Page 2 | AIBU to think DH's knobber friend parks like this deliberately?

anxietyaunt · 2021-03-12T08:28:15+00:00

He does this every time he pays us one of his glorious visits and I can't get into my own driveway. DH claims he doesn't do it deliberately. I call bullshit. I have attached a (badly-drawn) pic showing our street and the abundance of places he could park instead. There is a key at the top but basically he could park anywhere I have put a tick.* *Some ticks may look aggressive and deformed.

nectarina · 12/03/2021 08:58

Yes, tell him he parks like a nervous learner.

Laila747 · 12/03/2021 09:00

I love your diagram!! Straight to the point! ✔️

Your DH mate is a twat. Unless he has mobility issues and that is the best place for him to park due to those issues....

If not he’s just a lazy, entitled moron.

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anxietyaunt · 12/03/2021 09:02

@RunHobbitRun

I think it's quite normal for visitors to park across the drive of the house they're visiting, but it should be easily solved if it's a problem for you.

Yes, but a frequent visitor like the knobber in question would know which cars belong to the family and can see if they're home or not.

If my friend's husband isn't home I won't park across their drive. If he is I might because if he's going out soon he or his wife/my friend can say straight away "Hobbit we'll be needing to get the car out"

It doesn't take much not to be a parking knob. @anxietyaunt I think he's doing it on purpose so he can make you look unreasonable to your husband and cause friction.

Could be @RunHobbitRun. He's not much chop with the ladies (strangely

) and his engagement fell apart long ago, so I imagine he doesn't like his friends being in (relatively) successful relationships.

I guess he's winning though as he's convinced my husband it's an "accident".

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anxietyaunt · 12/03/2021 09:04

No mobility issues @Laila747. Unless you count the standard mobility issues suffered by Neanderthals before we evolved...

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woollysheeps · 12/03/2021 09:06

Get it towed?
Love the description of his car you added
Tow it!

TheFiend · 12/03/2021 09:07

@anxietyaunt

No mobility issues *@Laila747*. Unless you count the standard mobility issues suffered by Neanderthals before we evolved...

🤣🤣🤣

BiddyPop · 12/03/2021 09:07

I would laugh at his less than manly skills and the need to park there because "he obviously doesn't have the skill to park a normal sized car properly"....pitying his lack of properly masculine skills. Not angry, more "poor you" with the concerned tilted head, it will drive him mad.

Brendabigbaps · 12/03/2021 09:11

He’s lazy! He parks across the drive as it then means he’s got the shortest walk available.
Treat him like a kid and make him go move it, he’ll soon stop

notacooldad · 12/03/2021 09:12

I think it's quite normal for visitors to park across the drive of the house they're visiting, but it should be easily solved if it's a problem for you.
Seriously?
I don’t.
Especially when there's plenty of available parking inches away!
If people started doing that across my drive, friends or otherwise I would think they were a bit stupid.

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anxietyaunt · 12/03/2021 09:13

Okay, I don't want to get nasty. But I have to get this out. I call him knobber not just because he's a knob. He also looks like an actual knob. He's all one colour. Hairless. Featureless. Pale. Veiny, but otherwise non-descript. Like a giant thumb. Or maybe he's just morphed into that in my mind's eye because I loathe him so much and now that's all I see. Bloody Thumb Man.

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anxietyaunt · 12/03/2021 09:15

Thanks. I feel better now.

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Googlebrained · 12/03/2021 09:16

It's not normal to park across someone's drive when there's lots of parking nearby that won't inconvenience anyone. I think I remember you talking about this guy before OP. I find him seriously annoying for someone I've never even met 🤣.

Is he the kind of guy who has a big set of keys and jangles them. That's my marker for a twat who likes to mark his territory.

Not sure what you can do, but I like the idea of getting him to move his car before he even sits down.

idontlikealdi · 12/03/2021 09:16

@anxietyaunt

Okay, I don't want to get nasty. But I have to get this out. I call him knobber not just because he's a knob. He also looks like an actual knob. He's all one colour. Hairless. Featureless. Pale. Veiny, but otherwise non-descript. Like a giant thumb. Or maybe he's just morphed into that in my mind's eye because I loathe him so much and now that's all I see. Bloody Thumb Man.

This is brilliant. Cheered me right up this morning!

FourLittleDucklings · 12/03/2021 09:17

Wankmobile!!!! 🤣🤣🤣👌🏻

honeylulu · 12/03/2021 09:21

He also looks like an actual knob

This is hilarious. Does he have a slit in the top of his head?

mamas12 · 12/03/2021 09:22

Of course he’s doing it deliberately
As your Dh is not taking this seriously you need to make sure his life is impacted by his friends knobbish ways so if your Dh car is on the road
next time Thumbknob arrivrs tell youR Dh that if he doesn’t ask him to move it by the time he reaches the front door then you will take your Dh car and drive somewhere
Inconvenience your Dh thouroughly put it all on him and I wouldn’t even be in the same house as thumbknob

heartshapedskull · 12/03/2021 09:22

Frame your diagram ( which is excellent!)
Hang it in a prominent position in your house
Point it out to your DH every time you pass 😁

cricketmum84 · 12/03/2021 09:22

Kudos for the diagram!

RightYesButNo · 12/03/2021 09:23

@anxietyaunt

Okay, I don't want to get nasty. But I have to get this out. I call him knobber not just because he's a knob. He also looks like an actual knob. He's all one colour. Hairless. Featureless. Pale. Veiny, but otherwise non-descript. Like a giant thumb. Or maybe he's just morphed into that in my mind's eye because I loathe him so much and now that's all I see. Bloody Thumb Man.

By the time I got to “bloody thumb man,” I was laughing. I, too, have found myself gone on one of these rants against a hated knobber, OP. Absolutely second the PP who said to laugh at his parking. Either he’ll stop doing it, or get so upset by the threat to his manhood that he stops coming around for a bit... until he starts sniffing around again, unfortunately.

MessAllOver · 12/03/2021 09:23

Park your own car across your driveway when you know he is coming.

FourLittleDucklings · 12/03/2021 09:23

@heartshapedskull

Frame your diagram ( which is excellent!) Hang it in a prominent position in your house Point it out to your DH every time you pass 😁

Excellent! This thread is winning the internet today!

hannayeah · 12/03/2021 09:26

Seriously?! All of this - especially parking and bathroom habits - would get him banned from my house. He’s got something really wrong with him. Throwing garbage in your yard!

SuddenArborealStop · 12/03/2021 09:26

OK knobber aside how does one 'accidentally' park a car.... how naive is your DH

Mylovelyhorsee · 12/03/2021 09:32

@anxietyaunt

Urgh I remember your last threads and I was annoyed for you then too! Can you speak to your husband again? Maybe just stop being polite. Short one word answers. He’s rude he doesn’t deserve your polietness

Dowermouse · 12/03/2021 09:34

He has been doing this on purpose.
One of my neighbour's sons (late teens?) used to park on the pavement, up against my garden gateway so I had to climb the wall to get onto the pavement. The street was wide enough and there wasn't shortage of spaces.
I can only assume he was jealous of his younger half brother who was about 3 at the time and used to come over and hang out with me lots. Ffs, if he wanted to come and do some baking or help wash my bike, he could have just asked.