To ask neighbours guests to more their car?

[SweetBlues]

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?

As one of them has never uttered a civil word to me in the (almost) 30 years I've lived here, that's mild compared to the way he's spoken to me, that's pretty mild.

He's known for being a complete cunt, although his partner is perfectly pleasant.

He's vile to her, as well.

Has common sense gone out the window now a days. Instead of just going and asking them to move the car you have to post a thread asking what you should do. Blimey and you even took the time to post a pic.🤦‍♀️ if you have a job how do you even cope of this is how you are.

They needed to ask Mumsnet about it, as much as you needed to canvas people a few months back about diarrhoea.

Yeah.

A bit of understanding goes a long way?

How on earth can you hold a driving licence if you need Mumsnet to make this decision for you??

Some of us just go and buy patio slabs without asking Mumsnet either… I mean, who are you to judge the OP? It’s so rude.

not.
Everyone.
is.
assertive!!

Well if she's not assertive enough to be able to knock and ask, starting a thread is even more pointless

Could be that OPs neighbours are pleasant enough, too. In which case why antagonize them by demanding.
Or they might be like yours, in which case she's probably terrified.
Either way, what I'm saying is Ask First. If they start getting shitty about it, then involve the police - who will probably solve the problem with a knock at the door. After all, neighbours' guests are breaking the law.

Um. Well if you don’t ask, you can’t go out. So, you need to go and ask. Just a quick ‘Hi there John, your guests are blocking me in, I have to drop the kids off, can they move? Fab, Cheers, Merry Christmas!’

I’d be saying ‘excuse me but you need to move your car please; you’re blocking me in, Please don’t park there once I’ve left as I’ll be coming back soon and you’ll just have to move it again. Thanks’

Hahaha

i had a right go at someone blocking me in once! I was trying to find them for 40 mons

i literally lost my shit!!!

@DuplicateUserName

Oh look!

it’s one of those perfect Internet people who never require advice, and who never need to improve personal attributes by asking for other people’s help.

Embarrassing.

Sorry it’s been hours!

generally I’m quite shy, don’t like confrontation and find it difficult to talk most people so actually knocking on someone’s door isn’t all that easy for me.

I do have a large (triple not double) drive but the dropped curb is only where my car is , and my car doesn’t go over the non-dropped curb part without scraping the underside of my car so I wouldn’t attempt it as I don’t want to damage it.

the guests were next door for a good hour or so, and I was hovering by door, clock watching and nail biting. We needed to leave by a certain time to make the cinema.. so I was starting to feel quite anxious. Though thankfully they left about ten minutes before we needed to.

We made the film so no harm done, though I certainly need a glass of wine after reading all of the comments here… quite a friendly bunch aren’t you!

cheers for that!

P.S it’s spelt curb where I come from
so I’ll stick with that spelling.

Yes, your post is embarrassing, you're right about that.

No matter how you desperately clutch at straws to try and claim otherwise, this is a totally ridiculous thread for any driver to post.

SweetBlues Yesterday 21:37

^P.S it’s spelt curb where I come from
so I’ll stick with that spelling.*

Oh, you're American.

Yes both are accepted spellings, kerb more common in UK and curb more common in US. Ignore any spelling twats, they have no manners.

Glad you got to the cinema.

You spent an HOUR waiting instead of knocking on the door? If this is real then you need to get some counselling, that level of conflict avoidance is abnormal.

As a Christmas present to yourself may I suggest a few sessions of counselling? That level of anxiety isn't normal and your life would improve if you could become less shy.

how on earth is it that some of you feel it
is appropriate and necessary to tell me I need counselling? Utter trolls.

You've got social anxiety that is disabling. Your reaction to this was completely abnormal and bizarre. Pretty much everyone else on this thread would just have knocked on the door and said 'I need to go out, please move your car now' - you stressed out for an hour and would have probably missed the cinema if they hadn't gone. That's not normal. Counselling would be sensible. Or you can continue to live your life afraid to interact with people. Your call.

carefulcalculator

Yes both are accepted spellings, kerb more common in UK and curb more common in US.

Americans use curb for kerb, it's accepted there, but they have entirely different etymologies. Kerb is a noun, the edge of a footpath and a roadway. Curb is a verb, meaning to curtail.

I agree @SweetBlues there are people in this thread who are utterly revelling in telling you off.

grown women/people who probably wouldn’t feel half as comfortable saying anything to anyones face in real life.

Honestly, I'd go and knock on the door and politely say 'you're parked over my drive, I need to go out soon, please could you move the car'. Then I'd stand there while they got the keys. That's normal adulting.

Not everyone is like you, OP