To think DS should park further away?

[Totallynootella]

Honestly I know this is minor but AIBU isn't just for the big stuff.

We live in a semi detached with a drive we can't use.

There's plenty of unrestricted parking on our street and the adjoining street. The only time it gets busy in our area is glorious sunny days and Park Run time.

There is enough space outside our house and next door's house for 3 cars to easily park between the two dropped kerbs. Next door has a large drive that they park one or two cars on.

There's a convention that they park one of their cars outside their house leaving 2 spaces for 2 of our cars.

So DH and I prefer to leave our cars there, visible from sitting room window.

DS has tended to park into one of these gaps if they're empty when he pulls up, but I think he should park a smidge further away and leave the old folk to have a shorter walk to the front door.

I've had a minor word with him but I think he's thoughtless on occasion and soon goes back to pulling into the nearest parking space.

Aibu to think he should defer to us?

I’ve got all confused on this thread, mixing DS up with DH, not knowing who the elderly people are, not knowing how many neighbours there are, not understanding the shared drive that isn’t a drive and not knowing what distances are involved in the walking aspect of the issue.

These problems could all need solved with the addition of a DIAGRAM.

This seems so minor and petty. My car is currently parked in the next street because that is the closest I can get to home. Roadside parking is a free for all except within controlled parking hours.

Your life must be incredibly easy if walking 10ft is bad enough to write a thread about.

I imagine ops house like this and she doesn’t want to lose her garden.

My lovely iPhone scribble 🤣

How many ducks do you have 🦆

You made it sound like you were pushing 80. I'm older than you, I don't care if I park at the other end of the street, it's good exercise for me. Perfectly happy for my son to park outside the house if he's there first.

Lovely picture @UndermyShoeJoe !

That's how I imagine it too.

My art teacher would be so proud 😅

Of course you're being unreasonable. Anyone is entitled to park on a public road. You're lucky it's just your son, who does actually live in your household, parking outside your house. In many areas people have people from several doors down who will regularly park right outside their property if that house are multiple car owners, and there's bugger all they can do about it as anyone has the right to park there. It's a shame your son isn't respecting your request, but your request is an unreasonable one. He lives there too, why shouldn't he park there if he gets there first?

Oh come on 😂 I thought you must be in your 70s, 60s at a push. Just gone 50?

Well, regardless of its (huge!) artistic merit, it’s made the situation much clearer, if the situation is as you’ve drawn it.

Though it would have been a lot simpler if the OP had simply said they didn’t have any off-road parking.

It's is the rules, all parking threads must have a diagram.

@Totallynootella everyone is confused here!!! where do the neighbours who share your drive, park their cars?????

Of all the pathetic threads I read on here, you may have just topped the list for the most pathetic.

Why don’t you talk to him? What can we do on this thread to help you with your issue?

Sounds like a bit of a non-problem. But if I asked my son to park further away so I could park closer, he’d just do it.

Oh for goodness sake, there's always one. If you're not interested in strangers' trivial problems why are you here?

Why is it more important for your and your husbands cars to avoid being broken into than it is your son’s? Is he actually your son? I can’t imagine being this dismissive of someone I raised from birth.

Thank you @UndermyShoeJoe

*goes off to study this.

If you parked in your garage your son would have a space out front, it would also make your car safer from thieves and be a lot more courteous to all the people who would like to park on the road.

Re read the posts sweetie.

We have a space right in front of our house, and DD knows that it's MY space. She parks across the street. It's been made clear and she has been trained. I get groceries, manage pets. Yes, I am not elderly (yet), but she's YOUNG.

Don't worry about the poll, or about the 'legality' that anyone can park there since it's a public space--while technically true, your DS can be trained not to park in your space! Even, he may do an eyeroll (as JoyousBiscuit would :). Fine! This is a matter of consideration and firm training.

You're not being unreasonable, even if he pays a portion of rent etc.

"Ignore the poll"

Can you explain why, out of the 561 people who have bothered to vote, only your opinion matters?

Surely the point of asking in AIBU, and setting up a poll, is to get a sense of what 'the people at large' think ?

^ I think you are perfectly entitled to pull the age and hierarchy card… can’t imagine parking in my parents’ spots on the road, likewise I wouldn’t sit in ‘their’ chairs in their home

Just tell your son and ask him to move his car if he’s in your spot

When he owns his own place he can do the same

First in first but I also dont believe in the dictorial my house my rules or I pay the mortgage so you do what I say or any other grand I am the parent so I am boss