Petty Car parking thread

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I'll try and keep this short while trying to make sense.

I live in a cul-de-sac type area, I have a driveway which DP parks his car, I park mine usually on the road just outside my house, loads of room so not a problem and my car is smaller than DPs.
Over the road are two lay-bys and in between them are a row of houses which have an allocated parking space per house opposite. These have their door numbers in the parking space so they know which belongs to which house.
There is one parking space right on the edge which is a public one, not allocated to any of the houses, just a space for anyone to park if free.
So here's my problem, If DP has his work van he usually parks it outside our house where I usually park and I park in one of the lay-bys. The lay-bys are quite small and can fit 2 cars in each. On the occasion that they are taken up I park in the free public parking space, which a lot of neighbours do. No one argues or has a problem with it, if it's available then great if not then we find somewhere else (which isn't always easy in the evenings when people aren't at work).

I parked in the public space last night and this morning when I was getting my youngest ready for school while sorting out my other 2 DC who are off with a sickness bug I had a knock on the door. There was a man delivering a skip and demanding to move my car. Firstly he didn't ask nicely just bluntly said "you need to move your car so I can put a skip in that space" I then said as politely as I could that I'll be leaving soon to do the school run but the other guy who was in the truck delivering the skip came out and started swearing at me.
I then asked why they were putting a skip in a public parking space and not their own and I advised that to place a skip on a public road or parking space a permit/license is required. They then shouted across the road to the neighbour who ordered the skip and asked "have you got a permit?"
I spoke to said neighbour who I admit was really nice and she said the skip can't go in her parking space as hers was round the back and under a coach house which the truck couldn't fit under. She also admitted she didn't have a permit and just asked her next door neighbour if it was ok, who said they didn't have a problem with it.
We have a WhatsApp group for our street and she writes in there quite a bit apologising for noise from the work on her house etc. She didn't ask any of the neighbours on there about it to see if anyone else had a problem. It wasn't so much the actual skip being placed there that annoyed me but the way I was spoken to by the men delivering the skip made me want to be petty. They didn't seem to care that I can't just pop out the house and move my car because I was dealing with my 3DC. My mum was on her way over to sit with the other two who are poorly while I took my youngest to school.
AIBU for being stubborn in this situation? And should a skip even be allowed in this space without a permit just because one resident said it was ok?

Eh? Have you posted this on the wrong thread?

The OP was rudely asked to move her legally parked car so someone could illegally land a skip in an on road parking space for who knows how long.

OP YANBU, in your situation I would have asked my mom to drop the children at school so my car could stay where it was.

Am I the only one that can't see where OP used Karen? Am I blind?

I can't either! It's driving me mad!

She's had it edited

I don’t see any Karens either! Can we finally edit??

The swearing is the only unreasonable bit imo. The rest is meh.

Also don’t get the problem with sending a well child into school if siblings are sick? Why on earth not??

But according to @doodlejump1980 They believe no one should leave the house if anyone in the house is unwell. Even if you've already had it. Stay indoors. Lock everything. Paint a plague symbol on your door.

That made sense in the very early days of covid before we knew what was what and how to cope with it, but for just a random virus or sickness? Sounds like overkill to me.

So you park on your drive, and in the road and in the only available public space , yet you're raging at being asked to move to make way for a skip that serves someone on the other side of the road? Who has asked her neighbours if they don't mind but you have chosen to park there?

Ok.

Oh, and I don't believe that the skip people spoke in that manner. They know how tetchy people are in their cul de sacs etc... they will have been told where to park but your car happened to be there so you got grumpy about being called out.

Would a skip firm really deliver a skip without confirming a permit was in place?

Everyone does it around here, most residents have multiple cars so it's finding a space where you can. My issue wasn't with me personally, I'm not one to throw my dummy out the pram over a bloody parking space ffs!!
My issue was the way I was spoken to, if I was asked nicely would have felt completely different. The permit thing was a way of kind of fighting back to these hot headed guys!

As for sending my DC into school she was perfectly fine, she's 5 and loves school! She gets upset if she can't go. Not that that was anyone else's business

Judging by the way they acted they didn't come across very professional to me so wouldn't surprise me