Guy over the road a ****?

I've quite a tight and narrow drive (with plenty of cars on the street), so when someone parks between the hedges, it can make an easy reverse into a stressful few minute situation, and when you get home, all you want to do is get home, and not be inconvinienced by someone elses parking.

Judging from the pictures though, their drive way is massive! You could park over the drive-way and you could still fit a lorry in there.

I have to say, it is frustrating though when someone avoids annoying their own house members, by not parking over their own drive, and chooses take the annoyance elsewhere.
 
to those who dont think its an annoyance/inconvenience; how would you like someone parking their car in front of your property when they could just as well park in front of their own property? Why not just park in front of your own property? Any sane person would do that; why on earth would you park it elsewhere when you know that precludes them doing the same. Last thing I want to see when looking out my front window is somebody else's car/van etc. What happens when that guy gets visitors and they cant park in front of his property? they park in front of someone elses which in turn ****es them off.
 
I have double yellows outside my house, none of the rest of my estate has double yellows.

The road outside your house is NOT your property, it is PUBLIC and legal to park there if Taxed/Insured so I couldn't care less how upset or entitlist you get about it.

As much as that, he wasn't parked outside the persons house who complained which is double tough luck. He should just move the car forward out of respect, not because the house owner is an entitlist ****.
 
Just because it isnt illegal doesnt mean its not anti social.... If everyone went around with that attitude then we would need to legislate for everything. Any reasonable person knows this.
 
mikeh501 said:
Just because it isnt illegal doesnt mean its not anti social.... If everyone went around with that attitude then we would need to legislate for everything. Any reasonable person knows this.
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Yep.

If you don't take the hint then..what help is there :p

He doesn't struggle to park..he just doesnt want your car near his house.
 
if that's a roundabout there, then you are making it really awkward for him to reverse into the drive, as he would have to start to manouvre with his nose facing the wrong way onto the exit from a roundabout, that could cause some confusion! (or have to reverse around your car toward the exit...)
why not park on your own side of the road and move the car when your housemates want out instead of annoying the neighbours with it!!
 
mikeh501 said:
Just because it isnt illegal doesnt mean its not anti social.... If everyone went around with that attitude then we would need to legislate for everything. Any reasonable person knows this.
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Absolute hogwash, you have ZERO entitlement to park outside your own house, it is not anti-social except to total idiots who think they own the road outside their house and have an unwritten right to park there. The same people that will park anywhere in any street outside anyones house when they want to save time or money on parking.

It gets worse when you bitch about someone parking outside your next door neighbours house, that is bordering on pathetic.

Sure have some consideration, but that works both ways.
 
UPDATE: I no longer park my car outside his house.

I now park it 10 feet forward in the next hedge section :p
 
Pug said:
if that was my house you were parking over I'd be pretty pee'd off too tbh. Stick it near your own house.
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Why, everybody is free to park wherever the hell they want, are you jealous you don't have 3 cars per household ? You should be glad, more cars means people pay more tax.

Imho people who moan about parking are morons. Just because your house is somewhere doesn't give you any right to tell people to park and where not to park.
 
mikeh501 said:
to those who dont think its an annoyance/inconvenience; how would you like someone parking their car in front of your property when they could just as well park in front of their own property? Why not just park in front of your own property? Any sane person would do that; why on earth would you park it elsewhere when you know that precludes them doing the same. Last thing I want to see when looking out my front window is somebody else's car/van etc. What happens when that guy gets visitors and they cant park in front of his property? they park in front of someone elses which in turn ****es them off.
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I'd not feel anything, why on earth would I care who/what parks in front of my house as long as they don't annoy me with revving the car early in the morning for 30 minutes with the exhaust pointed at my window or whatever. I can't see how anyone can be annoyed with anyone elses car when you look out of the window, in my street it's normal, I look out my window and see 5 random cars parked in front of my house every single day, it are public parking spots, why would I care who parks on them ?
 
I can see both sides of the arguement. I've got a similar problem at the moment where I have my own car, the wifes and my company vehicle. I have a double drive and would happily block my two vehicles in with my company car. The problem I have is that if I do that so not to inconvenience the neighbours, someone will park opposite my car which straddles the path making the gap in the road very difficult to pass and I then get neighbours complaining anyway!

In these situations you can't win. Regardless of where you put your car someone will complain. I would be annoyed if someone parked in front of my house even if it made reversing slightly more challenging so I sysmpathise with both parties. Just be cool and politely ask him where he thinks would be a better place to park.
 
I don't really see any argument with parking if you have to park on a public street, you pays your tax you parks your car. Yes it's nice to park outside your house so you can admire your pride and joy but on a public street you have to expect to sometimes park a few houses down and walk the 10 metres to your house.
 
beermonster said:
I don't really see any argument with parking if you have to park on a public street, you pays your tax you parks your car. Yes it's nice to park outside your house so you can admire your pride and joy but on a public street you have to expect to sometimes park a few houses down and walk the 10 metres to your house.
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Indeed, it is just a fact of life, I don't get people who get all uppity about it, only some houses are available to be parked outside and spaces are 1st come 1st served. In Uxbridge I had to park 200m up the road because others parked outside my house, didn't boohoo about it.
 
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