People who live in terraced houses, have you ever dealt with people being territorial about others parking outside their house?
Posted by FlaviousTiberius@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 98 comments
Wondering how common it is for people to find this. Never been directly confronted myself but there's at least two families in the street who seem to be quite territorial about their parking spaces.
One has grumbled about people parking outside his house to others, despite the fact that his wife will quite happily park has mahoosive people carrier/bus poorly outside other peoples houses for weeks on end. Another I've had who seems to deliberately park shittily outside of my house if my car has been parked on what he's deemed as his space, like parking so his car takes up what could be two spots. to deliberately make it difficult for me to park in the road.
Wiggidy-Wiggidy-bike@reddit
semi detatched
i live next to a chav woman who married into money. anything she does is fine, anything anyone else does is unholy and a afront to her as a person. 5mm away from my drive is fine, 1 foot away from hers is on or getting too close to her property... just as a clue to how mental she is,ignoring building plans and building over my property then lying to herself to pretent she is in the right
liseusester@reddit
There is a man who lives somewhere on my street (terraced, no allocated parking) who is absolutely convinced that I keep parking outside his house. I have neither a driving licence nor a car. I cannot convince him of either of these facts.
We did get surveyed a while back about whether or not we wanted to be a residents parking zone. Apparently more people didn't than did, which I found surprising. We're really close to the city centre and the hospital so lots of people use my street and the surrounding ones for free convenient parking.
No_Secret2322@reddit
One lady who lives with her mum on my parents street is extremely territorial over the on street parking outside her house, she left a note on my car once telling me to not park my car on “her street” when I was parked outside my dads drive 😂😂 she’s also slashed tyres of people who park near her “parking spot” Somewhat gives away why she’s in her 30s and never moved out of her mums house
DarkAngelAz@reddit
It’s not just terraces.
musicallymotivated93@reddit
I spent the first 27 years of my life in a mid-terrace house. My old man has been like this for as long as I can remember, and still is to this day, as is nearly everyone down the road my parents live on. They seem to forget that just because they own the house, doesn't mean they own the space outside of it too.
crochetprozac@reddit
Oooh yes! Currently (sort of) going through it with a neighbour of mine but, its just kind of plateaued?
It's a heck of a longer story but essentially we have reached a calm impasse where we just dont discuss it and they try to avoid me so we dont talk about it.
It's a weird, "cringe" position to be in and I wish they would just talk to me about it so we're both not just holding onto it.
Kvark33@reddit
Yes, it was a block of flats, but everyone parked on the road (no marked spots) opposite the block.
One guy was not a fan of me, he left notes saying I was parked in his spot (the spot was opposite my flat, he was in the next close down the street), I woke up more than once to my car surrounded by traffic cones. He finally, painted his own parking spot and his flat number on the road.
Purely because I am petty I did on occasion surround his car with the cones, as well as fill his 'spot' with the cones whenever I left. That's when he started shouting at me if he saw me parking there.
I ended up calling the council due to him doing his own road markings and being abusive. Luckily we sold the flat within a few months of him showing up
Lychee_Only@reddit
Yeah we recently bought our first home, terraced & no driveway. Neighbour either side of us have removed their front gardens & added a driveway & dropped kerb. Neighbour on the left doesn’t drive but all the other neighbours know this so they park in front of his. We only got a car a month ago & have to fight to get parking outside our house because the neighbour opposite who has a driveway parks his fucking van in front of our house or another massive van parks there & blocks our light & is a horrible view.
A week before we got our car, we were have work done in the house & I’d skip bag in the garden awaiting collection so had to leave my bins in the street for a couple of days to keep the space free for access. One of my neighbours reported me to the council. Despite a neighbour opposite having a set of cones on a chain out on the street keeping his parking space. The house 2 doors down has a skip on the driveway & bins out on the street keeping the parking space for the last 3 months also but no issues for them.
It’s real petty behaviour. They really weren’t happy with us getting a car and taking the regular’s space.
Mobile-Stomach719@reddit
As your neighbours already have a driveway and a dropped kerb then it’s likely the council will approve for you to do the same. Might cost a bit of cash but it will probably add a lot more value when you come to sell and if they put a H bar across your driveway then it’s basically illegal to park across it.
Lychee_Only@reddit
Yeah there would be no problem getting a drive way but I don’t want one. They aren’t big enough for most modern family cars and you remove a nice garden for wildlife & a soak away for surface water. A lot of terraced housing streets flood because people tarmac over the garden and rain water can only run on to the street. Aside from that it looks shit on terraced houses with small gardens and would add little value to our house in reality as we’d have to remove walls & railings.
My nextdoor neighbour who doesn’t drive says we can use his driveway or park in front of it as he hates the vans parked there. He’s moved his kitchen to the front of the house so he doesn’t want to be looking out at a massive old rusty van parked in front of his home. We’ve never parked on his driveway though.
I don’t mind other people parking their cars in front of my house, but the vans can do one along with the neighbours who stick cones out & complain if someone parks in ‘their’ spot.
Mobile-Stomach719@reddit
So you have an option available to make life easier but choose to dismiss it. Stop moaning in social media about it then 🤷
Lychee_Only@reddit
I’m not moaning at all. As I said I don’t care if others park in front of my house as I have no control over it. I’d just rather not have the vans block my light or neighbours complaining if their parking spot isn’t free because they think they have a claim to it.
And I’m not someone who thinks they own the spot outside their house and would go and complain to them. I can usually park pretty close to my house.
This is Reddit. OP asked a question and I replied to it with my own experience about the pettiness that develops in these situs. Just because I didn’t agree with your suggestion you think I’m moaning. Chill out bro. Though it it makes you happy, sure I’ll just find £10k to put a drive way in. No sweat.
Mobile-Stomach719@reddit
But you are moaning, you just reiterated a comment about light being blocked 🤷
Mobile-Stomach719@reddit
Oh and swearing in your originally comment yet I'm the "bro" who needs to chill out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bacon4Lyf@reddit
Yes, and it made me vow to never in my life live anywhere that didn’t have some kind of assigned parking. Old woman across the road would watch you like a hawk to make sure you didn’t park in “her” space, even though it was outside my house and she had a driveway taken up by a camper that looks like it had never moved from that spot
External-Piccolo-626@reddit
Wait until everyone needs to charge a car, that’s when the real fun begins.
hodgey66@reddit
Neighbour on my road uses his recycling bins just to reserve ‘his’ space
He doesn’t even use them on recycling day
Aggravating-Day-2864@reddit
Yea....I parked 5 doors down as 'my space' was full....there was room for another where I parked...within 5 minutes there was a knock on the door...she asked me to not park in front of her house, I said I would move it soon...she then got stroppy so I told her to stick it where the sun don't shine...she called the police who refused to come out...this was in the 80s...the beginning of the Karen.....I parked a few times more after that...
LordSwright@reddit
Used to have someone kick off if she couldn't get her spot. She'd come out and move her car 6 inches after you left if you were slightly in the way. Car door had to line up with her front door.
ARobertNotABob@reddit
Some people ~~don't~~ refuse to grasp that the bit of road outside their house is not theirs, it's the public road, and anyone can park there.
It doesn't help that
a) people's parking abilities are often appalling, and
b) with this economy, the 2.4 children are staying home and adding to parking pressures when they reach 17+
Joober81@reddit
Depends on the road though. I live on an unadopted road, and we all actually own the area of road outside our houses.
KrungThepMahaNK@reddit
More common now as households have 2-3 cars. 20 yrs ago this wasn't much of an issue.
I remember once driving to college and the car park was full, so I parked in a street with a terraced setup but no reserved parking. Arrived back with a note on my windscreen saying you are not from this area so do not park here.
littlepurplepanda@reddit
I lived on a street of big terraced houses converted into flat. It’s a very touristy town and they didn’t do parking permits. It was a nightmare.
A couple of people kept painting their own parking spaces on the road, or putting out traffic cones to keep spaces. Then the council came along, got rid of it all and someone lost their legitimate disabled parking space. It was a whole drama.
Ok-Airline-8420@reddit
There's an unspoken arrangement of who parks where, and it's a running joke on our terrace that someone parking in the 'wrong' space ruins the feng shui.
The problem, if that's the right word, is one person misparks which means someone else has to move somewhere else which moves someone else and then the whole system breaks down for a few days until everyone can shift back to their 'correct' spot.
Noone really gets cross, just a bit of minor irritation, but everyone generally gets along on our road.
Broccoli--Enthusiast@reddit
People get cross on my street because the other side of the road all have rear access but don't use it
Oh and these are terraced cottages, you can get 2 out fromt of each
But some cunt in the past split lots of them in half then added upstairs to each side, so we now have a buch of houses that have space for a single car with families li ving in them with 3 and 4 cars, those are the only people that are really unpopular on the steet. Oh and the couple with a lwb van longer than their house is wide, along with an estate and a pickup....
jeanclaudecardboarde@reddit
Peter Noone ? Out of Herman's Hermits?
Ok-Airline-8420@reddit
Yes, him
Kimowi@reddit
That’s what it’s like on my street, except we have a bowling club across the road. Everyone has ‘their space’ and parks where they park, but no one ever seems to have an issue if you park somewhere else, but we do have our unofficial spots generally in front of the house.
I’ll admit the club pisses me off though, but I understand they have just as much right to park on the street as I do as there’s no permits or anything. But it is annoying having to park on another street or at the bottom of the hill, especially with a baby, even more so when I was heavily pregnant in winter. It’s at the point now where I basically have to live my life according to their schedule as if I go out on a Sunday, after 6 now the weather is nicer, or at the wrong time during the day, I’m going to have to park a fair distance away, and juggle a baby and whatever shopping i might have. The big shop is a fun one, can’t really do 6 trips to and from the car that’s parked 2km away and keep an eye on a one year old.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
Grew up on one, but this was back in the 1990s. Not everyone on my street had a car and all cars were slightly smaller in those days, so it was fine.
But as an adult homeowner I bought a house on a similar street, except narrower. More cars. Someone dumping their Focus in the middle of a space that would normally swallow up an actual limousine. The occasional work van. People not bunching up nearly enough.
To be fair the rear parking sensors on my car are very overzealous. The beep goes solid when you still have nearly a metre to go before the obstacle, so if you're not used to knowing where the back of the car is, you might find yourself struggling to get in and out when in reality there's still oodles of space.
Isgortio@reddit
I don't mind losing the space outside my house because someone else has parked there, not an issue. What does annoy me is we have unmarked parking bays and people regularly take up two spaces for themselves meaning others can't park there. The old guy above my flat only uses his car once a month and he'll just leave his car abandoned in multiple spaces until the next time he leaves the house. The other day someone had visitors and they saw how this guy had parked so they also parked like that, meaning what would usually fit 10 cars only fit 6 cars. There's plenty of on street parking a few metres away so it's not the worst thing but I wish people would use some common sense sometimes and think about other people.
KawaiiBunBun097@reddit
I'm end terrace with have my own drive and in a cul-de-sac, but my surrounding neighbours who are mid-terrace all have 2 or 3 cars. They regularly block me in and I have to call them to move. They're lucky I work from home and hardly use the car, but it's still frustrating. Especially when I come home late only to find no one left a big enough gap for me to pass through to access my drive.
They're all upset there's no space for their cars, but refuse to put it on the main road outside the cul-de-sac because they're worried they might get driven into and want it outside their house. But they all love to complain and do nothing about it.
After one evening when I had to leave the car outside one of the neighbour's house, she banged on my door the next morning and straight up screamed at me to "go move your fucking car!" as she was pissed off that she could see my car and doesn't want anyone to park outside her house. I wouldn't have needed to park there if she and her husband didn't park across my drive. They won't park outside their own house either and would rather park outside other people's houses After arguing with her that she needs to move her shitty car first, she went to her husband who a few moments later wrapped his knuckles on my door threatening to punch me in the face because I had apparently upset his wife who is now crying that I insulted her. I ended up screaming back at him, loud enough for all other neighbours to come out to witness the commotion as my husband wasn't in. I said if they threaten me again, I will get the police involved for threatening a lone woman in her house. I also pointed up to a camera which points down to my front door and drive. It was actually a dummy camera at the time. He quickly backed off but told me go fuck myself. Everyone was so glad when they moved as they were truly awful, but the parking situation hasn't improved.
Optimal-Room-8586@reddit
Lived on a street of terraced houses.for past 15 years or so, never had any issues like this. One neighbour is a bit OCD about it and will move his car to be right outside his house the moment the space comes free, but never actually complains or gets funny about it. Everyone seems to just accept that you're generally not going to be parked outside your own house and that's fine.
Bert1701@reddit
My neighbour has two now adult children which means about 8 cars on a weekend. There is a train station with parking about 6 minutes walk away but they prefer to clog the street. I've given up caring but my other neighbour seems to have enough energy to complain about people outside his house.
gone-in-a-spark@reddit
I used to live in Hove and it was a proper turf war out there, especially in the evenings when people were arriving home from work. If I ever got back a bit later than usual, I was guaranteed to have to park at the station because there was just no space. A lot of the territorial neighbours had two cars, too.
123bmc@reddit
Urgh same, coming home late on a Sunday evening and having to park miles away in the pissing rain
we ended up getting rid of the car because we were so reluctant to move it and lose the space when we had one on our street
Mobile-Stomach719@reddit
This is absolutely standard territory for anyone who lives in a terraced house. If you can do it, get your front garden turned into a driveway (not always possible I know). If you can’t do that either suck it up or move.
123bmc@reddit
Hahah yes! We lived opposite a man we called the Pirate because of his fetching beard.
He drove a long wheelbase transit, and would just double park it in the road if someone was parked in “his” spot outside his house. Used to block in his neighbours who had a marked disabled bay outside their house.
We think he was just jealous that they had “allocated” parking, but there was always loads of space to park on the road so genuinely mystified why he got so pressed about it.
Also, he wasn’t a trade, so we were all very suspicious what was in the van….
ShinyHeadedCook@reddit
Yes and we deliberately nick her parking spot whenever possible. As its not her parking spot !
OkCaterpillar8941@reddit
Yes! We had one guy who had 2 cars. One was just there to hold his parking space. He didn't put the handbrake on it so he could push this car to give him enough space to park his new souped up banger directly outside his house. He regularly parked in the middle of 2 or 3 spaces so it screwed up parking for everyone else and space was really limited at the best of times.
One night after the pub and he was out we pushed his old car and blocked it in with our cars. We didn't leave enough space to park his current car outside his house. He ended up banging on our door at midnight and screaming at us to move our cars. We didn't. I think his wife must have had a serious word with him as we never had trouble from him again.
rebelallianxe@reddit
We've lived on a terrace for 19 years but parking isn't usually too bad as one side of the road is restricted to after 6pm and before 8am, so most people accept that people will park anywhere during the day. There is one guy opposite us who moves his cars in front of his house when he can but he's never grumpy about others parking there.
BigSkyFace@reddit
Growing up, I used to live in a house on a fairly busy main road with no driveways. It was always a battle to park outside the house, made worse by being located close to some shops and also having a lot of double yellows due to many side roads branching off the road itself. Fortunately the office across the street was quite happy for us to use their parking spaces outside of office hours. All was fine except one of my neighbours used to fuck around with cones to try and guarantee his wife the spot closest to the houses. It was always funny seeing her pull in quickly expecting the spot to free, only to slam the brakes when she discovered someone else had moved the cones and taken the parking space for themselves.
pumpkin_pie_cat@reddit
Yes! Our ex neighbour had converted their two up, two down to a 4 bed, they had two teenagers and everyone had a car each plus a boyfriend and they INSISTED on parking them all next to each other outside their house (and others obviously). It was infuriating! If anyone was parked on that side of the road and a space opened up they'd move one of their cars into it even if it was literally opposite.
We probably parked outside our house less times than I can count on one hand the entire time we lived there. On the week we were moving we ended up putting a bin in the road to stop them parking (I'? Sure they were seething!) so we could atleast load up the car without carry boxes half a mile!
Rooboy@reddit
Live near a tube station. One side of the road is resident’s only during the day. Other side paid parking. And we have just enough spots for those with cars (close to tube so many don’t).
The signs aren’t that confusing but I guess if you look at one side and see it’s ok then park on the other side then pay I kind of understand it.
Thing is if I go for a walk to the shops I’m pretty well guaranteed to see 2-3 tickets because they parked on residents side. They must make a fortune from my street.
heyitsed2@reddit
One lady I lived two doors away from had two cars, she had an arrangement with another neighbour that she could park one car in front of their drive way gate, the other car would go behind... If she was going out in the non-gate space car, she'd move the gate car to the non-gate space. I'd always take great delight in finding the non gate space empty and being able to park there, I'd make an effort to walk or bike to work just to leave it there as long as possible...
powpow198@reddit
This is the way
ratrailer@reddit
I used to live in a flat that didn't have the best street parking so I used to park directly outside my flat in the back lane and the next door neighbour left a note on my car saying he needed that spot because his wife had a baby.
I ignored the note because I was parking directly outside my own flat in line with the yard, no assigned parking, no signs, no bays.
He started parking directly behind me, like 2cm from my bumper - in line with his yard which you'd think would be fine.
I ignored him, then he would wait in his car some days until I left for work or went to the shop and move his car like 30cm into where my car was which didn't really matter he was just being petty.
I ignored him still, then he started parking directly BESIDE my car, like 2cm away from my drivers side door thus blocking the rest of the back lane, I just got in the car on the passenger side and continued to ignore him.
Then he started putting his wheelie bins in front of my car while still parking beside me.
Basically this middle ages man was doing everything he possibly could to get a reaction from me, a 28 year old woman...
One day we both got there at the same time and he started SCREAMING at me in the street about how it was his house and his car space and I told him he lives in a flat and there's no assigned spaces and he continues fucking screaming and shouting. I called him a fat cunt and he went inside his flat... kept parking next to me and being petty but he never spoke to me again lol.
MattWillGrant@reddit
Yes, this window cleaner insisted he could park his van directly outside so he could fill up from his domestic water supply. He'd use his car to 'save' both spaces (or vice versa) in this bizarre vehicle ballet twice a day.
He matched each car on the street to the owners house so he could knock and demand people moved.
Became a great game when someone got a new car, or had visitors - as you'd try and park tight to the space saver car and he didn't know who to complain to. Proper curtain twitching weirdo.
griffaliff@reddit
I know friends who live on streets where neighbours regularly put cones / bins out to block others parking and get pissy about 'their' space. I'm grateful no one on my road is like that, we just get on with it. If you have to park round the corner, so be it, everyone is understanding and respectful.
Bus8082@reddit
Tale as old as time. My ex-in-laws insisted on parking on car on “their piece” of road even though they had two small cars on a driveway that could easily fit two. And, of course, the man made the woman put hers on the road. They were both rubbish cars so no price imbalance.
Pretend_Canary@reddit
The only time my ex parked on my road she got her tires slashed
cockerspannerell@reddit
Yep, at one point we had 4 cars at our old terraced house on a small street while me and my sister saved for deposits. Add in partners it could sometimes be 6 which must have been annoying but most of the time the last couple would park on the back street.
Never really any issues as everyone knew everyone until a new couple moved in. Almost instantly, passive aggressive notes left on cars telling other residents not to park outside their house, couple of car tyres let down and eventually it got physical with a few slaps thrown. They moved out shortly after.
Never really got it, it’s a public street, park where you want!
Figgzyvan@reddit
Lived on one for 28 years. A few were a pain. When we sold up i was chatting to a space saver neighbour
‘Lovely family we sold to. They have 5 cars’.
Should have seen his face.
It was actually a young couple
katalyna78@reddit
Gold!
Tirno93@reddit
I’ll bet the street WhatsApp group had some pretty heavy traffic in the aftermath of that comment
Mental_Body_5496@reddit
Ouch !
NoNameNoNumba@reddit
I don't drive but once lived inbetween an Indian and Pakistani family who hated each other and would constantly argue about parking in each other's spots, the wife's would come out with cones to try claim the empty spot for when husband got home etc, it was entertaining to be honest.
gemmajenkins2890@reddit
Ooooh don’t I have the story for you! Haha!
Terraced house me and my family lived in years ago. The beef was actually between my dad and the guy who lived next door.
Neither had very big cars at this point, but next door kept leaving his car slightly over the boundary line. So you know what my dad did?
He went and bought a 4x4! Thing was as long as the space was wide! He used to ask my partner to put his car there if he ever had to go out. It really got quite petty and silly at one point.
Then my parents moved to somewhere with a parking courtyard out the front where dad experienced a different type of parking wars as the only other guy living there with a car also owned a 4x4 lol
pickindim_kmet@reddit
It does happen in my street and some have a point. One house currently has four cars and yesterday none of them were parked outside their own house. I have a disabled neighbour who needs her mobility car by her door and she can't get it close sadly.
So yeah people can be dicks but sometimes it's quite justified.
tyger2020@reddit
I'm not sure exactly how, but theres a way you can request? the council to put a 'blue badge holders' -parking spot outside the house.
Anyone with a blue badge can use it, but it might be worth looking into for your neighbour.
FlaviousTiberius@reddit (OP)
I feel like it depends on whether you make a reasonable attempt to leave space for others. Obviously you can't always get outside your own but just make sure you don't take up more space than needed.
Friendly_Bad_8882@reddit
With the added bonus of being walking distance from the town centre and the train station, our street and the roads immediately around us is always busy with residents and visitors but some idiot down the road thinks he can reserve his space with his wheelie bin. It gets put back on the pavement and he doesn't seem to get the message.
crgoodw@reddit
I grew up on a street like this. There was a house across the street that had 'No Parking' signs in front of their driveway. That they never used. And instead parked in front of the house next door to wind up a neighbour during a dispute. Another dude had what we referred to as 'The Plank' which was just a massive chunk of wood that he put in front of the pavement whenever he moved his car.
My mum and her neighbour got into an inch by inch parking-hedge-bin war. Got so bad she just decided to turn the front garden into a driveway. He still only trims the joint hedging exactly to his property line, so my mum's hedge has massive spiky bits and then complains to the council about her 'unruly bush'.
Rigamorph@reddit
I wonder what the councils policy on the 'unruly bush' is 🤣
Tirno93@reddit
Apparently they’re sending someone round to give it a good seeing-to
dystopianchilli@reddit
I think I might know your mum, I once dated a woman with an "unruly bush" Got some nasty friction burns from it too!
llamasncheese@reddit
No arguments about it here but theres a rough unspoken "seating plan" so to speak. We all park in roughly the same place most of the time. Often not the exact same place as visitors come and go and the pack gets shuffled, but we are never parked far from pur front dooes.
Illustrious-Engine23@reddit
I think non-allocated parking is one of the main reasons for people moving.
I think it would be a major source of stress for me. We have a shared driveway but even someone parking in 'my' unofficial space and I have to park in the massive free carpark across the road.
I feel like non-allocated parking would give me so much stress!
Tirno93@reddit
I’ve lived pretty much exclusively in terraced houses for 30+ years and never experienced this. However, when it’s been in places people tend to own (multiple) cars, they’ve also been places with driveways. I suspect you see this behaviour the most on streets where people have more cars than driveway space and get entitled about “their” road space.
NaniFarRoad@reddit
HMOs.
GooseyDuckDuck@reddit
Never understood peoples desire to park in front of someone else's house when there's space in front of their own, seen it near where I live with bring home works vans.
WhalingSmithers00@reddit
I know of a road where it's got so bad a lot have installed cameras to keep an eye on 'their' parking space.
Prize_Farm4951@reddit
I had a neighbour from three doors down to left of me come out and chastise me for parking outside of her friends house (next door to me on the right)
Promptly told to fuck off back inside. But I hated it there forever worrying if car was going to get keyed etc.
Accurate_Molasses853@reddit
Yeah. A women on my old street used to always block me in so have to knock on her door
Super_Chayy@reddit
Neighbours across the road are like this. Park in 'their space' they will demand you move it. They've literally kicked off with council workers and emergency services.
My dad parked there once so they parked on the grass area I have outside my house to make a point. Wasn't so funny when I moved both our cars that close to their doors they couldn't get in to move it again and had to knock asking us to move them so they could get out.
Said we'll try leave the space for you but if there's no where else its first come first served. Next time I'll buy 5 bangers and take the whole street for myself for a year. They've been alright with us since.
Dissidant@reddit
Surprisingly no and I say that, because its terraced properties on both sides of a one-way road which only allows parking on the right (double yellows on left) and there is a traffic warden doing the rounds on their little bike, you park up wrong and they are so far up your arse they can see tonsils 😄
The_Dark_Goblin_King@reddit
Yeah, guy over the road likes to park outside his house, gets you to move your car or whoever has parked there.
I like my space outside but slowly gotten used to my face not fitting and people not caring. But from time to time people will leave my space alone but I won't park past my house, only before it
Odd system that I have developed and noticed.
But, unwritten rule is that the spot outside your house is yours... But it isn't written in blood
Acceptable-Sentence@reddit
We live in a cul-de-sac of detached houses with drives. My obnoxious neighbour has bollards and a chain she puts across her drive every time she goes out. Mental old bat
jeanclaudecardboarde@reddit
I used to live on a terraced street. No designated parking places so it was really down to whoever got there first. Now and again I could park outside my own house and it was great when it happened but no bother to me if I wasn't able to. One time I had to park a bit further up the street and I later noticed a parking spot nearer my house s I walked up to get my car to move it and the neighbour whose house I'd parked outside of came flying out in a rage, swearing and quite irate that I'd dared to park in "his" parking spot. I was quite shocked as before this we were on friendly neighbour passing the time of day sort of terms. Anyway, he never ever spoke to me again in the few years that I still lived there. Bizarre.
strawberryblondey@reddit
Used to live in a terrace and a neighbour did not like anyone parking infront of his house beacuse its were he kept his mid life crisis all polished up. Didnt think twice about hogging half the road with his multiple cars though. He was a knob.
Necessary_Doubt_9762@reddit
My neighbour is quietly territorial. Will come and move his car into ‘his’ space the minute someone pulls away, he must honestly be waiting at the window he moves so fast. To be fair I do live on a street where we unofficially have spaces but nobody is insane enough to think nobody else can park there, we all realise it’s a free for all street. What really pisses me off is that there is this one woman on the street who ALWAYS takes up two spaces when she parks, and I know this because she parks where my husband and I park our cars when we aren’t there and my neighbours seldom move their cars. I don’t mind at all that she uses the space but she parks so inconsiderately every single time. I’ve even politely asked her a couple of times to pull her car either forward or back so another car can fit in the space. She completely refuses.
Lau_kaa@reddit
Used to leave in a terraced house years ago and most neighbours were fine, but our next door neighbour was obsessed with parking directly outside his house. When his daughter still lived at home they had a whole system for "reserving" the spot with her car if he had to go out. He never said anything to us, but he'd get very annoyed we parked there. It was all a bit sad because he was a decent guy otherwise.
All you can really do with these people is move house to somewhere with a driveway, as we did. You don't realise how stressful it is not knowing whether you'll be able to park anywhere near your house when coming home at 11pm until you don't have to worry about it anymore.
Nim008@reddit
About 40 years ago when there was only one car per household, it was considered good manners not to park in front of other people's houses. Nowadays it's not the case, or possible really. Too many cars. If you've paid road tax and/or have a permit, you can park there. Territorial car parkers are on another planet.
farlos75@reddit
Oh god yeah. People get really weird about 'their' space. Dont get sucked in man. Lifes too short to argue about public roadways.
zwifter11@reddit
No arguments. But people tend to park in the same place. I wouldn’t park outside my neighbours house and he wouldn’t park outside of mine.
But then some random visitor come along and break the unwritten rule.
FlaviousTiberius@reddit (OP)
Our road just gets particularly fucked because it's by a school so around 3:30pm there's basically no chance of getting a spot around that time. I'm usually finished work by 3pm but usually just stay a bit later since going home at that time is pointless as I'm left driving around in circles until the parents leave. On top of that we also have a spirit medium church so we get loads of cars turning up from people who want to come talk to ghosts. Basically makes parking in the road a free for all by nature.
R2-Scotia@reddit
All of the above and worse
Asher-D@reddit
I have a drive that people constantly block which is ok for now since we have no car but I know it's going irritate me once we do.
SituationMundane5452@reddit
I lived in a terrace house years ago, always parked outside my front door, always tried to avoid parking outside anybody else’s house. One day I returned from work to find a car parked outside my door so I had no choice but to park a few doors down at the next available space.
Got up for work the next morning and somebody had walked all the way around my car with a key or screwdriver and scratched it everywhere.
DoubleXFemale@reddit
Not on my road afaik, though I don’t drive. There are a couple of houses on nearby roads with laminated signs in the window telling people not to park in front of their house, though obviously it has no legal standing.
WorldAncient7852@reddit
We have three airbnbs on the street now. It's hell up out there now, thrown all our arrangements totally out of whack.
Horror_Extension4355@reddit
It is tough. One of my neighbours has 2 cars and a camper van parked up on our terraced street.
Anon_on_internet@reddit
Yes, two different house, two different cities. In both cases it was only one neighbour who made life difficult for everybody else.
Proud_Ad_8915@reddit
Yes we had a couple of families who had a go at someone who parked in 'their' spot.
Imaginary_Finger7844@reddit
Lived next to a group of travelers with vans and a few cars. Sold my car, saved myself from arson and enjoyed riding my bike.
If it's a busy street with lots of house. Parabellum.
verybadgay@reddit
Not residents but my partner has had comments from people working in the church at the end of my road, for parking outside. They have a car park, they’re just arseholes.
Glass_Record_480@reddit
Sounds like you live on my road. So far I don’t know of any rules or people grumbling but there’s a few campers and trailers that just don’t move on our road and yes it is quite frustrating.
Independent-Chair-27@reddit
Yes it happens. On road parking. A woman had a right go claiming it was her space. Happens all the time.
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