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?

That doesn't make people trolls.

But seriously, you spent an hour 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..

What people are trying to point out is that this is really way outside the bounds of normal behaviour.
This anxiety is really impacting on your life, so getting help seems the sensible thing to do.
It wasn't even something confrontational - all you needed was to knock on the door and say "Someone seems to have parked over my drive and I need to go out shortly. Is it someone here ?". Nothing confrontational about that at all. 99.999999% of people (even people who block a drive in the first place) would just say "Oh sorry" and pick up their keys to move the car.

I'd just knock, smile, say hiya Merry Christmas. I need to get the car out, could you move please?

Job done. They're unlikely to argue if you go in friendly.

You are willing to miss your own activity rather than make a calm and reasonable request. You wasted an hour of your life staring out of the window instead of having a 1 minute conversation. I'm not being a "troll" to suggest counselling, I'm actively trying to help you. That is abnormal behaviour and you need to develop better strategies to cope with life.

Wonder how she manages to avoid conflict with her children 🤔

I do think this is sensible advice. Saying someone may need counselling for a clear issue is not an insult either OP!! You seem to be reacting quite badly to it saying they are trolls, but many people have counselling these days. I feel quite offended that you are taking it as an insult!

At least you know who it is, someone has blocked me in and I don't know who it is to ask!