our drive. Who wants to look out of a window and see a big blue van? But we have been parking there all week as he can’t have his tools sitting in the street somewhere out of sight.

If it's the same neighbours as the one the GF is visiting, that's a case of hoist by their own petard imo.

Some MNers are really funny about work vans. So is someone down my road.

Unfortunately, she's been very vocal about so everyone with a work van parks opposite her house if they can't park outside their own. And it's definitely a work van thing, she never said a word when we parked our motorhome opposite her house for 4 weeks.

We'd have parked it right outside, but you can only park on one side of our road, and everyone uses our side.

Why don't you just park your car in the space your husband used to park his van in? And then he can park his van on your drive?

NOBODY is a 'cheeky fucker' for parking in a public space on a road. Sorry, but to think you 'deserve' it more than anyone else is ridiculous. I can understand when people get annoyed when it's right outside their house if they've got terraces leading right onto the pavement perhaps (but still the road doesn't belong to them!) but to get so wound up because you park across the street and they park there is a bit stupid.

When I first started going out with my boyfriend, the bloke next door knocked on to ask could I move my car as he needed to put his van there because he had security cameras that pointed at all. I should have said there and then no, but I moved my car. He didn't own that bit of the road any more than you own this one. It was past his house but because it was a long van, where I'd parked outside OUR house meant his long van wouldn't fit.

Buy a new house with a suitable drive. Your neighbours are as entitled to park there as are you.

YABVU, do not own the street. Also does it matter that his girlfriend doesn't live there, no, again you don't own the street.
Get over yourself

park the van over your drive?

In relation to your outrage over the girlfriend parking there, where do your and your other neighbours visitors park? On the street I’d guess - hypocrite.

YABVU you park elsewhere if his tools are so valuable and let him be on the drive. Your neighbours and their guests can park where they like when they like.

I find it really hard to believe that you are so considerate to your NDN not wanting to block her light, but think girlfriend is unreasonable for parking in a perfectly legal space on the road.

Seriously just park the van on the drive.

Your dh should leave the works van at work and travel there by car and collect the van.

YABU. You have two choices: park your van on your drive, or get him to bring his tools in with him (which he should be doing anyway regardless of where the van is parked).

If parking is that important to you, move to a house with a bigger drive.

If the girlfriend is there every night to use the space, then surely she's more or less living there?

Why wouldn't she prefer to use a space close to the house than far down the street where she can't see her car? First come first served surely.

(And yes, just park the van on the drive)

Oh come on, this is the worst AIBU ever! You don't own the road and you don't have any more right to park there than visitors!

Utterly ridiculous AIBU!

It doesn't matter who owns that car, neighbour's girlfriend or Father Christmas.
If it's taxed and insured it's no business of yours.

Who wants to look out of a window and see a big blue van?

Presumably that is what your neighbours opposite have been thinking for eleven years.

They’re not CF you are. You don’t own that spot.

OMG you imposed with your van for how long and now have the cheek?????

@Chelmer007

OMG you imposed with your van for how long and now have the cheek?????

zombie. What wereyou searching for Chelmer007?

@Brandaris

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

This. You have no more right to park there than anyone else.

Back when we lived in London, years ago, there was some **er who always used to leave an eyesore van on the opposite side of the road to our house. This was in the day when there were still streets in zone 2 without RPPs. That van was also dark blue, held together by rust, had one wing made almost entirely of filler, and someone had painted ‘balls deep’ on the side in white emulsion. There was also, just to add to the creepiness, a padlock ring on the outside of the rear doors.

It disappeared never to return one day and I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

By the way, YABVU.

So they're CF for legally parking on part of a public road, that you and your husband thinks is just for his van as he's parked there for years..... right.

And as for sons gf, is the public road only for people that live on it? Or is it public?

There is definitely a CF in this scenario , and its not the neighbours....

What difference does it make if he can see the van? Are you constantly standing at the window watching it?

@Shopkinsdoll

It’s blocking her light and view.

Well that’s tough. It’s the consequence of you having to change your parking routine.