Parking fallout ..

[BhamAnon]

Am I in the wrong?

we always thought we got on well with our
neighbours. They often have friends round to their house, and at times have blocked
part of our dropped kerb, making it very hard to manoeuvre in and out of the driveway.

It happened again last night and this time I decided to ask if they could move it as we were heading out. Appreciating the football was on and they may be watching it, I waited until the game finished and then I tried the door a few times but no answer. I then text the neighbour to ask if the car was their visitor by any chance (no reply) . So I then did the deed and left a note ‘please can you try not to park on the dropped kerb? It can sometimes
make it difficult getting in/out of the house’.

a couple of hours later I get a ring on the doorbell after their friend moved their car, and a tirade of anger about how rude that was and how they couldn’t believe I did that to their friend, about how they hate my (I thought relatively quiet) dog and how their driveway looks so much better than ours, and how they now don’t want anything to do with us etc. I was pretty taken aback as I didn’t think the note was written rudely. I did say I tried getting in touch a few times before, that I didn’t know it was their friend and that I didn’t mean to cause any offence.

what’s your honest thoughts? Should I have left it? Now in the morning I feel awkward when we at some point bump into each other

Their response is bonkers and over the top- dragging in irrelevant things in order to attack you.

Very remeniscent of one of my neighbours. Some people are just aggressive. That's their problem.
Aggression can make you feel like you've done something wrong - you haven't.

Obvs, speaking face to face is better than a note, less likely to be taken the wrong way- but you'd tried to do that.

Some people lose their tempers easily, but get over it quickly, so you might find things are ok in the future. If they don't , their loss. They are twats, whose good opinion you do not value, so don't have to concern yourself about.(Easy to say, harder to do, I know)

Were you actually blocked in though or did it just made it awkward? If blocked in, my message would have said 'Please don't block our drive, we've been unable to go out'. If just awkward, I'd have waited until I next saw neighbours and said 'Could you ask your visitors not to park over our drive as it makes driving out without scratching their car a bit difficult'

Thanks, I hope they get over it. We don’t see each other a lot luckily if not but I’d prefer no awkwardness

they knew they were in the wrong, so tried to reverse the situation and make you look like the bad guy.

If they rent may I suggest you contact their landlord. We had an antisocial wanker lived next to us, when we had the audacity to ask that their child didn't keep trying to smash our fence down, we were met with similar abuse. One call to their landlord soon shut them up and their contract wasn't renewed.

If they continue to block your drive and you have a drop kerb, contact local parking enforcement. A few tickets for illegal parking should work wonders.

As pp said report to the landlord. Otherwise just keep your distance and if they park there again, tell them to move or you’ll call police. This is bullying tactics and let’s be honest it was them being unreasonable to block you in. They are shameless ! You did not embarrass them, they embarrassed themselves and were probably drunk watching the football when they let loose on their large abusive mouths.

I would say very awkward. A tight reverse park , having to go over my other neighbours driveway to get in. Strangely no one was parked over their own dropped kerb at all, so I didn’t understand why their guest didn’t park there

They sound awful. Never give them leeway now, they need to move every time.

I currently have very good neighbours, I dread moving.

We were waiting in for a parcel last week and were confused when it said it had been delivered, as no parcel and no note received. Turns out they had delivered to my neighbour.

We were in a flurry of apologies to each other.

I bet they’d had a few drinks

Yeah I was surprised, we’ve never had any type of fallout before so I was pretty taken aback. As others have said, maybe drinks were involved

I was thinking this too

Alcohol.

Are they Swiss?

"Alcohol makes a big man small and leads to a life of crime.". Sorry, I've been listening to Family Guy soundbites. No derailing. I concur with PPs. Booze was involved. Their behaviour was unfair.

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