GRRRRRR meddling busybody residents

Nope no troubles but I think we might have some fun and games when the house on the corner sells. At the moment my neighbour parks one of their cars over there as he decided to turn his garage into a bar a couple of years ago :rolleyes:

Now at the moment I park my car up the road a little way until my gf gets home then I move it onto the drive (I'm out first and back first each day) The reason I don't park it out the front of my house is that it makes it awkward for the guy opposite to get on his drive. Neighbour has said that "theres plenty of room out the front for 2 cars" but as far as I'm concerned if theres going to be a car outside my house anyway it might as well be mine as I'm not going to walk half way up the street for no benefit to the guy opposite. We'll see I guess.
 
yep we have the same problem. I bought in the area because it seemed nice and safe. It does indeed seem to be. However, every other household on the street is pretty much old people and they give me hell if I dare to do anything that might "lower the tone of the neighbourhood". They seem to think that I should be banned from owning "old" card (10-11yr old modern vehicles), oil changes are worse than Hitler etc etc... They also think that they own the patch of street outside their house so I am only "allowed" to park outside my own house. Even if somebody else has parked in "my space" outside my house. Miserable old coffin dodgers need to buy some more viagra or something.
 
I've had my neighbors daughter park across my drive way before, when questioned the old guy next door said "well you're not going anywhere are you?"

I didnt raise to the bait.

Next day, I parked across his drive way, so tight upto his metal gate he had to jump over to ask me to move it.

I replaied.

"you're not going anywhere though are you?"

Left it there for 2 days :D.

No problems since.
 
I have a nice annoying guy opposite me.

For example at 8pm, just idling my car whilst altering the timing on my distributor cap, he comes out and complains about the noise of my car. Fair enough if I was revving to 6000rpm, but it was idling at 1000.
 
The nextdoor neighbour can be a tad annoying sometimes, always has to make some comment or other as he's going past.

"Sounds like it needs a new exhaust it's that loud" - It isn't even loud

"Scrap it" - Yeah mate.

Not remotely funny.
 
I have coppers living next door to me and I have more than once spotted them eyeing up the tax disc and looking at my tyres. Still they are very nice to talk too but you can tell they are always on duty.

I remember about ten years ago we bought a house in Kent. We moved in and were in the usual mess so I decided on a takeaway. Went to go out to find a car parked behind mine on the drive. After knockning on a few neighbours doors I discovered it belonged to the old guy across the road. Apparently the old dear that lived in the house before us had let him park there because he liked to keep his drive empty. I spent the next 5 years of hell trying to stop him parking there he was as arrogant as hell. Got a bit nastey in the end with solicitors etc. Arrangements between neighbours can be hell when they leave.
 
I've never had any problems outside my own house, but at my girlfriends there are the stereotypical parking nazis.

One side of her house is the guy who uses two wheely bins to 'save' his parking space. He also comes running out of the house to watch if you are parking anywhere near his pride and joy. On the other side is the 'Focus family' where both parents and son have one of those deals where they swap one bland bottom of the range Focus for another slightly newer one every couple of years. They also go to extreme lengths to save their spaces - meaning they position wheely bins and whichever car is home at the time to take up as much space as possible.

Across the road is worse, its residents parking but as usual anyone can park after 8pm - except if you do be prepared for wheely bins to be shoved up against both ends of your car. I just kick them on to the pavement now, hoping to scatter the smelly contents in front of their houses.

Finally there is 'Bulldog woman' on the end, a fat lump with a dog ugly face. The only major problem with her was when the missus parked her car, legally, in front of her house for a couple of days. She came storming over banging on the door threatening to smack my missus. Didn't take kindly to us laughing and asking her teenage son if his mother embarrassed him!
 
Third Opinion said:
I have coppers living next door to me and I have more than once spotted them eyeing up the tax disc and looking at my tyres. Still they are very nice to talk too but you can tell they are always on duty.

I remember about ten years ago we bought a house in Kent. We moved in and were in the usual mess so I decided on a takeaway. Went to go out to find a car parked behind mine on the drive. After knockning on a few neighbours doors I discovered it belonged to the old guy across the road. Apparently the old dear that lived in the house before us had let him park there because he liked to keep his drive empty. I spent the next 5 years of hell trying to stop him parking there he was as arrogant as hell. Got a bit nastey in the end with solicitors etc. Arrangements between neighbours can be hell when they leave.
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should have lulled him into a false sense of security, getting his car parked then blocking it in with £50 bangers.
 
I noticed the front tyre was flat this morning when I went down so I don't know if it's gone down or been let down, but it's happened since Monday night when she parked up. One of my neighbours reckons he knows who it might be and is going to have a word :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Third Opinion said:
I have coppers living next door to me and I have more than once spotted them eyeing up the tax disc and looking at my tyres. Still they are very nice to talk too but you can tell they are always on duty.

I remember about ten years ago we bought a house in Kent. We moved in and were in the usual mess so I decided on a takeaway. Went to go out to find a car parked behind mine on the drive. After knockning on a few neighbours doors I discovered it belonged to the old guy across the road. Apparently the old dear that lived in the house before us had let him park there because he liked to keep his drive empty. I spent the next 5 years of hell trying to stop him parking there he was as arrogant as hell. Got a bit nastey in the end with solicitors etc. Arrangements between neighbours can be hell when they leave.
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He sounds like tw*t I would have done two things with this one, as [DW]Muffin said buy a couple of bangers tax/mot and insure one of them regardless of cost and park it in his drive and the other park behind his car in yours sure that would have sorted him out.

Luckily never had any problem with neighbours where we have stayed however when I stayed with my parents we lived in a quiet street where a lot of driving instructors would reverse round a corner in front of our house . We had a fairly big drive but if I knew I was going to be going out pretty quickly I would park it on the road. An intructor then put a nice note on the windscreen telling me to park my car in the drive in future my car was parked for a total of 5minutes. This hit a nerve !! following day I parked my car, dads, mums and sisters on the road so it made it all but impossible to reverse round the corner they used on the other side of the road, queue another now rude note on the cars. Following day I parked them on the other side of the road completly blocking the corner think he got the message after this.
 
I've had a few spats with neighbours over the years. One in particular I had the threaten with solicitors and accuse her of damaging my Impreza in order to get her to back off.

My wife recently bought a new car and we left it outside another persons house (no driveways, just on roadside) it was there whilst we cleaned up the garage. Came back to find the house owners had parked there old banger outside our house and left it there for days just out of spite rather than anything.

I could take the grief no longer so employed a small irish fella to tarmac me a new driveway. He offered a caravan for me ma thrown into the deal but i declined :)

Feels great to park off the road, next to my house without the worry of the neighbours.

From other posts, I think we've had it pretty easy.
 
I had a few issues with my next door moron a while back, he kept complaining that I was blocking his drive.

After a few weeks of this, I had a word with my boss, and borrowed an unused trailer from our yard & dropped it outside his house (right across the drive) and put a 5th wheel pin-lock onto it to stop anybody else removing the trailer.

I Left it there for 4 days, and he never moaned at me again (under the threat of similar action!) :D
 
We have a 2-car driveway, and there are 3 cars in the household. There isn't a dropped kerb, so I park my car in front of the driveway, blocking in our two cars.

On a couple of occasions a woman from down the road has parked across the driveway (while we've [we being myself and my mum, as we work in the same place, so car-share] been out at work), blocking in two of our cars.

The first couple of times this has happened, my mum has had to go straight out again once getting back, and therefore needs to get one of the two cars off the drive. The first couple of times the woman came and moved her car within a few mins, and each time we have asked her very politely that, although we have no dropped kerb, to not park there, as we do take the cars off the drive at any and all times of the day.

The last time it happened, my mum had a doctor's appointment, and so needed to get there promptly (we'd even left work a few minutes early in order to get there on time), and the car was parked out the front. Again we went to get her to move it, and again as she came out, we politely asked her to not park there in future. She this time said that there were no other spaces (although I'd pulled straight into one as I turned up, and there were another 3-4 a few feet further down the road). We asked her to keep an eye out for any empty spaces and move it ASAP if there genuinely weren't any spaces when she first pulled up. She went absolutely ballistic this time, and in the end, actually ended up sitting in her car for over 30 mins, refusing to move it, which caused my mum to have to cancel her doctor's appointment at the last minute. (She couldn't take my car as 1, she's not insured on it, and 2, even if she was, I wouldn't trust her to drive it, and 3, I could have taken her but that's not the point!)

I know we don't really have a case, because there is no dropped kerb, but I would never dream of blocking someone else's cars on a driveway :confused:
 
R124/LA420 said:
I had a few issues with my next door moron a while back, he kept complaining that I was blocking his drive.
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So don't block his drive. It hugely pee's me off when people park across my driveway, and I've resorted to using a trolley jack before now so I could get my car out.
 
Dogbreath said:
So don't block his drive. It hugely pee's me off when people park across my driveway, and I've resorted to using a trolley jack before now so I could get my car out.
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Sorry, I wasn't very clear, at no point prior to the trailer incident did I ever block him in, the guy was a cretin who had little else to do with his time other than moan about anybody else.
 
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