Am I being a Victor Meldrew?

Rapscallion said:
However, if you had a good reason as to why you need to park outside your house, and appealed to his better nature - that is how I would handle the situation.
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Aye, make sure he's about when you just happen to be struggling loading heavy gear into you vehicle. Really make a play of it. (might be worth doing it 2 or 3 times)

Then next time you see him just say hi, then explain how you struggle sometimes to carry your shotguns, cartridges & clay shooting equipment etc. :D
 
i try not to get annoyed about small things like this, but parking is an issue where i live too - one of the current tenants, who has a hydunai 4x4 now parks on the road, instead of the assigned space at the back of the building, and i dont understand why (it's a nice car, wouldnt you want it away from people and other drivers from damaging it??) - perhaps she finds it hard to park it in her space when other cars are either side of her (previous tenant, tho annoying, did manage to do it with a large van and sometimes a small flat bed so it is possible!!) - so she parks on the street - i find this incredibly selfish as this street is busy for cars (as most are) and some properties dont have driveways so she is taking up a space that could be used for someone else, she is not the first tenant to do this. also, in this building of 5 flats, i seem to be the only person capable of shutting their own front door without it sounding like i have just flung myself against it to shut it. everyone else seems to shut it so violently that it vibrates throughout this whole building.


i dont get. i am SO done with living in a flat and this isnt even bad, it could be rave music at 3am or worse but ugh im so done with it. i know if i ever got to live in a house it would prob be semi detached so there could be noise there but at least it might be less?!?!
 
Can you not park outside her house to make a point ? Or would that obstruct traffic. It's not an easy one to remedy as (presumably) her vehicle is taxed and insured she can park it the the street, as can you outside hers.
 
rjbell said:
I live on a terrace with street parking. You have to park where you have to park, wherever its a space. The guy across the road has started parking his large sprinter van outside my house. I've not given its that much though until today. His side of the road was almost completely clear of cars yet he parked outside my house again. I'm wondering if his mrs doesn't want it outside her house. Am i justified in feeling a bit miffed or am i just being Victor Meldrew and should get a life! :)

I used to have a large van myself and i would park it on a side street not outside houses because it takes so much room. They know we have young kids. Just a bit of consideration i'm asking for.
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Having someone else car parked outside your house when there is room outside there is irritating enough, having a van there - I can only imagine how annoying this must be...

Might be worth asking if he couldn't / would he mind not parking there as you're struggling to with you're youngsters ?
 
I think I will say something. We have a mutual friend so he can't be that weird. Haven't seen the van for a few days.
 
dan_yell said:
. i know if i ever got to live in a house it would prob be semi detached so there could be noise there but at least it might be less?!?!
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It should be a lot less even if the neighbour is inconsiderate, as you will only have noise from one side, and not surrounded by it.
And no slamming doors to echo either.

Luckily my attached neighbour is long since retired, so they only hold a couple of raves a month :D
 
I lived in a semi-detached house and the bass from his music was intolerable at all hours. We fell out big time over it. It nearly got to the point where I would have taken an axe to his gear but I ended up moving. Noise is relative to the amount you you can tolerate.
 
That's very true @Blank_Canvas - as I say it could be far worse here and I wish I didn't get so p***ed off about it but it's such simple things to stop doing and it's so inconsiderate - my neighbour upstairs moans the most about other people's noise but she is just as bad herself - when I first moved in I'm sure she had some kind of 'new girl' test where she left her radio on loudly in her lounge (directly over my bedroom) when she went out to work, I can't remember how long she did it for but it seemed to stop after she spoke to me about some other noise and I said I didn't hear it and wear earplugs to sleep in, then she stopped bothering.

Did you report the noise to the council? I was speaking to the one I work for and the guy said he's had a few complaints from residents where basically the noise is in their head, or they are hyper sensitive to noise and it's likely to be a ear problem or an emotional /mental problem - he was providing them with cds of white noise to play to try and drown out the 'noise' that none of their equipment t could detect
 
One of the criteria when buying a house should be to ensure there is sufficient off road parking for the number of vehicles in (or likely to be in) the household. Last year I was viewing houses in a new area, if there was insufficient parking space stated on the Estate Agents details I didn't bother to view.

The house I eventually bought last December had a double garage at the rear and parking on the road out the front, suited me fine as I only have one vehicle. However I've noticed there's always intense competition to park out the front on the road despite all the properties having double garages to the rear. A lot of the double garages are never used :rolleyes:
 
Most garages in peoples houses seem to be used for storing large amounts of children's plastic coloured s***e
 
That's what happens when you feed 'em Lego...
 
Mr Bump said:
Most garages in peoples houses seem to be used for storing large amounts of children's plastic coloured s***e
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Spot on! I couldn't get a car in mine if I wanted to . 3 bikes, 4 scooters, 4 skate boards, kids pool table, toy cars, games, tubs of lego etc etc........ :rolleyes:
 
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