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First blow struck in car parking wars, do I strike back or live the bigger person?

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reasonablypricedlove · 02/12/2021 12:34

Okay so I'm really really trying hard to resist this, because my nature is to dive right in but I know, from bitter experience, that sometimes it's better to seethe inside but not get involved!

So to the parking... on my street parking seems to work if everyone parks where they usually do, I think there's some people who live on the next street down who park on our street but obviously they can park where they like, even though it is very annoying.

Anyway, my ND neighbour disturbed the delicate balance yesterday when a workman they had blocked two drives for several hours, and then, when asked to move, took one of the other spaces normally parked in over night by another neighbour, that let to a catastrophic mixing of neighbours cars which seem to have led to one neighbour taking their car off their drive and parking it in front of our house where we normally park and leaving their drive empty. As we were not involved in the parking shenanigans (apart from waiting engine running in the empty space outside their house for about 5 mins whilst the workmen's van was moved so that our other ND neighbour could get off their drive I can only assume that they think it was our workman and are 'punishing us'. I have a car on my drive, that I could easily park anywhere, I could create havoc but I know I shouldn't - devil horns or angel halo folks, what do I do?

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Whammyyammy · 02/12/2021 14:21

@reasonablypricedlove

Well that took a turn! Was a bit lighthearted really, hopefully no-one will be murdered over it. I'm surprised that no-one else would be bothered though if someone deliberately took their car off their drive to park it in front of your house for no reason other than to make your life harder? There are about 10 nearer spaces they could park in front of, and around, their own house if they needed their drive.
Its not parked in front of your house, thats how you see it. Its legally parked on a public road. The road outside your house is free for anyone to park on. These other 10 spaces you mention, are they outside someone else's house?
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BertramLacey · 02/12/2021 14:44

It’s as if posters on this thread have never seen a parking thread on MN.

It's going pretty much the same way as all parking threads on MN, as far as I can see. Except we haven't had a diagram and it's less light-hearted because of recent events.

GrumpyLivesInMyHouseNow · 02/12/2021 15:30

Why are they making your life harder by parking outside your house if you've got a driveway?

WomanWithDiamondEarring · 02/12/2021 19:47

You do sound as if you are looking to make trouble and your tone didn't seem too light-hearted to me. It comes across as if you are in earnest.

I also don't appreciate your flippant allusion to the fact that someone-maybe a poster on these boards-was actually murdered over this type of thing.

You are looking to make trouble and no way did you begin this thread in a klight-hearted tone. Seethe about that!

Daphnise · 02/12/2021 19:49

Glad I don't live in or near your street!

MadeOfStarStuff · 02/12/2021 20:05

You have way too much time on your hands

PinniGig · 02/12/2021 20:21

Let it go. Shit like this can get out of hand very fast when a simple issue, honest mistake or one-off is blown up and out of proportion straight away. You can end up like one of those people on "Nightmare Neighbours" who has spent 8yrs and over £200k fighting a dispute over 2mm of tarmac.

We live on a private road and have had similar issues with workmen or visitors to neighbours blocking us in or parking in our space but it's easily done and easily put straight as well.

Toottooot · 02/12/2021 21:41

Do you live on Alphabet Street and run round in a pink goonie?

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