Or park on the street one night a week.
People park in front of my house all the time. Neighbors, guests of neighbors, etc. No big deal.
If there was lots of parking on the street, I wouldn’t have someone parking in front of my house in the first place. Street parking is limited, restricted to one side of the street only, and not legal at all during winter snow days.
If you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!
Once or twice during a party or event? No problem. But all the time? That would really bug me. Note though, everyone on this cul-de-sak has a 4 car garage. Now a lot of those are full of cars and ‘stuff’. Don’t make that my problem. There is one car that regularly parks on the street. They park in front of their house. That is of course fine.
Parking on the street in front of my house makes it more difficult to back into the garage, and more difficult to mow.
In my neighborhood it’s “driving while Black (Or “Mexican”)” through the area. Whitebread Mormons get scared of anything different. MS13 you know. They’re everywhere!
I wonder about cop shows. A staple of shows is the stakeout. Someone sits in their car for hours or days watching someone or something. Maybe NYC is different, but someone sitting in a car all day in a typical neighborhood here would stick out like it had a flashing sign. Not to mention in summer it would smell, because the guy inside would be dead from the heat.
Occasional parking when the neighbors have guests, fine. When the neighbors fill their house with way too many tenants to whom they illegally rent out rooms (it’s verboten on our HOA), and the tenants make the street look like a used car parking lot, it starts to get on my nerves. And when one of their trucks is filled with household junk, has been parked in the same place without moving for months, and the junk is starting to molder and rot from rain, I get even more peeved.
Oh, yeah, and the street sweeper can never sweep the streets under the fleet of parked cars. There’s a lot of clumped leaves and weeds under them.
They have a garage, but it has illegally been turned into a bedroom so as to house more tenants.
A couple of blocks from me there are apartments, either with inadequate parking lots of tenants with too damn many cars. The residents parked on the street in front of the single family homes. The city finally resolved it by requiring parking permits for that section, which were given to the single family houses. That was a long time ago, I’m not sure it is still in effect.
A cousin of mine has the same situation. She is the owner of a 5 unit apartment. She needs a special permit to park on the street.
But, she is right on the edge of campus of a college town. So there is always a battle for parking.
I’ll admit to parking on her lawn (she does it too), putting my SUV hatch up for a short visit, or when I’m picking her up.
Out of curiosity, where do the tenants of those apartments park now? I mean, they still need to park their vehicles somewhere. It seems like requiring parking permits wouldn’t so much resolve the issue as simply relocate it.
We had that once (hours, not days). Car looked like an undercover cop car & the person sitting in it looked like a cop.
I didn’t do anything about it, & I know the cops can’t tell you much but I wonder if I had called them if they would tell me it’s a cop & to ignore it or nothing at all.
Where else am I supposed to work on my tan?
Reminds me of a neighbor my mom had. The wife HAD to lay in the front yard in a tiny bikini. Well, OK. But she also mowed her yard and used the sting trimmer in said bikini. I mean, I’m not complaining, but that’s beyond stupid.
“Sting trimmer” is right. If that thing threw any debris that hit her, it’d sting pretty good. 
Yeah, no kidding. I do a lot of yardwork in the buff, just because I like it - nobody is getting their jollies spying on a 60-something man carrying about 20 lbs more than he should - but I do NOT use the weed whacker al fresco. Seems like too much risk of it turning into a weenie whacker.
Just stay off the grass, especially when it’s been dry for a spell; don’t want your hot engine setting off a brush fire in my yard.
My next door neighbors have three adult children, each with a spouse. The neighbors rarely have room in their garage for their own cars, which are parked in the driveway. If the whole family shows up for a visit, I’ll end up with one or more cars in front of my house, which wouldn’t really bother me except that the cars are often parked very poorly. I worry that some road-raging passerby will assume the poorly parked vehicles are mine, or that someone not paying attention will slam into one and send it careening into the big tree in my yard.
I’ve also seen tradespeople and delivery drivers park their vans in the shade of that big tree (it’s the biggest on the street!) for a lunch break. I think that’s pretty neat.
Am I reading that correctly – you sometimes have problems backing into a driveway that is 4 cars wide in a cul-de-sac?
Heh. Live on more than 300 acres. Lots of folks. Lots of cars.
Don’t think there ain’t screaming when someone is blocking someone.
We have parking wars even if we’re all related. A stranger/neighbor wouldn’t stand a chance.
Anyone parking on my road at the (yes I own the road)end of my drive will already have a number of problems.
Not gonna block me. We own a tractor. They will be moved.
Years ago, we bought a new house in a new subdivision that was located opposite a T intersection. One night I noticed a car sitting on that opposite street, facing our house, with someone inside, and it sat there for hours. There was no obvious reason for it to be there, and it looked ominously like someone was watching our house.
I called the police on the non-emergency number and told them of my concern. They called me back a little while later. The guy was a security guard for the construction company still building in the area. I assume he should have been patrolling the construction area but instead was probably sleeping in his car, which must have been embarrassing when the cops checked up on him! Whatever he was being paid to do, he sure as hell wasn’t doing it parked where he was!