Neighbours unpleasant vehicle

[pimplebum]

Inspired by another thread , my neighbour is spoiling my view and bringing down the neighbourhood !😁.

My neighbour two doors down has parked an old ambulance ) which he plans on restoring)
directly opposite

it really spoils my nice view from my window and is a bit jarring every time I open the curtains or when I walk home I occasionally have a mild panic when it looks like there is an ambulance outside my home . Apart from my view and emotional reaction to seeing an ambulance ( past trauma family member killed )

I have asked him nicely to move it as it spoils my view ( I didn’t want to go into other reasons ). But it is still there

it could be moved to the side road or to another home he has recently inherited.

I am not going to do anything unpleasant like slash his tires or be aggressive

am I being unreasonable to ask him to move it again? should I suck it up and get over myself ? or ask his wife as I have nice rapport with her ( which our conversation could ruin)

it disproportionately upsets me but I have already asked him once
what would you do ?

So it's blocking some other poor buggers view now is it?

True 😆 🤣

well I absolutely love a good old British classic understatement - my job requires me to be law abiding which is frustrating sometimes!

Insensitive comment.
The old ambulance has triggered something in OP and that's very upsetting

MN seems to be full of people who dont think they should need to show consideration to others. It is very depressing.

Yes my trauma is genuine , ( I hope you don’t have any friends or family that have experienced traumas as you’re comment us a tad cold )

I don’t have any expectations of him moving it now ( I was hoping he would the first time I asked him to ) so I am disappointed but certainly don’t expect him , or indeed the world to “bend” around me . There are three other v reasonable places it can be moved to

1. his house
2. off to the side where I get my view back and it is way less jarring
3. his late mil house driveway which is nearby

I’ve said a few times it is legally parked and I accepted there is nothing I can do about it

I was just wondering if my reaction to this is reasonable or un reasonable - that all

What was your view previously? Do you have a front garden where you can plant a hedge, or a few shrubs, to have something between you and the road?

You are and you're not. I understand why you don't want that bit of crap parked outside your front window but if it's taxed and MOT'd there's not a lot you can do. Easy goes it just to keep any neighbourly relations if they still exist.

It’s a modern looking one and yes every time i walk up the road it looks like it’s parked directly outside my home and I get a jolt of fear an ambulance has been called and someone in my family is dead or seriously hurt, due to previous experience of this happening . Totally accept this a me problem and no one else’s issue to fix

He is unaware of this as all I mentioned was the view I am missing from my windows

he is a nice chap and explained that he wants it there for safety which I found hard to see how it wouldn’t be better outside his own door or his other property , I also think this vehicle is a low risk for being stolen / damaged as it’s very reflective , niche and hard to dispose of

I know that if tables were turned I’d definitely move it for him

also he hasn’t to my knowledge done any work on it so I am thinking it could be there for years 😩

I don't think it's unreasonable to have asked. Unfortunately, as you are aware, there's not much else to be done.

There's terraced houses near me which mostly have the front gardens paved over for parking. One of them has had a huge camper van (wider than the house) parked diagonally at their front window for about a year. I've never seen it move.

Their poor neighbours must be living in permanent darkness.

A tractor unit is the bit of a truck and trailer that does the pulling and has the cab on. It's clear you have no clue what you're on about.

😂😂😂😂

Do you live opposite me?!

This is absolute bat shittery at its best!!

I even decorated mine for Christmas with the brightest lights I could find and left them on 24/7 on flashing mode.

I did that especially for the batshit crazy neighbour opposite!!

I LOVE being a Camper Van Cunt!!

Very glad for you. Sure your neighbours love you.

It was a nice uninterrupted view of trees and people coming and going , I loved sitting by my window watching people go by

can’t plant a hedge as it’s paved but hopefully will see the view again

in the schemes of things I am being daft I know , I just wanted thoughts on how unreasonable I am as there has been a range of thoughts expressed

Gotta love the idiots who quote the entire OP unnecessarily but still can’t bloody read it …. It’s NOT on his own drive, that’s the whole fucking point.

This is EXACTLY what I did not what to be !

I wanted to find the words to say to my lovely neighbour who BTW has just brought around another a package which is always being delivered to his house ( v annoying for him I am sure )

I can’t bring myself to explain the trauma but as I just can’t say it out loud, I’d feel silly

and I am certainly not wanting to be called batshit and have him bedeck the bloody thing with flashing lights 24/7 ( I’d hate to actually stoop so low as to want to provoke a neighbour like that

he and his wife are lovely helpful neighbours

just wish I knew some arsonists/ car thrives

( joke) 😀

say nowt and suck it up …

I confess ! I am a massive curtain twitching hyacinths bucket ! Dam that ambulance spoiling my fun 🤣

I think you’re being unreasonable. Unfortunately we don’t own the street outside our houses and we don’t get to decide who can park what sort of vehicle where. Perhaps focus more on your own issues and do something about those if it grates so much on you.

@pimplebum why don’t just tell him what you’ve told us and say would he consider moving it slightly That you’d totally understand if he said no and that you have no right to ask, but because you get on so well you thought you’d just ask and if he says no then it won’t alter your pleasant neighbourly relationship…or something along those lines 😀