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AIBU?

Well yes I am, I know I am. But still am absolutely enraged

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sweetfall · 27/06/2009 12:59

that some tosser has parked his/her Audi TT outside my house for 10 days straight, and hasn't bothered to move it at all. This means that when I swoop up the road I now have to actually do a reverse parking maneouvre rather than just park in one move to curve manouvre outside my own bloody house which is so conveniently located on a corner.

Move your bloody car and park it outside your own house.

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:22

well if you'd actually bother to read any of my posts you might get it

it bothers me because it inconveniences me on a daily basis. It makes my life just a little bit less easy.

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idranktheteaatwork · 04/07/2009 09:22

isn't

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:22

it's been 15 days now

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idranktheteaatwork · 04/07/2009 09:24

Then report it.

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purepurple · 04/07/2009 09:24

My DS recently left his car parked a bit further down our road for 10 days.
It had a flat tyre and he had just lost his job and couldn't afford to change it.

When it was sorted, he drove off(he was giving me a lift to work) and the miserable bugger whose house it was outside actually came out on to the street and clapped him.

How petty and how sad.
Wasn't you was it OP?

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TheProvincialLady · 04/07/2009 09:25

Sweetfall I read all of your posts

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Kbear · 04/07/2009 09:27

I think you should just ring the police and ask them to check if it has been stolen and if it hasn't you just have to get over it.

It would infuriate me as well but damaging it is not the way to go. It's taxed so it's allowed to be there. Just as you are allowed to be annoyed about it.

When the driver comes back and sees the damage and puts a brick through your window (as obvious suspect) you will be on here again with a different thread!

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PerfectPrefect · 04/07/2009 09:28

Yes - if it litterally asn't been moved at all I would report it to teh local police as a suspicous vehicle.

There was a car parked in a strange position in a local carpark one...didn't move for weeks and in the end we reported suspicious....the owner was very greatful as it had been stolen and dumped.

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:30

I never said I was going to damage it

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porcupine11 · 04/07/2009 09:33

Drop a note in all houses on your street saying you are due to order a skip for a redecorate next week, and you need the owner to come and move the car as the skip has to go there. Add that otherwise you are worried they will damage the Audi as they position the skip as close to your door as poss.

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:39

have reported to police and they want me to report to council

15 days without moving it once is odd

right outside my front door when there's plenty space not directly outside housess front doors is selfish if you're leaving it there for weeks. And we are not on any transport links - we are a quiet London back-street

I have the right to be annoyed at my life being affected by someone else's selfish decision - I know that I have no ownership of the road but making other people's lives less comfortable is selfish

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NeedCoffee · 04/07/2009 09:43

very odd that it hasn't been moved, have you checked inside? has it got blacked out windows? someone may be still in it! Probably been stolen I reckon.

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squilly · 04/07/2009 09:52

You are being perfectly reasonable, you're annoyed, you know you don't have the right to be annoyed, but you still are. Perfectly reasonable imo.

And you haven't willed damage upon the car or even hinted at it. That was down to other posters who are probably suggesting this 'tongue in cheek'.

YANBU at all. And it would annoy me too. Irrational, but true!

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Kbear · 04/07/2009 15:31

OK so you're not going to damage it but you did say you wanted to send your kids out for a flour and egg fight - that will piss the owner off too!

I would be as annoyed as you about this, really, but there isn't anything you can do apart from what you have already done. I suppose you could knock on every door in the street and find out if they know who owns it and ask them to move it outside their house!

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PrincessToadstool · 04/07/2009 15:34

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 17:16

It is parked on a quiet road where there is plenty of space that is not directly outside houses / front doors. In fact 3 foot away around the corner there is an entire block that runs up the side of houses so there are no doors at all. Generally quiet.

It has not been moved for 3 weeks.

It is interfering (mildly but irritatingly) with how I live my life, making it less convenient to bring in shopping and park and getting children into car safely.

The owner has parked it there without any thought to other people on the domestic road and has left it there without thought to any other people or users of the road. Which to me is the absolute definition of selfish - they were concerned solely with themselves with no thought of others.

I don't own the road. I have agreed with that. I have no right to get it moved. I know that. But I am allowed to be pissed off and moan about it having been dumped outside my house for 3 weeks.

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 17:17

Oh and I'm not ready to teach my kids about flour and egg fights - it was just a throw-away comment

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picmaestress · 04/07/2009 19:08

A man turned up at my house and asked if I owned a black mini that had been 'abandoned' for 'weeks' outside his house. He was very curt and kind of rude, I'm guessing he'd been stewing for days
It had been parked in the street outside his house for just over a week, and I had no way of knowing that it would bother someone, so I hadn't moved it.
It's not possible to park in my street at all so my car will always be outside somebody else's house.
It wasn't in his way, and as there is space for 3 cars on the street outside his large house as well as a large drive, I still really don't get it. It was that particular space he had got himself in a tizz about.
I actually thought it was a joke for a couple of minutes before he insisted angrily that I move it instantly. I was openly incredulous and pretty upset by his manner, but I got the car keys and moved the car straight away. Two spaces away. I think he's a total loon and I'm very glad I'm not married to him.

YABVU, but why not just do what he did and call the DVLA and go round to their house if it bothers you that much? They might think you're loopy, but you'd stand a better chance of getting it sorted...

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ThingOne · 04/07/2009 19:20

YABVU. An inconvenience that you have to make an effort to park? You get het up about that? Really?

I would agree that it's odd that's a previously unknown car has not been moved for fifteen days. That's certainly worth reporting.

I wish I had so little to worry about that I could care about whether or not I have to parallel park.

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motherpi · 04/07/2009 20:20

You are not being unreasonable. It is infuriating when someone leaves their car outside your house for any length of time. Why on earth would anyone park directly outside someone else's house when there are other options available?

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sweetfall · 04/07/2009 21:22

"I wish I had so little to worry about that I could care about whether or not I have to parallel park."

So the fuck do I actually ThingOne - so the fuck do I

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onagar · 04/07/2009 21:30

It sounds like you still have room to park outside your house so I don't think you have much cause for complaint. Perhaps the owner is parking there because someone else is parked outside his house.

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Doodle2u · 04/07/2009 21:34

Parking within 15m of a corner is illegal innit?

Where's wienstein when you need her?!

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duke748 · 04/07/2009 22:23

I live in a flat on a road which has no parking restrictions. I had a note on my car saying 'if you can't park outside your own house, park somewhere else'.

I was absolutely livid. Its a road with no parking restrictions.... anyone can park on it, for as long as they want.

It makes me wonder how lovely these people's lives must be if this is the biggest issue they are dealing with.

If you want your own special place to park... buy a place with a driveway or garage.

Grr. Grr.

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motherpi · 04/07/2009 22:47

Lovely? Lonely? Not sure how bitchy speculation about other people's lives is helpful.

You point is absolutely correct Duke, of course. But how would you feel if, say, someone left a huge pile of their stuff directly opposite your front door? It would be in a communal hallway (I assume), but bloody frustrating nonetheless.

Everyone knows that it's a public highway, but when you buy a flat you know that there will be no parking. When you buy a house on a street with parking, you - rightly or wrongly - assume that you'll be able to use the bit outside your house occasionally.