Would you block her in?

[awaywiththefae]

I’m WFH and just taking my lunch so thought I’d also whip the bin out. As I do, a car crawls past and then reverses into our parking spot. (It’s our private spot and has our number sprayed in it as well as a sign saying ‘Private parking for number 30’) A woman gets out so I said “Excuse me, sorry you can’t park there” she looks and me and just wanders off up the street.

I mean, I get she might not have realised (although the sign is big and prominent) but to be told and then still walk off without moving - the cheek.

I was a bit taken aback if I’m honest so went back in the house and then I thought, no sod this and I went and knocked on the door of the house she went in, I waited a bit but no one answered!

I wouldn’t mind as such if someone was quickly dropping something off but she’s obviously stopping for a bit. The annoying thing too is the house she’s gone in has a driveway and there’s room for this visitor on it. So I’m a bit to why she’s parked in our private bay.

Grrr, I can’t keep knocking as going back to work (WFH) in a bit, so would I be unreasonable to just block her in with my car? I feel like I need to make a point

What's the address? We could do a parking flashmob

it would have been much more fun for your lovely neighbour and your husband to park so close to the original CF's car that she would not have enough room to even open the doors
Also at a slight angle inwards so that she couldn't wheedle through the boot in case she is a super bendy flexi sort of person and drive out.

Looking forward to hearing what happens next

This is a very British thread

There will be a violent end where someone will get beaten up. A doctor will be called, parking in one of the neighbours parking spaces (with no note on the dashboard) and the cycle will start again

Can traffic still get past the CF neighbour's husband's car? Is it blocking the street? Why hasn't anyone reported it?

Looking forward to the update

you don't actually need the space till DH comes home, by which time she'll most likely be gone.

How can you possibly know that, though? She might have just dumped the car and intended to leave it there permanently. When confronted politely for having done wrong, she didn't even deign to speak to OP to do her the vaguest courtesy of giving any indication of how long she intended to trespass for.

Why should she be perfectly at liberty to help herself, give no clues at all (much less an actual apology or explanation) and leisurely take her own merry time, whilst the actual owner of the space is the one left guessing and hoping and being told to be nice and not make a fuss 'because she isn't being inconvenienced at all'?

There will be a violent end where someone will get beaten up. A doctor will be called, parking in one of the neighbours parking spaces (with no note on the dashboard) and the cycle will start again

And I'm expecting at least one of those people involved to be Ronnie Pickering

Thing is if you don't clamp down on it the minute it happens, you end up like me and in a decade long parking war
Where you come home and your space is occupied, or you're blocked in. Try coming home with a load of food shopping and not being able to park on your driveway, outside your own house because someone who doesn't live on the street has parked there, it's fucking infuriating

I have mostly resolved it through a combination of blocking people in, refusing to move, giant no parking signs spray painted in bright red, police, solicitors letters and in what wasn't my finest moment, calling someone a stupid fuckwit

Someone has put a cone on the car!!! CF DH’s car!!!

DH just ‘whisper shouted’ up the stairs (I’m sat in bed) for me to come and look 👀

I’m not saying it is them but a group of lads rent several houses down from us and I heard some loud men talking and laughing just go past our house. It’s the sort of thing they’d do!

DH was leaning out the window to get a better look, I told him to go out and casually walk by to see if there’s a house number on it but he won’t 🙈 It looks like a cone/bollard that some people put in their spaces when they’re out!

The flipping car is just there with a yellow cone on the roof! This has escalated so much and now I don’t want to go to sleep in case something else happens ☺️

I need to take a photo but I can’t it’s too identifying!!!

I’m going to have to try and draw it but I can’t stop laughing 😂

Do it!!! Post a photo! I doubt your street is really so identifiable in the dark...

This gets better and better!! If there’s not a number on the cone then you need to add one - make up a number, or put CF DHs number on it to totally confuse him!

I’m so jealous, DH and I NEVER have anything as exciting as this in our street.

😂😂😂

I'm another who wants a photo

I really don't get the rationale behind the cheeky neighbour parking as they have done - what were they hoping to achieve or was there literally nowhere left for him to park?

I just heard a car start then and I’ve never moved to the window so quick. None of the cars involved though.

I chickened out of a photo. As much as they are CFs I don’t feel right posting their car and house (maybe I’ll change my mind 😈)

Here’s my awful ‘artist’s’ impression!! The car that looks like it’s melting and also somehow on top of the CF car is nice neighbours car, still there and still blocking their driveway 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ha ha Ha! This is brilliant. Personally I would have answered the door, said it wasn't my car but suggested that it could be the result not actually of the CFer guest parking in someone else's spot, but the fact that both she and CF wife were very rude and dismissive about it when requested to move. The guest when she ignored you and walked away and the wife having a go at you for you wanting your space. Had they not acted so confrontational then perhaps the matter would have not escalated.

Let him have an issue with his CFer wife and her obnoxious friend and not the people who have been upset by them.

@paniniswapx3

I'm another who wants a photo

I really don't get the rationale behind the cheeky neighbour parking as they have done - what were they hoping to achieve or was there literally nowhere left for him to park?

I have no idea! He could easily park behind or in front. I guess that’s what CFs do…

Oooh - you draw good cars

That is the BEST parking diagram I have ever seen on Mumsnet.

Really hoping no one in my street is on here now, I’ve made it too obvious who I am 😆

@MaMelon

Oooh - you draw good cars

Thank you although the CF car is meant to be a Qashqai but we can pretend it’s a VW Beetle 🤣

They’ve mad it a ‘knobmobile.’