to want to go and park an articulated lorry in front of the house of the woman who shouted at me for parking in front of her house?

[morningpaper]

What is it with English people and their PERSONAL SPACE ISSUES when it comes to pavements and roadspace?

I am only there for 10 minutes a day to pick up the small one from nursery

I got a mouthful of abuse

I want to go and hire a lorry and park it outside her house for the weekend

Hmm

We have a drive, but if people park either side of it and also across the road from it, we still can't get in or out of our drive (because our road is v narrow so little room for manoeuvre). So I do resort to some slightly passive-aggressive tactics when it comes to keeping the space outside our house free - to the extent of parking my bins there . However, I wouldn't bother to do this if we didn't have this particular problem with the narrow road. And I'm certainly not under the illusion that I own the road outside my house. Nevertheless, I find myself getting irritated by people who park there, because they are inconveniencing me, even if they don't realise it.

Morningpaper, hiring a massive lorry for the weekend might cost a lot. However, parking in the same spot everyday until your DCs leave school will be free.

Fimbo no its not legal but it depends on where you live on what you can do about it. if you live in a local auhtority that has decrriminalisedd parking ie not wholly enforced by police traffic wardens then you can phone your local council and get them to send parking attendants down to ticket, even then they might require the presence of a yellow line to ticket. Otherwise I would call the police to complain as it is causing an obstruction and hazard, if they don't respond get in touch with your councillor who can put pressure on the council to act or at least get the police to react but it usually to low a priority for them. I fell your pain its is very inconsiderate of drivers and should be enforced and the selfishness of people who will park rigt up on a pavement without thought of wheelchairs or small children having to walk to walk on the road never fails to rile me. Pavements are for people, cars have enough road.

have just proof read after typing sorry for the apalling typos

I had a similar experience with a woman the other week. I pointed out that it was a public highway and if she wanted to restrict people from parking near her house then she should really contact her local councilllor to look into a resident only parking scheme and if she liked I'd drop her councillors number off for her the next morning... I wasn't even parked outside her house and she has a drive that fits two cars and a van!!!

Ugh, reminds of my former neighbour! We had a small car park on our property, but didn't own a car.

Then we bought a car. The day i went to pick it up, I had a friend's daughter babysit my DS so that I could pick up a child's seat on the way home instead of carrying it with me on public transport. Our drive is VERY narrow, you can barely get car doors open (hired cars every now and then) but being careful I could park so that I had to slither out of my door, but could get DS out fairly easily. But the space was NOT wide enough for me to open the door enough for me to get the brand new car seat into the car.

As our house had a drive, we had no street parking in front, so when I got home I parked in front of neighbours so that I could put the car seat into the car.

Now, up until this point she had been as nice as could be to us - she pulled up just after me, and had to park on the opposite side of the road. When i saw that she had things to carry inside, I offered to help, to be met with a mouthful of abuse about my lack of consideration. Told her she didn't own the flaming space in front of her house, and to just grow up. For the last few weeks that we were there she refused to talk to me!!!

When we first moved into the place, my movers asked her nicely if she would mind moving her car forward a bit so that they could park the van in front of our house, and she told that she had a parking permit and she had as much right to park there as anyone and she wasn't moving it. (Wasn't there myself at the time).

Seriously, what is it with these people?????

The day before I gave birth to my daughter I found a note in our porch, someone had taken the time to type and print the following:

"Park in front of your own house".

It really pissed me off because clearly they knew who they wanted to address (they put the note through our door!) but they sent an anonymous computer printed letter! No one had ever mentioned it previously, it wasn't as if we were parking consistently outside someone else's house! We live on a typical Victorian road, houses either side and parking is a free for all.

I actually felt a little intimidated, it was not a nice note in its big black font! More than anything tho' I felt rage, sweet sweet rage.

I wonder now if my rage brought about labour! She was 5 days overdue but I was a stomping angry (hormonal) mess!

YANBU

What does annoy me though, is that no-one in my household has a car, but many people in my road have more than 1, so on the rare occasion we do get a lift or a taxi, it can't park! so I can never take my autistic DS out on the pavement side

YANBU.

I do get irritated though when I leave the house for 10 minutes in the car and my neighbours opposite move their car into the space in front of our house if the one in front of theirs is blocked (victorian terraces so street parking only) just because its so petty! Do they really need to have the car so close. Mind you I suppose the same goes for me in wanting to be near the house, but once I am parked and I parked!