I'm not even sure why I'm writing this, I'm a mixture of pissed off, slightly concerned and rather amused. I'm currently trying to resist shaking chilli powder over neighbours door handles, please tell me not to!
We live in a very little country village with a mix of people parking on the street and in drives. Unfortunately due to the general disaster this year has been I ended up moving back in with parents to save us money while my partner rented a room Monday to Friday near his work an hour away. Since the last lockdown he has been working from home so we now have 4 cars to park. Mine has been relegated to the road (being the cheapest and least valuable!)
I happily pulled up on the street behind some other cars to park last week and a van pulled up behind me. Just as I was gathering my bits a man shouted through the window "you are parking on my drive, you can't park here." Cue slight confusion from me because this is 100% definitely a road beside a hedge. I didn't get out or open the windows but sort of shouted calmly (but loud enough to get through window obviously) that no, this was actually a road. He kept repeating no this is my drive, you can't park here and I kept repeating that it was a road and I definitely could. Eventually (and wimpily) I called my Dad from the car and asked him to come out and he came out to ask the neighbour what the problem is - very politely, quite impressive for my Dad actually. Almost neighbour started by saying again that this part of the road was his drive (bear in mind he does actually have a gated drive attached to his house) and my Dad pointed out again that no, this was a road. Eventually he moved away from that and said it was very suspicious to suddenly have a car parked outside his house every night. So we assured him I have no criminal record, have lived in the village all my life, haven't contributed to the non-existant crime stats and that my kia picanto wouldn't be a very good get away car anyway. He seemed to calm down.
Ever since when I've parked in that spot he has either made the effort to pop both my wing mirrors in (v kind to make sure they don't get banged off I suppose?) or parked just a few centimetres away from me. It's really quite impressive actually. I presume his wife must come out to help them judge how close it is. I couldn't really care less about that...mine is an old banger of a car and even if they dented it it probably wouldn't be noticeable.
But seriously is this behaviour just bonkers? Is it going to carry on forever or will they get bored eventually? I am a little bit worried it might escalate into tire slashing or wing mirrors actually being bashed off. Someone tell me to be an adult and not retaliate because I'm so close haha!