It’s a parking one!

[WhackingPhoenix]

New neighbours have moved in a couple of doors up, we’ve only spoken to them once so far. We all have driveways (DP uses ours because his car is large and mine is quite small and generally easy to squeeze in anywhere) but there is reasonably easy on-street parking. I usually park at the front of a line of three cars, there’s room for all of us to park very comfortably and no problems getting out of the spaces.

However, new neighbour has taken to parking his SUV about half a car length from the car behind, taking the ‘middle’ spot AND my usual spot so I can’t park there anymore as my car would stick out too far. He knows I park there as we occasionally walk to our cars at the same time in the morning and do ‘the nod’. Now, every time I get home from work he’s parked across two spaces and everyone else has already parked because I tend to be the last home, so I have to park miles away!

WIBU to politely ask him to move back a bit so we can all fit?! In person or a polite note on his car? 😩

Ask in person.

Yes ask, but be prepared for him
To be a twat about it. In my experience suv drivers tend to have an 'I own the road ' mentality.

They also seem to specialise in what we call 'tesco parking' where they go over 2 spaces at the supermarket.

Good luck.

Oh , and be prepared to provide a diagram coz it the rulz round here. 😬

I should clarify some suv drivers. Not all. Just lots in my experience 😬

Ask in person. Hopefully he listens but might not. Sounds a tad stupid so probably won't.

The comment about some SUV drivers is why I think to drive one you should have to take your test in one. Numbers would fall greatly were that to happen.

Best diagram I’ve ever drawn 🥴

We can definitely all fit as I’ve parked at the ‘front’ before while there’s been a longish car at the ‘back’ and come out later to find the SUV in the ‘middle’ so it’s not a case of there not being enough room. We’ve had four small cars there at one point!

I would talk in person. Probably worried he will get blocked in so ask him to either move back enough to let you park in front or move his car right to the front of the row so you can parallel park in the middle

Ask neighbour in person

That would drive me insane!

Does your husband get home earlier than you? I’m thinking maybe he could park on the road.

I agree there’s no harm in asking but it does seem like he’s just an entitled twat.

I'm guessing the top is how you usually park.and the bottom is how the SUV now parks... 🤔
Definitely ask him to move but don't expect reasonableness as many people are selfish.

Even if all parked ‘correctly’ there’s still a gap of approx 2-3ft between each car so if he can’t get out of that then perhaps he shouldn’t have an SUV 😬

How often are you the middle car? Could it be that he's fed up of doing the manoeuvring?

Not that it would bother me, just pondering

I park in the middle or the back if I’m the first there, so I don’t mind where I park at all, I find it easy to parallel park and get my car out of tiny gaps so I’m happy to park wherever I can, but I’d just like to be able to park somewhere near my house 😩

Meh, it's on road parking that's unreserved 🤷🏻‍♀️ you can obviously say something, but that's the issue with on road parking, it's unreliable.

You say there's 2-3ft between each car when parked normally? That sounds like huge gaps, maybe he just thinks he's leaving an average space behind. Maybe he needs boot access. Maybe he's a CF. No one will know unless you speak to him 😂

This may be a good solution

We have three cars that fit outside our house Me DH and DD. DH does this ALL the time!! We have marked out the correct spaces - him back end over drive one of us in the middle, rear car directly opposite gate. It’s not difficult.

I don’t fancy your chances!

There are also at least two neighbours who have driveways (and one car) but sometimes choose to park on the street for reasons unknown, which makes parking absolute hell!

We normally get home at similar times, he would be happy to park on-street but he’d have an even harder time trying to shoehorn his car in somewhere as mine fits in a lot more gaps than his does. It’s a small village and there are maybe 9 houses in our street, some have multiple cars and some (as above) just choose to park on the street instead of on their driveways 🥴

I'd go round and speak to them

We moved into a house that had a similar set up. Our neighbours two doors down knocked on one day and asked us to move our car a bit so they could have their preferred space. No problem, thought that we’d moved into a nice road where people helped out etc.

A couple of weeks later the situation was reversed and we couldn’t park so we knocked on, and he told us to fuck off. So be prepared for some bizarre thinking when it comes to parking.

I'd ask the question as no harm in asking, but be prepared for an unreasonable response if he's selfish enough to take up multiple parking spaces when he knows there should be room for you to park there also and obviously doesn't care.

I think asking in person is more likely to be successful than leaving a note.

Ask in person, some people just don't think, if he is worried about getting Stuck in he can park at end right up to the line....

Just knock and ask.

However, it could be that someone else has parked like a dick, he's then parked next to them as it's only way he CAN park at the time, the dick has then left and his SUV is then left in an awkward position.

We have that a lot on our street.