Parking in someone elses road.

XDA

I with the OP on this!

I think its a cheek when other people park outside your house (I get this frequently!). I understand that its not anyone's road etc, and everyone can park where ever they like on a public road as long as its legal etc.

But, I like to have my car parked exactly where I can see it - outside my house/opposite living room window. Having been the "victim" of having my car keyed 3 seperate times, i want my car where I can keep an eye on it. What use is it if its parked further down the street or on another street? You cant see who's kicking a ball against it, who's looking inside it/acting suspicious around it, who's vandalising it and these sorts of things. Some of us (unfortunatly) live in really rough places, and wonder about the safety of our pride and joys. Also, after a hard days work or after a weekly supermarket shop, why should I have to carry loads of heavy bags down the street? After all, I do have to pay a big rental bill every month, surely the least I can have is a space to park outside my house?

I am sort of lucky, as my neighbours leave speace for us to park outside our house most of the time. We leave space for each other.

What really annoys me is people who have driveways but wont use them, they'd rather take up valuable spaces on an already tight and restricted street. Also people's visitors who wont park outside their house but park infront of someone else's house, meaning that their visitors cant get parked! Its usually those same people that go mental when you/your visitors park outside their house :mad:

Alot of people just seem to get so territorial about parking spaces/driveways. Dont know why, but it can be so funny the lengths that people go to "defend" parking and drives! :rotfl:

roswell

Teacher2301 wrote: »

You are right but we used to live in a country where people respected others and their property

yip they are parking thier property legally :-) and not on anyone elses property eg not your front garden :-)

Horace

This is a common problem where I used to live - you cannot park in the street for love nor money between the hours of 9am and 5pm because people park their cars and then walk across the road to get the bus into town - like a cheap form of park and ride. Most residents are used to it. I go back and visit occasionally because my ex husband still lives there and I think its a bonus if I can park outside 'my' old house, there are times when I have had to park at the bottom of the street or even in another side street - but hey ho such is life it could be worse, the council could introduce permit parking.

Its the same where my mum lives - most folks park on the street, some will park on their drives and for the most part 95% of them cannot park in their garages because they have filled them with junk - folks that have lived there since the street was built actually put their cars in their garages and when I visit, I park on the drive or on the front garden which has been partially concreted (my parents orginally slabbed part of it so that I could park my car when I started driving).

There are worse things to worry about in this world than whether or not someone has dared to park in your street and even worse outside your house:rolleyes:

loracan1

Teacher2301 wrote: »

You are right but we used to live in a country where people respected others and their property and perhaps, their assumed personal space (ie the bit of road out at the front of their house). I know its a public road and anyone can park there. However, wouldn't it be nice just for once that people thought of others before themselves - or is this an old fashioned sense of morality? (I'm only 35 - !!!!!! - I'm middle-aged and a grumpy old man..

I'm older than you, far far grumpier and I've never ever believed the road at the front of my house belonged to me, or that I alone have the god-given right to park there.
(and I wouldn't like to think what kind of petty reaction I'd have if people with far too much time on their hands stuck notes on my car windscreen if I parked outside their house!)

skintbuthappy81

If it really is an issue for you then get in touch with your local council, depending on the extent of the problem they may look into making your road a residents only, meaning you will be given 'passes' to display in your car window.

DKLS

I had a neighbour who did the cones trick and generally annoyed the entire street, 3 of us clubbed together and bought the scabbiest metro in 3 shades of hand painted yellow, with a years road tax for £70, one night we moved the cones and parked the metro bang in front of his house.
He was spewing for months, didn't know who was responsible, he called the police, they said it was taxed and not causing an obstruction so wouldn't do anything.
After 11 months of making a point I moved it in full view of the neighbour, (well he heard me first as I was revving the nuts off it as the brakes were seized) his face was a picture, the cones didn't make a re-appearance.

anewman

DKLS wrote: »

3 of us clubbed together and bought the scabbiest metro in 3 shades of hand painted yellow, with a years road tax for £70, one night we moved the cones and parked the metro bang in front of his house.

Great, lol. I suspect he didn't even own a car?!

annie_d

Well! I have read the whole thread with interest.....and gratitude that as a one car family, we have a garage, a driveway and a designated parking space opposit our house. So if any of you are in the Stockport area and need a place to park, just shout.

Teacher2301

DKLS wrote: »

I had a neighbour who did the cones trick and generally annoyed the entire street, 3 of us clubbed together and bought the scabbiest metro in 3 shades of hand painted yellow, with a years road tax for £70, one night we moved the cones and parked the metro bang in front of his house.
He was spewing for months, didn't know who was responsible, he called the police, they said it was taxed and not causing an obstruction so wouldn't do anything.
After 11 months of making a point I moved it in full view of the neighbour, (well he heard me first as I was revving the nuts off it as the brakes were seized) his face was a picture, the cones didn't make a re-appearance.

Contrary to my previous posts - I like your style

creased-leach

DKLS wrote: »

I had a neighbour who did the cones trick and generally annoyed the entire street, 3 of us clubbed together and bought the scabbiest metro in 3 shades of hand painted yellow, with a years road tax for £70, one night we moved the cones and parked the metro bang in front of his house.
He was spewing for months, didn't know who was responsible, he called the police, they said it was taxed and not causing an obstruction so wouldn't do anything.
After 11 months of making a point I moved it in full view of the neighbour, (well he heard me first as I was revving the nuts off it as the brakes were seized) his face was a picture, the cones didn't make a re-appearance.

I think I love you. :T