I couldn't care less if someone parks outside my house so long as they don't block my drive. The old chap over the road has a real issue with it though & gets up at half 6 every morning to move his car from his drive to the front of his house where it generally sits all day, until he moves it back in at about half 8 at night. I really couldn't be arsed with that.
Neighbours with hardons about treating public road spaces as their own
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My next door neighbour has never had a car for the 26 years I've lived there but every body who parks there gets told off.
Best of it she sits in the back room so can't see the front and even if she did, her wall is that high that she would only be able to see a Transit.
In all that time none of my family have needed to park outside her house because I can park 4 cars up my drive + 1 outside but she tells me about every body she tells off.
I'm fed up of telling her that drivers with an MOT have every right to park there but she thinks it's her property.
This isn't my road (mine's a bit posher) but we have all these eyesore's outside our houses now.
The thing is that two years on these posts have killed the grass.
Best of it she sits in the back room so can't see the front and even if she did, her wall is that high that she would only be able to see a Transit.
In all that time none of my family have needed to park outside her house because I can park 4 cars up my drive + 1 outside but she tells me about every body she tells off.
I'm fed up of telling her that drivers with an MOT have every right to park there but she thinks it's her property.
This isn't my road (mine's a bit posher) but we have all these eyesore's outside our houses now.
The thing is that two years on these posts have killed the grass.
But you are the size of a 10 year old boy, hardly scary.
I get annoyed when people park outside my house but the reason is that I make sure that I don't park there myself because it makes it almost impossible for the guy opposite to get out of his drive (narrow road).
So when I need to leave my car on the road until my gf gets home (I leave before her in the mornings) I park up the road a bit, so it does cheese me off a bit when 5 minutes later someone parks right outside my house blocking the guy in anyway.
So when I need to leave my car on the road until my gf gets home (I leave before her in the mornings) I park up the road a bit, so it does cheese me off a bit when 5 minutes later someone parks right outside my house blocking the guy in anyway.
Where I used to live, the people a couple houses down used to go mental if you parked outside their house. They'd even leave their bins in the road to stop people parking there and he went off on one at a couple of my housemates for parking there.
we had similar, lived next to an old man that would tell anyone off who parked in front of his house. The man didn't drive himself.
He would say the space is there for visitors, yet in the 3 years we lived there he only had visitors at Xmas! Silly old people.
The residents of the street that my mate lives on have gone the DIY route and shoved whacking great boulders on the grass
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do you have to drive on a pavement to get to the grass?
We park outside our house, we have 3 cars so 2 on the drive and 1 on the road, some old woman moved in next door and her daughter visits and has to park right over the her drive resulting is its being awkward to reverse off the drive, just so inconsiderate, instead of parking at the side of the drive in front of the house, once someone came op visit us and parked outside her house and she came around and blocked our drive and refused to move her car.
The purpose of doing so is simply to keep your neighbours happy and reduce hassle for yourself. Do you still live at home as well?
Like I say, being "smart" about it is only going to cause more problems. This benefits no one.
Neighbourhood Politics 101.
Well you can either be pleasant with your neighbours or act a self righteous dick, I know which option I would try first, given you have to live next to these people.
Having some manners can go a long way in life, often much further 'YEAH WELL I CAN DO WHAT I WANT, YOU CAN'T STOP ME'
Don't be such a spanner with your patronising comments, you'll only make yourself look more stupid.
Being smart and being a walkover are two different things. The space is not normally used, so it's free to use and will not be a problem. Having to go and ask to use the space is a joke, not being smart.
Being a walkover has nothing to do with it, and your attitude here only goes to quantify my comments on the kind of people that think this kind of behaviour is acceptable with the people you have to live next to.
Parking in a street is a free for all no one has a right to be outside there house. Like the morons across from us like to think they can park all 3 cars infront of there house and no one else should. Were all in before them anyway so they rarely get to as we park there. Its across from our house aswell. Get you dirty looks from the old guy who has nothing left in life to do but wonder around the street looking bored 
It is acceptable. It is an unused space, the people who DO NOT own the space DO NOT use it.
To think that asking to use the space is in any way smart is shocking.
If you really need to ask your neighbour then you clearly do not have an understanding relationship with them anyway.
We're talking about the OP, not me. His current approach (the one you are advocating) is not working for him if he is getting notes on his windscreen and posting on here to moan about it.
If you cannot see the benefits of the OP humouring his neighbours by taking a more humble approach to the matter, then I can only conclude one of three things,
A. You are one of these smart ****s who will do anything "because you legally can".
B. You live in an area where there is no really "neighbourhood".
C. You are too insecure to back down to meet a larger agenda. (This usually accompanies small mans syndrome).
Doing something because you legally can is not always the right option, and backing down to take a better, more logical approach is not a sign of weakness but instead a sign of intelligence - a means to evaluate the situation and take the action that leads to the best outcome, in this instance hassle free parking and maintained relationship with the neighbours for the sake of a 5 minute conversation.
If you cannot see the benefits of the OP humouring his neighbours by taking a more humble approach to the matter, then I can only conclude one of three things,
A. You are one of these smart ****s who will do anything "because you legally can".
B. You live in an area where there is no really "neighbourhood".
C. You are too insecure to back down to meet a larger agenda. (This usually accompanies small mans syndrome).
Doing something because you legally can is not always the right option, and backing down to take a better, more logical approach is not a sign of weakness but instead a sign of intelligence - a means to evaluate the situation and take the action that leads to the best outcome, in this instance hassle free parking and maintained relationship with the neighbours for the sake of a 5 minute conversation.
Completely agree.
Bending over and taking a rodgering citing 'Neighbourhood relationships 101' is still just bending over and taking a rodgering.
@ Mike: You are just overanalysing everything, just get on with it and stop worrying. Parking on the street is allowed, backing down from these people will do nothing but let them win their silly little mind games. No point in being confrontational but on the other hand being a wuss and a pushover is even worse.
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Who really wins though?
To begin with: you want to park there, neighbour does not want you to park there.
End result: you want to park there, neighbour allows you to park there.
You have won this situation, for the sake of simply humouring your neighbour.