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Original poster

to expect complete strangers to not abandon their car outside my house since Xmas eve?

104 replies

theexmrsbarryscott · 26/12/2007 11:46

This is beginning to drive me sightly mad, there has been a car parked outside our house since Xmas Eve. Abandoned by people who go to the pub at the rear of our house, this happens frequently on a Friday and Saturday night but am I being unreasonable to expect them to have a bit of respect and courtesy over Xmas and allow my visitors to be able to park outside our house?

We do have a very small bit of grass outside our front window and there's loads of parking just down the road so it's not as if there's absolutely nowhere to park at all.

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carnation · 26/12/2007 14:45

You don't own the road! It's Christmas, where's your spirit?

carnation · 26/12/2007 14:46

My sister, carnation, would like me to add - that Rhubarb posted that as she just had a fit then.

bookofchristmascarolsmum · 26/12/2007 14:48

A fit??!

pukkapatch · 26/12/2007 14:48

yabu
if they have a valid tax disc, and they are not blocking yo uin, then they are legally parked.
we once had someone leave a car outside our house for four months! the council said that becuase of valid tax disc, and the fact that they were not blocking us, there was nothing they could do. even though i expalined to them about carrying sleeping dd in the pouring rain miles from my front door.

LyraSilvertinsel · 26/12/2007 14:54

YANBU. There's an enormous Land Rover which appears in our street only at weekends and the owner always parks outside our house, even when most of the street is empty. I don't know who it belongs to but it's there all weekend, every weekend. Drives me mad! When I look out the window all I see is filthy rusty old Land Rover.
Also when we first moved here there was a car abandoned outside our house for literally two months (it was parked badly so I know it didn't move and come back). I know I don't own the road outside my house but it would have been nice to park directly outside occasionally. expecially with 1-year-old and 3-year-old DSs in tow.

scrummymummy1965 · 26/12/2007 16:54

Don't get me started on this one. My husband parked our main car outside our house on Friday and has used my car (from the drive) ever since so that our visitors can park on our drive. If we parked both our cars on our drive then someone (and there are quite a few) would abandon their car without no thought to our visitors outside our house. It really winds me up.

I know people are entitled to park wherever they want but a little respect and common sense goes a long way.

One of our neighbours (smallest house - his n hers cars, sports car in the garage, daughter has car and livein boyfriend has car) had used a hire car for business. He only parked it outside our house and it was there for three days whilst the hire company came and picked it up. In the end I rang the hire company and complained. They were not pleased that it had been left further up the street than where it should have been parked.

Mmmmm... where is that knife or sharp object.

needmorecoffee · 26/12/2007 17:30

We don't own a car now but when we did I couldn't get it outside the house (no drive, victorian terrace) despite the fact we have a painted disabled bay. There's a car park opposite and 2 giant ones at the back of the supermarket but old biddies with a blue badge would park in the disabled bay. So I'd have to park in the supermarket car park (in one of their disabled bays). Unload dd and her wheelchair and walk home with her. Then later go back out with dd, load her and her chair back up so I could move my car to outside the house. I'm disabled too and it was a real faff.
I know its a public road but ffs.

NKF · 26/12/2007 17:37

Outside your house doesn't belong to you.

nametaken · 26/12/2007 18:04

yes YABU, is there any reason why your visitors can't park further down and walk a little way up to your house?

Or could you move your car for your visitors so that they wouldn't have to walk.

What's all this nonesense about not being able to walk a short distance anyway.

As another poster said, if parkings important to you then you need to buy a property with it's own drive.

boredandfat · 26/12/2007 18:31

Let his tyres down. this happens regularly for my in laws. There is often a car parked outside their house & sometimes for days on end. My in laws seem to think the owner of the car is having an affair with someone in the neighbourhood.

NKF · 26/12/2007 18:34

What kind of neighbourhood do people live in that they notice other people's cars? Or is just a certain type of car observant territory obsessed fanatic who notices this sort of thing?

edam · 26/12/2007 18:35

boredandfat, you do realise that would be a criminal offence, don't you?

needmorecoffee · 26/12/2007 18:39

NKF, when you're disabled with a disabled child and you can't park in the disabled bay painted specially for you, then you notice people parked outside your house.
I also noticed those who would park up the backside of the car despite seeing the ramp and the notice asking for some room to be left so I could lower ramp to get wheelchair in.
Wish I could afford a house with a drive.

NKF · 26/12/2007 18:45

Disabled bays are different. They're parts of the road set aside for the use of a particular group of people or a particular householder. That wasn't what the original post was about.

Original poster
theexmrsbarryscott · 26/12/2007 18:57

Apologies for not replying to earlier posts - had to go to to the in-laws.

OK, I can see your points that I don't own the road which I completely & utterly understand.

re to the manor born (though i'm really not like that at all.

But i'm still getting stressed about it!!!!!!!!!!!!! why oh why can't they park 200 yards further away

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theexmrsbarryscott · 26/12/2007 19:04

Have just read the other posts on this thread (seem to have missed them originally).

We do have a driveway but parking for ourselves isnt the issue.

The issue is that we live around a green with only ourselves and our neighbours house, apart from that there is tonnes & tonnes of parking space, so why do they still insist on parking outside our window.

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DarthVader · 26/12/2007 19:11

If you want parking for guests as well as yourselves then you need to buy a house with more space to park. It is not reasonable to lay claim to part of a public highway.

NKF · 26/12/2007 19:15

Well, maybe because it's convenient for them. And seeing as it's a public highway, they didn't think to ask permission from the person behind the windows.

Original poster
theexmrsbarryscott · 26/12/2007 19:21

Convenience is one thing but where does respect come into it?

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beeper · 26/12/2007 19:21

Is your name Hyacynth Bucket

lou33 · 26/12/2007 19:21

i have problems getting into my drive all the time, with visitors to this road

like tonight, the way the cars had parked meant i had to drive onto the pavement to be able to reverse into my drive, or else i would have not been able to turn in without hitting a car parked opposite

foxinsocks · 26/12/2007 19:21

lolololol

I think I love you MrsBarryScott.

lol at why can't they park further away.

I think I'm going to invite you here to Londinium for a day and see how you fare

southeastastra · 26/12/2007 19:22

i still stand by my banana comment

NKF · 26/12/2007 19:22

I don't understand the use of the word "respect" in this context. Are you seriously feeling that you personally are not respected because someone you don't know has parked on a public highway that happens to be outside where you live?

SantaBabyBeenAnAwfulGoodGirl · 26/12/2007 19:23

dont think this is a respect situation its a public road..if i park on a road then idon't even think about whose house it might be..there are no reserved spaces with the exception of disabled or loading

van't believe what someone else said about a car belomnging to someone having an affair lol how nosey are you people