“Oh, I’m sorry - did I blow all the snow from my sidewalk onto your car? My bad!”
Also, to not have 15 cars in a residential neighbourhood so you take up all the spaces around you. Most residential neighbourhoods aren’t zoned for someone operating a junkyard out of their house.
Nothing ** happens**, but if you park in front of my house when there is a spot in front of yours, now I have to park somewhere else, such as in front of your house, and what’s the point of that? Parking is tight in my neighborhood, so it makes perfect sense that people aren’t always going to get to park where they want, and someone parked in front of my house is no big deal. But if, say, my neighbor across the street always parked in front of my house even when there is space in front of his, I might start wondering why he seems to insist on taking the spot that’s the most convenient for me as I lug my groceries across the street.
Exactly. When I visit someone, I park in front of their house. If you’re not there to visit me, why are you parked in front of *my *house ( this obviously only applies if there are other spaces to be had). No one is complaining that no one should ever park in front of their homes, they’re wondering why some do it for no apparent reason, especially if it inconveniences them. It’s inevitable that people need to park in fron of my house; spots can be scarce on my street. But when you park directly in front of my house you block my gate and I can’t carry anything inside. My trash will also not get picked up if your car is too close to the can. It can be a real pisser when it happens time and time again for no apparent reason.
No. It’s a place to store all of your crap so that you can illuminate it and put it on display. It also doubles as an extra screaming and drinking space when you have a party.
They’re parking in your paid for, private property? Have their asses towed! They’ll catch on eventually.
I can understand that and I’d be annoyed if a neighbor made it a point to park in front of my house rather than his own- but in my neighborhood, that never happens.Most of us don’t have driveways and we would all prefer to park in front of our own house ( to the point where one neighbor constantly looks outside to see if a space closer to his house has opened up). Someone who parked in front of my house when there was space in front of his own is deliberately trying to annoy me- but at 4 pm it’s hard for me to tell what the parking situation was when my neighbor parked at 11am.
But some people who park their own cars in driveways and garages (or who don’t even own cars) complain about people parking in front of their house even when there’s an obvious reason , like someone is having a party. I’m not really sure why they’re complaining - a car in front of their house ruins the view or something?
Yep still not seeing it. Unless you are inappropiately angry like Tony in the story above. I live in the suburbs. Park in front of my house. Why the fuck do I care? Just don’t block the mailbox or the driveway. Both of which are illegal anyway.
Reading this makes me so happy we live in the country; the last farm on a long, dead-end, private lane. (Which isn’t plowed in the winter, but hey)
We’ve had lots of threads re this. I absolutely agree that it’s courteous for drivers to park in front of their own house, if there’s a spot available there. However, since there’s nothing illegal about it, your choices are to either befriend them and humbly request that they move their cars elsewhere, or to suck it up.
BTW, in this situation, I think it was the OPer who was the biggest dick:
How was DH1 supposed to know that it was moving day? Did you swing by beforehand and let him know? If not, why did you expect him to accommodate you? He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.
When you realized that you couldn’t access your house, did you knock on his door so that you could explain the situation and ask him if he’d mind moving the truck BEFORE parking the van in his driveway? That would have been the courteous thing to do.
Before plopping the moving truck in his driveway, did you knock on his door and ask permission? If not, you trespassed on his property. That’s passive-aggressive, not to mention illegal. YOU were the aggressor here, and you’re the one who started the relationship off on a bad note.
I’m not sure what you expect your neighbors to do. Park on another street altogether? Guess what? It’s probably tree trimming week for that street as well. Park in their yard? Park in YOUR driveway. Seriously, they’re allowed to go on vacation, and they’re allowed to park their cars on the street. There’s nothing remotely assholish about that. Frankly, it isn’t their behavior, but your attitude, that appears to need adjusting.
Thanks! I had no idea I was using my garage incorrectly. I’ll move my car out at once!
Let’s see, where shall I park it? I know! I’ll park it across the street in front of my neighbor’s house, right where it will block access to everyone’s mailboxes. That sounds like a good spot. 
I basically agree. Also, when someone parks in front of your house it’s slightly unaesthetic and it consumes a tiny amount of your attention.
Which isn’t a big deal, but when somebody inconveniences you a tiny bit in order to make their own life a tiny bit easier, it’s annoying. It’s announcing that they are more important than you.
Here’s another example: When I am driving in the city and turn down a side street, and a taxi cab in front of me stops to drop off a fare and blocks my path for 30 seconds when the cabbie could have easily pulled over to drop off his passenger without blocking my way.
Why is that so annoying? Obviously I can spare 30 seconds. Again, the problem is that it’s annoying when another person inconveniences you in order to convenience themselves.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. My neighbors never park in front of my house except when they have their annual Christmas party. Which doesn’t bother me at all.
As far as other little annoyances in life go, you are probably right. Probably I would end up living an extra year or two if I just ignored it whenever people acted rude. If I could think and act like some kind of Zen Master.
But anyway, if there is anyone in this thread who never lets little things get to them, then I applaud you on your awesomeness.
Other things that people are perfectly entitled to do include:
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[li]Queue jumping[/li][li]Picking their nose in a restaurant[/li][li]Farting on a train when there’s a toilet available[/li][li]Scratching their bollocks in a children’s park[/li][/ul]
It’s nice when they don’t though.
Also I’ve noticed [gross generalization and anecdotal evidence alert] that the people who park in front of others’ houses for no good reason react badly to a polite request to move, you know, just so that I can pack my car at 5am the next morning to drive half way across Europe.
So you know [checks this is BBQ Pit… yep] fuck 'em.
It’s kind of like the “urinal game” where there is apparently a set of rules regarding which urinal a man is supposed to use. Normally, I don’t care, but if there’s a bank of 20 open urinals and you sidle up next to the one I’m using, I’ll wonder why. If you always use the one next to mine, regardless of where I pee, I’ll wonder why.
So a neighbor, who has a choice of where to park, chooses the front of my house instead of the front of his own house, thus giving himself a longer walk, I wonder why. What is his game? What caused him to stop 75ft shy of his house? All he had to do was let up on the brakes a little and he’d give himself a shorter walk into his front door, but he’s refusing to do so, and it makes no sense.
Now, the only general concept here that would make sense is that the neighbor values having the front of his house unencumbered by a parked car. He then deliberately chooses to deny me that value, by parking his car in front of my house. That choice, even if made using a wacky idea of value, is rude.
What I wonder is how people know the neighbor had a choice of parking spaces unless they actually watched the neighbor park. And if they did, why don’t they say something to the neighbor at that time?
Ah, yes. Countless times there would be plenty of space for me to park on my block, except someone has parked directly in the middle of a space that would easily fit 2 cars. If they were just a couple feet one way or the other another car could get in there.
I realize that people coming and going sometimes leaves odd-sized spaces, but there are many instances in which people just don’t pull all the way up to the next car. I’m certainly not saying people should purposely park themselves in, it’s perfectly fine to leave a foot or two so they can get out, but parking so they have a half-car length both front and back is being an asshole.
Count me as not understanding why people find this offensive. Completely baffles me. Also it’s a public street, anyone can park there any time.
I completely disagree that it’s widely believed and understood to be polite, to not park in front of your neighbours house. This thread clearly demonstrates it is not.
Around here what is widely believed and accepted is that we are all adults, and this complaint ranks right up there with “You kids get off my lawn!”. And I’m glad I don’t live in any such tightass community that spends an iota of time worrying about something so trivial.
What possible difference could it make if it was your neighbour every day, or some random stranger everyday? None, right? Let it go, life’s too short!
Most likely because they know the neighbor will answer, “Fuck you. That’s why.”
If I read that correctly, you have a house with 1 parking space in front of it, no driveway and no other off street parking? I would think you would have noticed that before committing to that particular house.
If you live there, you generally know when parking is open and when it’s crowded, it’s not difficult to know that a car which is always in front of your house, and never in front of the other house is there by choice.
And there’s no way in hell I’m going to challenge a neighbor on where they park their car.
There’s illegal and then there’s just rude. This is rude because THEY value having the front of their house open and gain that value by taking it away from me.
Analogy, neighbor has a garage light, and because they find the light annoying, choose to point it away from their home’s windows, which happens to mean pointing it at my windows. Is that rude?
If you have the sort of neighbors who would respond " fuck you " to a request to park in the empty space in front of their own house, I would think that parking in front of your house would barely be noticeable compared to all the other problems you must have with them. And even if you did, it would be silly to waste your energy on getting annoyed- it would be like getting annoyed that a farm smells.