To think it's embarrassing to put cones outside your house?

[Oby1802]

I have a neighbour who does this.. they aren't elderly or disabled but every time she leaves for work she gets out the cones and puts them in "her" parking space.

It's just a road so it's not an owned space.

I find it so cringe worthy and entitled? I couldn't personally bring myself to do it.

Does anyone else's neighbour do this? I've never said anything because really it doesn't make much of a difference to me except occasionally when the road is full and I could potentially have parked closer to my house if her cones weren't in the way but it's not worth moving them and falling out over! But I do find it a bit ott.

It’s so petty and small minded to ‘bag’ the space outside your house.

The thing is, if it's so terribly important to you, you have to just get there first and then never move your car. Pretty pointless having a car if you never move it, but then these kinds of people don't tend to 'do' rational. It's beyond arrogant to be out and about using your car but still expect nobody else to use the bit of the public road that you've decided is for your use only.

Same as with park benches: if you have a favourite that you want to use all day, get there early and don't move. If you do move, anybody else can take it - as is their absolute right, over and above any perceived right that you may assume, to have it left empty and unused until you deign to return.

I've been known to move them before now.
They eventually gave up.

When you think of the silly common-sense things they have 'public service' TV adverts for - such as telling you to pull over left if you know/suspect you're about to break down on a motorway, just in case you thought you should stay in the outside lane and come to an abrupt stop there - I'd happily see a few adverts reminding people that they don't own the public road, however near a section may be to their own property.

I know they'd probably just ignore it, but at least it would be there to mock their pettiness every time it comes on and be something you could refer to when they come out with their ridiculous assertions.

They could have a snivelling character couple called Terry & Dot - "Don't be a territorial idiot like Terry & Dot" - that were clearly pathetic, quite thick and unpopular amongst the rest of the neighbours.

Some builders working on the house 2 doors down used to put cones in the road when they went home, often not returning for several days. This was in addition to 2 skips in the road. I think someone must have reported them for all of a sudden the anti social behaviour ceased.

At a relatives, I managed to park inbetween the cones once.

Neighbour comes flying out telling me off for moving them, threatened to damage my car. I pointed out I knew where they lived.

I then got a shit load of racist abuse but that’s another story.

That house didn’t even own a fucking car. 🙄

Some neighbours of ours took to doing this. At first we thought they were keeping the spot for the skip to come back but no, they were just being selfish arses. DH took to moving the cones. I was on the point of throwing the bloody things over their gate.

Anyway, after their cones had been moved a few times, and DH had dropped comments about parking being very tight for EVERYONE, they stopped doing it.

YANBU OP except in the sense that the kind of twats who do this kind of thing are clearly not embarrassed to be twats.

I’ve only ever done this for a skip and even then, spoke to my neighbours and explained it. Nobody had a problem with it. If someone did it everyday I’d just move them.

I'd park in between them (even if I needed to move them first)!

Some people are so entitled!

She might have CCTV!

I'd feel obliged to move the cones and park there.

Somebody used to do it outside my mums house (public lay by). If there were no spaces when I arrived to pick her up I would move the cones. I understand the frustration of not being able to park outside your own home, but you can't reserve an area that doesn't belong to you. The lay by is besides a busy road so it was a right faff stopping to move them in traffic. In the end someone ran them over flat and that was the end of that.

You know twats live there when you see this 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yep, move them. I have a nightmare with parking where I live - I just suck it up and park further away. I wouldn't dare show my face if I put cones out on a public road.

Our neighbour did this outside our house. Apparently they prefer to park in front of instead of their own house (it’s a row of terraces ffs). They were told it’s a main road, free for anyone to park, it’s not a nursery and the cones went on a permanent holiday. They still insist on parking outside ours even if a space outside their own door is available. Total mystery as to why they would want to walk further to their car - it’s not lined with gold or heated or anything special. Just tarmac.

My neighbours over the road does this and everyone thinks they're twats. It's no skin off my nose, as I have a driveway, but the sense of entitlement astounds me. They seem to think that because they have five children, they must park directly outside their house, and anyone else who does so gets grief from them. I know they've had their cones pinched a couple of times, but he always manages to procure new ones from somewhere.

Are they small cones? I'd just park on top of them if so. They'll soon get fed up with buying/stealing them!

"Oops - silly me - I didn't expect there to be obstacles on the public road. What idiot put those there?"

Ooh - you've just reminded me of the epic thread from a few years ago, where someone dressed up their neighbour's cone with all sorts of additions!

How weird!

Do you park in front of theirs?

Could you draw something rude on them

@Noyesnoyes no! (Maybe we should?!) we park one in our garage and one on our drive. Both of which are at the rear of our house of another road entirely. We have terraced houses which open straight onto the public pavement.

We are bemused as to why they want to park outside ours so desperately rather than park outside their own home! If someone else’s is parked outside ours when they come home, she will window watch until they move their car, and she’s out and moves her car into the space outside ours. Even at midnight. We’ve timed her - the quickest was 30 seconds after someone moved their car. I want to knock and ask what’s so special about this space that she’s prepared to walk a extra 10 steps to get to, but Dh says I can’t until we have the keys to our next house firmly in our hands. I say he’s a spoilsport!

My grandfather used to have a cone that he 'found' in some roadworks. He put outside his house to try and stop people parking near (not over. Just near) the end of his driveway. Nobody took any notice, and it used to make him so angry that other people wouldn't respect the authority of the cone he'd stolen. His sense of entitlement was astounding 😁

Stupid petty, entitled behaviour.
Move the cones (or preferably chuck them in the nearest skip)

Ah yes a lady on my last street tried this. It was a terraced street in London nearish to a station so, as you can imagine, was always packed. But mostly with residents' cars. We were keen for parking permits to be used but some people were dead against that. Anyway lady across the road got arsey and tried the cone method. She was a young single lady without any walking problems. We often had to park on the next street etc and lug shopping and tiny kids/babies back to our house. That's city life! Suffice to say we all kept moving the cones and parking in her spot. She was not happy. Oh how we laughed. We moved though and now have a drive and the old street finally became a permit street.

Madness!! So odd!