Neighbours and parking - is this seen an normal and fine?

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Our neighbours have 2 adult sons at home so have 4 cars and only 2 spaces for parking. We have one space but 2 cars so use the space on the road outside our house. If someone is parked there then I just go to the end of the road and turn right - it’s a walk past 6 terraced houses so not far and there’s lots of space.

Space outside our house doesn’t belong to us so it’s first come first serve so often next door’s son parks there. All fine.

Now the bit that annoys me. They’ve recently begun strategic parking so if son goes out, they move their car from their garage to save the space. I find it really irritating that they’re monopolising the space. I just think it’s a selfish dick move. (I’ve don’t agonise over this but saw them doing their manoeuvres a few moments ago and wondered if it’s a normal thing people do). I think I’d understand more if parking was significantly limited but there’s lots at the end of the short road and this bit is a small cul de sac.

Selfish dick move yes!

Its just that your neighbours are too lazy to walk a few feet from the other parking spaces, seems quite common these days

Yanbu

Agreed…. Selfish. Sad they have the headspace for it really…

Yes of course they’re being dicks. There are some people up our road who do this. I think you should just ignore it, don’t get drawn into a petty parking row. Consider yourself above it and laugh about them behind their backs.

Massive dick move.
I had a neighbour like this who would always park on the road outside his house and leave his driveway empty??? Someone else has moved in further up the road and does the same. I don't get it 🤦‍♀️

Loads of people do daft stuff like this, I would take the piss out of them were I in your shoes.

There is a fad round here now for notices on fences asking people to not park outside their house, public road.

Mental.

I would just laugh at how sad they are!

Yes they are being twats.

It makes me want to take the car on the drive rather than the one on the road but then it annoys me I’m being petty too. We only park one car there (small car) because it’s the turning circle and although it’s big, I think the big car would be annoying for others. I find them fascinating. Older son seems fine but younger one is an entitled twat, just like his dad.

I’d start knifing their tyres at midnight to be honest

I consider it to be a form of scent marking - the motoring equivalent of cocking your leg and piddling to mark your territory.
My neighbour actually moves his car out of his garage, every day, to park it on the road in front of his house so that no-one else can park there.
Maybe it's an insecurity thing?

People are weirdly territorial over parking spaces

Start doing the same. Park both cards on the road.

Our neighbours do similar (works vans plus cars) - only they use bollards to mark their place, but not outside their own house, they do it outside ours. Doesn’t bother me, but it upsets Dh as they told him they do it so we cannot park there. They refuse to use their garage as they need to pay for an access key for the road £75 per year.
Sometimes it’s like living in a kindergarten.

Always park one of your cars across your drive when available, or immediately move the driveway car out on to the space outside your house when TWAT does maneouvres. The inconvenience will be worth it for the REVENGE! Or you could use each others cars, or you could establish who will be going out first
Great game, let us know how you get on. Do it.....

You have to channel your inner Zen and not let it get to you.

I once lived in a ground floor flat and the guy upstairs was obsessed with parking outside 'our' flat. (I had a car too!)

If someone else parked there he'd run downstairs and move his car the minute they left. He must've lived at his window.

I'm ashamed to say one day I snapped. He drove off so I ran to move my car into 'his' space. As I did it in a hurry I hit the kerb really hard and next day had a flat tyre. More fool me...

After that I just pitied him and let him get on with it.

I'd toss their traffic cone onto their garden and park exactly where they didn't want me to.

Everyone on the estate I live on has some form of parking. Some have garages and driveways, some have spaces, some have car barns. But that apparently is not good enough. If you have a car barn, it means parking in it and then walking a few metres to your door. Why would you do that when you could park just outside your house and inconvenience everyone who has to manoeuvre up the road as though it were a chicane. The upshot of this is that the access roads are virtually impassable and would be so for a large or emergency vehicle.

People are just selfish.

Yeah it's really petty. Is there no way your you to extend your drive?

Do what you suggested, OP. Leave your car there for about a week (or more for wonderful levels of pettiness), sit back and watch their fury! They'll soon realise the effect it has on others when they do pretty much the exact same thing, day in, day out!

@ThisGirlNever I admit to just moving them when someone visits eg plumber. The bollards get left in a very much shrunken space!

Is there a park able front garden ? Why can’t they park there. Know it doesn’t look nice but it saves space etc. YANBU at all. Lazy lazy boys.

Peoples Selfishness pushes and pushes. I don’t blame you I’m sorry your wheel got messed up. One of the reasons I don’t drive I can’t bare some peoples weirdness with parking and their spaces. Mother dearest is a bit like that.

Hope that's a joke.