AIBU to think people should park outside the house they are visiting?

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Most of the houses on my street are terraced and don't have driveways, it's mainly on road parking in front of your house. There's a car that has been parking in front of mine quite regularly the past 2 or 3 months, sometimes leaving it there for 3 or 4 days at a time. They aren't visiting the neighbours either side of me, they go across the road to a house which has road parking on 3 sides plus a driveway.
I know that no one has any right to public road outside their house and they are parked legally. But I feel like 4 days of leaving your car in front of someone else's house when there is plenty of space to park at the house you are visiting is a bit rude.
AIBU or are they taking the piss?

But if they're not parked there, then somebody else probably will be. So does it really matter?

It doenst really matter but it would irrationally irritate me too!

There's nothing you can do, try not to let it bother you. If you're petty, start parking outside their house but some things just aren't worth the energy imo

@SaveItForTheBirds no when they aren't there, if my car isn't here for some reason, out the front of my house could be empty for weeks! It's a semi rural area, not in a city and very quiet. In the grand scheme of things no it doesn't matter, it just feels like bad manners

@Trallers oh absolutely, there are bigger things to worry about. Glad I'm not the only one though 😂

@mamajong the person parking outside mine doesn't even live there, they just seem to visit the house across the road quite often. So I'd feel bad parking outside theirs when it's not even the people living there who are irritating me 😂 I'm not going to say or do anything about it, more just wondering if I'm justified being silently annoyed haha

Totally get where you're coming from OP. I live in a street where all the houses have driveways. My neighbour across the road has one that could fit three cars. There's also a visitor space 10m along which is semi "off road". But they have a regular visitor who insists on ignoring their driveway and the visitor space & parking on the road right opposite my driveway. It gives me rage. Well, not quite rage but mild irritation. And it makes the street look untidy.

@ILikeItWhatIsIt very similar situation to yours at my parents’ house too, it makes getting out of the driveway quite awkward! I think mild irritation is the right phrase, something to get slightly wound up about on a slow morning but not enough to lose sleep over 😂

Are you me? New nextdoor neighbour has visitors and constantly parking outside my house (meaning I have to block our drive). They could block in the car on their own drive but no...

And yes, I know it's irrational as street parking is open to anyone, but yes, I think it's blooming rude!

I live in a bit of a ‘posh’ estate. There are two tiny block of flats rented by council tenants. At the back of the flats are two allocated parking spaces per flat. The houses on this estate each have drives AND garages - yet they send their visitors to park in our flat car park because parking on the street looks ‘messy’. I had to make them aware that they’re parking in our ALLOCATED spaces and they don’t seem to care because we’re council and they’re home owners of homes that are almost 1m. I remember coming home on Christmas Day and there was not once parking space in the car park - my two allocated spwces (for my one car) were parked in and the entire carpark was full of visitors. I was literally in tears as dramatic as it sounds because I’m disabled with an autistic child and had to walk ages with presents to get home all because visitors parked in my allocated spaces that I pay for 😔

As someone who lives on an old estate (built in the 1940’s) where there is nowhere near enough parking for the number of home be grateful that parking NEAR your house is no issue. You never come home fearing you won’t be able to park anywhere nearby.

Go over and let them know they’re inconveniencing you and maybe they could move their car around while they’re visiting…

It's a road. Anyone can park anywhere unless there are double yellow lines. It's not bad manners. Hth.

I don’t have a driveway so I have to park on a public road which means parking outside someone else’s house. Regularly accosted by angry people who don’t want me to park outside their house. Some serious aggression and asking for my details. I just tell them I believe I am legally parked but if they disagree then they can call the police and the police will be able to find my details. Eeejits.

They’re free to park where they like but If you want to make a point you could start parking outside the house they’re visiting.

You need to all get together and have a campaign of parking outside their houses as messily as possible or 'breakdown' blocking their cars in the parking spaces. Let their tyres down, things like that.

New nextdoor neighbour has visitors and constantly parking outside my house (meaning I have to block our drive). They could block in the car on their own drive but no...

It’s illegal to block a dropped kerb, whether it’s to your own drive or not, @Gobimanchurian

Maybe there wasn’t a space when they parked?

we had a van outside our house for three weeks. It’s just one of those things.

I live in a terraced house and had someone leave their car outside for two weeks. But it comes with the property and nothing you can do. It is irritating though. More irritating is my neighbour who has two cars and a van and strategically parks the cars with lots of space either side so they can shuffle cars when he gets back to get the van parked…. That winds me up more. However I’ve become adapt at reverse parking into the smallest spaces imaginable! 🤣 like with and inch each side. Think I secretly love the ‘parking game’

People from another street park on my street and people who don't want to pay hospital parking charges and walk to it. They are legally doing nothing wrong

Are there overhanging trees or wires opposite which would cause their car to be pooped on? We stayed at a hotel last year where part of the carpark was next to a rookery. The mess on the cars was foul.

I feel your pain OP. Silent fuming about parking is a frequent pass time in our street too. Eg, on non-bin days the street is empty of cars, and then magically fills up on the night we put the bins out so the trucks have trouble collecting at the top of the cul-de-sac (our house) and sometimes don't pick them up at all. We then have to notify the council etc... fuming!

That's awful. Can you apply for a blue badge and a disabled bay? At least then people may, just may, take notice and not park there.

I have a similar issue at my mums house. The people across the road have a van and two cars but despite having a large garden they only have a short driveway fir one car and they don't use the garage.

So two vehicles are on the road at all times. Meaning I can't park outside my mums. Neither can get next door neighbour park outside their house, as the road isn't wide enough fir parked cars on both sides.

It's really annoying. They are so stupid that if they are both out so no cars in the street, if we park outside mums and they arrive back, they just park in their usual way so cars are likely to clip our wing mirrors and there is no way a truck or fire engine etc could get past.

Stupid idiots. A few tonnes of type two chips dumped on the grass and they'd have a cheap and cheerful area at the side of their property to park at least one vehicle on. But they don't care.

I'd have parked across the back of the 2 cars in my space and left them a note telling them they were in my spot. Let them spend the time figuring out where you live if they need to leave.