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Neighbour kicking off about car

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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 13:57

My neighbour popped a note through the door yesterday asking if we can put both cars on the drive as they're having people round today for a BBQ and would like people to be able to park on the street.
Technically we can fit both cars on the drive way, but you can't get in the garage or shut the gates at the end of the drive, and the cars need to be bumper to bumper and will still overhang onto the path a bit (you can still fit a buggy and wheelchair past). So usually we have one on the drive and one on the street. Street has plenty of parking, no issues here, plus the car on the street gets used most days so is really only there overnight.
So DH went out to work this morning taking the car from the street. I've had neighbour round banging on the door reminding me to put both cars on the drive and pointing to a random car that is parked just a bit up from our house that I've never seen before. It's the same colour as ours but definitely not our car. Neighbour is accusing me of lying and being difficult. He is adamant it's my car and I'm being unfair.
He's gone off in a huff but I can hear them in their garden complaining and talking about coming back to talk with me again.
I'm not worried per se but I'm a bit...antsy? I can't really prove that it's not mine, plus it's legally parked so I really can't see a problem other than them not getting their way.

AIBU to not put the other car on the drive when DH gets home just to antagonise them?

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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 19:07

DH chucked the corks back over and told them to stop being micey gits

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Noshowlomo · 28/05/2021 19:07

Cheeky fuckers!!!! Chuck them back... and get the hose pipe out!
I’d be plotting so much revenge now!

GintyMcGinty · 28/05/2021 19:11

I get why you are annoyed.

But I would advise you to difuse the situation by parking both cars on your drive.

It will also prove the other car is not yours.

He is being a dick but you dont need to be one too.

BillyTodd · 28/05/2021 19:14

Whoever came up with Dopplebanger is genius

SilverGoblin · 28/05/2021 19:19

We have a male neighbour being entitled and unpleasant and a female OP doing nothing wrong here.

Why is it incumbent on the female to avoid unpleasant neighbour disputes, as suggested by some.

I am thoroughly sick of man does bad thing but it's the woman's fault for responding if a situation escalates.

It's in all areas of life, from those who live together to strangers in the street.

Message: men can do as they damned well please and women should keep their bloody mouth shut, do as they're told to keep the peace.

Sod that.

Absolutely, fucking sick to death of it.

Throckmorton · 28/05/2021 19:20

Micey gits?! I am so stealing that phrase!

dapsnotplimsolls · 28/05/2021 19:33

@Biancadelrioisback

DH chucked the corks back over and told them to stop being micey gits
Dammit, I was going to suggest taking a pic of car and doppelbanger, printing it, wrapping the corks in it and posting it through the letterbox 😃
CarolineForbes · 28/05/2021 19:38

I disagree with everyone telling Op to move her car on her drive. Aside from not feeling bullied in to doing it she could be ticketed for overhanging the pavement. My neighbour used to park his second car on a one car drive like that and I saw the parking inspector put a ticket on it last summer.

toocold54 · 28/05/2021 19:38

We have a male neighbour being entitled and unpleasant and a female OP doing nothing wrong here.

The neighbour is unpleasant to her DH too.

Rockdown2020 · 28/05/2021 19:38

I think taking a photo of both cars and posting them tomorrow morning to suggest that a couple of bottles of Prosecco (with corks still in and not chucked about your garden) would be a perfect apology for their arrogance.

JellyTumble · 28/05/2021 19:45

@Biancadelrioisback

DH chucked the corks back over and told them to stop being micey gits
What’s a “micey git”? Grin
Tistheseason17 · 28/05/2021 19:48

@Rockdown2020

I think taking a photo of both cars and posting them tomorrow morning to suggest that a couple of bottles of Prosecco (with corks still in and not chucked about your garden) would be a perfect apology for their arrogance.
This ^^
Still1nLove · 28/05/2021 19:58

Micey Gits 😝

Sylvan92 · 28/05/2021 20:15

@SilverGoblin

We have a male neighbour being entitled and unpleasant and a female OP doing nothing wrong here.

Why is it incumbent on the female to avoid unpleasant neighbour disputes, as suggested by some.

I am thoroughly sick of man does bad thing but it's the woman's fault for responding if a situation escalates.

It's in all areas of life, from those who live together to strangers in the street.

Message: men can do as they damned well please and women should keep their bloody mouth shut, do as they're told to keep the peace.

Sod that.

Absolutely, fucking sick to death of it.

Brilliant post
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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 20:20

It's a canny common phrase up here. Micey is like whingy/moaning

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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 20:21

/aggressive sort of like all kettle and no plug

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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 20:22

Dopplebanger still there! I really want to be there when they come home

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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 20:22

*back

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sbhydrogen · 28/05/2021 20:23

I love these kinds of threads. They just further cement the stereotype that people who have driveways are nuts.

FortniteBoysMum · 28/05/2021 20:26

Tell the neighbour to note the license plate then when he comes back in the evening and your husbands car is there you can make him look a twat by pointing out its a different one to your husbands. Then tell him the car was legally parked anyway and his friends do not have more rights to park on the street than anyone else.

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Biancadelrioisback · 28/05/2021 20:27

@sbhydrogen

I love these kinds of threads. They just further cement the stereotype that people who have driveways are nuts.
Meaning me? How?
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sbhydrogen · 28/05/2021 20:29

@Biancadelrioisback No, not you, but your neighbours. I just don't understand why people are so precious about parking spaces, and telling others where they can and cannot park.

itsnotmeitsu · 28/05/2021 20:40

Chucking champagne 'corks over the fence', and then being posted back thorough a 'letterbox quietly', sounds like the foundation of a new interactive game, if only I could come up with some more rules.

godmum56 · 28/05/2021 21:07

@itsnotmeitsu

Chucking champagne 'corks over the fence', and then being posted back thorough a 'letterbox quietly', sounds like the foundation of a new interactive game, if only I could come up with some more rules.
every time you do it you have to add a cork from a freshly opened bottle
itsnotmeitsu · 28/05/2021 21:27

And added points if the cork takes somebody by surprise :-); so that they leap in the air and then try to come up with an evil response.