It’s a parking one!

[Iom92]

We have a single drive. The house down the street has a single drive and a garage. The house down the street chooses to park their only car directly outside of our house. I know IABU in that they pay road tax, I don’t own the road, etc. but I’m still irrationally irritated by this state of affairs! They could park in their garage, on their drive, or in front of their house. But nope, they park in front of our house! Grrrr!

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

Ask them not to?

Also, there is no such thing as 'road tax'.

Bloody hell there is always one.

Yes yes we know but everyone knows we mean vehicle licence fund when we say road tax.

No diagram + no clarity about whether there is a dropped kerb involved = worst parking thread ever

@Chely

I'd only be bothered if it made access to our drive difficult as we have a big car.

The bloke who lives over the road from me likes to park his car directly opposite my drive. We live on a narrow road and it makes getting off my drive or reversing onto it difficult.

He likes to park his car there because his own driveway is filled with seven other cars, so instead of partially-blocking his own drive with the car he does drive (when he's not driving one of the seven cars that barely ever move off his drive), he prefers to inconvenience someone else.

He's also got one of those massively over-powered lights on the front of his house that illuminates the entire fucking neighbourhood (no streetlights, no light pollution until this football-pitch level floodlight got installed) that I have lurid daydreams about smashing with a nine iron.

I asked him if he would mind not parking his car directly in front of my drive and he grumpily said; 'I'll park where I like'.... so I've upgraded my lurid floodlight daydream to include me buying a complete wreck of a motor specifically for the purpose of T-boning his car and claiming my foot slipped on the accelerator.... many, many times as I repeatedly reverse and accelerate forwards, smashing it into bits so small I could post the entire car through his letterbox, along with the tiny, teeny bits of the floodlight that I've angrily hammered off the front of his house.

All of this is quite tongue-in-cheek... btw.

Obviously nothing you can do really other than park there but it would make me curious too. I mean I've seen such lazy people who refuse to walk a few more steps to the shop actually block access to the car park or a disabled bay, and most want the closest space possible to avoid walking. So why park further away from their own house? Or is it a rather ugly car they want to pretend isn't theirs?

@AuntyBumBum

This makes no sense to those of us who are Londoners, because we just park where we can and are thankful that there's a space at all!

But is it something a bit territorial that drives these feelings? Or because you have to walk a few extra metres to get to your front door? I'm always at a loss to see what actual difference this makes to anyone's life.

It doesn’t make any difference to how far I have to walk, but by parking in front of my house, they have to walk quite a bit further to get to their own house whereas if they parked on their own drive they’d be right outside their door! This is what I don’t get!

Maybe they think their car is ugly and they don't want to have to look at it.
This is what I'd do if owned one of these enormous Minis that look like slug on wheels :)

A stranger parked outside my house would bother me less than a neighbour who had other parking options. It just seems rude.

Yes, glad you will park there from now on!

If I had the money to waste get a big removal van sized lorry and park it outside their house! (that would be so satisfying)