Neighbours with hardons about treating public road spaces as their own

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What is it with some people and having a hardon about regarding certain areas of PUBLIC land/road as if it is their own parking?

Having a bit of a war with 3 different neighbours about parking on the road or grass outside their houses.

As far as I'm concerned people are free to park where ever they want, but it seems some people regard the space outside their house as "their own", and seem to dislike when other people park there even if they themselves do not use it.
What takes the biscuit even more is a stupid plumber opposite who for years used to park his van on this decent sized grass area, however he now takes offence if I put my car there as apparently "it damages the grass" ... he didn't seem to care when he parked there for years.
I'm tempted to do a huge burnout on the grass now just to destroy it, as opposed to the usual tip-toeing I do on it due to having summer rubber.
 
Duke said:
People are lazy and don't want to walk more than 10m to their front door.
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Thing is though, most of these people don't even use the space as they have a drive and use that.

What annoys me even more are people putting bits of paper with stuff written on them under my wiper blades to show their displeasure that I dared to park legally on the road.

I already told one of them that they may dislike it next time I find them touching my car and putting paper under my wipers.
 
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Don't park in the 'disputed' spaces unless you have to but don't refrain from parking there when you do. Politely brush off any criticism and get on with your life. Arguing with your neighbours over something so trivial is a massive waste of energy.
 
Ultimately, it depends where you live, but it is common courtesy not to dump your car outside someone else's house if they usually park there.

I'd be a bit ****ed off if someone kept parking outside my house, despite the fact I have a driveway, if only for the fact for our visitors and that it is easy to park outside whichever house you a visiting.
 
MikeHiow said:
I'd be a bit ****ed off if someone kept parking outside my house, despite the fact I have a driveway, if only for the fact for our visitors and that it is easy to park outside whichever house you a visiting.
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Isn't this the problem the OP is having though? Anyone can use that space.
 
That's the thing though, I try to park in a place where I know other people do not generally put their cars so that I'm not displacing anyone, and I tend to just park at the closest place to where I am that is free to use.

End of the day though MikeHiow, it is a public road, so people are free to park wherever they want. The fact that it is outside your house is not of my concern really.
 
If you want to continue through life being smart about things like that then carry on, but this attitude will not get you very far. Just remember you have to live around these people. Out of curiosity, why can you not park outside your own house?

Are you the kind of person that has no problems playing your music full blast until 23.30 at night because you legally can?
 
I can't park outside the place I am because it is a close so due to the setup there is nowhere to park other than in the drive, which is already in use.

And I am being smart, they have a hardon over a non-issue, I for one do not care if someone parks where I usually park as I just go and find another place.
 
What do you mean by hardon? As in, it turns your neighbours on when you park out side there house ect?
 
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It's quite good here, everyone keeps to their 'own' spots and there isn't any messing around over stealing someone elses place etc.
 
I don't care if people park outside our house, as mentioned it's a public road. It does seem to annoy a lot of people though so I'd not park outside someone else's house regularly if I could avoid it. My current neighbours seem to have a similar attitude so it's never been a problem here.
 
[TW]Fox;18510773 said:
Bad luck, it isnt your road.
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Thread contribution of the year award goes to...

I'm fully aware it isn't my road, but as I say, once you ignore the smart ****s it is considered common courtesy not to park outside your neighbour's house, especially on a quiet close where parking is usually in abundance.

The OP has gone about this completely the wrong way, if there are no spaces outside of his own house (due to location, and not because there are 10 cars in his household) and the space outside his neighbour's house is usually unoccupied then go and speak to them, explain the situation humbly and ask if they wouldn't mind you parking there - even say you'd be happy to move it at their request, but being a smart **** about it and proclaiming you will park there anyway because it is public road is the wrong way to handle it.

Similarly, if the grass belongs to your neighbour, do not park there. If it belongs to highways then you cannot park there, either (unless your highways department varies greatly from our local one, where I can't even park on the concrete (off pavement) at the front of my house.
 
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We live in a quiet road and have a drive and space for two cars to park outside our house (without blocking drive access). My next door neighbour has the same.

We don't see eye to eye. Now and then he parks outside my house, leaving the spaces outside his, completely free. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, public road and all that, plenty other spaces to park.

Now if I have family/friends round and they are forced to occupy one of the spaces outside his house (rare occurrence I grant you), the very next day you can guarantee he will park outside my house again, leaving his spaces free. We'll also get some dirty looks if we see happen to see him.

Some people are just plain odd. Life is too short, move on.
 
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