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Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Apr 2017 8:50am, 26 Apr 2017 34,303 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy lol Maybe you should talk to the parents instead of the kids? Nicely
Helegant Apr 2017 9:01am, 26 Apr 2017 4,607 posts	Quote Pin Helegant [The comments on the last page remind me of another neighbour who refuses to allow her son to park his car in front of her house becasue she doesn't like to see the car through the window. So he parks it outside our house instead, blocking the pavement. Luckily for my blood pressure, he is at university now, so his car is only there during the holidays.]
Velociraptor Apr 2017 9:07am, 26 Apr 2017 36,116 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor [My parents have neighbours who suggested that their quality of life was being destroyed by visitors parking on the street outside my parents' house, and that the solution would be for my parents to have the front garden, which is beautifully maintained and very flowery, dug up and replaced with hard standing. My mother refrained from pointing out that they need to have a drainable garden because the amount of power-hosing of their cars and drive that said neighbours do constitutes a flood risk.]
Helegant Apr 2017 9:15am, 26 Apr 2017 4,610 posts	Quote Pin Helegant [I ought to add to the above post that the son's car is visible from our kitchen window, and his girlfriend (who usually visit when Mum is at work) parks her car outside our dining room window. It amuses me that her dislike of seeing cars from her windows exercises power even when she's out. As for what she has taught him about respecting other people's bundaries and expectations...]
CharlieP Apr 2017 9:44am, 26 Apr 2017 757 posts	Quote Pin CharlieP My girlfriend had a similar issue at her old terraced house - if she ever parked her car on the public street in such a way that it was visible from next door's window, it was apparently enough to give her highly-strung neighbour a panic attack, and the hen-pecked husband would be sent round to ask her to move it (which she was under no obligation to do, but invariably did). People frequently park in front of our house and walk on the grass, but the two metres or so nearest the street isn't my property so I have no right at all to get bothered and consequently don't. Any time I spot any authorised incursions though, it takes about an hour for my heart palpitations to subside. Very strange.
Velociraptor Apr 2017 9:49am, 26 Apr 2017 36,117 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor [We ARE the antisocial-car-neighbours, because we have three resident vehicles and only two off-road spaces. But we're better than we were a year ago, when two of the cars looked and sounded as if they belonged in a scrapyard.]
Helegant Apr 2017 11:33am, 26 Apr 2017 4,611 posts	Quote Pin Helegant [Maybe I'm the odd person then. There are lots of places where finding a space 'wherever' is quite normal and accepted. But to deliberately park outside a neighbours house instead of your own when you have a choice seems to me to be just... rude.]
Ultracat Apr 2017 12:01pm, 26 Apr 2017 11,618 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat We occasionally have a car blocking our driveway. I have left the odd note on their windscreen. Not one person has ever apologised. It is very annoying. When we first moved here we had no driveway and limited parking on the street, our next door neighbour, who has since moved, was obsessive about no one parking outside her house so anyone visiting her could park there, she even had her own parking cone thingy.
Velociraptor Apr 2017 12:03pm, 26 Apr 2017 36,120 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor There are a lot of rude people and a lot of people who are pernickety about other people's parking.
Brandon Apr 2017 12:11pm, 26 Apr 2017 54 posts	Quote Pin Brandon drivers who forget they have an indicator on and don't notice for miles. Totally irrational but this infuriates me?