If you have a car and choose to park outside your home, there's nothing worse than coming home to another one of the neighbours being parked outside your house - especially when there's space outside their own.
On the one hand, you want to confront them about it, because it's seriously irritating. But then again, you don't want to make things awkward for yourself, as sometimes you have to rely on your neighbours for certain things - such as the odd cup of sugar.
One woman took to Mumsnet because she didn't know what to do about her neighbour, who was parking strangely. She even drew a diagram to help people understand why his choices were so odd.
She wrote: "So I am prepared to be told I'm in the wrong here but be aware I have so far done nothing or said nothing! I've attached a diagram, I live at number 1. The bloke who lives at number 5 works an early shift so gets home when the whole road is totally clear of parked cars and chooses to park directly outside my house.
"When I get home, he is always parked there despite there being loads of space directly outside his house. I can't think of any sensible reason why he would do this unless it's because he's scared of parallel parking and the space directly outside my house is on one end of the row. Although the other end of the row of cars is closer to his house."
The woman was left wondering how she could proceed without coming across as too rude or aggressive.
She continued: "Would I be unreasonable to put a polite note on his car asking him to choose a space closer to his house when there is space? It's really bloody annoying to come home with a boot full of food shopping and see that he's there again and I struggle up the road from the space outside his b****y house!
"But yes it's a public road and we can all do whatever we want essentially as no one has any right to park anywhere in particular but it's just inconsiderate and irritating. This only started about six months ago for some unknown reason. Before that, I think he just parked by his own house."
In the comments, people pointed out that he's technically not doing anything wrong, so she may be being unreasonable to leave a note.
One wrote: "It is annoying - totally agree - but legally he's doing absolutely nothing wrong."
Another said: "Assuming the exit is at the top of your diagram (great diagram by the way) where he is parking would make life easier for his morning commute.
"I think asking in person would be nicer than a note but he can park where he likes."
Someone else reasoned: "Annoying yes and I've definitely grumbled in private about similar, but not something you can really complain about to him. It may be that he's trying to reduce the amount of parallel parking he has to do, or can't risk getting blocked in at an early hour and people being asleep etc?"
What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments.
