Really shaken up. Did I do anything wrong here?

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For past two years I have done the school run, I park on a street near the school. There is a detached house with a driveway and a patch of grass next to the driveway. I park in front of the patch of grass, not blocking the driveway whatsoever.

Once I drop my child at school I get collected by my workmate (we are cleaners so have company car) and then work till 3 until I have to return for school run and car.

This morning as I was getting out of the car the lady in the house came charging out, she said 'can you stop parking your car in front of my house?' I said 'it's a public road' and she said 'you park out here 5 days a week, if you refuse to move it I should make you aware that I will be cutting my grass today and any damage to your car is not my responsibility' said with a sarcastic smile on her face, she then walked back into the house shaking her head.

I've left the car but worried now she is going to damage it.

Am I being unreasonable parking it there? It's a public road and not on her property at all.

@sunglassesonthetable

How do you get the very edge of the lawn if there's a car parked all the way to the grass?

You ask nicely 👍🏻

Is there an eyeroll emoji on this forum? I need one.

@Cherrysherbet

You're not doing anything illegal, but it's not fair to park outside someones house 5 days per week.

I'd be annoyed too. We have a couple of holiday lets around here, and they park outside our house for days on end, and trundle off with their suitcases. Annoying as fuck, when you can't park near your house.

If it bothers her, do the kind think, and move it.

If she’d been kind when she asked Op, she might have got a positive response. I’m sure you don’t threaten to throw stones at the tourists cars, do you? And if you needed a spot to be kept open for a specific reason you would ask them nicely.

But the home owner want nice or kind. She was threatening. That’s not ok.

Is there an eyeroll emoji on this forum? I need one.

🙄 Right back at you Jesus

@Mmn654123

No, you're right. It isn't the OPs problem and she is under no obligation to be respectful and considerate of others. Screw the home owner. She can damn well wait and do it when it's more convenient for the OP.

@MissKeithsNeice

It isn’t cheeky. Sometimes I park my car in residential streets and go for a walk. What of it? And if I do that every day in the same spot - I can! Why would that annoy anyone? Not their land, not their business

Me too. At weekends, I'll sometimes park a bit of a way away so I get a 20m walk when going to Post Office or dry cleaners. I park on a residential street cause you can't park on the main roads

Its just so weird how weird people are about this. Do people literally only ever go to places where they have a direct connection with a resident?

Pre covid, alongside the post office/dry cleaners trips i would also regularly need to park to go to my yoga class or for my sons football training or matches (occasionally onsite parking but usually not). If I visit a friend, or drop dc off somewhere, I may need to park a couple of roads away from the house we're visiting. None of the parks near me have dedicated parking and I'm 20m drive a couple of lovely woods where the only parking is on a street.

And obvs I know the OP is parking regularly in the same place, but the principle is the same. Loads of people think that its inconsiderate to park on someone else's street.

Yes you’d think the home owner would be glad of the consistency. If I had a regular parker outside I think I’d worry if they didn’t turn up on day. Are they dead? Did the car break down? Has the husband run off with the au pair? Or is that red car a bit further down the same person with a new car? I could get quite invested in the life of a regular parker.

Or. You know. Barely notice them at all.

@sunglassesonthetable

Is there an eyeroll emoji on this forum? I need one.

🙄 Right back at you Jesus

Oh cheers, Table.

[quote JesusIsAnyNameFree]@Mmn654123

No, you're right. It isn't the OPs problem and she is under no obligation to be respectful and considerate of others. Screw the home owner. She can damn well wait and do it when it's more convenient for the OP.[/quote]
Brilliant, glad we agree!

@JesusIsAnyNameFree @sunglassesonthetable

I think its the MN that you want.
No more scornful emoji twas ever created

Did anything happen to the car..

@rach2713

Did anything happen to the car..

There’s a reasonable chance it’s been scowled on.

Like being darked on. But without the spiders willys.

@BronwenFrideswide

It does also sound like you're treating it like a car park.

That's exactly what the OP is doing and it is cheeky to use a residential street you have no connection to as your own personal car park whilst you go off to work.

Why? Why is it cheeky?

To park in a public road, not blocking anyone in, where there is no permit required? What on earth is cheeky about that?

I don't get it.

@helloyoutoo8

How do you know the owner hasn't other family members living there, who do night shifts and come home midday etc and need that space? I'd be really frustrated if I was the homeowner. Where do her visitors park? Where do delivery vans park? Fair enough the odd days during the week, but the majority of the week is taking the piss! God knows why she hasn't moved her car already each morning to prevent you parking there.

She has four car parking spaces on her own drive!!

To park in a public road, not blocking anyone in, where there is no permit required? What on earth is cheeky about that?

800+ posts and nobody seems able to explain this.

[quote MissKeithsNeice]**@JesusIsAnyNameFree* @sunglassesonthetable*

I think its the MN that you want.
No more scornful emoji twas ever created

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A quick Google tells me I'm allowed to use my normal emojis on this forum. How times change! 🎄

You're doing nothing wrong, fuck her. As you were.

There is a solution open to the home owner.

If her lawn runs all the way to the road she can just have the kerb dropped the entire width of her property.

For those who are bothered by cars parking outside their homes, that is their solution.

I'm in a similar situation in that everyday someone with a red car parks in front of my house and leaves it there for the day. It doesn't bother me in the slightest but it drives my mum insane. Every single time she comes round she goes on and on about it - 'it's there again. I'd say something if I were you. Have you said something yet?' One time they left the car there over night and it nearly tipped my mum over the edge. I just think it bothers some people more than others, but it is par for the course if you move to a house near a school or somewhere busy.

A quick Google tells me I'm allowed to use my normal emojis on this forum. How times change!

To be fair, at 21.01 you did ask about whether there was an eye roll emoji on MN and i was just sharing the greatness that is MN passive aggressive eye brow raise.

I didn't mean to offend

@Crocidura

To park in a public road, not blocking anyone in, where there is no permit required? What on earth is cheeky about that?

800+ posts and nobody seems able to explain this.

Because they have to see a car which they don’t own from their window... Apparently 😳

Tbf it would annoy me, could you walk your children to school and then be picked up? All day every day is taking the pee a bit

All day M-F for two years probably would annoy me too but I would just keep parking my own car there until after the person's normal pick up time until they got fed up of the space always being taken and went somewhere else. She was being very unreasonable to shout at you and threaten to damage your car.

@AngelDelightUk

Tbf it would annoy me, could you walk your children to school and then be picked up? All day every day is taking the pee a bit

How though? How is it taking the pee?! She isn't blocking her in. The woman has four car parking spaces on her drive. It's a parking space on a public road. How is it taking the pee? I don't understand and nobody seems to be able to articulate it.

@MissKeithsNeice

A quick Google tells me I'm allowed to use my normal emojis on this forum. How times change!

To be fair, at 21.01 you did ask about whether there was an eye roll emoji on MN and i was just sharing the greatness that is MN passive aggressive eye brow raise.

I didn't mean to offend

You didn't offend me one bit!😮

Miss Keith None taken👍🏻

Nothing wrong with this whatsoever, living in a property gives you no right to tell others what to do on a public road. She may not like it but she has no legal recourse. People like this drive me mad.
I'd also take photos and if car is damaged report as necessary.