A parking one!

[Scottishchicken]

Prepared to be told AIBU on this one.

We live in a street with old houses so majority of driveways are not big. Most people in our street have one car on drive, and if they have two, one in front of house. We have two.

My partners is on the drive and mine on the road. Neighbours across road now have 4 cars - two adults and the two sons have one each. Last car was got 6 months ago.

There is room for all 4 on their drive as previous owners had made room by giving up the garden. Before other son got the car they would park three all on the drive. Then he got his car and it was 4 on drive or 3 on drive and one in front. I should add their neighbour doesn't drive and had offered for them to use his drive whenever they want.

Now the son has suddenly taken to parking outside our house, with no one parked outside theirs and then the other three on the drive as usual.

I am now hardly ever able to park at ours, instead parking in front of our next door neighbours (one car house). We don't have the room or luxury to make a bigger drive.

I appreciate it isn't the end of the world and know you can park where you want etc but am I the only one that thinks is odd?

AIBU - Nothing you can do and no big deal
AINBU - I'd be annoyed too

The poll has tipped in our favour 😁👏. Was starting to lose faith there. That’s exactly it @Coffee23 and @Scottishchicken it’s just about decency. I wouldn’t do it to someone else. I’d totally think that’s shitty behaviour to park right outside someone else’s house for either extended periods of time or to do it consistently. I absolutely understand that you’re not breaking any law by parking there, but for goodness sake surely there’s a bit of a moral compass around what’s decent and not.

Moral compass? Decency? It's entitlement, pure and simple, and anyone that's lived on a busy road can spot it a mile off.

You’re absolutely right @Pancakefam it is entitlement, thanks for clarifying. I was trying to be kind skirting around the actual issue.

You'd like to think they could see you had another car so they would park outside your neighbours but people are weird and thoughtless. I know it's a public road but it's about sharing the space and being courteous.

I wonder if it's to do with the direction he'll be setting off in?

To explain - I can only turn left out of one end of my street, which is fine for most of my journeys, that's where I'm heading. But on Saturdays my destination is completely different so I have to leave from the other end of the street. If I'm parked 'normally', it's a three-point turn and I'm pretty close to that corner, and cars come whizzing round the corner at speed - I'm reluctant to park 'normally' on Fridays. I prefer to be parked across the street pointing the other way, I feel safer. Luckily our street is something of a free-for-all so I don't feel I'm stepping on anyone's toes doing this.

Could the son be feeling something similar? He feels it's safer pulling away from your side of the street rather than his?

It’s rare to be able to park outside your house where I am. It’s residents’ parking only but some spaces are pay and display. You’re lucky if you can park in the same street. Some flats aren’t allowed to have cars at all - it’s a condition of the lease.

if they had 4 cars on the drive I assume they were always blocking each other in and having to shift cars around? That’s a pain in the arse. I’d park on the road too

Looking at the picture wouldn’t it be more of an inconvenience to you parking outside their house instead of parking in front of your neighbours?

It’s entitlement to have two cars and one parking space and a garden and want to protect the road as “yours” and not just convert your garden to give more space.

Either the OP parks on the road, and then can’t complain about others doing so legally. Or she chooses the moral high ground and makes adequate provision for her own cars and then she can comment on other people’s.

At the moment her neighbour have 75% of their cars on the drive, OP wants them to have 100%. OP is only running at 50%. She is holding them at a standard above herself