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To ask neighbours guests to more their car?

131 replies

SweetBlues · 23/12/2022 12:50

So about 40 minutes ago, some visitors arrived at neighbours house… But they have parked across my dropped curb and in effect are blocking me.

I’m in the process of getting ready to take the kids out and assumed because they had a lot of presents in tow that perhaps they were doing a ‘drop and dash’ visit but it’s looking like that is not the case.

Am I being unreasonable to ask them to
budge their car? (They could always park across the road or further along the street).

fyi here is the diagram which I know should accompany these such posts:

my house is A. I have a red car.
neighbours is b. They have three purple cars. One of which is always parked on the road.
their guests who have blocked me in are the green car.
the thicker white sections of line are where the dropped curbs are.

is it grinchlike to ask them to move?

To ask neighbours guests to more their car?
OP posts:
SavoirFlair · 23/12/2022 14:18

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/12/2022 14:13

Not only a phone , a motorised internal combustion engine propelled vehicle as well Xmas Shock

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Oh give it a rest , I can see the “give them a good kick” mean lot are out in force today.

the OP is clearly not as confident as you all are. Hence posting on a forum with a dilemna.

Why not help and advise instead of questioning her parenting abilities?

Embarrassing lot in here.

P.S hope you are all served the same dish of comments when your OHs inevitably have enough and you come whining on here instead of the Relationships forum.

BaggieMaggie · 23/12/2022 14:19

No, don’t ask them to move. Ask mn instead. That’ll get the car out of the way quicker!

lunar1 · 23/12/2022 14:23

Tell them to move, don't ask!

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 23/12/2022 14:23

Do you actually want to go out or just want them to move as they are parking incorrectly?

If you want to go out then go over and ask them to move.
If you have no plans on going out, why do you care where they have parked?

billybear · 23/12/2022 14:25

knock now bewfore they can say they have had a drink

rwalker · 23/12/2022 14:30

If I’m looking at diagram right it’s a double drive so OP Could get out
just ask them to move

PuttingDownRoots · 23/12/2022 14:31

Pretty much the only circumstances this would be unreasonable are

  1. its actually an ambulance
  2. its a funeral car

Otherwise they are parked illegally (blocking access to the highway). So should expect to move.

SlouchingTowardsBethlehemAgain · 23/12/2022 14:31

Its the time of year, people are visiting the clan and get that entitled feeling. It happened to me yesterday, car parked across my drive. I wasn't going any where but was hopping with unreasonable rage anyway. Give them a little knock and nicely ask them to move - before they get too pissed to drive.

HarrietSchulenberg · 23/12/2022 14:32

Why on earth are you asking Mumsnet this? Are you going to be asking for permission to breathe in, and again to breathe out?
FFS, I'm only here waiting for my fudge to cool, I was hoping for something more scurrilous than this.

carefulcalculator · 23/12/2022 14:33

Of course you should ask them to move, they are parking both illegally and inconsiderately.

MsRosley · 23/12/2022 14:35

Of course they should move. Jesus Christ.

Schoolchoicesucks · 23/12/2022 14:36

Please tell me you've asked them already.

Cactusprick · 23/12/2022 14:37

Oh ffs. Really??

Cactusprick · 23/12/2022 14:38

HarrietSchulenberg · 23/12/2022 14:32

Why on earth are you asking Mumsnet this? Are you going to be asking for permission to breathe in, and again to breathe out?
FFS, I'm only here waiting for my fudge to cool, I was hoping for something more scurrilous than this.

😂😂

also .. I want fudge!

HarrietSchulenberg · 23/12/2022 14:40

Cactusprick - sending you some, albeit virtually. Good to chomp while scrolling and will keep your dentist in business in the new year.

CheesenCrackersmm · 23/12/2022 14:45

I would ask them even if I had no intention of going out.

ilovesooty · 23/12/2022 14:53

Going round and telling them that their car is causing an obstruction and they need to move it sounds quite reasonable to me.

LakieLady · 23/12/2022 14:58

YABU unreasonable to ask them.

Just tell them, and tell them they're cheeky fuckers while you're at it.

SavoirFlair · 23/12/2022 14:59

HarrietSchulenberg · 23/12/2022 14:32

Why on earth are you asking Mumsnet this? Are you going to be asking for permission to breathe in, and again to breathe out?
FFS, I'm only here waiting for my fudge to cool, I was hoping for something more scurrilous than this.

OK@HarrietSchulenberg well done on a crafted post designed to kick the OP while showing off your home baking status

honestly this forum is a joke. half the posts in here could be asked “why on Earth are you asking Mumsnet about this”…

plenty of other people suffer dilemnas that could be resolved by having a chat in the mirror or Googling info. Do they deserve the same derision? Or is it ok because they asked for air fryer recipes or airport tips?

Readaboutyourself · 23/12/2022 15:02

Tell us more about this fudge

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 23/12/2022 15:04

Yanb remotely u
Yabu to write curb when it's kerb.

ortonym · 23/12/2022 15:05

LakieLady · 23/12/2022 14:58

YABU unreasonable to ask them.

Just tell them, and tell them they're cheeky fuckers while you're at it.

Are you that confrontational with your neighbours?
You still have to live next door to them after their guests have gone.

Toottooot · 23/12/2022 15:06

So did yi gi them a chap yet?

Peashoots · 23/12/2022 15:07

Why is this even a question?
I can’t believe that some people are that much of a pushover that they’d literally cancel plans and stay in so they don’t slightly inconvenience someone who has been a cheeky fucker in the first place! Madness.

pigsDOfly · 23/12/2022 15:15

So many posters piling in on the OP.

If the OP feels diffident about knocking on her neighbour's door, perhaps she's shy or the neighbour isn't very approachable.

Whatever, OP, just knock on the door and tell them they're blocking you in and they need to move their car.

I had this over and over again in a previous house I lived in, it drove me mad.

It's a really annoying, selfish thing to do.

I gave up trying to be polite about it and ended up knocking on the door and without any preamble just telling them to move their car each time. In the end they got the message and stopped blocking me in my own drive.

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