Territorial neighbours

[Mozthecat]

It all reminds me of my wife’s late grandmother, she lived opposite a park and would get up at 5am daily to move her car off the drive and onto the road to stop anyone parking outside her house in “her” spot…


Round here the new build estates are stuck with a district planning policy that restricts parking spaces to one for any house with 1 or 2 bedrooms, or two spaces to any house with three or more bedrooms to excuse of public transport.…They then cut all local subsidies from bus services across the county….

 

[mj4456]

My opposite neighbour was the worse, for double parking with me.
(at the time I had to park one on the road, usually the firms vehicle)

One evening, I saw blue lights outside, obviously curious I looked out to see a stationary fire engine,
yep he'd done it again, as one of the guys got out to find the owner of
one of the cars, I saw the class one t***t, turn his downstairs house lights off!!!

Some evenings we would get home roughly the same time, I've even had him follow me though the estate, ( its rather twisty with plenty of blind bends )
And at any opportunity would overtake me to get "home" first. I'm surprised he is still alive TBH, boy racers ( not so much now) used it a fun track, due to the tight bends,
It would only have taken one coming around a bend at speed...

Thankfully he's long gone.

I had a mate who drove a fire engine, if on a ‘shout’ and came across an obstruction like that he’d use the big steel bar on the front of the appliance to make room, no time for niceties.

 

[Nod]

The firemen I used to work with (retained - I worked with them in their day jobs!) used to roll obstructions on their sides when possible. The usual place was too overparked to push them along out of the way.

 

[welshwizard645]

In my old house (I sold 20 years ago to move to Germany) I had a garage but my 'driveway' ie parking space was on a detached piece of land, separated by a turning space. Quite regularly I had to ask neighbours to move their cars off my parking space (yes, it was my property) and was always told, 'you have a garage. park in there!' after a few nighttime activities disturbed it stopped.... I bought a 2nd car (my beloved Saab 99) which took pride in the space.....

Now, I live on a suburban road with on-street parking.... parking permits for my Saab and her Golf.... 2 cars seems a bit much but the distances we do allows us to spread the mileage over both cars. We do have neighbours who are rather insistent on parking their cars outside their own home... In this day and age, with more and more cars equipped with keyless entry distance from the house is a virtue.....

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

(my beloved Saab 99)

The 99 was a car that inspired a certain affection.

When I decided I wanted a 900, my wife insisted on taking over the 99 and ran it for another 15 years, before finally swapping it for a 9-3 convertible, which was, regretably, nothing like as tough or reliable.