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

[UnsocialBat]

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?

Truthfully, I think that means you could say something.

You could do the friendly self- deprecating approach to soften it: “Im not great at reversing.” You only need to say do you mind asking them not to park here ( or at least not always) if there are other spots available; obviously it’s fine if there aren’t.

But if you lean on your reversing skills I honestly think that’s not that unreasonable to approach them with. Genuinely awkward is enough of an excuse. If it were impossible you’d have to say something.

I park in the first empty spot I happen to see on any street, unless there’s a disabled bay marked out. I’ve never even thought to do anything else or that anyone would care. I don’t care who parks outside my house, sometimes I choose to park around the corner from my own home myself because it’s a quieter street for loading. I generally assume that if being able to park directly outside their front door is a priority for somebody, they choose a house with a driveway.

@Calliopespa aw for how little it happens at my parents' house, none of us would bother. I'm not sure it would even be as often as once every month that we'd be wanting out of the driveway while across the street has a visitor parked awkwardly

I really don't know why people care about this. It seems so silly. There's also no point getting worked up about it, because they aren't doing anything wrong.

For context, I don't have a driveway, and sometimes have to park a little bit further away from my house. It's a non-issue. And OP doesn't even have this issue as she just blocks in her own drive, so she's never even having to walk any further.

It is silly and it's not a huge deal as I've said in previous posts. I think there's been a little confusion though, I don't have a driveway at my house. I did mention a driveway at my parents' house in response to another commenter, but that was not what my original post was about 😊

Even I don't get to park outside my own house a lot of the time, let alone visitors. I have a couple of times temporarily parked in front of the drive way opposite to unload heavy stuff, but then moved the car straight after.

It doesn't bother me, as I am quite capable of walking down the street. In fact, since they introduced residents parking permission, I feel less worried about parking in front of other houses - I have paid for the right to park on a wider range of nearby streets than I would previously have thought reasonable.

What I do think unreasonable is drivers who leave half car spaces between vehicles. I know it sometimes happens because the neighbours with work vans leave and are replaced by normal cars, though sometimes it is people just parking inconsiderately. But there have been days where you could probably get an extra three or four cars parked on not a very long street, if others just shuffled up a bit.

Have you tried asking these people if they wouldn't mind parking in their friends' drive instead? They may just be being incredibly thoughtless, or they may have some reason for needing to park in the road, though goodness knows what it could be!