to think Dh should have told the old bag to 'call the police then......................'

[OnTheWayToASmallerButt]

DH parks his car in a road at the back of our house (as he can then take a short cut to the motorway which cuts 10 mins off his journey, more if traffic is heavy) and has been getting grief off an old hag who has an issue with him parking in 'her' road (it is a public road BTW). Shouting at him, nasty letters on windscreen and today she threatened to call the police .

The road has very few cars parked in it as it is full of bungalows for the elderly and not many of them seem to drive and where DH parks, there are normally 4 or 5 other spaces along that stretch of road. This elderly hag lady does not have a car so he is not taking 'her' space (and obviously therefore does not pay roadtax) but she says he is taking a space that she may need for her relatives if they come to visit! I could understand it if the road was choc a block and she had a car . When she said she was going to call the police, he just walked off but I told him that he should have told her to go ahead and waited while she did and they laughed at her (am assuming this is not a criminal offence).

Makes me furious that this woman accosts him every time he comes home from work. Why should he stop parking there? I was taught to respect the elderly but she takes the biscuit!!

ohhhhhhhhh tough one!
we HATE people parking outside our house! We even have a huge drive with space for 3 cars & a caravan!

Tell her to get a life! If he's not causing an obstruction then its nothing to do with her.

I took offence to some git parking in the turning space in our cul de sac and after i had a word, he now parks further up. I wouldnt mind, but its clearly marked "turning space" and its a bugger to get our car out when some numpty parks there!

can't he park in his own road?

The police wouldn't even attend! He should just ignore her every day. I'd be slightly worried tho, elderley people such as this are venomous and she may resort to some light criminal damage!

nope if facts are as you say dh should tell her calmly to call police.

i would be pissed off if someone parked outside my house the whole time - irrational but there you go

she may be waiting for a carer or friend

i agree nasty letters are not nice though

notwithstanding your ghastly and offensive language (old hag? old bag? this will be your daughter one day btw)

well no, it's not illegal, but if it is driving her bonkers then can he not vary the house he parks in front of occasionally?

TBH if I was upsetting someone this much I woudl probably park elsewhere if I could (have actually started doing this recently following a similar incident! And I was only parking for 10 minutes - not overnight)

She is mental.

But I agree with MP, why choose the same house every day? That could be seen (by her) as a deliberate wind up.

Why don't you ring and ask the police about this situation, Onthewaytoasmallerbutt. Then, when they've told you that your dh is not breaking any laws, he can tell the old bag dear, the next time that she accosts him, that he's called the police, and he's in the right, so she's welcome to call them too and see what they say about wasting police time.

As long as he's stayed calm and polite when talking to her, then she will be told that she's in the wrong, and to back off.

Why don't you ring and ask the police about this situation, Onthewaytoasmallerbutt. Then, when they've told you that your dh is not breaking any laws, he can tell the old bag dear, the next time that she accosts him, that he's called the police, and he's in the right, so she's welcome to call them too and see what they say about wasting police time.

As long as he's stayed calm and polite when talking to her, then she will be told that she's in the wrong, and to back off.

Oops - double post.

ghastly & offensive language??

I wouldn't find somewhere else to park. Why upset her? It's not the end of the world for your dh.

Btw, I don't get the impression from the OP that her dh always parks in the same place, or that it's outside this lady's house. She's claiming ownership of the whole road - which seems more than a little unreasonable!

It doesn't sound like you have very much respect for the elderly at all actually.

Is it the whole road she objects to, or does he always park in the same spot?

She's completely insane - it's a public road and where she lives has no bearing on who can and can't park where.

I see your point, TFM - but the elderly woman is not showing any respect either.

WTF - why would I respect a horrible, rude, irrational person like that - elderly or not. As I said I was taught to respect my elders but in my experience, they are ruder than my generation!!

Yes, ghastly language. She is being unreasonable - none of us own the road space outside our homes - but look how many people on this thread say they don't like people parking outside their houses!

It is horrible to refer to old people as 'old bags' and 'hag' and it makes you sound nasty, and makes me lose all sympathy for you.

What has the elderly person done that's so rude and disrespectful then?

Ah, but the elderly woman isn't claiming to, unlike the OP.

I just think if there's a way to avoid upsetting people, even if they are irrationally upset, then perhaps it might be nice to do so. Hence my question about parking position.

HedgeWitch - would you have a problem if you did not have a car and most of the road was empty then - in that case you must be as looney as her. Lucky she did not report his car as abandoned - why's that .

You don't have to respct her opinion, but using nasty insulting misogynist names is horrible. IMO.

He's not parked halfway on the pavement is he?