Neighbour using my drop kerb!

[mykerb]

A new family have moved in next door - not attached we are a row of two semi's each and so on..
I have a driveway and a dropped kerb. So it goes my drive, pavement and then the dropped kerb.

My next door neighbours have a make shift drive (from previous tenants) but NO dropped kerb, it doesn't help that their neighbours have 4 cars and two permanently parked outside their garden so the new neighbours have nowhere to park except down the road because of it but again not my problem!

They have started driving over my drop kerb to park in the make shift drive, I have started parking on my dropped kerb to make a point of it and I did block them in, to which the woman politely asked if I could move my car so she could reverse out, I told her I don't appreciate her using the kerb to park in, to which she replied that she is going to be getting the curb outside hers dropped but it will take a while due to getting planning permission etc and it's hard to walk down the road with 3 kids and a newborn so it's just been more convenient, but she won't do it again if it bothers me.

Tbh she hasn't had a chance to park there again as I have started parking in front of my drive, on my dropped kerb but my sister has said I'm being petty for no reason and making her life harder and it's not a big deal! And it's really irked me because now I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or not!

Min13the are awful, even went as far as to get someone to drive round and leave their car there because I'd had the nerve to park outside their flat (which ironically is also outside my flat) and then oark another car to take up 2 spaces.
Honestly took them longer and more effort to be all petty and do that than it did for me to find another parking space and walk the extra couple feet to the front door.

I think you are being petty unless she is blocking your drive and it doesn't sound as if she is. And she is arranging for her drive to be altered and she was polite. I don't know the legalities of who owns the dropped kerb but it doesn't sound like it's you from what others have said.

you are being ridiculous.

It's just so mean! Especially with this weather currently. Making her park and walk with all those kids and a newborn when she could just park right outside her house. I feel really sorry for her.

Oh gosh I feel so sorry for the poor neighbour lugging bags and children up and down the road just because the ‘kerb bouncer’ is so mean spirited 😥

Motherhood is hard. Community is important. Understanding and kindness go a long way. Wish I could give that poor woman a hug - she sounds sweet and must be so upset!!

It’s not your kerb. You might have paid to have it dropped, but you don’t own it or pay for its upkeep. You have no claim over the kerb. Stop being petty and find something else to do.

OP is an absolute arse, and asking to have her life made very unpleasant indeed by her neighbours.

OP. You are acting in an incredibly petty, pathetic and mean-spirited way. I actually feel sorry you. To be so embittered over something so trivial indicates you have a joyless and miserable life.

Tbh guys I think OP has got the message ....mean petty miserable awkward and down right nasty

Are they blocking your drive? Or just using the dropped kerb to get to their driveway?

You sound like a horrible person

Just read all of your replies and luckily it seems like you've realised how insane this is and how horrible youve been. I'd pop next door with a bunch of flowers and apologise.

How professionally entitled you are.

@mykerb

Yes you are right, I could report them technically for that!
And they could technically report you for parking ON THE KERB.

But that would be crazy behaviour. As would yours. Stop it. He a good neighbour. It's temporary

I see both sides tbh.

It's totally petty.

But you are only human and sounds like you are also fighting the innate and ancient human animal brain that needs to be territorial and protect our spot.

Turn a blind eye.

I read this post last night and it keeps coming into my head.

I’m rarely shocked by shitty behaviour.

I am however, surprisingly shocked that a person would sit and watch another person, with 3 kids and a newborn and all the accompanying paraphernalia park up the road because they were “irked” over a DROP KERB.

That is low. Very, very low.

Every so often I am reminded how petty people can be. Why wouldn't you want to make your neighbours life that little bit easier, it doesn't even require you to do anything, you're not losing money etc.

We had one for 30 years who came out shouting and threatening anyone who parked outside his house… while 2 of his 3 cars were parked outside other people’s houses 🤦‍♀️

Sometimes it annoys me when people (perfectly legitimately) park opposite my drive way so it's difficult to reverse out. It also REALLY annoys me when the secondary school kids sit on MY wall while they wait for their parents to collect them. But then I give my head a wobble and realise how petty this is and how life really is nicer when you let these things go and be kinder to others. None of it really matters that much.

Bloody hell! All the shit going on in the world and you’re bothered by a kerb? Let her use it you weirdo!

You are mental and I’m glad I don’t live next door to you!

Wow! Some people must have tight little lives. Really! We had a neighbour who trimmed our floral hanging basket cos the flowers hung over her drive!

If they were parking there I’d say you were fine but if they are just going into their drive it does seem a bit petty.

You know what OP? I think you are getting a hard time here.
I would be slightly irked if I spent a load of money on something that someone else then got the benefit of but as long as its not inconveniencing you or doing any damage then I wouldn't be too bothered.
Your neighbour has been nothing but polite so I would just let it go

Well, isn't it lovely when everyone agrees on MN