Neighbour kicking off about car

[Biancadelrioisback]

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?

Love it. It’s a new game of stealth. Who can deposit the corks and have them go unnoticed for the longest.

Perhaps my neighbour was trying to introduce this game?

Wouldn't it be ironic if the doppleganger car belongs to one of their guests?

I’d have parked my car across their front lawn (totally assuming they have a lawn).

@UhtredRagnarson

Collect the corks. Soak them in fish juice And then post them through their letter box at 2am tomorrow night so they wake up to a beautifully fragranced home.

Or be normal and Chuck them back over but fantasise about doing the first one.

Or squash them all into the neighbour's car's exhaust pipe.

Yes!! BOOM. Fishy BOOM!

This os one of these posts where I would like to hear the other side. Not convinced.

I'll ask to update you

*ask him

@Biancadelrioisback

I'll ask to update you

😂

I suspect this isn’t a case of a usually reasonable neighbor acting out of character. It seems like he has history.

How bizarre. It sounds like there’s more to this than just the BBQ, it’s as if he’s using it as an excuse to exert some sort of control over you.

Neighbours can be so weird.

sbhydrogen

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

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You said you have a garage OP. Can't one of the cars go in there?

chaosmaker but why should they, assuming the garage isn't full, have to do that? I wouldn't dream of asking my neighbours to do the because I had guests coming over. Too entitled, too rude and too arseholish. Especially telling the OP that the car up the road was theirs, why would the OP lie? It's pretty easy to prove it isn't there's and anyway, even if it was the OP and husband can park where they want as long as it's not blocking someone in or over a drive. As for the corks being chucked over, I would not have kept my patience with that one, the NDN is being a childish twat because he didn't get what he wanted so chucked his corks out of the pram.

Why would you want to antagonise someone? Just park in your drive for a day. It’s nice to be nice

@chaosmaker

You said you have a garage OP. Can't one of the cars go in there?

I don't think I know anyone with a garage who actually keeps a car in there...

Older garages are all too narrow for modern cars (when I briefly rented a house with a garage, you couldn't park a VW golf in it and actually open the doors wide enough to get out), and most people seem to use newer ones to store all the stuff that new-build houses have no storage space for inside the house.

Mostly because people that have driveways and garages should use them. I understand that OP said that the road is mostly empty so that would be a reason not to comply but I'd have said that to him. The corks over the fence was utterly childish. Just read the other thread about parking and multi cars etc. I'd be on the drive or garage with my one little car if I had either.

Park both on the street 😅

I'd just say it's not my car so please stop being a prick Alan or whatever his name is.

Why would you want to antagonise someone? Just park in your drive for a day. It’s nice to be nice

It's interesting how often it's a woman expected to be nice and a man requiring it, though.

Screw the neighbour...

keep your DH's car on the road..

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I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I would not say anything different regardless of the gender of anyone involved.

It's tempting and deserved to give these childish smart-asses something back, granted. However, if you engage with people who are already showing you that they're kooks, you already know that going with that impulse might cause them to escalate their weird behavior.

Why not just park the cars in the driveway, go in the house and get on with adult life. You don't have to react to every stupid thing some moron does.

Also, if it does escalate, you will then look much better to the police and/or the judge.

@BigHeadBertha

I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I would not say anything different regardless of the gender of anyone involved.

It's tempting and deserved to give these childish smart-asses something back, granted. However, if you engage with people who are already showing you that they're kooks, you already know that going with that impulse might cause them to escalate their weird behavior.

Why not just park the cars in the driveway, go in the house and get on with adult life. You don't have to react to every stupid thing some moron does.

There’s ‘not reacting’ and then there’s kowtowing to a really stupid twat. Why should women always be expected to appease men? No.

Car doesn't fit in garage. One car is a 15 yr old Corsa so hardly a big modern car and even that doesn't fit in with enough room to actually open the door and get out.
So our garage is now a home gym for DHs physio stuff